Kubrick Design Part II: 'A Clockwork Orange'. Kubrick Archive Oral History Project

The 4th film in the Stanley Kubrick Archive Oral History Project series, produced by Oral Historian Pamela Glintenkamp for University of the Arts London . All 9 oral history project films can be seen in the associated playlist. More films and information about the Archive at:
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[@felipeahumada797]

What a beauty story....and told by two super precious women. Totally unbeatable.

[@joeakajoe1]

I always assumed kubrick came up with these ideas himself for some reason. What a great talented design team

[@SuiGenerisMedia]

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[@aliensoup2420]

Right. Kubrick wasn't such a phenomenal creative genius - but he had good sensibilities and intuition. Doug Trumbull conceived the Slit Scan (light corridor) for 2001, and another designer persuaded him to try the Moon Base elevator shot. Malcom McDowell came up with "Singing in the Rain". Kubrick just had to see it and say, "awesome, let's use it". He had the wisdom to surround himself with people more creative than himself, and provided them the freedom to explore.

[@qy1821]

the eyelashes is a genius idea.

[@mmdoom]

how fascinating ! love this

[@hiridavidfeign]

Fascinating.

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[@thepowerstation2702]

Yay ual! Respect 🙏 😊

[@thecrazyandthewild]

Alex is a wolf in a hen house, is only following his instincts. Is the only honest character in the story with perhaps the exception of the reverend who can be seen as the opposite as Alex. While Alex chooses to act in his nature without remorse, due to his young age, the reverend chooses to repress his own "evil" instincts and to do the "correct" thing, perhaps due to his more mature age. In the last chapter of the book a still young 18-year-old Alex evolves and naturally changes becoming a good citizen. Also in that last chapter, the droog with the beret, Pete, reappears to put an important piece of the puzzle fulfilling his mission and completing the perfect symmetry of the fable. In the movie, Pete is just a loose piece in the mechanism of this beautiful but artificial orange. Who is most horrendous? The natural Alex, and the rest of young delinquents, who follows his instincts creating pain around them as the cost for his own amusement? The sad lives of the rest of the perverted characters in the fable who lives in denial, lies, self-repression, and the pain that that choice of life causes? The artificial Alex who has no more freedom of choice to act on his own natural instincts becoming a caricature of a human being? And what drives the choices of lives of the perverted characters but fear, guilt, and superstitions? Sometimes entitlement and contrive ideas about how society has to be managed in the cases of the politics and the intellectuals who plots against the government who, both, get involved in petty machinations against each other without hesitating in breaking all his moral principles, destroying all their honesty and credibility in the process, becoming a mirror of each other and defeating his own primary purpose, devoid them both of meaning. the only thing that's left in this scenario is corruption. Alex is uncorrupted. It is not strange that we feel attracted by Alex in this scenario. It is not strange to sympathize with him while the rest to the characters cowardly delight on the tortures that society inflicts in the name of a corrupt justice. What, what separates Alex from the other young delinquents? Nothing aside that Alex is a natural alpha due to his skills, intellect, and sharp sensibility. They are uncorrupted too. Until they are not. Until they lose their innocence. When they become greedy they begin to reflect the corrupt society that surrounds them, starting a metamorphosis that culminates in the scene when they reappear as policemen working for the corrupt government in which point we can not distinguish them anymore from the rest of the society. In the book, Alex naturally changes and becomes a good citizen. But in the film, that change is not reflected and Alex manages to be accepted in society unadulterated. A corrupt society that seems to have been custom-built to embrace someone like him. A perfect playground for Alex to thrive and have fun. In the end, he is not best not worst than the rest of society, but he is honest. He is brave and embraces life and his nature, and unleashes its instincts unapologetically. While society suffers life doing the same harm in a pathetic effort to survive one sad day more. About the Ludovico technique is, really, an extension of jail. In jail, society takes apart individuals from society so they can not harm anyone outside the jail. Society cut the liberties of the individual, confining them in a closed space. Ludovico technique cut the liberties of the individual in his free will so they can live in society, creating these creepy monsters devoided of the ability to make their own decisions. What is most horrendous? If something, the film has to make us reflect on the humanity, helpfulness, and benefits of the prison system as it is built.

[@GmGrayfox]

There’s Alex and his three droogs and they all dress alike and they’re a gang. But if you pay close attention at the opening scene at the milk bar, there are other people sitting in the milk bar dressed the same, in white, black boots, and some sort of black head covering. I always thought they were part of a bigger gang.

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[@pat3834]

the subtitles were terrible!!! iT''S like they were making up words that sounded right but they were wrong

[@kthx1138]

The white in the outfits was so bizarre for the droogies acting out of the blackness of their hearts doing evil deeds. It was like a perverse purity.

[@1qwasz12]

Imagine Alex & his droogs in black. Glad Stanley chose white costumes.

[@aliensoup2420]

White seems like a no-brainer. Black would have been a lighting nightmare to separate the actors from the background, particularly when so much of the action occurs at night.