Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rowley, Carly Eloise

Titel

A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess

Ist Teil von

• Music, Sound and the Moving Image, 2013, Vol.7 (1), p.95

Ort / Verlag

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

EBSCOhost Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]it is possible either to 'dip in' or read the book from one end to the other and still gain something valuable.1 Phillips states his aim for the text as follows: Phillips describes the stage version as 'a satirical black comedy closer to Monty Python than Harold Pinter' (302) and proceeds to discuss the importance of music within this adaptation, arguing that the musical finale was a method of repaying Kubrick for the unwanted attention that Burgess received from this highly controversial piece of cinema based on his own novella. Angered by Kubrick's decision to produce a book to accompany his film adaptation - entitled Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange - and seemingly tired of discussing a novel that he felt was less than his best, Burgess inserts a character who is 'bearded' and meant to resemble Kubrick, to enter the play's finale and recite 'Singin' in the Rain' on trumpet.4 This melody is played in counterpoint with Beethoven's Ode to Joy', before 'Kubrick' is booted off the stage. [...]this text is indispensible for its groundwork.