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Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

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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 the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be available… This book represents that attempt.”

Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1972

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Format
340 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2002 by Screenpress Books
ISBN
9781901680478
ASIN
1901680479
Language
English

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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.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick

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Grumpy-Lee
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April 26,2025
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What a great, disturbing book; what a relevant story laced with terrible truths ...and running silently in the background is Beethoven's music touching such a torridly vibrant soul as that which appears to be only semi-possessed by Alex adds such a bitter, bitter poignancy................
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Syrene_Windsor
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April 26,2025
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Read this because the movie was such a groundbreaker.

Not easy to read. The language and dialogue is intense and hard work with lots of slang and completely made up words peppering every sentence. That being said the stroy is amazing and it is an experience and an achievement if you can make it all the way though. Don't be the guy that only saw the movie :)
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PissOnYourGrave
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April 26,2025
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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.
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Hubbuble
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April 26,2025
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O my droogs and brothers, the other notch the devochka and your humble servant were down at the kino to viddy, what else, A Clockwork Orange, and we had just got to the home invasion scene, Malcolm McDowell was kicking Mr. Alexander in the litser while Dim was cutting holes in Mrs. Alexander's dress to get a better look at her groodies, all to the joyous accompaniment of Singin' in the Rain, when suddenly I had what they call an epiphany: clear as if I'd been in his gulliver listening to his innermost thoughts in glorious stereo, I knew why Donald Trump always looks so happy.

I wonder, does he like Beethoven?
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DuracellIce
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April 26,2025
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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.
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crayann
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April 26,2025
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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.
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adrienjc
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April 26,2025
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Something different from my normal reads. The book is basically the movie, showing the whole movie in frames with dialogue in between. A nice item to have, as I read the book and saw the movie before. Not to read if you haven't read or seen the movie, since I think you won't understand a thing then.
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iZombi
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April 26,2025
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I'm Russian and read this book in the Russian version. But even for me to read some of the phrases was difficult and unusual, although they were clearer to me than for you. In general, this book is a kind of anti-utopia, throughout the book, bursting with a sense of hatred for the terrible injustice
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