CLOCKWORK ORANGE scene,The Drunk Under The Bridge

Malcom McDowell at his peak.
The first time the audience sees "a bit of the old ultraviolence" is when Alex, and his droogs come across an old drunk. Alex's closeup is unforgettable. Alex: "What's so stinking about it"?
This is but one example of a scene that starts with a zoom out. Kubrick uses this technique many times.
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[@Euroviking86]

Notice how Alex asks the man a question and then doesn't interrupt him when he answers - unlike his Droogs, who laugh like hyenas at everything he says.

[@Sam81537]

At the start of the book I think it mentions how Alex likes to hear the people’s he beats up opinions and Alex didn’t even say anything after he just beat him up knowing he was proving his point

[@aridian6988]

That’s the cleanest hobo underpass I’ve ever seen

[@urakunt866]

Aridian not anymore

[@macaronidelta1925]

You can still walk there, I believe. If you go to London.

[@trevor_1281]

Considering how trashed Alex's apartment complex is. Yes it is spotless

[@cmc5207]

Because I'm not there....

[@garynewton1263]

Sad thing is hobo's still exist now. In Adelaide, the city I've been living in for 7 years now there are countless homeless people mainly around the CBD, young, old, male, female.....and nobody does anything to help them. We've certainly come a long way since 1971. 😉

[@bambulance2174]

I like how all the droogs are laughing while alex is just listening to him. I think it shows alexs intelligence or how he is enjoying his victims in pain. Great scene

[@alexanderpataki5567]

I LOVE Kubrck. Notice the lighting in this scene. Professional gaffers still use this as a benchmark

[@JWSeltzer1138]

me old gaffer'd have a thing or two to say about this if he were here!

[@jacklambert1521]

Oh Sam!

[@AaronHatcher]

every shot of every movie can be a still picture

[@user-kj4sn3yl5d]

He is genius

[@TheWelchProductions]

@@AaronHatcher Skål!

[@carnivorous_vegan]

Notice how Alex doesn't attempt to argue with him, or contradict anything the old man says. He simply asks a question to get his viewpoint, and not only does he abstain from verbally responding (hinting that Alex actually agrees), he then proceeds to confirm the man's theory with his cane and his droogies.

[@julienjean6711]

You’re right. It is a wonderfully chilling scene.

[@gamegladi8or669]

mind. blown.

[@Snagprophet]

"The world sucks, the young attack the old" Alex: "yes"

[@carmonaangel84]

Contradiction and viewpoints goes out the window when he's being assaulted you donut. But then again its fiction

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Ah, someone else who understands the meaning of this scene!

[@punpun5888]

1:20 that look, is terrifying, like the evil is looking at you, Malcolm Mcdowell did a perfect job performing Alex Delarge, and Kubrick directing it

[@warshipsatin8764]

its the look that makes girls wet

[@andin.armenianjourneychron1208]

Stop the crap boy. It's only in movies. In real life monsters has very ordinary regular everyday look brother

[@paulleeds3448]

CAN YE SPARE SOME CUTTER, ME BROTHERS?!

[@sunny2kG]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHA

[@xanderharris1104]

Ha!

[@indomiepanggang4258]

What does that mean

[@jadenvanhess2341]

@@indomiepanggang4258 he’s basically just asking for change

[@adambriceland6588]

If only I knew what the fuck that was lol

[@skeletonkeysproductionskp]

Was at this underpass today in Wandsworth, and was utterly shocked to find that its been all newly done up, but not with even 1 plaque to mark this place of cinematic legend!

[@carasiaone]

I gotta go to this place before I die and get drunkie and howl away at the filthy songs of mi fathers and go blurt blurt blurt in between like a filthy orchestra in my stinking guts

[@bobbylee2853]

@@carasiaone Caution me brother, for who might hear.

[@deadaces7949]

This scene was filmed in my home town of Aylesbury! Every time I have walked through there I think of this film.

[@ThaqtRamone]

can you spare some cutter, me brother?

[@lovelondon806]

This Isn’t Aylesbury. You’ve been misinformed my brother

[@deadaces7949]

@@lovelondon806 Apparantly so, just looked it up!

[@paulsexton8056]

Wandsworth Bridge roundabout underpass, South London.

[@jamlym4974]

"Oh? And what's so stinkin' about it?"

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Politics

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

@@MisfitsFiendClub138 If only he said that he would've sum up everything in just one word.

[@jackjamesgodsell9586]

"It's a Stinking World because there is no law and order anymore!"

[@domwoodhouse2383]

Thank you Stanley Kubrick! For your inspiration in filmmaking

[@jameswhite6056]

thank you tv show called legio

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Stanley: you’re welcome

[@jayreed9630]

Lmao. Ironic considering how horrible this scene is.

[@russlander227]

I feel like this will be me when I get old. The world is stinking badly right now.

[@dankooryuk1013]

Oh, and what's so stinking about it?

[@movienerd202]

@@dankooryuk1013 Well obviously there's no law & order.

[@garynewton1263]

Yes. Very few available rental properties here in Australia. No more lucky country.

[@garynewton1263]

@@dankooryuk1013 lack of rental properties!

[@flowrepins6663]

​@@garynewton1263you have to strugle your hardest as a young man to at least get a retirement . also never count on family to take care of you when you are old , you have to do everything ur self nowadays

[@chairmanwario]

The old man sounds like a pirate

[@leod-sigefast]

He is Irish, which is not the pirate accent. The pirate accent is from West Country England, places like Cornwall, Devon, Bristol. All are rhotic-R though.

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Yeah, Ireland is full of pirates ☠️ 🇮🇪 🪙🪙🪓🗡

[@SuperTed19021]

He's Irish. A lot of that region along with south-western England made a lot of the pirate population up in the 1700s.

[@Hobbitydobbity]

I think the technical term for that is “Irish”.

[@MontyCaryl]

Anthony Burgess was of wholly Irish Catholic descent (and self-hating). Long time since I read the book, perhaps this isn’t his, but if I had to guess I would say it was.

[@OfficerFlatFoot]

Oooh, and what's so stinkin' about it??

[@timwoll6515]

And what's so stinking about it?

[@user-ms7ez6tu7b]

It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore.

[@paveLsTarK]

I came for that..

[@leod-sigefast]

You forgot the 'Ohhhh....'

[@mzdotorg]

1:20

[@jamlym4974]

Kubrick made the most bizarre films. And I love it.

[@VirreFriberg]

My man had downed one and a half bottles of whiskey. Amazing how liver failure nor the droogies managed to do him in

[@patrikboij7560]

Irish genes

[@AltairEgo1]

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance.

[@QueenBeeMedia]

downed a bottle and a half, then remembered alex's face years later.

[@mccarthy5825]

As an Irishman, I agree! 😀

[@CalebTrask]

Everyone raving about Kubrick. How about the genius of Anthony Burgess? Creating a protagonist who is a psychopathic monster, yet the reader/viewer cannot help but root for him.

[@OGRE_HATES_NERDS]

i havent read the book but at no point in the movie did i ever root for alex. like at all.

[@Ncostello]

You need to ask yourself some serious questions if at any point you were rooting for Alex

[@CalebTrask]

@@Ncostello I rooted for Walter White, too. Some of us can distinguish real life from fiction.

[@TheTrolliosis]

@@CalebTrask you can distinguish real life from fiction and it still be weird for you to root for Alex

[@CalebTrask]

@@TheTrolliosis You've got a point there. Wear a hat, and maybe no one will notice.

[@InternetReview]

The old man predicted 2023

[@shadowtheshowman]

This scene is honestly pretty word for word from the book.

[@Squamousepithilium]

People get pissed off watching this movie! That's a masterpiece movie by a Kubrick!

[@lukeneely389]

It's easy to piss someone off though. There are higher criteria for a masterpiece.

[@AltairEgo1]

@LUKE NEELY Do tell

[@muzengarocker3184]

Interesting that the Ramones were inspired by this scene to create the cover for the album Too Tough To Die.

[@eduardonapierbirks9928]

Alex and his droogs really show their antisocial behavior in this particular scene!!!

[@eduardonapierbirks9928]

@Parnell Anderson because this gang and his leader Alex Delarge really have an anger and intolerance against society!!! And they express it hurting and torturing the most vulnerable and weak!!!

[@eduardonapierbirks9928]

@Parnell Anderson why not? Do You think I am wrong?

[@eduardonapierbirks9928]

@Jimmy savile that is why I make emphasis on my point!!!

[@MisterJohnDoe]

You don't say?

[@Gargoyle1958]

They are evil.

[@VictorNaine]

When I listened to this music in Ireland I thought "oh man, I know this song! where did I hear it? 🤔" and I remembered some months after!

[@NormAppleton]

I bet the Irish version is harsher.

[@riciricio5393]

Last day in ireland i'm watching this video because of the song i'll miss dublin so much

[@OggyBleacher]

I thought the tramp was Stanley Holloway from My Fair Lady but it's Irishman Paul Farrell.

[@plasticosea8787]

MAN ON THE MOON!?!?!?!???!?!?!?!?

[@zackcross7190]

And men spinning around the Earth!?

[@matushka__]

Talking about Apollo mission and Yuri gagarin who flew around the globe.

[@LukeRoxALot]

The old man knew. Kubrick knew! We know ;)

[@klaudioWTF]

Awesome masterpiece!

[@MyCatIsNamedChubmuffin]

I’ve been inside of this underpass. It’s the very first place I ever visited in London. Is was a special moment in my life. For a split second, it felt like I’m part of the movie.

[@lewisgreen1633]

Just a normal night in South East London...

[@MrName-fo2td]

that’s crazy this guy was born in the 1800s

[@vro6046]

what

[@j.fhernandez3457]

Born 1893

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

He died a few years after this movie came out

[@williamfisher74]

​@@j.fhernandez3457 Same year that President Rutherford B Hayes died lol

[@mdzto]

ULTRAVIOLENCE

[@FlavioMarceloSousa35]

'And going blurp blurp in between' I love this! Kubrick's Nadsat is a simplified version of the original language created by Burgess, which was too complex and made the novel almost unreadable.

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Too complex? U have no clue what you're talking about. Burgess was brilliant creating the extensive Nadsat slang. That aspect, more than anything else in the novel, elevated the entire story to have a spectacular futuristic feel. Book was released in 1962, by literary technique standards, Burgess was light years ahead of his time

[@dontfearthereaper2887]

This one got to me when I watched it as a child

[@hussain6469]

It’s fascinating to think that the old drunk guy lived through both world wars and probably fought in them and now he’s living in the streets and they just beat him up like that… talk about disrespecting the elderly

[@eight_hundred_eighteen]

Those banked walls look fun to skateboard.

[@waynegormley5137]

“Ohh… and what’s so stinking about it?”

[@jf752]

going blurp blurp

[@xxmr_un1n0wnjxx47]

I live near that underpass 😂

[@Diddy_Kongs_Left_Foot]

0:00 - 0:36 i dont know why but the way it zoomed out like that made me laugh

[@DoneBrokeDatBack]

It's wild coming back to this. You watch such horrid acts committed against our fellow man and by the end of the movie, that same man who committed such atrocities, you...pity?

[@eazymuthapphuckkinkee7243]

Ohhh and what’s so stinkin about it

[@lazanlazan5658]

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone

[@serotta2]

I just found that "CLOCKWORK ORANGE" is now on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO! Amazing if you have Prime

[@mystikkrap]

Been on Netflix for quite some time now as well.

[@fish_floyd]

@@mystikkrap they took it off September

[@mystikkrap]

@@fish_floyd it's available where I am.

[@fish_floyd]

@@mystikkrap lucky

[@robinmeyer2195]

I loved this movie

[@BForceFILMS293]

It makes me so sick when they start beating the hell out of him!

[@Cacowninja]

He and some other homeless people rough Alex up later.

[@j.fhernandez3457]

Actor Paul Ferrell was born in 1893.

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Died 1975

[@SuperTed19021]

@@MisfitsFiendClub138 At the age of 81 at the time.

[@AdeptVolt]

What a cruel bunch of bastards how do I join Alex’s gang

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Create your own

[@danielgourdet4319]

He reminds me of my drunky brother most nights howling at the filthy songs of his father going plurp plurp plurp in-between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts 🤔

[@AFox739]

3 Drunkies disliked this video.

[@yagzatlgan7498]

Legion 2x6

[@uraigroves7898]

A scene from Pretty much any city in the USA now on any given night....

[@Easy-cg1it]

you should write about it.....

[@uraigroves7898]

@@Easy-cg1it no need...its on youtube...

[@StudioKyokko]

Came because of Italy.

[@orthoschnapp5565]

You suck

[@MaximTendu]

@@ryanrumble904 the pot calling the kettle black.

[@heyeveryoneimcool]

I remember when I did this.

[@MyoticTesseract]

what

[@peterb.7448]

getting drunk?

[@carbootstudios2459]

Someone get me that spotlight.

[@vasiahmedi7091]

I feel bad for this poor hobo man 😔

[@SuperTed19021]

*Don't!* He later survives and gets his revenge later on the film.

[@Boxingbear]

He's just a filthy old drunkie..

[@n14ck]

here’s a question *men on the moon?*

[@tttdrr2293]

Hard to believe Malcom Mc Dowell is a grandpa in the Canadian show ‘son of a crinch”. He plays a newfie to boot!

[@sandyyorke413]

It's so bizarre seeing 'Alex' as a Newfie grandfather.

[@doomerxoxoxo]

How do I join?

[@Kelly14UK]

Old guy died a good guy. Prophetic.

[@VirreFriberg]

He didn't die though

[@zuzi9183]

What happened to him?

[@VirreFriberg]

He appears later in the film and beats up Alex with a couple of other homeless people

[@zuzi9183]

Oh really?? Thats sounds really satisfying,is there a video on KZbin

[@cheekibreeki6088]

ZuziDj yes there is and Georgie and Dim become cops

[@SuperTed19021]

By the sounds of it, "Clockwork Orange" is meant to be set in around the year 2000 (30/40 years they were looking at then in the 60s/early 70s), and a society in which was just starting to recover from an devasting dystopian attack/warfare (e.g. nuclear bombs etc.), which had led to an break-down in education, order, schooling in the youth. Looking at it, the disaster could not have been *that* bad for these youths to still have sustainable homes, vocabulary, intelligence, later chance of employment/therapy. In the same way there is still money, homes, food etc. Just seems to be a no-show on display for respect to society/authority/life. And *complete-and-utter* next to no police/social order authority.

[@Aquamentii]

The language Alex and his droogs speak is called ‘Nadsat’ - Russian for ‘teen’. Most Nadsat is just British slang filtered through some Russian. Burgess wrote the story to be a future in which Soviet socialism has swept across Europe. Though it is a lot less clear in the movie than the book.

[@jasonweitzel4393]

@@Aquamentii that’s not true

[@jasonweitzel4393]

@@Aquamentii exaggerated might be better

[@jonkiyosaki6600]

It’s set in 1960s/70s London , he even referenced man on the moon a recent event . Stop reaching

[@jeffreyabelson7171]

So the droogies just HAPPENED to be strolling through an underpass!

[@PolishGod1234]

They probably heard him singing from the underpass, so they just changed their direction and went to him

[@Mud_AleX]

Knowing Kubrick one can conclude the old pal was drunk for real...

[@Two_feet_one_hand_4fingersz]

Ohh! Ohh! Ohh!

[@user-ii5qm4qt2j]

The book was weird as hell. The dog dialog thru out the book, translated in back of book. Took a month to read it.

[@Parasite1101]

Came here after watching Legion S2 E6 😂

[@No-right-to-take]

Anyone know what the name of the song is called? That the old man is singing?

[@thomsboys77]

Ballad of Molly Malone

[@sasukexeorochi609]

Oldschool gangster movie

[@TheSquishBucket]

can ye spare some copper me brother?

[@sasukexeorochi609]

Owhh man that's hurt pain of oldman after young man thrash him so much

[@PatrickSantos-sn8ox]

Molly Malone......blurb...Man on the Moon....WOT bullocks.

[@crazyralph6386]

You can tell the old fella accepted his fate @2:00

[@SuperTed19021]

He lived to get his revenge on Alex later on the film. Just sadly not the rest of his crew.

[@crazyralph6386]

@@SuperTed19021 yep, it’s funny how he recognizes Alex, but not Georgie and Dim albeit, they did look different with their uniforms?

[@th3blU3lYnx]

@@crazyralph6386 he saw Alex more longer and closely than Dim and Georgie.

[@yolifer_omg]

Dark_tagnan and the 3 MosKeteeres

[@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)

[@Diddy_Kongs_Left_Foot]

WB owns this

[@TheMimifur]

I think Malcolm was at his peak in O Lucky Man...

[@Danimal1177]

I had a poster of the image at 0:44 in my dorm room.

[@LukeRoxALot]

1:43

[@tombradford7035]

Kids today.

[@Jayson-zp4cv]

Lmfao 😂

[@Niko-ys9ie]

These boy where just helping the city clean up its streets.

[@drunkweebmarine9492]

I used to be homeless under an overpass and drunk as a skunk

[@LEXICON-DEVIL]

Lucky

[@sasukexeorochi609]

Young man refuse oldman

[@urakunt866]

I live across the road. Pass this spot daily. Now it’s mainly Romanian professional beggars that sleep under the bridge. Alex , come back !

[@fionnharman3741]

Alex beating him up is a bad thing....

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

@@fionnharman3741 Beggars can get aggressive in large enough numbers.

[@charliemcpherson6299]

That's pretty antisocial.

[@AltairEgo1]

@Rion D. So can any mob. So it's best to go around beating anyone you see up, just to be on the safe side. God speed lad.

[@greatestreviewerison-iu1bh]

GREAT SCARY SCENE ; I CAN'T HELP WATCHING AGAIN 🖕😳🤜👍👍👍👍

[@robertmiles1603]

cant agree with everything he said but he makes some good points

[@ethanschott4320]

I'm not going to like Kubrick was and still is one of if not my very favorite filmmaker the way he cut his films was almost kind of right on out there with Wolfgang Peterson or Werner Herzog, very raw, very straight to the point always invoking emotion you were emotionally invested in those films from just a couple minutes and you were glued to the screen and you couldn't put it down till you see how it ended I understand now why it wasn't until Stanley Kubrick's death that A Clockwork Orange was allowed to play in the UK even he thought it was too raw too gutter roll far too visceral for most audiences. And I have to agree. Still though, some of my favorite films of all time have to be and not in this order, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange both by Stanley Kubrick and Das Boot by Wolfgang Peterson. Both really let you into the mindset of the characters and gave you a feeling of what their life was rather than a simple look at what their life was. I will simply say if you respect filmography if you consider yourself a filmophile, these are additions that are definitely in your collection

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Comment too long. The End

[@twopopes123]

the first time i watched this i was little and terrified this is dark and so wrong on countless levels

[@hokeyblokee5490]

@serotta2 GOOD FOR YOU, YOU GOT YOUR WAY, SO SAD BUT NEVERMIND LITTLE CRY BABY YOU CAN SLEEP WELL TONIGHT

[@FlavioMarceloSousa35]

Sinéad O'Connor's version of Molly Malone: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaDYopt5qa6baMk

[@riciricio5393]

In dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty❤❤❤

[@FouckoffAnddie]

ha

[@ltwt1938]

He talks like a pirate

[@leod-sigefast]

No he talks like an Irishman. Pirate accent is from SW England. Places like Bristol and Cornwall.

[@anarchist9866]

@@leod-sigefast What is the difference?

[@thomsboys77]

@@anarchist9866 completely different accent

[@SuperTed19021]

Irishman.

[@tonylanasa8835]

.Some days I agree with the old man.

[@Nestalgba92023]

Thumbs up if you're here in October to November, 2019 because of the film: Joker.

[@milanalexich6149]

Spare some cuter?

[@melgrant7404]

This caused the copycat which banned the film until 2000.

[@nicetrydick]

So they beat the guy up cause they couldn’t stand him? He just wanted hand outs.....

[@Cacowninja]

That's what makes them a violent gang. Beat innocent people up, rape people, kill people, wreckless driving, yeah they ain't good!

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

They just left the milk bar and were bouncing off the walls with aggression. Unlucky for the old man because he became their first target

[@SuperTed19021]

*They are just sadistic psychopaths.*

[@douglasbuck3518]

Covid-19 personified

[@marekbydzovsky9734]

Isnt some navy shitty song for sailors?

[@MrClassiccarenthusia]

Meh, I've seen worse where I live.

[@liambutler9427]

This is one of the most unbearable scenes in the whole movie