Goofs for
A Clockwork Orange (1971) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: In the music store, the camera is briefly reflected in the mirrors to the right.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Alex and the Cat Lady are fighting at the house, the shadow of the camera can be seen on each of them.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the rampaging Alex is performing "Singing In The Rain," leaning over Frank, his mouth is not moving.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Many of the continuity errors are not in fact errors. Stanley Kubrick purposely included many continuity errors as a way of creating a feeling of disorientation for the audience. That is why people's positions change, props are reorganized, and hats (and other articles of clothing) appear and disappear.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Alex is standing between and talking to the two girls in the record shop, his fingers are moving in a way you would normally flip through records but for most of the scene the records/covers are not actually moving.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Alex's last name is inconsistent (see trivia). When he goes into jail, he gives his name as DeLarge, but the newspaper articles call him Burgess.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The wine Alex drinks appears far too light in color to be a 10 year old Médoc. Kubrick did use the actual wine described by Alex (specifically a 1960 Chateau Beau Site Haut Vignoble). But after each take water was added, ostensibly to keep the wine level consistent without intoxicating Malcolm McDowell. By the time Kubrick got what he wanted the wine was visibly watered down.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Devochka, the Russian word for a little girl who has not yet developed, is used throughout the movie to denote a grown-up, sexually mature woman.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Alex jumps out of the window, the camera view gives the impression that we are seeing Alex's view of the onrushing ground. However, he does a flip, winding up with his back pointing to the ground so the camera angle is inconsistent.
  
  

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