Clockwork+Orange+Analysis+by+Ryan+Chong

Bowler Hats -> Middle Working Class Lots of profane paintings Masks -> Hide self from society Ends where he started -> There are things you can't change "One psychotic, always psychotic" -> Quote from somewhere In-Out -> Sex -> Jobs, Card in, Card out Not getting enough excitement -> Fight No place is safe -> Home invasion Milk -> Drugs Droogies -> Drugs friends Tracking shots through hallways -> The Shining Iconic Tricycle Shot Lick popsicle -> Stranger Drinking Alice's Champagne in Eyes Wide Shut -> Art of Love Eyes Wide Shut: Track Victor talking to Bill -> Barry Lyndon: Track the officer walking behind Redmond Barry Perhaps to show that someone is always watching Burps when he feels disgusted British Government

Some thematic and stylistic motifs that I notice in Kubrick’s films is the use of sexual symbols, long tracking shot on characters, characters with psychological struggles, marriage and commitment, and homosexuality. Basically all his films can be linked to sex in a very clear way. In Dr.Stangelove, there is an iconic scene which Major Kong is dropped with the atomic bomb, ridding it like a bull, but also appearing like a giant phallus. From one report, it says that the graffiti “Hi There” on the bomb that was dropped with Major Kong was a homosexual approach that a male would use to greet another. In Eyes Wide Shut, basically the whole film was about sex, and there were a couple of elements that linked to homosexuality. The shop rainbow fashions, a rainbow flag is the flag of homosexuality. The hotel clerk was acting very homosexually, making homosexual advances to the character Bill. In Barry Lyndon, Barry first falls in love with his cousin, but leaves her because she falls in love with a British officer, which he kills in a duel of pistols. The duel of pistols was meant to prove who was the better man for the woman, and it could very well vaguely represent the two men com pairing who has the better phallus. So after Barry kills the officer, he goes to travel. He is stopped by highway men who want to keep his clothes. perhaps another homosexual advance, but lets him go off. He ends up in a town where the British was recruiting soldiers. In the army he encounters an old friend that lived in his hometown. The friend is shot on the battlefield, and when Barry escapes to the side of the field with his friend, his friend asks him to kiss him before he died, another perhaps homosexual element. He joins the force but leaves once he had seen the horror of the battlefield. He then ends up in a small village where he meets a woman who’s husband left for the army. He stays with the woman for a week and falls in love, but leaves after the week, showing an element of commitment. In Lolita, the element of commitment was prevalent between the Doctor and Lolita, which Lolita is not faithful to the Doctor, by going off with a famous actor who was also interested in her.

According to a commentary found on the Blu-Ray version of Clockwork Orange, the rape and ultra-violence in the film causes lots of problems in the 1970s. There were gangs on the streets of England dressed in white clothes and bowler hats singing "Singing in the Rain" while raping women. There were people that went to Kubrick's house and threatened him, which caused him to take the film down from UK Theaters. Even though it was taken down from the UK, theaters in other countries and Cities, like New York and Hong Kong (my father told me it was in theaters when he was a kid).

The "Singing in the Rain" rape scene originally did not have any music to go with it. It was only when Kubrick realized that the rape scene felt too bland that he ask Malcome D. to sing a song, and "Singing in the Rain" was the only song he knew at the time. This made the scene a lot more horrific, and for some people, the song never had the same feeling again. This did it's job in tranceding the idea that violence is a serious problem, as it was scarred into people's minds.

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