WELCOME TO THE A CLOCKWORK ORANGE GUILD!!!
A COUPLE OF RULES(I KNOW, I HATE TO ACTING LIKE THE MILLICENTS):
1. I DONT CARE IF YOU CUSS. BUT DONT BE DUMB WITH IT.
2. KEEP THE NON-CLOCKWORK ORANGE STUFF IN THE OTHER FORUMS.
3. HAVE FUN.
4. ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO PM ME, I LIKE PMS.
5. ENJOY THESE CLOCKWORK ORANGE FACTOIDS...
* Stanley Kubrick once said "If Malcolm [McDowell] hadn't been available I probably wouldn't have made the film."
* It is said that Stanley Kubrick made this movie because of the failure of Waterloo (1970/I). After he completed 2001: A Space Odyssey (196 cool , he had planned to film a movie about Napoleon's life. After many years of research, he sent location scouts to various Eastern European locations, and even had an agreement with the Yugoslav army to supply troops for the vast battle scenes. However, after "Waterloo" tanked, Kubrick's financial backers pulled out. He thus decided to adapt the American version of "Clockwork", which had been given to him by Terry Southern (co-writer of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)).
* The film rights were sold for "a few hundred dollars", but then re-sold for a much larger amount. Before director Stanley Kubrick became involved in the film, several different casts were considered for Alex and his droogs: girls in miniskirts, old-age pensioners, and The Rolling Stones.
* 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).
* Stanley Kubrick deliberately made continuity errors just before the author worked out who Alex is. The dishes on the table move around and the level of wine in the glasses change between shots to give a feeling of disorientation to the viewer.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [faces] Frank, when he realizes who Alex is.
* 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 (1980), also directed by Stanley Kubrick.
* In this film, Anthony Sharp plays a government minister. In Stanley Kubrick's later film, Barry Lyndon (1975), he plays a former minister, Lord Harlan.
* 2001: A Space Odyssey (196 cool (also directed by Stanley Kubrick) soundtrack highly visible in record store.
* 'Anthony Burgess' 's preference for director was Ken Russell because he thought the director's style was perfect for the material. Burgess was reluctant over Stanley Kubrick as a director, but was initially happy with Kubrick's work. Later, he felt the film made the book, one of his least favorites, overshadow his other work.
* 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.
* According to an interview with Malcolm McDowell, the actor often kept Stanley Kubrick highly amused by his ability to belch on command (as illustrated at various points of the movie). The actor and director also passed the time obsessively playing table tennis (a sport which appeared in Kubrick's earlier Lolita (1962)); McDowell was later irritated to find that his salary had been docked for the hours spent playing the game.
* Stanley Kubrick asked Pink Floyd if he could use their "Atom Heart Mother Suite" in the soundtrack. However, because Kubrick wanted unlimited license to determine what portions or edits of the song he used, the band turned him down. When Alex is in the record store (the same shot where the 2001 soundtrack appears), the upper shelf has the cover of "Atom Heart Mother" (look for the cow in the field).
* 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 (1969)) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
* The first line the prison minister says in the film, "What's it going to be, eh?" is nearly identical to the first sentence of the novel ("What's it going to be then, eh?" wink
* In the book, Alex's last name is never revealed. "DeLarge" could be a reference to a line in the book in which Alex calls himself "Alexander the Large" while raping two 10-year-old girls (in the film, this is changed to a consensual sex scene with teenage girls).
* The newspaper article gives Alex's last name as "Burgess".
* 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.
* The photo-montage when Alex clobbers the old lady are mostly the paintings the old lady has hanging in her room.
* 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.
* Many phallic references: snake crawling between the legs of the woman in the poster, the popsicles held by the girls in the record store, the tip of Alex's walking stick, the object used by Alex to kill the woman.
* Malcolm McDowell chose to sing "Singin' In The Rain" during the rape scene, because it was the only song he knew all the lyrics to.
* 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.
* The language spoken by Alex and his droogs is author 'Anthony Burgess' 's invention, "Nadsat": a mix of English, Russian and slang. Stanley Kubrick was afraid that they had used too much of it, and that the movie would not be accessible. The original edition of the novel suffered from similar criticisms, and a Nadsat glossary appendix was added to the second and subsequent editions.
* One of the reasons why Stanley Kubrick withdrew the movie from distribution in the U.K. were, according to his wife Christiane Kubrick, several death threats that his family received because of the film.
* 'Anthony Burgess' originally sold the movie to Mick Jagger for $500 when he needed quick cash. Jagger intended to make it with The Rolling Stones as the droogs.
* 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.
* This film was shot almost entirely on real locations as opposed to sets and was lit almost entirely with a Lowell Kit, a staple for film students, perhaps as a reaction against the huge apparatus needed for Stanley Kubrick's previous film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (196 cool .
* This was the first film to use the Dolby Laboratory noise reduction system during its theatrical run.
* The shot of the bride falling through the gallows trapdoor (during Alex's fantasy) is footage from Cat Ballou (1965).
* Wendy Carlos's synthesized score features the first ever use of a vocoder.
* In the scene where Reformed Alex is being taken into the woods by his old droogan buddies you can see the officer numbers on their uniforms 665 and 667 implying that that is Alex is 666.
* The doorbell at the Alexander residence, "Home", plays the first four notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" (but in a different key).
* At one point, Tinto Brass was attached to direct.
* "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.
* Ken Russell was considered to direct the movie, with Oliver Reed playing the part of Alex.
* When Malcolm McDowell recorded his voiceover material, it was on a simple Nagra tape recorder operated by Stanley Kubrick himself.
* After filming the famed brainwashing scene, Malcolm McDowell has since had an overwhelming fear of eyedrops.
* Stanley Kubrick handled the advertising campaign, including posters, commercials, the trailer, etc.
* The title was translated into Serbo-Croatian as "The Orange From Hell" ("Paklena Naranca" wink .
* In the early 1990's London's popular Scala Film Club showed this movie without permission from Stanley Kubrick or Warner Brothers. At Kubrick's insistence Warners sued and won. As a result the Scala was almost bankrupt and closed in 1993.
* Much of the continuity errors in this film (glass placement in the dinner scene, Alex's droog's hats appearing/disappearing at the river, etc.) were all intentional. Stanley Kubrick was trying to have a slight disorienting effect in this film.
* The combination to Alex's bedroom door is 17-34-89
* The writer of the novel, 'Anthony Burgess' , claimed that the term "clockwork orange" was a Cockney phrase, but most philologists agree that there has never been any such phrase until the appearance of his book. Burgess lived in Malaysia during the 1940s, and the Malay word for man is "orang", from which "orangutan" (man of the jungle) is derived. There is, however, an English slang expression for a gambling device known as the "one-armed bandit" in the U.S.: a clockwork fruit (the gambling device typically is referred to as a "fruit machine" in the UK due to the depictions on its dials; clockwork in England is a word applied to a plethora of mechanical devices beyond just time-pieces). The anthropomorphic look of a "fruit machine" (thus, its name "one-armed bandit" in the U.S. for its roughly man-sized shape and "arm" giving it a humanoid appearance) may well have given rise to the term "clockwork orange" in Burgess' fertile mind as Alex, through conditioning, is turned into a robot (which a fruit machine resembles). Gambling also is a game of chance, and Alex literally is gambling with his soul. This is made explicit, particularly in the film, when Dr. Brodsky tells Alex -- who is upset over the use of Beethoven on the soundtrack to the atrocity films and claims he has been enlightened -- to take his chance, as he will be free in a fortnight (roughly the time an annual vacation in an English resort such as Blackpool -- the Las Vegas of Britain -- with its scores of fruit machines, would take).
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [three-way] Alex vs Government vs Alexander.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [114] Alex is given Serum 114 when he undergoes the Ludovico treatment. It is perhaps an in-joke on Kubrick's repeated use of CRM in his films, as serum sounds almost like CRM sounded out.
* Contrary to popular claims, this film was never banned in the UK. It originally received an "X" rating in 1971 and was withdrawn from distribution in 1973 by the film's director. In 1999 (the year of Stanley Kubrick's death), the film was released again and received an "18" rating.
* The writer of the book, 'Anthony Burgess' , lived for a time in Malaysia [where his wife was beaten by four American GI's, thus giving inspiration to this story]. In Malay, the word "orang" means man,[this is also part of the derivation of the word 'orangutan', the other half being derived from "hutan" meaning jungle] therefore, the title of the story is actually a pun on the British expression. Rather than a clockwork fruit, it is a clockwork man, which is, of course, exactly what Alex has become by the end of the film.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] Maniacal staring face, can be seen on Alex at the opening shot.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] ["The End"] Kubrick maintained the tradition of putting the words "The End" in the end credits of all his movies, long after the industry had abandoned it.
* The film was released just over a year after principal photography began, the fastest film shot, edited and released by Stanley Kubrick.
* 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.
* The large yellow book in the tray on the prison governor's desk is actually a "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack".
* Because of the limited budget, various techniques had to be used such as dolly shots on wheelchairs, sound recorded live on set, the use of natural light and some scenes in handheld cameras. However, at that time the new camera zoom control was first used in the picture.
* Stanley Kubrick's first cut (before hiring several assistant editors) ran almost four hours.
* The futuristic turntable that appeared in the movie is a Michell GyroDec, a version of which is still being manufactured today.
* Other records visible in the record shop: Tim Buckley's "Lorca" (1970), on the Island shelf when Alex enters the shop. Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother" is visible on this shelf as well as behind the counter. Also on this shelf is Rare Bird "As Your Mind Flies By". Two records to the left of the famous "2001" soundtrack in front of the counter is Crosby Stills Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" (1970). To the right of "2001" is "The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death" by John Fahey. Between The Beatles record and "Atom Heart Mother" on the wall behind the counter is Neil Young's "After The Goldrush" (1970). The blonde girl with the lollipop can be seen looking at a Mungo Jerry album, "In The Summertime" (1970).
* 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.
A COUPLE OF RULES(I KNOW, I HATE TO ACTING LIKE THE MILLICENTS):
1. I DONT CARE IF YOU CUSS. BUT DONT BE DUMB WITH IT.
2. KEEP THE NON-CLOCKWORK ORANGE STUFF IN THE OTHER FORUMS.
3. HAVE FUN.
4. ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO PM ME, I LIKE PMS.
5. ENJOY THESE CLOCKWORK ORANGE FACTOIDS...
* Stanley Kubrick once said "If Malcolm [McDowell] hadn't been available I probably wouldn't have made the film."
* It is said that Stanley Kubrick made this movie because of the failure of Waterloo (1970/I). After he completed 2001: A Space Odyssey (196 cool , he had planned to film a movie about Napoleon's life. After many years of research, he sent location scouts to various Eastern European locations, and even had an agreement with the Yugoslav army to supply troops for the vast battle scenes. However, after "Waterloo" tanked, Kubrick's financial backers pulled out. He thus decided to adapt the American version of "Clockwork", which had been given to him by Terry Southern (co-writer of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)).
* The film rights were sold for "a few hundred dollars", but then re-sold for a much larger amount. Before director Stanley Kubrick became involved in the film, several different casts were considered for Alex and his droogs: girls in miniskirts, old-age pensioners, and The Rolling Stones.
* 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).
* Stanley Kubrick deliberately made continuity errors just before the author worked out who Alex is. The dishes on the table move around and the level of wine in the glasses change between shots to give a feeling of disorientation to the viewer.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [faces] Frank, when he realizes who Alex is.
* 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 (1980), also directed by Stanley Kubrick.
* In this film, Anthony Sharp plays a government minister. In Stanley Kubrick's later film, Barry Lyndon (1975), he plays a former minister, Lord Harlan.
* 2001: A Space Odyssey (196 cool (also directed by Stanley Kubrick) soundtrack highly visible in record store.
* 'Anthony Burgess' 's preference for director was Ken Russell because he thought the director's style was perfect for the material. Burgess was reluctant over Stanley Kubrick as a director, but was initially happy with Kubrick's work. Later, he felt the film made the book, one of his least favorites, overshadow his other work.
* 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.
* According to an interview with Malcolm McDowell, the actor often kept Stanley Kubrick highly amused by his ability to belch on command (as illustrated at various points of the movie). The actor and director also passed the time obsessively playing table tennis (a sport which appeared in Kubrick's earlier Lolita (1962)); McDowell was later irritated to find that his salary had been docked for the hours spent playing the game.
* Stanley Kubrick asked Pink Floyd if he could use their "Atom Heart Mother Suite" in the soundtrack. However, because Kubrick wanted unlimited license to determine what portions or edits of the song he used, the band turned him down. When Alex is in the record store (the same shot where the 2001 soundtrack appears), the upper shelf has the cover of "Atom Heart Mother" (look for the cow in the field).
* 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 (1969)) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
* The first line the prison minister says in the film, "What's it going to be, eh?" is nearly identical to the first sentence of the novel ("What's it going to be then, eh?" wink
* In the book, Alex's last name is never revealed. "DeLarge" could be a reference to a line in the book in which Alex calls himself "Alexander the Large" while raping two 10-year-old girls (in the film, this is changed to a consensual sex scene with teenage girls).
* The newspaper article gives Alex's last name as "Burgess".
* 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.
* The photo-montage when Alex clobbers the old lady are mostly the paintings the old lady has hanging in her room.
* 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.
* Many phallic references: snake crawling between the legs of the woman in the poster, the popsicles held by the girls in the record store, the tip of Alex's walking stick, the object used by Alex to kill the woman.
* Malcolm McDowell chose to sing "Singin' In The Rain" during the rape scene, because it was the only song he knew all the lyrics to.
* 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.
* The language spoken by Alex and his droogs is author 'Anthony Burgess' 's invention, "Nadsat": a mix of English, Russian and slang. Stanley Kubrick was afraid that they had used too much of it, and that the movie would not be accessible. The original edition of the novel suffered from similar criticisms, and a Nadsat glossary appendix was added to the second and subsequent editions.
* One of the reasons why Stanley Kubrick withdrew the movie from distribution in the U.K. were, according to his wife Christiane Kubrick, several death threats that his family received because of the film.
* 'Anthony Burgess' originally sold the movie to Mick Jagger for $500 when he needed quick cash. Jagger intended to make it with The Rolling Stones as the droogs.
* 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.
* This film was shot almost entirely on real locations as opposed to sets and was lit almost entirely with a Lowell Kit, a staple for film students, perhaps as a reaction against the huge apparatus needed for Stanley Kubrick's previous film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (196 cool .
* This was the first film to use the Dolby Laboratory noise reduction system during its theatrical run.
* The shot of the bride falling through the gallows trapdoor (during Alex's fantasy) is footage from Cat Ballou (1965).
* Wendy Carlos's synthesized score features the first ever use of a vocoder.
* In the scene where Reformed Alex is being taken into the woods by his old droogan buddies you can see the officer numbers on their uniforms 665 and 667 implying that that is Alex is 666.
* The doorbell at the Alexander residence, "Home", plays the first four notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" (but in a different key).
* At one point, Tinto Brass was attached to direct.
* "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.
* Ken Russell was considered to direct the movie, with Oliver Reed playing the part of Alex.
* When Malcolm McDowell recorded his voiceover material, it was on a simple Nagra tape recorder operated by Stanley Kubrick himself.
* After filming the famed brainwashing scene, Malcolm McDowell has since had an overwhelming fear of eyedrops.
* Stanley Kubrick handled the advertising campaign, including posters, commercials, the trailer, etc.
* The title was translated into Serbo-Croatian as "The Orange From Hell" ("Paklena Naranca" wink .
* In the early 1990's London's popular Scala Film Club showed this movie without permission from Stanley Kubrick or Warner Brothers. At Kubrick's insistence Warners sued and won. As a result the Scala was almost bankrupt and closed in 1993.
* Much of the continuity errors in this film (glass placement in the dinner scene, Alex's droog's hats appearing/disappearing at the river, etc.) were all intentional. Stanley Kubrick was trying to have a slight disorienting effect in this film.
* The combination to Alex's bedroom door is 17-34-89
* The writer of the novel, 'Anthony Burgess' , claimed that the term "clockwork orange" was a Cockney phrase, but most philologists agree that there has never been any such phrase until the appearance of his book. Burgess lived in Malaysia during the 1940s, and the Malay word for man is "orang", from which "orangutan" (man of the jungle) is derived. There is, however, an English slang expression for a gambling device known as the "one-armed bandit" in the U.S.: a clockwork fruit (the gambling device typically is referred to as a "fruit machine" in the UK due to the depictions on its dials; clockwork in England is a word applied to a plethora of mechanical devices beyond just time-pieces). The anthropomorphic look of a "fruit machine" (thus, its name "one-armed bandit" in the U.S. for its roughly man-sized shape and "arm" giving it a humanoid appearance) may well have given rise to the term "clockwork orange" in Burgess' fertile mind as Alex, through conditioning, is turned into a robot (which a fruit machine resembles). Gambling also is a game of chance, and Alex literally is gambling with his soul. This is made explicit, particularly in the film, when Dr. Brodsky tells Alex -- who is upset over the use of Beethoven on the soundtrack to the atrocity films and claims he has been enlightened -- to take his chance, as he will be free in a fortnight (roughly the time an annual vacation in an English resort such as Blackpool -- the Las Vegas of Britain -- with its scores of fruit machines, would take).
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [three-way] Alex vs Government vs Alexander.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] [114] Alex is given Serum 114 when he undergoes the Ludovico treatment. It is perhaps an in-joke on Kubrick's repeated use of CRM in his films, as serum sounds almost like CRM sounded out.
* Contrary to popular claims, this film was never banned in the UK. It originally received an "X" rating in 1971 and was withdrawn from distribution in 1973 by the film's director. In 1999 (the year of Stanley Kubrick's death), the film was released again and received an "18" rating.
* The writer of the book, 'Anthony Burgess' , lived for a time in Malaysia [where his wife was beaten by four American GI's, thus giving inspiration to this story]. In Malay, the word "orang" means man,[this is also part of the derivation of the word 'orangutan', the other half being derived from "hutan" meaning jungle] therefore, the title of the story is actually a pun on the British expression. Rather than a clockwork fruit, it is a clockwork man, which is, of course, exactly what Alex has become by the end of the film.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] Maniacal staring face, can be seen on Alex at the opening shot.
* Director Trademark: [Stanley Kubrick] ["The End"] Kubrick maintained the tradition of putting the words "The End" in the end credits of all his movies, long after the industry had abandoned it.
* The film was released just over a year after principal photography began, the fastest film shot, edited and released by Stanley Kubrick.
* 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.
* The large yellow book in the tray on the prison governor's desk is actually a "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack".
* Because of the limited budget, various techniques had to be used such as dolly shots on wheelchairs, sound recorded live on set, the use of natural light and some scenes in handheld cameras. However, at that time the new camera zoom control was first used in the picture.
* Stanley Kubrick's first cut (before hiring several assistant editors) ran almost four hours.
* The futuristic turntable that appeared in the movie is a Michell GyroDec, a version of which is still being manufactured today.
* Other records visible in the record shop: Tim Buckley's "Lorca" (1970), on the Island shelf when Alex enters the shop. Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother" is visible on this shelf as well as behind the counter. Also on this shelf is Rare Bird "As Your Mind Flies By". Two records to the left of the famous "2001" soundtrack in front of the counter is Crosby Stills Nash & Young's "Deja Vu" (1970). To the right of "2001" is "The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death" by John Fahey. Between The Beatles record and "Atom Heart Mother" on the wall behind the counter is Neil Young's "After The Goldrush" (1970). The blonde girl with the lollipop can be seen looking at a Mungo Jerry album, "In The Summertime" (1970).
* 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.
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