A Clockwork Orange (film) A Clockwork Orange (film) A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain. Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music (including Beethoven), committing rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls
History of the punk subculture and William S. Burroughs. Kerouac's "On the Road" gave Jim Carroll the impetus to write "The Basketball Diaries", perhaps the first example of punk literature. George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" might have inspired much of punk's distrust for the government. In his autobiography "No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish!", John Lydon remembers the influence that film version of "A Clockwork Orange" had on his own style. John Waters' 1972 underground classic, "Pink Flamingos", is considered an important precursor of punk culture. Punk rock has a variety of origins. Garage rock was the first form of music called "punk", and