History Trivia / AClockWorkOrange

** [[https://scontent.flhr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-0/p526x296/173934064_4223624391004955_835943138503447317_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=to1RQsO21fsAX_RuvkF&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr1-2.fna&tp=6&oh=168c1ba0b45b08c7a704462dc4a6fae3&oe=60A5C22A Behold]] the different hats Alex could have worn.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://a-clockwork-orange.wikia.com/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_Wiki A Clockwork Orange Wiki]] covers the novel and movie.

* TropeNamer;
** TheLudovicoTechnique
** {{Neologism}} used to be named GrokkingTheHorrorShow.

-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgl0zKCw2Po M.M.]]''': No way. I'm an actor, damn it. This is torture, this is medieval torture! Then the doctor came up and said there will be no hurt. Liar! ...Then they anesthetized my eye. They had all the latest techniques, they [[BackAlleyDoctor poked the corner of my eye with a handkerchief.]]

** According to Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, the Alex's "Film/SinginInTheRain" performance was the result of Creator/StanleyKubrick finding the scene too conventional and suggesting that Alex dance. [=McDowell=] did, then spontaneously started singing the song. Kubrick liked it so much that, as soon as the take was over, he immediately left the set to secure the rights to the song. The inclusion of the song radically changes the method from the book that Mr. Alexander recognizes Alex, so some have doubted the story.

** The scene with Alex dancing while he sings "Film/SinginInTheRain" was the result of Creator/StanleyKubrick finding the scene too conventional and asking actor Creator/MalcolmMcDowell to improvise. Interestingly, Kubrick only told [=McDowell=] to try dancing, not singing. [=McDowell=] did, then spontaneously started singing the song. Kubrick liked it so much that, as soon as the take was over, he immediately left the set to secure the rights to the song and worked it in the plot (though he didn't pay royalties to Creator/GeneKelly, which angered the latter).

** What really upset Burgess was Kubrick's behaviour since during production and in the run-up to the release, Kubrick had courteously asked Burgess help for the promotion but when the backlash arrived, Burgess was made to answer questions by the media while Kubrick holed up his ReclusiveArtist shtick, which Burgess, not without justice, saw as a cheap move and he didn't like the fact that he had to spend more time than he wished for a movie he didn't care for, based on a book that he didn't like, for more or less no gain and without any thanks.

** Different people wanted to adapt the book before Kubrick. This included one version featuring Alex and his droogs as wealthy old men and another version that would have been used as a vehicle for ''Music/TheRollingStones''.

* CreatorBacklash:
** The film was the subject of much media hype linking it to violent crimes. After Creator/StanleyKubrick received death threats, along with hearing of the news of two copycat crimes involving the rape of a Dutch girl in the hands of men singing "Singin' in the Rain" and the beating of a 16 year old boy who, while dressed as Alex, beat another boy, he withdrew the film from screening in the UK, even suing arthouse theatres that tried to show it. The ban was only lifted after Kubrick's death in 1999.
** Creator/GeneKelly did not like the film's take on "Singin' on the Rain" so much that when he met Creator/MalcolmMcDowell at a party some years later, Kelly turned and walked away in disgust, but mostly because Creator/StanleyKubrick went cheap, didn't keep his word and never actually paid Kelly for the song.
* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/StanleyKubrick cast Creator/MalcolmMcDowell after seeing his breakout role in ''Film/If1968''. He later said that if [=McDowell=] hadn't been available, he wouldn't have made the film. Creator/AnthonyBurgess loved his portrayal, as well as Michael Bates as Chief Guard Barnes.
* CutSong: "Country Lane", an original synth track by Music/WendyCarlos that wasn't kept by Kubrick. Its end incorporares the melody of "Singin' in the Rain".

* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/AnthonyBurgess himself was critical of the film, for what he saw as its glorification of sex and violence. He was unhappy that Kubrick omitted the book's final chapter (as had the first American edition of the book), which gave Alex some redemption, wanting to give up his old violent ways and looking forward to having a wife and a son, whom he hopes does not turn out like him. The fact that he had sold the film rights for a pittance and stood to gain nothing from the film's success probably didn't warm him to it much either.
** What really upset him was Kubrick's behaviour since during production and in the run-up to the release, Kubrick had courteously asked Burgess help for the promotion but when the backlash arrived, Burgess was made to answer questions by the media while Kubrick holed up his ReclusiveArtist shtick, which Burgess, not without justice, saw as a cheap move and he didn't like the fact that he had to spend more time than he wished for a movie he didn't care for, based on a book that he didn't like, for more or less no gain and without any thanks.

!!Whole franchise
* ReferencedBy: [[Referencedby/AClockworkOrange Has its own page]].