The Real Futuristic Art and Locations Kubrick Found for A Clockwork Orange
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How do you make a futuristic sci-fi movie without building a bunch of crazy sets? In this episode, we take a look at the real futuristic locations and artwork that Stanley Kubrick used for the production design of 1971's A Clockwork Orange as well as some of the new technology Kubrick used in shooting and recording sound on-location.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Sources:
[John Coulthart] Alex in the Chelsea Drug Store - bit.ly/2XsvB1f
A Clockwork Orange (Commentary)
[Making] Great Bolshy Yarblockos! - The Making of A Clockwork Orange
Cinephilia & Beyond - bit.ly/3cuPPxc
[LoBrutto] The Old Ultra-Violence: A Clockwork Orange - January 30, 2018 Vincent LoBrutto - bit.ly/2ylpUcp
[Grundy] My Droog Hell by Gareth Grundy - bit.ly/3cuPPxc
[Ciment] Kubrick on ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ an interview with Michel Ciment
[Moloko Wiki] bit.ly/2ymxmUG
[Movie Locations] bit.ly/34NyUmO
An Examination of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange with James MacAndrew
[Strick, Houston] Interview with Stanley Kubrick regarding A Clockwork Orange by Philip Strick & Penelope Houston
[Visual Memory] bit.ly/2VG1xhr
[Indie Wire] bit.ly/2KikKAx
[2001 Wiki] bit.ly/2RQpzW1
[StoryAlity] #155 - Kubrick on Problem Solving - bit.ly/2M6rXVz
[Barry Lyndon Wiki] bit.ly/2ytg2xD
[Hatstand Wiki] bit.ly/3gj9PW4
[Karsino] bit.ly/2LUj553
[BlackCabLondon] Droogs About Town: London Locations Featured in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ - bit.ly/2LVkfNO
[MyLondon] Clockwork Orange gets anniversary screening at Brunel University - bit.ly/2zp7xUP
[Historic England] Lecture Theatre Block, Brunel University - bit.ly/3grp3sm
[Designing Buildings] bit.ly/3c1XPEZ
[Modernism] Bolshy Flatblock: The buildings of A Clockwork Orange - bit.ly/2yq8Dz4
[Shenton Wiki] bit.ly/3d0aycJ
[Makkink Wiki] bit.ly/3ebcNtZ
[Skybreak House] bit.ly/3cYWlNi
Music:
Epidemic Sound
"The record was part of the shop's stock". Yeah, I read that somewhere, too - many years ago. Was it "Stanley Kubrick Directs" or somewhere else? Can't remember.
You're right! (Pg 282 of Stanley Kubrick Directs by Alexander Walker) "The disc of the 2001 music that comes to rest in the center of the shot was no film prop but actually part of the real shop's stock."
Thanks so much!
@@CinemaTyler The sad part is that I own all those records shown. I would love to go back and buy those album. Worth tons now.
Mark Burgh - If you already own them why would you want to buy them again?
@@AtheistOrphan Pretty sure he meant to say "owned"
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ebay will give you a good chance to find it
Film youtube always feels like a circlejerk of saying the same thing over and over again and pretending it's a new video. You're one of the only fresh voices on the platform, none of what you say is boring or contrived and you always come with a plethora of sources we can chaeck ourselves. Great work man.
Thanks so much! You're too kind!
Bit weak on the architecture though. Nothing novel there I’m afraid.
@@donkimble there isn't much more to say ain't it ?
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Kool dude and he makes vids because he loves movies.. no ulterior motive...
That's true. So much nonsense out there. It's nice to have well researched, well presented product
I feel like Kubrick would find this content impressive
You're too kind!
Maybe but he’d be embarrassed by youtubers as a whole they’re all hacky and fake and just shill out videos with awful comedy and jump cuts and quick edits
@@JaBoreman Surely anyone can see full length feature films from the 20th century and informative documentary style TH-cam videos from the 21st century are completely different mediums and require completely different styles of editing and content. Not only that, but letting anyone regardless of background or wealth create and watch any kind of content they like will end up in the creation of a lot of crass material. But disregarding all the incredible content in there is just foolish. These formats are almost incomparable.
He’s be impressed by Like Stories Of Old channel
@@JaBoremanI'd be impressed by your comment if you had even attempted to do any of the things you scorn so much.
take a look around the world outside today: it's looking and feeling more and more like this movie every day.
I live right by Brunel University...
I skateboard there every day. Being able to go there and be inspired is a true honor.
It's a shame that Tower d has now been knocked over.
If you ever get a chance to come to London, make sure you check Brunel University!
I had no idea that Chaplin actually performed on that stage. Very informative video, sir!
loved learning that all the audio was captured on set. huge accomplishment. excellent video.
The high rise block they rented a top floor flat in is called Canterbury House. It has a plaque on the front of it mentioning Clockwork Orange
@14:24 That guy looks so much like Even Peters. Crazy.
The Angenieux 9.8mm lens referenced is more likely made by kinoptik. They made a 9.8mm rectilinear lens with an f1.8 aperture. T-stop ends up at 2.3
The original Wendy/Walter Carlos work I heard at 12 years old [1989] completely fetish-ized Moog sounds for me. The CO soundtrack was a MASSIVE influence on my musical taste and accompanying musicianship.
Wendy
It was almost all spiritless post modern architecture. Structures that can exist anywhere at almost any point. It was a showing of the meaninglessness of the world in which Clockwork exists. It was a chaotic world where the only reality was pleasure and vice. A world where beauty is material and tradition is only good enough to draw penises on. A world not far from today.
As always I’ve learned something new!
Where can I find "My Droog Hell"? Any online reference to it that I've found leads to a dead end. The link you provide leads to a page (and a site) in which the name Grundy doesn't appear at all. Thanks in advance.
For the record the big body builder that helped alex into the door was the man that played Darth vader , in body not in voice. David Prowse
Very well done I’ve read many books about this film . Thanks Your correct ! Saw this film at 13 yrs old in 1984 rented it at the video store Video Gallery By the movie poster printed on the video cartridge box alone we didn’t know what to think of it I remember my friends mother telling us we wouldn’t understand it. I had seen Malcom McDowell In some where in time a few yrs before this film and liking his acting n character. it change the way I looked at film for the rest of my life . Please do one on 2001 n Barry Lyndon .... I can totally see how BOWIE has mentioned that the film influenced The Ziggy Stardust character . He said the bands on the top forty I the record store which he said stardust would have been on of the bands of the future Haircut 100 etc...Funny saying that Johnny Rotten Lyndon of the Sex Pistols 🔫 said this movie wasn’t the film that he associated with there antics was the gang in Brighton Rock film ❤️ which I love also.
It's very interesting what Malcolm McDowell says about his first day at work on a scene late in the movie and acting without having got a handle on his character, saying the words and hoping they sound right. What you see on the screen is someone a little unsure of himself.
Thamesmead..
Aka T-block - got knocked down, to rebuild new homes
It's a shame Kubrick couldn't see the futer, because all he had to have done is stack some stuff up in a pile and burn it.
It doesn't have much to do with the video, but if you think about it, the JOKER movie is like A Clockwork Orange played backwards. A good, innocent man is mistreated and bullied by society to such a degree that it turns him into an evil and dangerous man succumbing into the old ultra violence.
Found? There's a Google maps tour that takes you to the same spots. lol
Whatever happened to great Record shops like that ?..New Generation wouldnt know what a fucking record is , thick as shit..Great vid and top info on the Films backgrounds.
You know they still sell records? And DJ's still spin them?
I just wanted to tell you that we are all sincerely grateful for what you are doing.
Your content is very informative and entertaining.
Thanks so much!
Whenever I learn something new about Kubrick filming locations/lenses/sets it has always been thru you man. TY so much for this vid!!!
Thanks!
The theatre where Alex is presented towards the peers after his Ludovico treatment used to be the presentation room in my local library in West Norwood. It has been recently refurbished and is now a four screen cinema and library, with the presentation room being the main screen. In fact two weeks after the cinema opened in 2018, A Clockwork Orange was shown for one day at that screening room.
So cool!
@@CinemaTyler And some of the seats are orange.
Do they have "naked chick" day there at times?
@@thiscorrosion900 No, but they almost certainly have Transsexual Story Hour!
@@johneggmuldoon3176 Ok.
The female sculptor went onto star wars and sculpted the iconic storm trooper helmet.
Another connection to Star Wars from A Clockwork Orange
@@evapalma8078 You mean another connection from Kubrick to Star Wars. 2001 looks like a prequel to A new hope in terms of spaceship design. ;w;
@@evapalma8078 “a long, long time ago” relative to when?
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I lived in Thamesmead as a kid. We moved in 1972 not long after stage 1 had been completed. The reason it was all walkways and bridges was that it had been built on a marsh and was prone to flooding from the Thames. The obvious answer was to build a housing estate on stilts. You could cross from one end of Thamesmead to the other without ever going down to ground level.
I enjoy watching Clockwork Orange because it has an extra element of nostalgia for me, seeing the places I knew as a kid.
Interesting! Thanks for the info!
@@CinemaTyler You're welcome, I actually played on, walked around some of the locations in the film so, if you or anyone else want to know something about them, just let me know and I'll answer as best I can.
I found the Thamesmead information really interesting, I work for the EA as a river & flood defence inspector so I I work there for a week or two per year inspecting the rivers & flood defences there, including Southmere Lake, the marina where Alex and the droogs fought, it clicked as I was walking along it for the first time that it looked really familiar, it gave me a real buzz when I figured it out, and whenever I worked there I would walk that very stretch. Sadly I think it's being demolished along with all of the hideous old flats, most of them have all gone now.
All those flats on Southmere lake have been demolished now. Good thing too, they were cold in winter, hot in summer and suffered condensation and black mould. Of course the lake is the back drop for the TV show “Misfits”.
@Fred Smith Stage one is actually ok. It’s stage three and Bentham road that is dodgy at night, and that used to be the nice bit.
Kubrick also has a cameo in the record store. He's the patron with his back to the camera as Alex walks around at the start of the scene, he's reading a magazine and wearing a brown leather jacket. At 7:17, right of frame.
Yeah, Kubrick seems to like making cameo appearances in his own movies.
In the movie Eyes Wide Shut, when Tom Cruise enters Sonata Cafe to meet Nick Nightingale, you can see Stanley Kubrick sitting with a woman, at a table against the wall to the left of Dr. Bill Hartford (Tom Cruise) and Nightingale. Kubrick looks up and at Cruise twice.
@@guymorris1963 He turns up in Clockwork Orange too, though in the form of a puppet's head during the scene where the Droogs fight the biker Nazis in the empty theater. He's heard on a radio giving instructions to the platoon in the lead up to the sniper scene in Full Metal Jacket.
OK. Two musical details I have to give Kudos for: 1: having the balls to use a Rolling Stones clip... even one lasting a few seconds. That's like saying 'Copyright Claim Me!' Love how you prioritise content over the danger of scumbags trying to grab your ad revenue. No.2: syncing the renditions of Daisy and making it work! Bravo!
"Total Recall" - the original 1990 version - did a good job of this, too. Many of the exterior earth scenes were shot in and around various Mexico City subway stations.
Actually just two subway stations: the interiors of Chabacano Station from line 2 and exteriors of Insurgentes Station from line 1. There are some other scenes that were shot in the barracks of mexican army academy "Heroico Colegio Militar" because of their futuristic look. Maybe those could made their way into that "evil buildings" list LOL they certainly fit in the brutalism style
I LOVE Brutalism. It’s so retro futuristic and still holds up today.
Absolutely. The game Control uses brutalism to great effect.
@@Creechuur I just checked it out and yeah it looks BADDASS‼️ Thanks for the heads up 👍🏽
Kubrick is a genius, and a clockwork orange is his greatest masterpiece. My favorite director. and film. Malcolm is also exceedingly talented
I agree!
I agree, it is also my favorite movie and my favorite director.
Love your pronounciation of Borehamwood!
Hey man! Nice to see you here :)
You get everywhere, Larry!
high 🖐
You are everywhere 😅😅
Every video I watch has some random Larry Bundy Jr comment xD
Where my brutalism gang at?
I love brutalist architecture, I find it incredibly beautiful when it's done well
Great analysis, thanks!
Hey, maybe do one on Nadsat, the Clockwork Orange universe slang? As I recall, Burgess said it used a lot of Russian-English hybreds because of a world war with the now defunct Soviet Union.
Do you mean Cold War with the Soviet Union?
These soulless buildings are a perfect backdrop. Too bad people actually had/have to live there and see these ugly grey slabs of concrete.
Born raised and still here.
@@Shavenhamster So how did it work out? Good, bad or indifferent? Or are you a lifelong "droog"?
@@johneggmuldoon3176 Its alright life could be worse.
Thamesmead was the height of modern living back in the day . Such a shame it was left to rot !! I couldn’t imagine anything nicer than having a spacious flat with large balcony over looking the water . It was new , brutalist yes , but it’s original tenants liked it there ..
10:06 Darth Vader in his underpants.
Even Sith Lords need to unwind after a long day of force-choking employees.
At least his body LOL
RIP David Prowse 11-29-2020
i live near one of the filming locations in the film. where one of them falls into the lake. i visited the location and sad to say it's getting torn down by the council. shame because my father used to live there back when it was first built and remembers when they shot the film there.
Too many people was getting robbed and the drug dealers had easy escape routes. Alot of tenants hated the place. I only went there a couple of times and i liked it but i did not have to live there. I loved the design of it. Also i think it needed alot of repairs and was more viable to knock it down and start again.
i just want to live in all these locations and see out of my eyes in that camera quality.
Josh Fletcher that’ll be cool
Living there in one of them tower blocks almost on the top floor.
It did not seem futuristic to me.
You don’t want to live near the set of Clockwork Orange (London suburb of Thamsmead) - it’s a social nightmare full of real yobs.
Yeah! Brunel University, my Alma mater.
Seen here, the lecture centre (looks like three sand crawlers having a race)
Lecture hall A, inside the sand crawler, is where we had some lectures, it's where the experiment took place
Where he's marched up for induction is the maths building, now the computer room.
Finally there's Chepstow hall, where his accommodation is.
In 2000, the furniture, fittings and bedding were _identical,_ when I lived there. I watched a clockwork orange _in his actual room_
I've also watched the film _in lecture theatre a_
Legend has it the architect was found drowning his sorrows in the bishop bar as there was not yet a method to construct windows our of concrete.
Sorry, you are wrong, Lecture hall A was not the location for the aversion therapy treatment (eye lid locks), it was theatre E, I worked on ACO - I was the projectionist.
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Uh, I always thought it was A.
Wasn't E tiny though?
20 years ago now so it all merges into one for me
I don't know why, but I get the feeling that cinematyler really really loves Kubrick and more specifically A Clockwork Orange.
But who could blame him for that?
5:21 Aphex Twin, come to daddy!
Kubrick was pretty spot on about the movement of Pop Art towards erotica, though not often straight up pornographic
Some of the buildings and the set designs remind me of Robocop.
I have a great desire that you take a closer look at Deer hunter.
Loved Deer Hunter! I may as well. I'm partially though the Apocalypse Now series and I'm working on another big series on Full Metal Jacket. I swear I'm not a big Vietnam history buff--there have just been some awesome movies made about it! Maybe Deer Hunter after that!
@drealmerz7 z I can see that, The film is definitely in the category of films that has the most impact on the first viewing (like Taxi Driver or THX 1138) but that doesn't make the film something to be discarded.
Those apartment blocks and the flat itself look and feel so Soviet. Very recognisable to any bloke born in an ex-Soviet country.
But the Style (Beuhaus) is originally German. It was invented by Walther Gropius in the 20s.
Thank you. This is one of my personal top ten movies of my lifetime. I visited that Record Store during a visit to England during Christmas break 68-69. It was exactly as you saw it in the film.
In the late 1970s, I went to a weekend science fiction film convention hosted by the film critic Philip Strick at Brunel University. (It was an eclectic mix of films, including some Godard and some avant-garde experimental shorts.) It was only many years later that I realised that the movies were shown in the lecture theatre used for the Ludovico sequences in A Clockwork Orange; this was never mentioned during the festival, probably because the people there - despite being science fiction movie nerds - had no idea.
It’s easy to forget now how little-seen A Clockwork Orange was for many years in the UK (it was withdrawn from circulation and only made available again after Kubrick’s death) and how hard it was to get detailed production information in those pre-internet days.
Weird. The people who ran the university certainly knew. But then it was withdrawn after about a year of circulation in the UK at the suggestion of the police to keep SK and his family safe. Warner agreed. So who knows why they didn't mention it. Maybe they didn't want a hard core film in the festival!
Man, that would be sooooooo cool to see ACO in that room!
Also at 07:45 you can see Malcolm McDowell walk past a copy of 'Sanctus from Missa Luba' which was used as the theme music to his previous film 'If....'
Kubrick really was about it he put his fingers in every aspect MASTERMIND
I swear that Logan's run set.. you can't get much more 70s than that
You are officially turning me into a Kubrick Completionist. With how far cinema has fallen lately, my appreciation for the great works of before only grows and grows. We hardly see this level of creativity and attention to detail anymore
You know watching your videos makes me wonder if all the Stanley Kubrick's films technically exist in the same universe on a very weird timeline
I love your videos about Stanley Kubrick! He's my favorite director and it's so nice to find out all these facts.
The hospital scenes were shot in Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, Essex, UK.
Great video
This should be the standard - sources cited, facts checked, etc
I grew up near Thamesmead, it was social housing.
Used to work there. Hideous, inhuman place and full of social down-and-outs.
Alright alright alright, I'll finally watch Barry Lyndon, _geeze_
You gotta watch it more than once! I really believe that Kubrick's movies are at their worst on the first viewing. He doesn't make movies like everyone else and often makes really bold decisions that thwart your expectations. I'm obsessed with all of his movies, but I didn't care for Barry Lyndon, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut on first viewing and now I love them and watch them regularly. I find the 3rd viewing and on to be when you get into that sweet spot.
Watch it and love it
@drealmerz7 z It was never on cable, friends never had a VHS of it, and Kubrick fans usually focus their attention elsewhere. I guess it never came up.
@CinemaTyler We've been doing about 45 minutes a night, so this is night 3 of 4. So far the impression I get is of overwhelming cynicism about all the institutions of aristocratic Europe, everything is corrupt and rotten to the core.
You won’t be disappointed!!! It’s SO entertaining
God, I love the art of making a movie. Most people watch a movie but don't have any clue what goes on.
That poster of the topless lady in the swamp (at the house where Alex lives with his parents) was actually also in my parents house in the early 80's.
While in the record store Alex mentions the made-up band 'Heaven 17' - which of course became a reality many years later!
The band Moloko took their name from the film.
Temptation, it’s getting higher and higheeeer!
David James sing it back, siiiiing it ba-ack!
And please stop saying the word "quote". It's pointless. You don't even tell us when the quote ends.
Always Be Well,CinemaTyler:)You're a credit to your generation!
The picture you show of his "house in Borehamwood" is not the correct house. You're showing a picture of Childwickbury Manor where he lived from 1978. The Borehamwood house was Abbot's Mead.
Not that it needs one, but for years I'm shocked at how nobody's tried to remake 'A Clockwork Orange', or re-adapt the book. If anything, the set design & art direction would be interesting to see in the hands of directors like Christopher Nolan or David Fincher. More importantly, the story of forced conformity might be more relevant today than ever.
Hey Tyler, great video! I do wanna let you know though that the hospital scenes at the end were all filmed at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex, England. I know because it says so at the Stanley Kubrick archives at the UAL in London and on IMDb. This is especially cool to me because I was actually born in that same hospital it was filmed at. And one more detail I thought I could clear up, was that the bathroom set was a built set according to Malcolm McDowell in the backyard of Skybreak House. The hallway however was not a built set and is actually the real hallway in Skybreak House.
Anyway I hope this was helpful, I always learn something new about these movies. Even if I feel like I keep coming across the same piece of trivia over and over, your videos always present a new and interesting look at some of my favourite movies and I can't wait for more videos from you in the future :)
Thanks for the kind words and for the correction! I found the info about the hospital here: www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/bolshy-flatblock-the-buildings-of-a-clockwork-orange
It's possible they got that part wrong. Do you have a source for where McDowell said that the bathroom was filmed in the backyard? I spent so long trying to find a definitive answer to that. Thanks again!
I haven't seen this movie since I was way too young to understand or appreciate it... I need to give it another go-around 🔥
I once went out with a girl who lived in SkyBreak, Mr Alexander’s house and they were forever having architectural and film students asking to visit. The house was designed by Norman Foster. Interesting place.
Sorry Cinema Tyler, you are wrong about Brunel University also being used for the hospital scene, I know all the locations used at Brunel, the hospital scene was not one of them. I worked on the film, I was the projectionist during the aversion therapy scenes.
The "New Dolby System" would have been Dolby A noise reduction, at that time just called Dolby Noise Reduction which was invented in 1965, it is used extensively by the composer for the film Wendy Carlos. Ray Dolby was also living in London with Dolby Laboratories being based in London at the time. Dolby NR was used for all mixdowns and masters for the film soundtrack.
That's for tape noise, not ambient noise on the street.
The film that got me into Kubrick. An indy type feel with a master at the helm.
This is by far the best movie Kubrick made. Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove receive honorable mention. But 2001, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut went on for too long. But they looked beautiful. The rest I didn’t mention were just good old classic movies.
Before i watch the video i wanna say.
The FILM WAS NOT futuristic. In a news paper in the film you can see the date 1971. Kubrick said this dystopia is already here.
Only OG clockwork fans know that.
Greatest black comedy ever.
I'm 55 I saw this movie about 15years ago for the fist time I just thinking Ikea furniture
You know what’s sad? That Chelsea drugstore is a MacDonald’s now.
Good, that you know the difference between Modernism (Bauhaus) and Brutalism. Modernism is functional, and Brutalism shows Materials. Theese may overlap often, but not necessary do.
I live a about 5 minute walk from Thamesmead where this was filmed. They started pulling most of what you see in the film down about 2 years ago. Its been slow progress but most is gone now, lets hope that what they are building now is better than what went before.
Thamesmead. It is and was not a slum. It wasn't high Class either. But it was not a slum thank you. Everyone who grew up there (Me being one of them) had a great Childhood.
Totally agree, was going to make this comment myself. I also was brought up on Thamesmead (Hartslock Drive) in the 70s and the place had a great sense of community.
Errrm if you drive through Thamesmead you still see horses abandoned by travellers.... It's kind of a slum
I would love if you covered more Tarkovsky films. Your _Stalker_ video is amazing!
Thanks! Might be a little ways out, but I'd love to make more!
One building looks like Boston City Hall a hideous thing approved by politicians who thought pictures of gambling dogs was art.
That Casino on Taggs Island features in Lucio Fulci 'A Woman in a Lizard Skin'
It blows my mind that 2001 lost money at first
Did you spot Darth Vader at 10:08? Yup. David Prowse. The guy who wore the Darth Vader costume in the Star Wars movies.
The colour, music, architectal and cinematic compositions of this film are rather extraordinary.
The thumbnail caught my eye because in 2009 when I watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time, that building reminded me of my college’s architecture. Googling got me nowhere. And now 11 years later I can finally sleep at night understanding that Brunel and UMass Dartmouth both are brutalist campuses.
4:02 Fred Karno was a theatrical impresario who knew how to discover and nurture talent. In the 1910s, his touring comedy troop included Stan Laurel. Laurel's roommate while on tour was Charles Chaplin.
This is the video I've been looking for since I watched the movie for the first time! Great job!
Thanks!
the thing with the natural light should be used by all filmers
Great video. One small mistake I spotted: the house you show at 2:41 is not Kubrick's house at Borehamwood (Abbot's Mead) as referenced in the voiceover. The picture shows Childwickbury, Kubrick's house near St Albans which he didn't move to until ten years after production of A Clockwork Orange.
Ah. Thanks for the correction!
How did he do it? It was a dystopian futuristic film. The kind where most technology and society has broken down and worn away. Where people are sort of stuck in the dark ages.
Agreed. In the film, Alex makes reference to his car, a 'Durango '95', which would put the film at least 25 or so years into the future, but on the Blu-ray release, some viewers noted a date seen on a newspaper article regarding Alex's treatment as, I believe 1973 or '74. I always imagined it was set only slightly in the future, but in an alternate history universe where society has gone down the tubes.
From round the globe? We're waking up now. No, the Earth isn't hurtling around in outer space. Strange I know.
What?
is it fair to call garbage that looks like it's from the '60s, and in fact actually is, 'futuristic'? the median age of Americans right now is about my age, ~38 years old. shit that's 20 years older than that is very clearly from the past. what the hell are you doing?
this is the problem with allowing periods to name themselves in a grandiose way. there is no endgame in life, but everyone always thinks that they're in the endgame, so they'll tend to stupidly refer to their present moment as the jumping off point for everything to come, at best, and the end all be all, at worst. the name 'futuristic' clearly falls into this camp. as time goes on that name is only going to grow more and more obviously ridiculous, much like 'modernism' is.
is it really futuristic if no one in the future uses those design philosophies as standard practices face it its just 70s art deco
“Futuristic” means what people of the present *imagine* the future will be like. It usually isn’t what the future is *actually* like.
9:16 through 9:23 is such a hilarious collection of british syllables it could be parody
I wish you talked more about young and talented artist Liz Moore, who died a couple of years later in a car accident.
Thamesmeade was an architectural masterpiece and it’s loss was a calamity that will be regretted in the future. The plans are beautiful, and despite the inherent security issues posed by the underground car park, it was a very beautiful place, albeit unconventional in its aesthetic sensibility. It’s easy to dismiss what you make no effort to understand.
Those car parks were never a good idea.
2:41 I´m very interested in houses of famous people and especially the inner architecture. So, if Yoko Ono would stop selling us the re-re-re-re-master of her husband´s music, she could present a picture book of photographs of those two complete, full-length, Dakota floors....including Danny Boy on guitar and monster bike.
Fascinating stuff. I can't imagine those brutalist buildings ever *not* looking like a worn-down slum, even when they were new. Not that I don't think they're magnificent.
Thats 60s Labour for you. And those ugly buildings cost Labour a ton as the spent the UK into bankrupcy leading to an IMF bailout. From the look of them youd think they were cheap, but theu over paid
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Because the Tories Grenfell Tower was built of such superior quality and on a good budget.
@@nicosmind3 oh dear
Concrete always looks oppressive, and calling your architecture style Brutalism is like a piss take.
Used to work in Thamesmead in the middle of all that brutalism. Utterly dispiriting and full of real life yobs. Truly hideous place.
The uniform is based on the sport cricket
Although there is no mention of him in the credits, I clearly remember hearing that Chris Cunningham consulted with Kubrick on AI. This came about after Kubrick saw his video for Bjork's All is full of love. HOw cool that Cunningham filmed Come to Daddy in the same location as Clockwork Orange.
So cool! Those are both such great music videos. It's a shame his adaptation of Neuromancer never got off the ground.
@@CinemaTyler He was quiet something back in the late 90's. Everything he did with Aphex Twin was outstanding. The vid for Squarepusher's come on my selecata, have you seen that? Fantastic! And the Bjork vid...wow! My guess is his ideas were incorporated in the Flesh Fair sequence. I was genuinely excited for the guy at the time. It felt like the old and the new coming together. Kubrick was into that though. He met PT Anderson around then too. Don't get me started on how that guy references the great Stan in his movies!