History Trivia / AClockWorkOrange

* InspirationForTheWork: Burgess claimed that the novel's inspiration was his first wife Lynne's beating by a gang of drunken American servicemen stationed in England during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. She subsequently miscarried.

* 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.

* FakeFood: Averted in the Korova Milkbar scenes. The dispensers were filled with real milk and had to be emptied and washed out every hour, since the milk curdled quickly under the hot studio lights.

* OnSetInjury: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell scratched one of his corneas and was temporarily blinded during the Ludovico Technique scene. He also suffered cracked ribs during filming of the humiliation stage show.

* FatalMethodActing: Averted. It is often claimed that Creator/MalcolmMcDowell nearly drowned when his breathing apparatus failed during filming of the waterboarding scene. This is not true. Daily records indicate that the scene was filmed in repeated takes with no stoppage from equipment failure. [=McDowell=] has never reported a near drowning, while he does report many similar close calls in other scenes.

** 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 payed Kelly for the song.

* 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.

* DawsonCasting: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell was 27 during filming. Though Alex's age is never given, he's still supposed to be attending school in the beginning of the film. According to the DVDCommentary, Michael Tarn, who played Pete, was the only actor of the four Droogs who was still a teenager, being 19 at the time of filming.

* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Movies: #46
** AFIS100Years100Thrills: #21
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** #12 Villains, Alex [=DeLarge=]
** AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #70
** AFIS10Top10:
*** #4, Science Fiction

* UsefulNotes/BFITop100BritishFilms: #81.

* 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.

** 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.

* 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.

* AFIS100YearsSeries:

[[folder:List of common Natsat words]]

* InspirationForTheWork: Burgess claimed that the novel's inspiration was his first wife Lynne's beating by a gang of drunk American servicemen stationed in England during World War II. She subsequently miscarried.

** GrokkingTheHorrorShow

* Moloko: Russian молочо, "''milk''".

* Moloko: Russian молоио, "''milk''".

* Moloko: Russian молои&#1086, "''milk''".

** Micro Compact Cassettes are used by Alex. Nowadays, it would be either a CD or just part of an iPod playlist.

** The scene with Alex dancing while he sings "Singing In The Rain" 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.

** The scene with Alex dancing while he sings "Singing In The Rain" 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.

* Korovo: "cow" from Russian корова, ''korova''.

* Korovo: "cow" from Russian коро&1074;а, ''korova''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] himself, David Prowse, is Frank's manservant.