斯坦利.库布里克导演的 “发条橙”和其他一些优秀的影片一样证明了电影是最有启发意义的和最让人惊叹的一种艺术形式.电影对我来说永远是我的最爱, 而在接受这部电影的挑战之前,我似乎并为意识到这一点. 当我第一次坐在屏幕前看这部电影时,我无法用语言来表达我的感受, 如此的古怪,如此的可怕. 我原以为这就是这部电影所给予我的,因此我很容易接受外界对它的批判. 那根本糟糕透顶! 自以为是, 愚蠢, 纯粹的浪费时间! 然而当我过后再重新审视它的时候,我意识到这部电影完全达到了它所希望表达的东西. 它向人们展示了这个世界将会如何的古怪而可怕, 同时也展现了这个邪恶的少年在他犯下了无数另人发指的罪行后竟然不必为此而承担后果. 而这的确很有意思. 因此这部电影狠狠地讽刺了这个世界. 向世人揭露了纯粹的罪恶, 而使那些没有行过此罪恶的人们大笑并且注意到这个人们讨厌承认的真理. 这是病态的, 但同时也是精妙绝伦的. 而且一旦当你进入到核心部分, 你反而无法对此进行解释. 它就是它. 是真实的. 没有人真的会经常看它,但是它存在, 正如每个人所看到的. 没有人为此做过任何事情. 发条橙完全是个嘲讽, 是电影极品中的一部.这是艺术,是生活, 用一种时髦的说法,这是娱乐.
Stanely Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" is one of the first movies that proved that cinema can be the most enlightening and amazing art form around. Movies have always been a true love for me, but it wasn't until this film challenged me that I fell deeply in love. The first viewing left me speechless, unable to describe how weird and terrible I felt. I thought it was the film that left me in this mood, so of course that was the easy target to blame. It was just a bad movie, overrated and stupid and a waste of time. But upon further thought, I realised the film did exactly what it was supposed to. It showed how the world can be a weird and horrible place, and how this young man who goes around torturing people and being a wicked person ultimately doesn't have to pay for what he does. And it's funny too. So this film brilliantly satirises this world, showcasing pure evil and people who ordinarily do not perform such evil are forced to laugh and observe what we all hate to admit is the truth. It's sick, but at the same time brilliant. And when one gets down to the core, you can't really explain it. It just is what it is. It's real. No one really sees it very often, but it is out there and everyone knows. And no one does anything about it. In essence, "A Clockwork Orange" is the ultimate satire, and one of the ultimate film experiences. It's art, it's life, and in a funky way, it's entertaining.
马尔科姆.麦克道尔原名马尔科姆.约翰.泰勒,1943年6月13日出生于英国利兹的一个中产阶级家庭.爸爸叫查尔斯,妈妈叫艾达.马尔科姆在布林顿市长大,他的父母在那儿开了一家小酒吧.在他11岁的时候,他从潭桥寄宿学校转到坐落在艾利萨姆,肯特的勘挪诺克学校.马尔科姆爸爸是个酒鬼,经常殴打打小马尔科姆.因此马尔科姆非常憎恨他父母的教育方式,开始反叛.在他的反叛期里，他发现自己很喜欢电影，并且决心要做一名演员.也是在这个时候他开始热衷与赛车运动.马尔科姆考入了伦敦音乐艺术学院学习表演.同时在他爸爸开的酒吧工作(很奇怪吧?),但不久酒吧破产,他自然也失业了.他爸爸几乎把所有的营业所得都花在了喝酒上.之后他开始尝试不同的工作,从咖啡销售员到经理.
他的第一个荧幕角色是在1967年的<可怜的母牛>(Poor Cow>,可惜的是他仅有的两分钟的表演也在最后被剪辑掉了.不久,他就被导演安得森看中,让他在一部名叫<如果….>(If…)的影片中扮演一个叛逆的学生(很符合他的形象哦!)这部影片很快使马尔科姆在英国演艺界声明雀起,可是在其他国家却不是很受欢迎.这次成功使他对电影更加充满激情,迫不及待地希望进入下一个角色.他开始写一本差不多算是半自传体的书,<哦,幸运的人>(O Lcuky Man!1973).与此同时,他在大导演斯坦利.库布里克导演的颇受非议的<发条橙>(A Clock Orange1971)中出演了声明狼籍的艾力克斯.而这个角色使他成了疯狂而变态的恶棍的代言人. 在1976年初,他花了将近一年的时间出演了另一部在电影史上恶名昭著的情色电影<罗马帝国艳情史>( Caligola 1979),这部电影由著名的Penthouse杂志的创始人鲍伯.古稀昂出资赞助.而差不多在那个时候,英国的电影业几近崩溃使他不得不到美国去寻求发展.他在美国的第一部电影是<年复一年>( Time After Time 1979),之后他又出演了布里坦尼亚医院Britannia Hospital (1982),是由安得森导演的三部曲中的最后一部(<如果….)是第一部,没有提到第二部,汗~~)
在80年代中期,他开始沉迷于酒精与毒品,每周几乎花1000美圆在可卡因上.常年使用毒品逐渐地侵蚀着他的身体,他的黑发慢慢变成了灰色,看起来比他的实际年龄要老许多.自然没有人再愿意找他演年轻的角色.他的光芒燃尽,只好在一些B级的电影里出演.
尽管如此,到了90年代事情似乎有了好转.在1994年他出演了SORAN博士,一个在<星球之旅:年代>中杀死科克船长的角色. 他又开始了他的恶棍形象.他在BBC迷你系列剧<我们的北方的朋友>( "Our Friends in the North" (1996) (mini))中也有出演.现在,他已经出演了超过100部的影片,是美国最优秀的男演员之一.尽管他始终不是美国公民,但他很欣赏美国那种 “没有废话”的生活方式.他目前居住在落杉基北部的郊区
Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England to working class parents Charles and Edna Taylor. He was brought up in Brindlington where his parents owned and ran a pub. At 11 he was sent from the Tunbridge Boarding School to the Cannock House School in Eltham, Kent. His father was a alcoholic and beat his child regularly. Malcolm hated his parent's ways and fought against it. At this time he decided that he wanted to become an actor, it was also around this time that his love for race cars began. He attended the London Academy of Music and Art to study acting. Meanwhile he worked at his parent's pub but lost his job when the pub went bankrupt, his father drinking all the profits. He then had a variety of jobs, from coffee salesman to messenger.
His first big screen role was in Poor Cow (1967), altough his 2 minutes scene was ultimately cut from the completed film. Soon after he caught the attention of director Lindsay Anderson who casted him in the role of a rebellious student in his film If.... (1968). The film catapulted Malcolm to stardom in Britain but failed everywhere else. He was so enthusiam about the film success that he wanted to do another right away. He began writing what would become the semi-autobiographical O Lucky Man! (1973). Meanwhile he starred as the infamous Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick controversial A Clockwork Orange (1971), a role that caused him to be typecast as a maniac psychopathic villain. In early 1976 he spent nearly a year working on what would later be one of the most infamous films of all time, the semi-pornographic Caligola (1979), financed by Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione. Around that time the British film industry collapsed, forcing him to flee to America to continue working. His first American film was Time After Time (1979). He then did Britannia Hospital (1982), the last part of Lindsay Anderson working class trilogy which started with If.... (1968).
In the mid-eighties the years of alcohol and drugs abuse including $1000 a week on cocaine caught up with him. Years of abuse took it's toll on him, his black hairs were now grey. Looking older than he really was, nobody wanted to cast him for playing young. The big roles having dried up, he did many B-rated movies.
The nineties were kinder to him though. In 1994 he was cast as Dr. Soran, the man who killed Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was back on the track playing villains again. He played another in the classic BBC mini-series, "Our Friends in the North" (1996) (mini). Today with more than 100 films under his belt he is one of the greatest actors in America. He still doesn't have American citizenship but he likes the no-nonsense American ways. He currently reside in the north suburb of Los Angeles.