Anthony Burgess

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: A Clockwork Orange (1971); Earthly Powers (novel); Napoleon Symphony (novel); The Wanting Seed (novel).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Anthony Burgess: 2 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (book vs film) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they wrote: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). Reading the novel again, the speaker finds it almost the same as the film, dialogue and all.
    “The dialogue is, it's just unbelievable how little he changed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they wrote: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little.
    “Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 1 line

  1. unmapped (self-reference) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they wrote: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
    “but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:44:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

A Clockwork Orange (1971): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (book vs film) · them, directly: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). Reading the novel again, the speaker finds it almost the same as the film, dialogue and all.
    “The dialogue is, it's just unbelievable how little he changed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · them, directly: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little.
    “Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Andy Warhol: 1 line

  1. lineage (earlier adaptation) · them, directly: Anthony Burgess ⇒ Andy Warhol (the host's read). Warhol's Vinyl is an adaptation of the same book, which the speaker calls lightly inspired by it.
    “I think it's lightly inspired.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:22:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

Her Smell (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they wrote: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode). The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell.
    “This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they wrote: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs.
    “all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

The Simpsons (TV): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parodied) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they wrote: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read). The Simpsons reference this film a lot.
    “But the Simpsons reference is clockwork orange. a lot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:29:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (4) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (offered a project): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Burgess. While working on this film Kubrick asked Burgess to take a swing at Napoleon.
    “He even like said to Anthony Burgess like, hey, do you want like to take a swing at Napoleon?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (adaptation): Anthony Burgess → A Clockwork Orange. The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little.
    “Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (earlier adaptation): Andy Warhol → Anthony Burgess. Warhol's Vinyl is an adaptation of the same book, which the speaker calls lightly inspired by it.
    “I think it's lightly inspired.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:22:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (shared theme): Anthony Burgess → The Wanting Seed (novel). Burgess's earlier novel is another dystopia, about overpopulation and food scarcity instead of violence.
    “the Anthony Burgess novel before a Clockwork Orange is very similar in that it's a dystopian future”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:49:43 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (grudge): Anthony Burgess → Stanley Kubrick. Writers Kubrick adapted ended up enraged and obsessed with him, as Burgess did on stage.
    “whenever he adapted someone's work, they sort of were like simultaneously enraged and obsessed with him in the wake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (book vs film): Anthony Burgess → A Clockwork Orange. Reading the novel again, the speaker finds it almost the same as the film, dialogue and all.
    “The dialogue is, it's just unbelievable how little he changed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Anthony Burgess: When Burgess adapted the book as a stage play, an actor dressed as Kubrick sang Singin' in the Rain and got beaten up on stage.
    “get an actor dressed like Stanley Kubrick with an umbrella, singing, singing in the rain, and they beat the shit at him on stage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)