Clockwork Orange Bowler Hat Worn By Malcolm McDowell
This hat was on display for years at the prestigious Barron's Hat Museum in Los Angeles CA. Clockwork Orange during the Billy Boy gang fight scene. London, with crimson silk lining. Pen inscription on the inner band.
On the top of the hat including the inscription'ALEX'. Hat remains in excellent screen used condition.
Item is in fine screen used condition. Dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapted from.Novel, complete with "Nadsat" slang. And his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence, " such as terrorizing a writer, Mr.
, and gang raping his wife (who later dies as a result). After Alex is jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady. To death with one of her phallic sculptures, Alex submits to the Ludovico behavior modification technique to earn his freedom; he's conditioned to abhor violence through watching gory movies, and even his adored Beethoven is turned against him. Alexander using Beethoven's Ninth to inflict the greatest pain of all. When society sees what the state has done to Alex, however, the politically expedient move is made. Casting a coldly pessimistic view on the then-future of the late'70s-early'80s, Kubrick and production designer. Created a world of high-tech cultural decay, mixing old details like bowler hats with bizarrely alienating "new" environments like the Milkbar. Alex's violence is horrific, yet it is an aesthetically calculated fact of his existence; his charisma makes the icily clinical Ludovico treatment seem more negatively abusive than positively therapeutic. Alex may be a sadist, but the state's autocratic control is another violent act, rather than a solution. Released in late 1971 (within weeks of Sam Peckinpah's brutally violent Straw Dogs), the film sparked considerable controversy in the U. With its X-rated violence; after copycat crimes in England, Kubrick withdrew the film from British distribution until after his death. Opinion was divided on the meaning of Kubrick's detached view of this shocking future, but, whether the discord drew the curious or Kubrick's scathing diagnosis spoke to the chaotic cultural moment, A Clockwork Orange became a hit. On the heels of New York Film Critics Circle awards as Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, Kubrick received Oscar nominations in all three categories. I will do my best to arrange personal viewings. Have a continued opportunity to visit it if it does not sell. Please contact me directly with any offers regarding this. The item "Clockwork Orange Bowler Hat Worn By Malcolm McDowell" is in sale since Tuesday, September 15, 2020.This item is in the category "Entertainment Memorabilia\Movie Memorabilia\Props\Originals". The seller is "emmettsauction" and is located in Los Angeles, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Philippines, Cayman islands.