A Clockwork Scandal: Anthony Burgess vs. Stanley Kubrick - Cracking the Kube Ep. 4
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- When A Clockwork Orange opened, Burgess said he was “delighted” by Kubrick’s film, which he called “the best adaptation of a book we’ve ever had.” A few months later, he stunned everyone by proclaiming that the film was “a reversal of his intentions.” For the next twenty years, Burgess never stopped complaining about the success of A Clockwork Orange, causing Kubrick to “wish he would stop being bitchy about it.”
What appears to be a row between Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick over A Clockwork Orange is actually a journey into the ever shifting mind of a very imaginative writer who came to hate his own creation - or did he?
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:46 - Publication of A Clocwork Orange
0:59 - Kubrick buys the adaptation rights
1:47 - Burgess and Kubrick meet
2:04 - Burgess promoting Kubrick's film
3:25 - Heated reception in England
4:38 - Burgess and Kubrick's reaction
5:45 - Novel and film are sibling works
6:15 - Burgess changes mind
7:33 - Kubrick publishes the screenplay
8:17 - Burgess now hates his novel
8:34 - Copycat killers in Britain
9:47 - Burgess's reaction
11:16 - Novel and film are now separate
12:15 - Burgess's fame
13:16 - The 21st chapter issue
14:28 - Novel and film are at their furthest
15:41 - Challenging Burgess's view
17:35 - Burgess loves controversy
18:38 - Later years
18:52 - A last, shocking volte-face
20:22 - Revelations from the archives
21:26 - Burgess's self-inventions
22:16 - More revelations and debunking
Fourth episode in my series of academic lectures. This one can be cited as:
Filippo Ulivieri, “Dangerous Arts: Anthony Burgess’s conflictual relationship with A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation,” @ A Clockwork Symposium, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UK), 1-2 November 2018.
It is the base for my chapter in a new edited collection exploring Burgess and Kubrick’s controversial legacy around the 50th anniversary of the film:
Filippo Ulivieri, “Dangerous Arts: the clash between Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange and the world,” in Matthew Melia and Georgina Orgill (eds.), “Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange,” Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I love these videos, thank you for making them. I'll pick up the book. I had no idea Burgess flip-flopped so many times in his opinions on the film as he sped down the rabbit hole you mention. "I wish he would stop being bitchy about it"...serious laugh-out-loud moment for me. Kubrick could be very concise.
Thank you for watching and commenting on my videos! Happy that you found something you didn't know.
Man everytime I see a new Kubrick video. It blows my mind how much this man's work has influenced many faucets of life. I was watching a Video of Kubrick and Jungian Philosophy. A man of vast knowledge.
Thanks for your comment. I agree.
best Kubrick channel on the nets right now 😎
Wow thanks!
A solid summary still as instructive in the continuity of the previous episodes.Excellent work once again.
Thank you! Happy you liked this episode as well 🙏🏻
Thank you. Very provocative and informative.
Thank you for your comment!
Spot on analysis , and dissemination . The subject of Stanley Kubrick's interpretation of novels to film remains a contentious pool of speculation . Kudos on presenting a well founded , and well informed dissertation on one of Kubrick's (and Burgess's) most misinterpreted offerings to modern culture . Right along side 2001 : A Space Odyssey .
Thank you! I agree that A Clockwork Orange is one of Kubrick’s most impactful films, right up there with 2001. I don’t have a presentation on 2001 but you can find my research and analysis on it in my book, 2001 between Kubrick and Clarke. Thanks again
Once again finding the truths behind the myths; I hope you go viral!
Thanks! I hope so too, as anyone does :)
i read the book first and i loved it it sucks burgess got like that after the movie.
It was all part of his play, I think. Thanks for watching
Another fantastic episode of Cracking The Kube!!
Thanks! 🙏🏻
Great vid too. You and Cinema Tyler do Kubrick justice
Can you recommend a good biography of Anthony Burgess?
Yours of course! 😁 “The Real Life of Anthony Burgess“, which is among the books at my side and served as pivotal source for the presentation. Thanks for watching the video!
Great video - IMO it's hard to judge people caught up in such circumstances - even winning a lottery can be traumatic - let alone the ongoing swirl of attention and confusion triggered by the film's success, and the sense of responsibility re the subject matter - how disorienting that must have been - one question - did Kubrick ever explain why he missed that date, after Burgess had traveled so far?
The relationship described here has the makings of a great vampire movie - in the sense that Persona is a vampire movie - these two women, one committed to total silence, and that silence becomes like a vacuum the other feels obliged to fill, pouring herself into it till her own psyche starts to disintegrate, and we see them blurring into one another
Didn’t Burgess only write it cause he thought he was about to die so tossed off four novels quickly so his family would have some royalties to survive on for a while?
Then didn’t die for decades!
Ha! Just got to the end!
Burgess got the film totally wrong. Kubrick did, in fact, include an ending where Alex finds redemption, of sorts anyway. The previous sex scenes in the film are either in fast forward (Alex and his 3some with the girls from the record store) or they are attempts by (male) authority figures to have their way with young Alex. The end is very different however. It's clearly a wedding scene and the mood is clearly celebratory. Most inportantly, Alex and his WIFE are enjoying a good, ole fashioned shag! In other words, Alex's deviant past is behind him and he will enjoy a healthy relationship with his wife. He was cured, alright?!
17:46 The writer in wheel chair which wife was raped and died is from Anthony biography is in movie and "leftist" writer who fight what state done to poor boy Alex is definitely make fun of "leftist" moralistic writers who lives in country side of London from smog, factories and brutalist high apartment buildings where Alex lives, wants vengeance on Alex. Kubrick blames both sides "Christian virtue preachers" which Clockwork Orange is best catholic book and movie about sin redemption and finally in movie new born of state antichrist, Darth Vader, writers bodybuilder helper is Darth Vader himself. Al old catlady is house decorated with vulgarity and pornography house is "right" leaning woman. I think Anthony Burgess self-aware that movies is about him moralist writer.
Ian Fleming about brutalism architecture architect Goldfinger and Corbusier said that brutality surroundings will create brutal people, we are unconscious how surroundings forms our behaviors, Shining built on Indian burial ground where in cowboys versus Indians genocide was committed, that place is haunted.