Before “A Clockwork Orange” was a visually stimulating, textually fascinating dystopian crime film by Stanley Kubrick, it was a nearly puzzling novel by Anthony Burgess published in 1962.
It’s such a unique story that it’s hard to fathom exactly how it must’ve come about in the author’s mind, but the birth of “A Clockwork Orange” came from two places, one more simplistic-seeming than the last.The film’s star, Malcolm McDowell, previously spoke about the origins of the original story in the movie’s Blu-ray commentary.
He said:”He told me, Burgess, […] that he got the idea for this film from being in Moscow in the early 60s in a coffee shop.
The windows were all steamed up and he was sitting by the window talking to one of his compatriots and these thugs would press their faces up to the window.
He was obviously a foreigner because he was dressed differently and it was obviously threatening.
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