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Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange
The screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.
This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,” selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: “I have always wondered if there might be a more...more
This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,” selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: “I have always wondered if there might be a more...more
Paperback, 340 pages
Published
February 23rd 2002
by ScreenPress Books
(first published January 28th 1972)
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: The screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director. This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,” selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: “I have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of t...more
This book is a presentation of Kubrick's screenplay with 800 stills from the film. This is not the original Anthony Burgess novel, but many reviewers seem to have confused the two. This is one of the best presentations of a film in book form from those long ago days before home video. A better presentation than any Richard J. Anobile book. My copy has been well thumbed over the years, and has always intrigued visitors who've seen it on the shelf.
A Clockwork Orange is a very unique boook. it will never get out of your mind. There is never a boring part of the book. The movie is great to watch too. The story is different from a usual book. It is distrubing but it has a lot of internal and external confilcts. An English Young Man and his fellow Droobies, go out on a violent night race consisting of burgularly, brecking and entering and rape. i would not recomend this book to anyone that is under 16 years old.
This book is by far my favorit...more
This book is by far my favorit...more
Back in the olden days before videotapes and DVDs, the idea of being able to refer to a film in detail meant that you pretty much had to wait until it was revived somewhere or showed up on television. This book, a shot by shot recreation of Kubrick's film (but in black and white unfortunately) was one of the most ambitious and handsomely produced attempt at transferring a movie into a portable object ever published. Yes, you can go out and buy a copy of "A Clockwork Orange", freeze it, run it ba...more
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I liked it but found it hard to understand sometimes it went right off course.
Ugh. I found this to be a bit of a chore really. As a fan of the movie I was appalled at how dry and repetitive the plot seemed without the beforeseen sadistic imagery.
A line of text saying: 'Beethoven's 9th plays in the background' is hardly substitute for the real thing.
As a result of these shortcomings the characters themselves appear two-dimensional and the plot confusing.
I guess the original novel is the true work of art here-I shouldn't be so judgemental until I've read it.
A line of text saying: 'Beethoven's 9th plays in the background' is hardly substitute for the real thing.
As a result of these shortcomings the characters themselves appear two-dimensional and the plot confusing.
I guess the original novel is the true work of art here-I shouldn't be so judgemental until I've read it.
Mar 26, 2013
Jean-paul Maillard
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So this is a novel about human freedom and how far you are willing to take it. Also if you enjoyed the movie the book is even better because it is now being published with the twenty-first chapter which was cut out of the movie and was not published in the united states until the early 90's.The lingo used by the author is also really cool
Probably not the best litterary work ever created.
Probably not the worst...
But it's way down there i can assure you...
I read this in high school because it seemed like the punk rock thing to do at the time.
I honestly don't think I can recall one redeaming quality about the thing.
Probably not the worst...
But it's way down there i can assure you...
I read this in high school because it seemed like the punk rock thing to do at the time.
I honestly don't think I can recall one redeaming quality about the thing.
This is a fascinating and great edition of the screenplay by Kubrick. What makes it great is basically the book is fully illustrated with stills from the film. I am not sure if this is still in print, but a must-have for the Kubrick fan. In a way it's like having the whole film in a book format.
I saw the film first and spent a lot of time with my eyes closed and ears blocked! Reading the book was a different experience, but to say I really liked it is not really the truth. I found it fascinating and was unable to put it down but enjoyment didn't really come into it.
I love the writing style and silly language that gets a bit overshadowed in the Kubrick flick. Example, when they throw the old man's money in the street, Alex says "we gave it the scatter treatment." That's a funny way to speak, my droogs.
as far as "bizarre" it's either the best or the worst
but since I don't have to choose I guess I won't
fantastic
Read this in high school, thought it was very strange. Later I find out my hubby loved this movie, go figure! He even dressed up like Alex one year for Halloween, a droog. No one knew what he was.
Read this one a while ago, but enjoyed how it had it's on little language through out the book. It even had a glossary of terms. I found myself using these made up words at times.
A disturbing book primarily focused on the twisted mind of an English hoodlum. I can't say I would recommend it to anyone - it was required reading in college.
Well, i actually read the book, not Kubrik's screenplay, but for some reason, GoodReads doesn't have Burgess' novel listed separately!!
such a unique book...must read slowly to really understand and catch on to the language
Very hard to follow. A bit strange and savage. Not a wholesome read.
Mar 15, 2010
Marsha
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I was intrigued by the side-language that he created
Blew my mind and made me want to write satire/sci-fi.
this book is awesome and any one should read it.
One of my favorite book of all times
For all my little droogies! Got milk?
Dark AND disturbing
Aug 22, 2009
Vandrion
marked it as to-read
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Stanley Kubrick was an influential American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life.
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