Regarding the meaning of a clockwork orange, the novel author Anthony Burgess said in the preface of the original reprint: "A clockwork orange does not exist in itself, but old Londoners use it to describe strange things. It signifies a mechanical On the application of moral values to the sweet and juicy living organism.” Therefore, what the title implies is a clockwork (mechanical, artificial) person (the English term "orange" is similar to "orangutan") . The main content of the last chapter of the novel is that Alex finally gave up violence when he grew up, married and had children, but when it was first released in the United States, the publisher insisted on deleting the last chapter. Burgess has always been brooding about this, thinking that without this chapter, his thoughts would not be fully expressed. Therefore, he has expressed dissatisfaction with the American version of "A Clockwork Orange" novels and movies.
After Stanley Kubrick read the novel of "A Clockwork Orange", he tried his best to persuade Warner Pictures to buy its copyright in 1969 for $200,000.
During the filming process, Stanley Kubrick adopted a very rigorous narrative, which unfolded through three parts: the evil deeds of Alex and his accomplices; Alex went to jail for punishment and treatment; The revenge suffered by the released Alex and his "cure". The former villain Alex, after receiving treatment and being released, completely lost the ability to do evil, so that the people he had done evil all inflicted the same evil on him, but he had no ability to resist. The linear narrative has strangely turned into a circular narrative, and the observation and criticism of individual evil has also naturally transformed into the observation and criticism of universal evil.
