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Clockwork Orange
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Memorable Movie Quotes
Alex: What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence.
Alex: There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a-howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as if it were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, especially when they were old like this one was.
Alex: And the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage.
Alex: What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got, say, pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angels' trumpets and devils' trombones. You are invited!
Alex: No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
Prison Chaplain: Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Trivia
Stanley Kubrick once said "If Malcolm [McDowell] hadn't been available I probably wouldn't have made the film."
During the filming of the Ludovico scene, star Malcolm McDowell scratched one of his corneas and was temporarily blinded. He suffered cracked ribs during filming of the humiliation stage show, and he also nearly drowned when his breathing apparatus failed while being held underwater in the trough scene.
The snake, Basil, was introduced into the film by Stanley Kubrick when he found out Malcolm McDowell had a fear of reptiles.
The sculptures in the Korova Milkbar were based on the work of sculptor Allen Jones.
Stanley Kubrick insisted the milk in the milk dispensers were emptied, washed and refilled every hour (the milk curdled under the studio lights).
To film Alex's suicide attempt from his own perspective, a Newman Sinclair camera enclosed in a custom-built plastic box was thrown off a building six times until it finally landed pointing downwards. It broke the lens, but the camera itself survived otherwise unscathed. Stanley Kubrick later marveled at the durability of this particular type of camera.
When Alex and the droogs enter the Korova Milkbar, there are many paintings on the wall, one of a naked woman. This same painting appears in The Shining, also directed by Stanley Kubrick.
2001: A Space Odyssey (also directed by Stanley Kubrick) soundtrack highly visible in record store.
Alex singing and dancing to "Singing in the Rain" as he beats and ties up the writer and his wife was not scripted. Stanley Kubrick spent four days experimenting with this scene, finding it too conventional. Eventually he approached Malcolm McDowell and asked him if he could dance. They tried the scene again, this time with McDowell doing an improv of Alex singing and dancing. Kubrick was so amused by it that he and McDowell drove back to his home, where he swiftly bought the rights to "Singing in the Rain" for $10,000.
The blunt object the cat woman uses to attack Alex is a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven, Alex's favorite composer and whose 9th Symphony accidentally becomes part of Alex's conditioning.
One of only two movies rated X on its original release (the other being Midnight Cowboy) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The tape that Alex removes from his stereo in order to play Ludwig van Beethoven bears the name of fictitious artist Goggly Gogo!, mentioned later by one of the popsicle girls on the music store.
Frank's bodyguard was played by professional bodybuilder David Prowse. Even so, he was near exhaustion after the repeated takes of him carrying Frank and his wheelchair down the stairs.
The film was withdrawn voluntarily by Stanley Kubrick from the United Kingdom after being criticized as too violent. Kubrick has stated that the film would be released there only after his death. It was.
In the record store it appears that not only is the soundtrack for 2001 clearly visible, but the record on the back shelf appears to be The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour".
Alex's cuff links are bloody eyeballs.
Filming the rape scene was so difficult for the actress originally cast in the role, she quit and the part was recast.
The doorbell at the Alexander residence, "Home", plays the first four notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" (but in a different key).
"Korova" is Russian for "Cow", hence the name "The Korova Milk Bar."
The word "Moloko" on the walls of the milk bar means milk in Russian.
Alex's prison number in the movie is 655321. "Six, double five, three, two, one." However in the book his prison number is 6655321.
After filming the famed brainwashing scene, Malcolm McDowell has since had an overwhelming fear of eyedrops.
The combination to Alex's bedroom door is 17-34-89
Before filming the scene where he had to carry the wheelchair up the stairs, David Prowse went up to Stanley Kubrick and asked if he could make sure that (due to the difficulty of the task) he got the scene in as few takes as possible, saying, "You're not exactly known as 'one-take-Kubrick', are you?" The rest of the crew was horrified at such a famous director being talked to like this, but Kubrick just laughed and promised to do his best. The scene was filmed in only three takes, an incredibly small amount for a perfectionist like Kubrick.
Rated #2 of the 25 most controversial movies of all time. Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2006.
Kubrick had his assistant destroy all unused footage.
The Car used by Alex and the droogs was the "Adams Probe 16", one of three ever made.
Goofs
During the rape scene in the opera house the victim has only one sandal laced up, it is on her right leg. In the next cut it is laced up on her left leg.
In the music store, the camera is briefly reflected in the mirrors to the right.
Number and position of electrodes on Alex's head varies between shots.
Alex's number in prison is stated as "6-double 5-3-2-1". The prison chaplain first refers to him as "6-7-5-3-2-1" and then as "6-double 5-3-2-1" in the same scene in the prison library.
The wine Alex drinks is far too light in color to be a 10 year old Médoc.
When Alex jumps out of the window, the camera view gives the impression that we are seeing Alex's view of the onrushing ground. However, he does a flip, winding up with his back pointing to the ground so the camera angle is inconsistent.
In The Credits
There are no opening credits after the title, which is followed by the
opening shot of Alex the Droog. Although it is now commonplace for major
films to not have opening credits, in 1971 it was considered rather unusual
and was considered a trademark of director Stanley Kubrick.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $2,200,000
Gross $26,589,355
Retals $12,000,000
Filming Dates: October 1970 - April 1971
Filming Locations
Albert Bridge, Battersea, London, England, UK
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Battersea, London, England, UK
Binsley Walk, Southmere Lake, Thamesmead South, London, England, UK
Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK
Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Chelsea Drugstore, Cnr Kings Rd. & Royal Av., Chelsea, London, England, UK
Chelsea Embankment, Chelsea, London, England, UK
Chelsea, London, England, UK
EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Edgwarebury Hotel, Barnet Lane, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Festival Embankment, South Bank, London, England, UK
Friar's Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Hertfordshire, England, UK
Joyden's Wood, Bexley, Kent, England, UK
Lecture Centre, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK
London, England, UK
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Shenley Lodge, Black Lion Hill, Shenley, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Skybreak, Warren Radlett, Hertfordshire, England, UK
South Bank, London, England, UK
Southmere Lake, Thamesmead South, London, England, UK
Thamesmead South Estate, Thamesmead South, London, England, UK
Thamesmead South, London, England, UK
Wandsworth Bridge Roundabout, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Warren Radlett, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Yarnton Way, Thamesmead South, London, England, UK