History Film / AClockworkOrange

'''A Clockwork Orange''' is a film by StanleyKubrick based on [[Literature/AClockworkOrange a 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess]]. In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopic]] future where [[TeenageWasteland street crime is rampant and youths are uncontrollable]], teenage sociopath Alex (MalcolmMcDowell) and his friends [[TeensAreMonsters prowl the night spreading terror and destruction wherever they go]]. By night, they do fun things like gang fights, burglarizing, raping women and brutally beating homeless men.

'''A Clockwork Orange''' is a film by StanleyKubrick based on [[Literature/AClockworkOrange a 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess]]. In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopic]] future where [[TeenageWasteland street crime is rampant and youths are uncontrollable]], teenage sociopath Alex (MalcolmMcDowell) and his friends [[TeensAreMonsters prowl the night spreading terror and destruction wherever they go]]. By daybreak, Alex returns home to his [[AdultsAreUseless vapid parents]], who turn a blind eye to his activities, and enjoys his second favorite thing in the world: classical music (Beethoven's 9th Symphony in particular). By night, they do fun things like gang fights, burglarizing, raping women and brutally beating homeless men.

'''A Clockwork Orange''' is a film by StanleyKubrick based on [[Literature/AClockworkOrange a 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess]]. In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopic]] future where [[TeenageWasteland street crime is rampant and youths are uncontrollable]], teenage sociopath Alex (MalcolmMcDowell) and his friends [[TeensAreMonsters prowl the night spreading terror and destruction wherever they go]]. By daybreak, Alex returns home to his [[AdultsAreUseless vapid parents]], who turn a blind eye to his activities, and enjoys his second favorite thing in the world: classical music. By night, they do fun things like raping women and brutally beating homeless men.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Wendy Carlos' score, particularly her rendition of Purcell's "Music For the Funeral For Queen Mary", which can be considered the unofficial theme music for the movie. And that's not to mention our old friend, Ludwig van.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Alex may be evil incarnate, but haven't you heard? EvilIsSexy.

* LighterAndSofter: The sex scene in the movie it's pretty clear that the girls are the same age as Alex however in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AClockworkOrange the book]] he describes the girls as being 10 YEARS OLD clearly thats was a line Kubrick wouldn't cross

* LighterandSofter: The sex scene in the movie it's pretty clear that the girls are the same age as Alex however in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AClockworkOrange the book]] he describes the girls as being 10 YEARS OLD clearly thats was a line Kubrick wouldn't cross

* Lighter and Softer: The sex scene in the movie it's pretty clear that the girls are the same age as Alex however in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AClockworkOrange the book]] he describes the girls as being 10 YEARS OLD clearly thats was a line Kubrick wouldn't cross

* Crowning Music of Awesome: Wendy Carlos' score, particularly her rendition of Purcell's "Music For the Funeral For Queen Mary", which can be considered the unofficial theme music for the movie. And that's not to mention our old friend, Ludwig van.

'''A Clockwork Orange''' is a film by StanleyKubrick based on [[AClockworkOrange a 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess]]. In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopic]] future where [[TeenageWasteland street crime is rampant and youths are uncontrollable]], teenage sociopath Alex (MalcolmMcDowell) and his friends [[TeensAreMonsters prowl the night spreading terror and destruction wherever they go]]. By daybreak, Alex returns home to his [[AdultsAreUseless vapid parents]], who turn a blind eye to his activities, and enjoys his second favorite thing in the world: classical music. By night, they do fun things like raping women and brutally beating homeless men.

'''A Clockwork Orange''' is a film by StanleyKubrick based on [[AClockworkOrange a 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess]]. In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopic]] future where [[TeenageWasteland street crime is rampant and youths are uncontrollable]], teenage sociopath Alex and his friends [[TeensAreMonsters prowl the night spreading terror and destruction wherever they go]]. By daybreak, Alex returns home to his [[AdultsAreUseless vapid parents]], who turn a blind eye to his activities, and enjoys his second favorite thing in the world: classical music. By night, they do fun things like raping women and brutally beating homeless men.

* Dystopia

* TheRedStapler: Sales of [[{{LudwigVanBeethoven}} Beethoven's]] 9th Symphony went up after the film. In another version of the trope, a gang sang "Singin' in the Rain" during a rape, arguably as a result of the film's influence. Apparently, it also inspired a murder known as "The Clockwork Orange Murder", where a boy killed his best friend in his backyard.

* Zeerust: It kind of looks like the future, and it kind of looks like a really freaky 1970s.

* AmbiguouslyGay: In the movie, Mr. Deltoid seems just a tad too enthusiastic to hold Alex in his arms, cradle him on a bed, and grab his genitals, all whilst Alex is in incredibly tight briefs.

* AsYouWish: In the movie, Alex inadvertedly reveals himself when he sings "Film/SinginInTheRain" (which he also did during the rape scene) whilst taking a bath.

* BrownNote: In the movie, Alex associates his favorite song, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, with the violence of the procedure, so that he gets violently ill whenever he hears it. In the book, all classical music has this effect on him.

* EyeScream: During the treatment, Alex attached to an apparatus that holds his eyelids open while being forced to watch the movies. This is actually performed without special effects in the film. The doctor administering eyedrops to actor Malcolm [=McDowell=] was a real doctor, yet the ordeal still temporarily blinded him.

* HeelFaithTurn: Subverted in the film. The audience is set up to believe that Alex is experiencing a religious epiphany in prison, only to find that he is actually fantasizing about participating in the battles, tortures and sex described in parts of the Bible.
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** The writer's muscular bodyguard is David Prowse, the man inside the Darth Vader costume for the first three ''StarWars'' films.
** One of the milk bar bouncers is [[GiantMook Pat Roach]], killed by a propeller in ''[[IndianaJones Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' among other appearences.
** Dim is played by a young [[DalzielAndPascoe Warren Clarke]], which is HilariousInHindsight, since Dim ends up becoming a policeman.
** Alex's father is Philip Stone, a.k.a. [[TheShining Delbert Grady]]. He appears in several Kubrick movies.
** And, of course, Alex's actor is Malcolm [=McDowell=], who would later play the title character of ''{{Caligula}}'', Mad Mod from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and John Henry Eden from ''{{Fallout 3}}''.

* PoliceBrutality: In the film, Dim and Georgie get jobs as policemen so they can get paid to beat people up. In the book, it's Dim and the gang's old enemy Billy Boy who are partners, showing that they put aside their teen rivalry when they matured into brutal adults.
* PsychoticSmirk / SlasherSmile: Alex in the film version is quite fond of these.
* TheRedStapler: Sales of [[{{LudwigVanBeethoven}} Beethoven's]] 9th Symphony went up after the film. In another version of the trope, a gang sang "Singin' in the Rain" during a rape, arguably as a result of the film's influence. Apparently, it also inspired a murder known as ''The Clockwork Orange Murder,'' where a boy killed his best friend in his backyard.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: In the film, Alex has a pet snake, Basil. Of course a monster like Alex would not own something cute and cuddly. It's subverted when Alex returns home and is sympathetically upset to learn that his parents have killed Basil.

* FastForwardGag: Used in [[spoiler:the three-way sex scene]].

** And, of course, Alex's actor is Malcolm [=McDowell=], who would later play the title character of ''{{Caligula}}'', Mad Mod from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and John Henry Eden from ''{{Fallout 3}}''

** And, of course, Alex's actor is Malcolm [=McDowell=], who would later play the title character of ''{{Caligula}}'', Mad Mod from ''TeenTitans'' and John Henry Eden from ''{{Fallout 3}}''

* HilariousInHindsight: The name of their car is the Durango 95, although it's not a truck or an SUV. Ford released a Durango throughout the 1980s while Dodge Durango SUVs have been around since the mid 1990s.