Anthony Burgess on A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess remembers the release of the film of A Clockwork Orange, and tells a dubious story about Stanley Kubrick's directing technique.

A Clockwork Orange is rereleased at UK cinemas from 5 April 2019.

[luisaugustobonilha]

The State prohibits the individual from committing offending acts, not because it wants to abolish them, but because it wants monopolize them - Sigmund Freud .

[laureanocarcamosixx]

I wrote the damn thing allright, genius.

[samfrito]

Death threats make for great publicity, but they're rarely more than threats and seem aimed as a caution more than a direct act. No one who creates art sensibly should ever receive them.

[AnnaLVajda]

Provoking them? It's not a happy ending for the narrator should have been viewed as a cautionary tale not as a tempting lifestyle.

[ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

It was my understanding burgess hated it.