A Clockwork Scandal: Anthony Burgess vs. Stanley Kubrick - Cracking the Kube Ep. 4

Описание: When A Clockwork Orange opened, Burgess said he was “delighted” by Kubrick’s film, which he called “the best adaptation of a book we’ve ever had.” A few months later, he stunned everyone by proclaiming that the film was “a reversal of his intentions.” For the next twenty years, Burgess never stopped complaining about the success of A Clockwork Orange, causing Kubrick to “wish he would stop being bitchy about it.”
What appears to be a row between Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick over A Clockwork Orange is actually a journey into the ever shifting mind of a very imaginative writer who came to hate his own creation – or did he?

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:46 - Publication of A Clocwork Orange
0:59 - Kubrick buys the adaptation rights
1:47 - Burgess and Kubrick meet
2:04 - Burgess promoting Kubrick's film
3:25 - Heated reception in England
4:38 - Burgess and Kubrick's reaction
5:45 - Novel and film are sibling works
6:15 - Burgess changes mind
7:33 - Kubrick publishes the screenplay
8:17 - Burgess now hates his novel
8:34 - Copycat killers in Britain
9:47 - Burgess's reaction
11:16 - Novel and film are now separate
12:15 - Burgess's fame
13:16 - The 21st chapter issue
14:28 - Novel and film are at their furthest
15:41 - Challenging Burgess's view
17:35 - Burgess loves controversy
18:38 - Later years
18:52 - A last, shocking volte-face
20:22 - Revelations from the archives
21:26 - Burgess's self-inventions
22:16 - More revelations and debunking

Fourth episode in my series of academic lectures. This one can be cited as:
Filippo Ulivieri, “Dangerous Arts: Anthony Burgess’s conflictual relationship with A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation,” @ A Clockwork Symposium, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UK), 1-2 November 2018.

It is the base for my chapter in a new edited collection exploring Burgess and Kubrick’s controversial legacy around the 50th anniversary of the film:
Filippo Ulivieri, “Dangerous Arts: the clash between Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange and the world,” in Matthew Melia and Georgina Orgill (eds.), “Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange,” Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.