The controversial film ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is best known for its scenes depicting graphic violence, rape, murder and human experiments. Whilst these scenes make ‘A Clockwork Orange’ an uncomfortable film to watch at times; the visual aesthetics of the film demand our attention as the unconventional director Stanley Kubrick presents us with a unique and fascinating picture of a near future society. Since its release in 1971, the film has ignited much debate surrounding its effect on its audience and...
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Alex from A Clockwork Orange seems to be two different people living within the same body. As an extremely horrible human during the night raping and committing acts of ultra-violence. Where as during the day he is depicted as a more elegant man. This is shown through his words, his clothing and his overall attitude. Alex doesn’t seem to show any real interest in being close to anyone in the film. He does interact with the boys in his gang...
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American film director, Stanley Kubrick, is one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. His films have not left viewers indifferent for many years. In this essay, I am going to discuss how the famous film director represented women in his iconic films. In ‘Spartacus’ (1960), Kubrick used women in a way in which they portray how they were treated in 73 BC, in ancient Rome. For example, when we meet Varinia (Jean Simmons) she is literally...
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ is a film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 in adaptation of the eponymous novel by Anthony Burgess which was published on 1961. Burgess is agitating about the issue of moral. He feels that integrity comes straightforwardly from inside one’s own feeling/heart; it is smarter to pick the terrible than to be constrained into doing the great. By removing an individual's choice is essentially transforming them into a bit of machine making them the way...
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In this paper, Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ will be analyzed through several baroque elements that are present and developed further in neo-baroque aesthetics. Antirealism, point of view, spectacle, and violence are among the most common ones, and represent the core of the neo-baroque peculiarity that defines this film. All these elements have a common origin in baroque forms and manifestations. Taken together, these different strands of expression and signification add up to ‘baroque scopic regime’. In what follows, these...
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‘A Clockwork Orange’ has created a debate over the legitimacy and the effectiveness of using violence to combat violence. Within the film, Kubrick depicts a socially and politically degenerate environment inhabited by fearful citizens, violent thugs and an authoritarian government. His dark and sensationalist scenes of rape, murder and violence from our young narrator Alex De Large and the violence imposed by the state through the Ludovico technique all assist in expanding the understanding over who is legitimate to use...
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In this essay there will be an analyzes on five movies by different writers on films impacting motion pictures. These essays acknowledge the significance either positive or negative of the films to motion pictures as it focuses on a specific framework each film possess. The films include ‘Triumph of the Will’ (created in 1934 by Leni Riefenstahl, analyzed by Mary Devereux and put together by Noel Carroll and Jinhee Choi), Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona’ (created in 1967, analyzed by Lloyd Michaels),...
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The movie ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is one of the most significant in the filmography of the director. His innovation lies in the fact that Kubrick was able to aestheticize violence at the audiovisual level. Using the technique of using classical music in ultra-violent scenes, the director creates something truly great. Music seems to 'conduct' the film, perfectly complementing every frame that you need to draw the attention of the viewer....
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The most remarkable changes in humans’ collective exposure have been the introduction of mass media. The introduction of media has been an increasingly and rapid form of communication between human beings. The uses of radio, television, film, video games et cetera, has become an ever so present thing in humans’ lives and holds a great value in all aspects of societies across the globe. Although these forms of media were not created to cause harm to others, through the mutilation...
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“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil” (Burgess Xiii). Life could not exist without evil. ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess describes the exploits and behaviors of Alex. The author depicts him as a violent and sociopathic adolescent who strives to become a constructive member of the community. Based on the story, a film adaption directed by Stanley Kubrick came out in 1971. Both the movie and novel versions of the work...
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