The Film for You on Instagram: "Stanley Kubrick first experimented with the intense and unsettling look in earlier films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). However, the specific downward head tilt with eyes looking up from beneath the brows was fully realized and popularized in his 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, during the opening scene with Malcolm McDowell’s character, Alex DeLarge. McDowell shared with Entertainment Weekly that the stare wasn’t planned. Kubrick said to him during filming, “I n