A Clockwork Orange, by Stanley Kubrick

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Adaptation, or the conversion of historical or fictional narratives into film, has been a common practice for many years. It is this very practice that has bound the two medias of film and narrative together. It has brought readers and viewers together in understanding a similar storyline with a similar structure. Sometimes, filmmakers have adapted films from novels successfully because of their ability to accurately portray the structure, characters and plotline from the novel throughout every aspect of the film. In Adaptation, or the Cinema as Digest by Andre Bazin, he discusses the novel and film Man’s Hope by Malraux. He stated “ the style of Malraux’s film is politely identical to that of his book, even though we are dealing with two different artistic forms, cinema on the one hand and literature on the other.” This suggests the two creative vehicles are stylistically alike in that they both reflect an organized storyline with characters, themes and motives. In this paper I am going to spotlight the dialectic between the two artistic forms by identification through a close viewing experience of the subject, style, syntax and sound.
The film, A Clockwork Orange, by Stanley Kubrick, gives us a true understanding of how this World contains various types of people, some of which might be called, ‘crazy.’ This film takes us into a world that is unfamiliar to most of us, in that the violence of this film is unlike many other films of its time. Based off the novel originally written by Anthony Burgess, Kubrick shows us that films can enhance our reading experiences and bring us outstanding film work in conjunction with the novel. Published in 1962, this dystopian yet futuristic novella was adapted into a film less than ten...

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...lay, Kubrick received Oscar nominations in all three categories.” (Bozzola, “A Clockwork Orange”)

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