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Article: Clockwork Orange After a 30-year absence from British screens, one of the most notorious films in history is due for re-release. What took it so long?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 2, 1999
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Tolchock: to hit or push; blow, beating
In 1987 Anthony Burgess adapted his cacotopian fable A Clockwork
Orange for the stage, in a semi-musical version intended for
production by amateur groups. On the last page of the published text,
just before a valedictory chorus sung to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode
to Joy" ("Do not be a clockwork orange,/ Freedom has a lovely
voice...") is a striking stage direction: "A man bearded like Stanley
Kubrick comes on playing, in exquisite counterpoint, `Singin' in the
Rain' on a trumpet. He is kicked off the stage." It seems fair to
infer that this stage direction was more than just a cheeky wink at
the man whose film had bestowed on Burgess the vexed gift ...