A Clockwork Orange

That's a good choice.

The Shining and Clockwork Orange would probably be right after it.

I'm not sure which one.

That's fair.

So Kubrick is constantly exposing the very dark places, and you get the very keen sense that Kubrick somehow, some way, or one way or another, Kubrick in his life collided numerous times with these dark people, these dark organizations, and these dark entities.

So he makes other movies, like we talked about the other day, A Clockwork Orange, from the best-selling novel by Anthony Burgess.

And Clockwork Orange, which I saw in college, in the 70s.

Clockwork Orange was the story of rebellious juvenile delinquents, gang members, if you will, who were into violence and drugs and stuff.

And they go through one of society's scientific behavior modification programs, and they come out more monstrous than they were before they went in.

And so Kubrick is exposing the failure of the scientific complex to cure people psychologically and prevent violence.

And in that movie, this is the strange part, and I talked to you about this relatively recently, I was doing research and I was watching a documentary on Stanley Kubrick, and I came to a place in the documentary where there was an examination of Kubrick's movie A Clockwork Orange.

And the actor, is talking about his experiences playing the lead gang member in A Clockwork Orange.

Technological route to authoritarian control.

I mean, and if we sort of think about, if we think about a clockwork orange, of course, that's exactly what we get to at the end, isn't it?

It's exactly that.

And Clockwork Orange was written by Anthony Burgess, you know, in the 50s when this, you know, the new psychiatric drugs and kind of rock around the clock teen violence and Cold War brainwashing.

By the time Kubrick went to film it in the 70s, there was much more of this, you know, brain implant and suppressing violent stuff.

And Kubrick really leaned into all the 70s high tech surgical technology and stuff.

Stanley Kubrick would just go crazy.

Through it, and then people, you know, both Devils and A Clockwork Orange were controversial for their times.

Yeah.

You know, and...

can see why, you can see why one of them was more, you can see why the Devils would be more unsettling.

Yes, yes.

Where A Clockwork Orange now, I will tell you the first week of the, when we all were told to stay home, I made the mistake of going to Trader Joe's and I drive home and I see these kids on the other side of the railroad track kicking something and I'm thinking... whoa, this is like out of a Clockwork Orange.

It's like everything is, yeah, everything is vacant.

You know, it's so funny that I didn't catch the same cast members of Barry Lyndon, but I was very reminded of Barry Lyndon when I watched this.

It felt like a mix of Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange as a movie.

I totally agree.

It's still sinners for me, though.

OK, she she thinks that I should brand myself as the literary agent who has dyslexia because I I've always struggled with reading.

I would much rather watch Clockwork Orange like we've talked about, like a film or movies, because I just always was a slow reader.

And so I never so many people in this industry that I work with that are wonderful.

I mean, just grew up reading and just like have a love of literature.

A bid to reform how the broadcaster's content is consumed and paid for.

We want to force you, Clockwork Orange style, to watch our fucking shit that you don't want to watch.

That's why you're not paying for it and going to YouTube.

We're going to force you and make you pay for it, and you're going to like it.

Now with Kubrick being a big influence of theirs, they have a couple subtle but pretty direct nod to his movies in this film.

When Carl's at the show with the escort, he mentions the old in and out, which is a slang phrase that comes from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

Also, the song These Boots Are Made for Walkin' plays on the radio.

It kind of bridges sequences when Jerry and Shep are in the garage and then to Carl and Gair in the car, the sequence that we just heard Carl giving Gair a hard time about not talking, gives him the total silence speech.