Clockwork Orange 1971 Ludovico technique

Viddy well my droogies, it seems we are living in a real horrorshow, played out before our glazzies on daytime tv. #CostOfLivingCrisis

[@jakerobert3118]

That unsettling version of Ode to Joy set to clips of the Nazis marching is so amazing.

[@PauloHernandezXD]

Someone pointed this out in another video I watched years ago; there’s a shot of soldiers breaking into a house is basically what Alex & his Droogs have done.

[@celtspeaksgoth7251]

Also chosen as the EU theme. Hmm, now why would that be...

[@NoahSpurrier]

Wendy Carlos did the score.

[@ArmyJames]

But fitting due to the mutual Germanness.

[@NateCraven318]

Would it be too cruel to say that Alex deserved everything that happened to him after this? I mean as a victim of SA myself, it was pretty cathartic to see the character go through Hell, just as he did to others. You've got to admit he had this coming.

[@ezride445]

That’s one of the questions the film brings up.

[@otto8996]

Hes not really the type of character you empathise with but rather someone you see for what they really are: a child, and theres nothing more cruel and unfeeling than a child

[@NateCraven318]

@@otto8996 Well of COURSE I'm not gonna empathize with a rapist, not as a victim of such myself. x_x

[@ledot2037]

@@NateCraven318I don’t think the movie intends for the viewer to empathize with Alex

[@elmalifico3708]

No, the film has a villain as the main character. Not an antihero, not a flawed person, he doesn’t have a tragic story, his actions don’t fall in some gray area of morality. He’s a rotten, malicious, vile, irredeemable, and downright terrible person.

[@openeyefilms]

“But it’s wrong! Cause… it’s like… against society!”😂

[@jacdaugh]

"I'm Cured!... PRAISE GOD!!..." 🤣 hilarious!

[@finckel2682]

I don't know what is worse. The fact that he could not watch such violence or the fact that he could not blink for several hours.

[@PauloHernandezXD]

The latter, it’s part of the “torture” element in the technique.

[@Dexter649]

2:05 when i had to watch Frozen II in class in my senior year in high school.

[@stoneyboyd]

YOU AND ME BOTH! I hate Sophomore Year of High School when everyone was obsessed with Frozen

[@Dexter649]

@@stoneyboyd I was a sophomore when Frozen II came out

[@yerielurena1873]

What's terrible about Frozen II?

[@dmann5938]

@@yerielurena1873it’s shit

[@Dexter649]

@yerielurena1873 too much songs.

[@skymabile3989]

2:51 Watchmojo's Top 10 Phobias: Do you agree with our list? Alex Delarge: YEEEEEEESSS!

[@yakhooves]

The music in concert with the historical imagery is so powerful. This scene gets stuck in my head often. So does Dr, Strangelove’s “stay on the bomb run” scene. Master filmmaking.

[@jamesgamescraig7144]

3:32 His attempt of an eloquent contrition exit strategy is hilarious and brilliant.🤣

[@Hobbitydobbity]

“I seen it, it’s wrong!! It’s wrong because it’s, like… against society??” Alex is a genius.

[@jakerobert3118]

“…because it’s like against society!” I’ve always loved that line.

[@JamesBondStarWarsFan1983-by6qp]

This was me when I had to sit through Star Wars Episodes 7-9 and Indiana Jones 4 and 5.

[@jrcasselman]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull should have been billed as a comedy.

[@Spystreak]

marvel movies for me with their cornball jokes and extensive cgi

[@scudthedisposableassasin1775]

It's a shame you can't find the original version of this song on KZbin

[@KidaMilo89]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foncgYaNgt2Jbas

[@jakerobert3118]

Wendy Carlos is a beast about keeping the music off the internet.

[@pascalroulleau7491]

IT’S A SIN !!!

[@delduvall]

@@KidaMilo89 That’s not the version used in the movie

[@aoffydosy1530]

Then : Brain purging Now : Steel stretchers stab his eye

[@Pazuzu4219]

One of the greatest theatrical scenes in cinema History.

[@rstein926]

More like one of the most disturbing

[@stevie9028]

I don't know but as i heard that music it literally made feel sick in the stomach. Amazing scene

[@nathanialbelliveau9389]

The first time I saw that scene I cried about it when I drank some Pennsylvania Dutch and got slightly drunk and yelled at my grandma, saying "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?! SEND ME TO CONVERSION THERAPY?! i don't want to go to conversion therapy..."

[@heinrichze-france4089]

What was her response?

[@MisterNineEleven]

Trust me, being gay is worse....

[@hughwoatmeigh6999]

... people refer to my ancestors as Pennylvania Dutch, so it sounds like you've been giving blowies to farmers...

[@nathanialbelliveau9389]

Fyi, It's not an innuendo for giving Pennsylvanian-Dutch farmers blowies, it's a booze name Edit: wouldn't mind helping my fellow man... wink wink, nudge nudge

[@jameskelly5672]

Stanley really was brilliant.

[@raymondyee2008]

*The horror, Alex…THE HORROR*

[@kbfan6955]

Damn i remember when this vid had like only 4 comments lol, also this scene is such a "horrorshow" and yet disturbing, it stills give me chills around my whole body.

[@bar540]

This scene is so so important, yet I am afraid you do not understand what it means. This scene shows how the public in the world is completely controlled by media. When you are exposed to so much killing, suffer, death and so on, you become a controllable species, as your body shows an instantaneous reaction. This is the root of brainwashing, and deactivating the human potential. I do not support the violence that thus guy was showing in the beginning part of the movie. But I am more against killing potential of people by exposing them to sensual information. I do not know you see my point. This scene is an example, how people are controlled. Not by discipline in the army (as shown in the movie, it may not work as it is not a full mental control) but by exposing sensual information and making them controllable. (Deep mental control) This movie is a masterpiece

[@bar540]

Also this scene is very sad to see how a human can be changed and his potential can be destroyed.. really sad scene too when you watch the whole movie..

[@NateCraven318]

​@@bar540Not like Alex didn't deserve it.

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

@@NateCraven318 No. That is still not right and an approach that brings a result of no value. That pastor was right. And not only from theological point of view. Creating a form of zombie is not a sensible payback.

[@NateCraven318]

@@Mi_Fa_Volare I'm a rape victim. Need I say more? I'm not gonna go through this discourse. Don't fucking start.

[@Psergiorivera]

The whole World War 2 film juxtaposed with Beethoven. Unreal

[@serendavies7375]

This reminds me of when my brother was at the optician & he looked just like Alex 😵‍💫

[@Russlygacha]

I always found this scene somewhat funny! It was hilarious to me!

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I've often wondered why it's so hard to find the original cinematic cuts of the soundtrack. Like after all this time I still have to watch the movie to appreciate the original score.

[@jakerobert3118]

Carlos guards the music incredibly well. You can’t find tracks streaming anywhere. Even with the Switched on Bach album.

[@seanfullerton8161]

I still love the theory that this therapy / technique is just a big scam and Alex is in on it. Hence why he’s asking all the questions pretending he doesn’t know what is going on.

[@Metalhead_237]

2:05 watching a clockwork orange in theatres be like

[@PolishGod1234]

Wdym, the film is great

[@darthkahn45]

For the longest time I assumed Alex was saying "Horror show" as if he naturally associated horror with something good. Then I learned about the word Kharasho.

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

.... :O *Neo vs Agent Smith final battle theme starts playing in my head

[@Natasha-tu5qs]

Actually he is saying horrorshow, but the intention is obviously as slang for kharasho. Burgess mixed Russian with Cockey when he created the dialect for this novel, nadstat

[@jakerobert3118]

@@Natasha-tu5qs when I was 12 or 13, my mom gave me a super old copy of the book that had a glossary in the back with all the slang and which Russian words they were based on.

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

It's hard to believe that this was only McDowell's fourth film.

[@yellowhazeproductions]

Listening to Ode of Joy EU edition

[@bevstanx-8840]

I didn't know the british had their own mk-ultra

[@PatrickSantos-sn8ox]

Mk ultra was originally a UK program....ask Ronald Maddison....fatal Sarin experiment victim.

[@PauloHernandezXD]

I haven’t seen the movie in it’s entirety since I was 19 (2014) By the end of the clip I thought, “My God! That’s an amazing movie, I wanna watch it again.” lol:3

[@TallSilentGuy]

I never understood why he had to be restrained with his eyelids forced open. Wouldn't it be simpler just to say "You have to fully cooperate by watching the videos or else the deal is off and you go back to prison?"

[@pixlbit-designs-vfx]

Because his inner nature was rebelling against the therapy. As his mind rebelled, so did his body. Imagine the thing that you hate being forcibly impressed upon your mind. Wouldn't you be trying to physically withdraw from the therapy too?

[@thejase3777]

That hardly makes for exciting cinema!

[@TallSilentGuy]

@@pixlbit-designs-vfx Yes, thank you - you seem to have nailed it. Asking Alex to voluntarily absorb the treatment would be like asking someone to hold their own breath until they pass out; or perhaps remain perfectly still when being tickled. Sometimes reflex totally overrides voluntary action. But one question still troubles me: What's to stop him either going cross-eyed or making his eyes roll back in his head?

[@villain7140]

because they’re more interested in actually testing the technique than giving some delinquent the chance to redemption. And because as the uploader said above all it wouldn’t be good cinema

[@kingofburnttoast]

@@TallSilentGuyI doubt that would’ve worked. The amount of strain your eyes from being forced open, I doubt it’d be easy enough to do something like that

[@salvadorarturovelazquezcro8759]

The first time I watched this movie I got scared, but I understood a lot of Simpsons references and by the 9th or 100 times I have watched it, it goes beyond the masterpiece and the book is at the same level.

[@rstein926]

I don't what is what more disturbing. This or Regan's infamous surgery in The Exorcist.

[@Bonnie_B365]

Both

[@Winterstick549]

I wonder how long McDowell had to wear those eye lid contraptions? I get squeamish just watching this.

[@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800]

Apparently they scratched his retinas pretty frequently

[@Winterstick549]

@@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800 First time I had a scratched retina, I freaked. I thought my left eye would be legally blinded for life. The eye doctor laughed, and gave me some drops, patches (Rrrrrrrr!!! I insisted on the black pirate type) and it healed back to normal in a week

[@YPAReviews]

@@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800 I have to say shame on Kubrick for even doing this to someone and good on McDowell for taking it like a champ. I would never agree to do this. Doesn't it go against human rights?

[@themidnighttavern6784]

​@@YPAReviewsKubrick doesn't deserve any respect as a film maker imo. Largely due to the fact that he would just straight up torture the actors he worked with with scenes like this. He was a miserable person to work with according to most accounts. Just not a good guy.

[@zarovich9397]

@@themidnighttavern6784​​⁠this is completely a myth, the man was a perfectionist introvert who micromanaged actors. Because of this, crew members and actors have made up stuff about him because they didn’t like how he directed and his general “vibe.” All of the stuff out of the shining is genuinely made up and is basically urban legend at this point. Funny thing is with McDowells eyes being scratched, Kubrick made him take time out for them to heal, probably cause it’d be a union nightmare to bring someone in who’s pretty much injured.

[@user-ob4rz5rs7m]

Ode to joy

[@troy1677]

sooo many people not even realizing this is real and scientists have used methods similar to what kubrick portrays to try to understand life and the universe as well as how it works

[@FORMAT--18]

dnepropetrovsk maniacs aka 3 guys 1 hammer flashback.

[@Fetusman82]

Little bit of a stretch but I'd love to hear why

[@FORMAT--18]

@@Fetusman82 BECAUSE ALEX IS LIKE IGOR.

[@Fetusman82]

OMG YOU MUST BE FUN AT PARTIES! Alex is at least classy enough to kill an old lady with a massive ceramic penis (kinda on accident I think), whilst Igor and his droogies were a little less crafty and visited mass torture upon their victims.

[@frankandstern8803]

OH IVE BEEN CURED ALRIGHT. 💣💤💤💤

[@wjgthatsit2357]

He’s being forced to watch the nair hair video 2:10

[@mrnukes797]

Two girls one cup

[@Nostalgia101-ji8xc]

Run the gauntlet

[@rionsteiner2397]

1 man 1 jar

[@tuputamadre9770]

3 guys 1 hammer

[@rotomfan63]

Reminder that in the book this worked and Alex became a normal, well adjusted person but because Kubrick is, to be a bit hyperbolic for effect, allergic to endings that are not as miserable as possible, he chose not to have this happen. THe fact is as sometimes people need to be taught somethings are bad weather they want to or not

[@carltanner7461]

I'm sorry, but in the book this doesn't work at all. They end up manipulating his brain in order to undo what they had done. In the very last chapter, however, he decides to leave the droogy lifestyle in order to settle down. It is this chapter, which deals with the consequences of maturity, that Kubrick decided to leave out.

[@nevermore7373]

That ending is too Disney like. You don’t simply grow out of being ignoble and savage. It’s still there inside of you. A bit pessimistic, sure, but it paints us in a light that is true and honest. Kubrick wasn’t keen on Rousseau’s thesis on man being good and civil.

[@Tyln93]

MK Ultra Program!!!

[@user-um9sl1kj6u]

For Criminals, you show them a mirror, and they are horrified. For anyone else, a mirror is what keeps them together.

[@legodroideka5505]

When you listen to Ode to Joy by Beethoven, do you think of the Nakatomi vault opening in Die Hard, when I hear Ode to Joy by Beethoven, I think of this scene, we are not the same

[@ariqarisya]

Production Companies: MGM (current owner) United Artists Studios (Distributor and Presentation) Polaris Productions (Presentation) Burgess Worldwide, LLC (copyright holder) Hawk Films (production) British Film Producers (financement)

[@GamerKid64]

2:05 Me watching Glitter Force for the first time in 8 years

[@GamerKid64]

2:20

[@flowertoons21]

1:29 when: nikkokaicutie fetish art in a nutshell

[@CoolGabe1700]

2:05 Me when I have to watch Blaze and the Monster Machines at my uncle’s house:

[@So-Be-It_85949]

1971 Ludovico technique

[@frankandstern8803]

Kubrick? Burgess was always the s##t . If more people read him , they would know that. A good middle ground would be Tom Hollander's narration of the book. Oh its Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity combined. After seeing the film several times and reading the book twice ,its now my favorite approach to the novel. I think Kubricks film was both a blessing and a curse for Burgess. It Was pretty slimey the way Kubrick didn't address the bashing Burgess was taking over his film at the time. Quite weasely.

[@user-ob4rz5rs7m]

It's horrible to malcolm in this scene

[@vogueinferno]

Horrifying and Hilarious

[@bumbleyellow]

2:20

[@user-by3ol4rm7k]

Fun fact: this scene was referenced in every title sequence of Robot Chicken

[@crweewrc1388]

0:22 Irony

[@brambismoko1987]

00:49 02:05

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

2:53 I always thought that was a completely unnecessary line.

[@nickanimationgame2]

1:49 maverickaventura and fetish art creepy art in a nutshell

[@Anomalocaris500]

0:36

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

Me watching Lord Of The Rings:

[@heinrichze-france4089]

...wut

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@heinrichze-france4089 Maybe it's not totally fair, The Ludovico technique lasted way less than Lord of the rings.

[@edwinve4112]

​@@alessiobenvenuto5159 Lmao ok bro

[@PolishGod1234]

Wdym, LoTR is a masterpiece. Its long, but I like it that way

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@PolishGod1234 I liked a lot of longer media, but Lotr my man... it's just so boring for me, there's no mistery, there's no twist, it's dragged out... it looks like an ad placement movie to show you all the cool places in Mordor to pass an holiday. The main theme repeats forever, the ending takes literal hours, the villain dies instantly and the woman who kills him says a cringe ass line, it conditioned all fantasy settings after it to be the the exact same... That's just what i remember on the spot. I don't know man, tell me what you like about it

[@theo9952]

Come to think of it, the only positive thing about the criminally violent Alex, was his love for Beethoven's music. It was so cruelly inappropriate to make him feel sick to hear it. Besides, if they had to have music to accompany the nazi war propaganda film, playing Wagner should be the logical choice.

[@ez3333]

🌹🐦🐦🐦❤😇❤🗝🗝🗝🌹

[@user-wn8xg3dd5q]

Its a harlot take the pill bother you much my brother must be one hard pill to swallow my brother

[@empirecases4128]

I wonder if Dr Jordan Peterson ever imagines that one day techniques like this would be reimagined to be used against nonconformists who spoke out against dangerous political zealots to silence and numb the minds of thinkers.

[@jameskelly5672]

Sin,what's all this about sin?

[@mrsportsguy134]

I wonder if this technique would work on the Joker and cure him

[@PrinnyCG]

The Joker vs Alex DeLarge.

[@PolishGod1234]

It would. The drug used in the technique would make Joker unable to act on violence, but his crazy personality would stay.

[@PrinnyCG]

@@PolishGod1234 You watched the Freshy Kanal rap battle?

[@PolishGod1234]

@@PrinnyCG no, what's that?

[@PrinnyCG]

@@PolishGod1234 The Joker vs Alex DeLarge rap battle

[@Catinasuit233]

me when i get kiddnapp by furries

[@Eroica_Under_God.15.18]

I'm assuring this is just a troll comment like bruh..

[@donaldquirk7801]

This is the technique the Mossad uses on cats like me. I'm Alex and you are those scientist goons not batman.

[@BeedingWimmington]

o/

[@gz6720]

In in gaza i like

[@carltanner7461]

What do you mean?

[@JackFraz1972]

More like Gazalajara.

[@Chexerson27]

0:37

[@ez3333]

🌹💐💐💐🌄😇🌄🌈🌈🌈🌹

[@BluDevil93]

2:05 - demonstrates how Alex, understandably and undoubtedly a bastard he was, had empathy somewhere.

[@LuzbelYngve]

The only person he wouldn't hit would be Ludwig Van 😹

[@MemekingJag]

This is just an interpretation I came up watching this last, but the ending in particular is a great analogy for homosexuality at the time. they take, in the name of his greater good, his passion and love - one of the few things not connected to his psychotic violence, his love for music and ludwig van's 9th. Just like a gay person with their genuine, romantic feelings being "converted", they take the best, most innocent and noble parts of ourselves and turn them against us. As someone who too sees Beethoven's 9th as the best piece of music ever written, the idea of having it twisted into something you find sickening and revolting is horrific.

[@nocucksinkekistan7321]

She needs to learn tos peak better, and the writers need to learn better writing

[@ChupeTTe]

When the weed is freshly cut 0:00

[@illyrian44]

Why is this torture again?

[@Dryhten1801]

You are aware this is fundamentally against Fascism right? This is the type of thing the elite would have Europe's defenders subjected to if they ever had the power.

[@PolishGod1234]

To make him feel sick when experiencing violence of any form, so that he won't act on his urges.

[@Tommy-zl6yj]

They drug him up with stuff that makes him feel sick and then they make him watch videos of things he used to enjoy to make him hate them

[@illyrian44]

​@@PolishGod1234i don't feel sick watching that

[@PolishGod1234]

@@illyrian44 because in order to feel sick you need to have special serum injected into your body as shown in the film.

[@sebas5719]

0:36

[@ez3333]

🌹🐦🐦🐦❤😇❤🗝🗝🗝🌹

[@Catinasuit233]

me when i get kiddnapp by furries

[@Eroica_Under_God.15.18]

wtf...