I know this may be an amateur/hermit question. What are the songs from A Clockwork Orange? Particularly the one re-worked using synthesisers.
Great film BTW. I can’t believe Stan had it banned until after his death. The greatest acting I’ve seen by Malcolm.
From the Soundtrack:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”) Op. 125 Movement No. 2: Abridged (as used in “A Clockwork Orange”)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”) Op. 125 Movement No. 4: Abridged (as used in “A Clockwork Orange”)
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I shall refrain from clopping you one for saying “Beethoven songs.”
What do you mean, “Stan had it banned until after his death” ??? I’ve seen it several times, between 1976 and 1982, and I’m damn sure it’s been available on cassette and DVD, not to mention in repertory theaters.
As I recall, ALL of the music in the film was re-done for synthesizers, and included the second and fourth movements of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and the overture from Rossini’s opera La Gazza Ladra (used during the rape/rumble scene).
More charitable than I would have been.
He’s referring to the UK ban-because isolated incidents of violence had happened in UK theaters showing ACO, Kubrick had the film banned from circulation there until his death.
Oh, please, it’s The Thieving Magpie–you probably call The Magic Flute “Die Zauberfluete.” And let’s give Wendy Carlos her due for her performance of the soundtrack, although I don’t think the credit on the film has been updated to reflect her gender reassignment.
You bet I do. And I don’t call Die Walkure “The Valkyrie,” either.
And not just Beethoven. The soundtrack list at http://imdb.com/title/tt0066921/soundtrack has a few other classical references, including the very first bit of music that opens the film: Henry Purcell’s music for Queen Mary’s funeral, which was also played, lightly, as Alex goes home after the home invasion and again, heavily, when the naked woman appears during the Lodivico demonstration. Also listed is Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance, but who cares.
Not listed on the soundtrack the music during Alex’s prison “having it off with my wife’s handmaiden’s” fantasy is Rimski-Korsokoff’s “Sheherazade.” The pleaseant 17th century music that opens the Lodivico demonstration is a mystery to me.
He actually withdrew it because of the UK press’ sensationalisation, and linking it to unrelated violence - or indeed to completely fictitious incidents.
For the completists - there is a “2nd” soundtrack CD available for this movie.
It contains all the Wendy/Walter Carlos music from the movie plus the tracks not used by Kubrick. Also, the tracks are remastered.
Check out this Wendy Carlos link.
Enjoy, droogs!
IIRC there were cases where boys did dress up like a Droog in the uK and attack people.
One 16 year old received a custodial sentence for his crime.
Did any of you see the TV commercial that featured the Clockwork Orange version of Ode to Joy (“the glorious ninth”) played over scenes of little schoolchildren running gleefully through the halls?
It was an ad for daycare, or Sylvan learning, or something that would make your kid into a model citizen, but all I could picture was those kids running to their lockers to grab bowlers, canes, and false eyelashes, in preparation for overrunning the neighborhood and beating the snot out of old folks.
Melloko and cookies time, kiddies!
There were cases where this was claimed as part of the prosecution, but nothing was ever proven. These were the cases that were then seized on by the press, using them to denounce the film.
By which, I’m sure you meant William Tell, right? RIGHT, Ike?? 
No, he’s right. You’re thinking of the threesome scene.
Not all of the music was synthesized. (Wendy Carlos has remarked that she would have done more of it, but she ran out of time.) As it stands, some of the Beethoven excerpts used in the movie, such as the closing section of the choral movement of the Ninth, are heard in standard orchestral versions. Carlos did do an arrangement of La Gazza Ladra, but if memory serves, only the orchestral version is in the film–I think that’s one that Carlos ran out of time for.
I read an article in the Times (yes, I’ve lost the actual cite) that said in 1973 a 16 year old was convicted of ABH and sent to Borstal after beating another boy, the judge was shocked as he had been dressed the same as Alex et al in A Clockwork Orange.
So you’re telling me it’s not true?
Oh well.
Apologies, yes. There was one case where a boy had the ‘uniform’ on. And one rape which was claimed to be linked to the film, but IIRC it took place after Kubrick had decided to withdraw it.