filmography: A Clockwork Orange

Britain in the indefinite future. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is a very aggressiveyoung man with two passions, unbridled violence and Beethoven. Is the head ofthe gang of droogs, who indulge their wild instincts beating, raping andterrorizing the population. When the escalation of terror comes to murder, Alex is arrested and in prison, he voluntarily submitted to an innovative rehabilitationexperience that aims to dramatically cancel any hint of antisocial behavior.

Facts about this film

1. In 1971, Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic and sociopathic criminal, leader of a small gang called the "droogs" first came to the silver screen to become a social and even political icon with his strange love Beethoven, sex and ultraviolence in the film "A Clockwork Orange."
2. The original title of the film is "The Clockwork Orange". "Orange" in English, means "orange", but in reality, the origin of the title comes from the word "Ourang" Malay speech, Anthony Burgess, author of the book, took from his days in Malaysia, and literally means "person". Thus, the writer made a pun, so the true meaning of the title is "mechanical man". That is, after applying Alex Ludovico treatment.
3. In the scene where Alex envisions a movie for the first time as part of treatment "Ludovico" is the image of Roman Polanski being beaten.
4. To select U.S. theaters where it premiered "A Clockwork Orange", Stanley Kubrick did a market study was to average the number of spectators who received the screening room with the kind of films that were there.
5. When Alex enters the room and enter the tape of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven on his stereo, a tape previously extracted Giorgi Lyghety composer, who also wrote the soundtrack of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
6. While filming the sequence where Alex is subjected to the Ludovico treatment, Malcolm McDowell suffered a little damage to their corneas, the same which left him blind for a few days. During filming, also crack ribs, though this time in the scene where he is beaten and humiliated on stage.
7. During the classic sequence where Alex beats Mr. Alexander (Patrick Magee), Kubrick told McDowell: "As long as you hit it, sing something, anything you like, whatever." McDowell then began to sing the song "Singin 'In The Rain", as it was the only song she knew the words.
8. The sequence in which snake appears called "Basil" was introduced stealthily by Kubrick when he learned that Malcolm McDowell will have a phobia of reptiles.
9. By 1968, Mick Jagger, leader of the legendary "Rolling Stones", was interested to film "A Clockwork Orange." The Alex would play while the rest of the "Stones", Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were the "droogs". Anthony Burgess declined sharply.
10. Alex's suicide was achieved by pulling the camera from the roof of a roof. On the 6th attempt in front of the camera fell as intended and the engine was in perfect condition and be used to stage it.
11. Stanley Kubrick based the screenplay of "A Clockwork Orange" in the American edition of the book by Anthony Burgess, obviated the same as Chapter 21, where Alex was tired of ultraviolence, considering the possibility to marry and settle down.

Andrea V.