A Clockwork Orange

The film is based on the novel by Anthony Burgess "a Clockwork orange" (A Clockwork Orange, 1962).

Before the project started by Stanley Kubrick, the role of Alex and his gang planned the band The Rolling Stones.

After accusations of promoting violence, and after he began to receive anonymous death threats, Kubrick withdrew the film from release in the UK a year after the premiere. The ban lasted until 1999, until the Director's death.

It was reported a few real facts emulate the heroes of the film, embodied in actual acts of teenage violence. It was reported that the rapists sang "Singin' in the rain" during the crime.

During the filming, Kubrick and McDowell frequently played table tennis. To my great disappointment McDowell then found that his fee was deducted the payment of all hours spent playing tennis.

Burgess, wanting to spice up your novel, saturates slang words of the so-called "nadsat" created by Burgess in Leningrad and taken from the Russian language. The main difficulty of translating the novel into Russian language is to these words to Russian readers seem to be so unusual as for English. V. Bosnjak, who translated the text that came up to type the word in Latin, so selecting them from the text in Russian. Mainly the characters as a slang use of ordinary Russian common words — "boy", "person", "tea", etc. because Of the same "nadsat" Stanley Kubrick bequeathed to show in the Russian hire the movie "a Clockwork Orange" only with subtitles.

The title "a Clockwork orange" the novel received from the expression that was once widely used to be London Cockney inhabitants of the working layers of the East End. Shooter of the older generation about things that are unusual or strange to say they are "curves like a clockwork orange," that is, these things are the most bizarre and incomprehensible sense. Anthony Burgess the seven years he lived in Malaysia, and the Malay word "orang" means "man" and English "orange" — "orange".

Wine, which treats the writer, too light for the "Chateau Medo" 10-flight excerpts. Kubrick wanted the hero McDowell drank this wine, but the actor did not blind, the wine was diluted with water, adding after each take.

Snake appeared in the film after McDowell inadvertently admitted to Kubrick that he was afraid of reptiles.

Stanley Kubrick asked the band "Pink Floyd" to sell the rights to their song "Atom Heart Mother". But because he wanted perpetual license and unlimited possibilities for mangling the musical material, the band refused. In the scene from record store, above the counter hangs a cover from the album "Atom Heart Mother".

Kubrick had his assistant destroy all the footage that was not included in the film.

On the counter hire vinyl (00:26:30) is seen in a promotional poster of the film "2001: a Space Odyssey"

Kubrick demanded that milk in dairy machines every hour changed. The fact that under strong illumination the milk has thickened and turned to curd.

Once Kubrick said that if he hadn't found Malcolm McDowell, it is likely that the film would never have been cleared.

On the counter of the music store, at 26 minutes of the film are visible the ninth Studio album of the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour".

While working on the film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb"Terry southern offered to Kubrick to take over the adaptation of the book by Anthony Burgess "a Clockwork orange". When Kubrick first read the book, it pushed linguistic sophistication Burgess. Southern recalled: "at First the novel was not at all attracted to Stanley. He said such language no one will understand." Then, southern requested novel for six months and, together with Michael Cooper wrote the script. Producer David Puttnam found the script promising, but advised screenwriters to figure out the appropriateness of their work to play. The censor returned the script without reading it, and said, according to Southern, the following: "I am familiar with this book, and it makes no sense to read the script written on it, as portrayed in the novel disobedience youth authorities

To Finance the project Kubrick was negotiating with American Zoetrope Studio created by Francis Ford Coppola

Writing the script, Kubrick said: "I think that Burgess wanted to say in the book what happened in the script, but I put some changes and changed some scenes." The major difference between the movie and the original was the fact that were omitted the last Chapter, in which Alex loses interest in violence, instead of listening to Beethoven's German romances, wants to get his wife and children. Kubrick, getting started, was not familiar with the original ending. The fact that his hands was an American edition of the book from which I removed the last Chapter because the Director of the publishing house W. W. Norton

The car's futuristic look, which appeared in the film under the name Durango 95, is actually released in three copies by the vehicle Probe 16 brothers Adams.

The first impression about him from watching the film, arranged for him Kubrick was terrible. The writer's wife and his litigant wanted to leave after the first ten minutes, but Burgess decided that it would look defiant.

Despite the low technological nature of the film compared to "2001: a Space Odyssey", Kubrick showed his talent for innovation

It was first supposed that to film a movie of Ken Russell, as his style seemed most appropriate (he even found an actor for the main role Oliver reed). Burgess wasn't happy when the work come from Kubrick, but the end result remained highly satisfied, although he admitted with sadness in his voice that the success of the film made "a Clockwork orange" is most famous for his work, while the rest of the novels left in the shade.

Malcolm McDowell suffered much during the filming: in one scene, he had broken ribs, in another scene he injured his eye, and in the stage of heating his buddies Alex McDowell almost choked to death because of the failure of the breathing apparatus.

In the rape scene Malcolm McDowell singing "Singin' In The Rain" just because of this song know the words.

The rooms are former friends of Alex, who became police — 665 and 667. The hint that Alex between them — 666-y.