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Look at the scene where Alex beats Georgie and Dim and they fall in the river. Alex politely offers his hand to Dim, and in the background you can see Georgie with no hat. Shortly afterwards, he's got his hat on. See more...

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Mick Jagger, the lead vocalist of the Rolling Stones, originally owned the rights to adapt the novel into a movie. He would have played Alex, with the other Stones playing his "droogs". See more...

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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke (add more)

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Clockwork Orange mistakes

Mistake Continuity: When Alex and his droogs come in on Billy Boy making ready to rape the young girl, the first shot shows the lacing of a shoe or sandal on the girl's left calf, but afterward it jumps to her right.

Mistake Continuity: When Alex goes out from the cat woman's house, his pants are white and clean; then Dim crash a bottle onto his face and before falling down Alex's pants are dirty at knees. In the following scene, at the interrogation, his pants are clean again.

Mistake Continuity: In the sped-up sex scene in Alex's bedroom, watch the bedclothes spontaneously rearrange themselves.

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A Clockwork Orange trivia

Mistake In the scene where Alex and his Droogs break into the writer's house, Alex starts to sing 'Singing in the Rain'. This came about after Stanley Kubrick asked Malcolm McDowell whether he could sing during the scene; Malcolm chose that song as it was the only song he knew the words to, start to finish.

Mistake In the scene where Alex approaches the two girls at the record stand you can see the original score for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mistake The scene where Alex has sex with the two girls in fast forward wasn't done as an artistic statement, Kubrick just sped the scene up so he could get it past the censors and the MPAA.

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