Thought about CO credits
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credits to CO is a blank red (orange?) screen. Then the words Warner
Bros. on that screen. When Kubrick's name appears it is in blue which is
(almost) the opposite colour to what has preceeded it.
Could this be a subtle joke or indication of what is to come. What
Kubrick saw as the system (red/orange) and him working outside of it
(blue)?
Just speculation as I said, the end credits make no sense when viewed in
this way (unless it's to say that we are all mixed up and part of the
system). The only reason it struck me was because the screen is
red/orange for so long before any text appears and a jump to blue serves
almmost no purpose except to provide vivid contrast.
MP
shape of the film. Opposing colors on the spectrum, opposing halfs of
the film?
I've seen "A Clockwork Orange" projected on a huge screen, and the
shift from red to blue during the credits is very abrupt, almost
painful, on the eyes. Flashing color shifts like this cause epilepsy
in some people. Perhaps Kubrick is simply shaking us up, getting us
ready for the ultraviolence. Alex does wear exploding eyeballs on his
cuffs, afterall.
Also, the film does put an emphasis on "eyes" and the act of "seeing".
I've seen one author describe the credits as a Ludovico film, Kubrick
"pinning the audience's eyes open from the very first scene".
Doesn't Alex also remark that the "color red only looks real when
projected on a screen"? How is blue used in the film? Are the night
scenes shot with a blue tint? I can't remember.
In "The Shining", Kubrick uses scrolling credits (first and only time)
to create a symmetry of motion, Jack being sucked ominously toward the
Overlook. But what is the purpose of the colored title cards in "A
Clockwork Orange"? Did Kubrick imbue them with meaning or did it
simply "look" and "feel" right at the time?
Wordsmith
Not surprising. Kubrick was a contrast-y kinda guy.
W : )
Don Stockbauer
That was that flick about how does someone protect themselves from
violence if they themself have had all capacity for violence taken
away from them, right?
Don Stockbauer
One answer is for violence to be eradicated, analogous to smallpox.
I can say stuff like that here because all dialog has been eradicated.
Don Stockbauer
Sort of like a hot object cooling down.
Don Stockbauer
The General System likes its parts (subsystems) to operate
cooperatively.
Don Stockbauer
Blarp.
Don Stockbauer
Meta-Blarp.
"Intelligent XT's communicate, not travel."
Don Stockbauer
"Sure we'd get our hair mussed."
Don Stockbauer
It represents the Inner Child in all of us.
Don Stockbauer
Looked stillborn to me.
Don Stockbauer
Isn't it time for ichor-whipped to have a hissy-fit about now?????
Don Stockbauer
How could the monoliths get here if intelligent XT's communicate, not
travel?
Just a minute.
Just a minute.
Dave, I have the answer for you, in two words....
Mass teleportation.
Harry Bailey
A message just released into the noosphere from the teleportation
module of the global brain reads:
"As a result of the alien quantum-mechanical abduction of Ichorwhip's
inner-infant sanctum and his consequent neuro-gulliver grieving over
such a traumatic loss, he is waiting for Mr Stockbauer's post-count on
this newsphere thread to reach one hundred messages before issuing a
Ludovico restraining order."
Don Stockbauer
I've heard of cardondioxide credits, but carbon monoxide credits????
Don Stockbauer
What did that little baby feller mean there at the end of 2001??????
Wordsmith
I heard if you store up too many helium credits you start talking like
Donald Duck.
W ; )
Don Stockbauer
Unless you store up too many of them, then you're deader than shit.
Don Stockbauer
No such luck, Harry.
Ending this one right here.
Don't need my eyes held open and being subjected to "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm."
My 100 appy-polly-loggies.
Bill Reid
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> Just speculation you understand.
Whatever...I will point out some corrections to your "facts", however...
> But the first thing we see in the
> credits to CO is a blank red (orange?) screen.
RED. NO orange AT ALL. I think we may have another situation
where people's perceptions of a Kubrick movie have been formed by
years of viewing them on a TV screen (such as the imaginary "seams"
in the "2001" backgrounds), and video is notoriously poor at reproducing
the color red properly (also note many men have poor ability to see
the colors red and blue properly)...
> Then the words Warner
> Bros. on that screen. When Kubrick's name appears it is in blue which is
> (almost) the opposite colour to what has preceeded it.
Yes, then the title is actually orange, wow, how creative, use an
orange screen for the words "A Clockwork Orange"...
> Could this be a subtle joke or indication of what is to come. What
> Kubrick saw as the system (red/orange) and him working outside of it
> (blue)?
I just took it as the opening salvo of a jarring garish color scheme
that formed the visual leitmotif of the entire film, to underscore the
nihilistic pop inhumanity of modern "culture".
> The only reason it struck me was because the screen is
> red/orange for so long before any text appears and a jump to blue serves
> almmost no purpose except to provide vivid contrast.
Again, you probably have never seen the original movie, or forgotten
how it actually started. The opening credits were changed for the video
releases for some idiotic corporate reason due to the sale of Warner
Communications after Atari went belly-up and they had to sell themselves
for pocket change to Kinney Company (and later, friggin' Chris-Craft!).
In the original credits, the screen was only blank red for about a second
or so, then the "W" in the current stylized version of the Warner Brothers
logo kind of flew forward while the circle part flew backward, and they
merged in kind of a dizzying synchronicity with the opening notes
of the synthesized "Funeral" music. Just those opening seconds had
a very disturbing and disorienting effect that kind of set the tone for the
entire movie.
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William Ernest "I Like The Use Of The Color Blue By Enron" Reid