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List. 86% Tomatometer 84 Reviews. 93% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings. In an England of the future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova...
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I just finished A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess yesterday. I had only heard of the title and had no idea what it was about before tackling it. I haven’t seen the Stanley Kubrick movie yet, but I honestly might sit down and watch that this weekend.
Stanley Kubrick 's "A Clockwork Orange" is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading As an Orwellian warning. It pretends to oppose the police state and forced mind control, but all it really does is celebrate the nastiness of its hero, Alex.
- 10 Year Old Girls
- Pete’s Demise
- Alex’s Recognition
- Beethoven’s 9th
- F. Alexander’s Life
- The Robbery
- The Origins of The Title
- Alex’s Life in Prison
- The Droog’s Look
- The Ending
The first, and arguably most alarming, thing that exists in the book that was taken away for the film is the ages of the Droog’s victims. When Billyboy’s gang commits a rape early on in the film, she is a young woman; in the book, she is just ten years old. Similarly, the two teenagers we see Alex talking to in the record shop and taking home are a...
Alex’s Droogs Dim, Georgie and Pete are all pretty stupid. They basically enjoy inflicting pain, fear and suffering and not a lot else. They aren’t exactly likable characters that we want to see succeed in life. The books provide a very small bit of justice when we find out that Georgie died in a failed robbery. RELATED: The 10 Most Surprising Sex ...
A major twist in the plot of A Clockwork Orange comes after Alex’s rehabilitation. He ends up back at the house of a man called F. Alexander, who was the recipient of a violent attack from Alex and his Droogs. At first, he doesn’t recognize Alex at all, but in the film, he gives himself away by singing ‘Singing In The Rain’. This was the song he sa...
Not being able to list to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony would be quite the punishment for anybody. Taking such powerful music and turning it into a source of anguish is a clever punishment, but it is just about as cruel as Alex himself. RELATED: 10 '70s Sci-Fi Movies That Are Still Mind-Blowing Today However, rather than making Alex averse only to Bee...
Speaking of F. Alexander and the events that took place in his house, his life in the books took a much less drastic turn after Alex’s Droogs attacked him. He may well be scarred after that fateful day, but by the time Alex arrives at his door, he is at least able to walk and take care of himself. In the film, the added visual spectacle of what Ale...
Towards the start of Kubrick’s film, we see a lot of examples of the sort of violent actions Alex and the Droogs get up to from rape to senseless, unmotivated violence. What we don’t see, however, is robbery. RELATED: 10 Beloved Movies That Roger Ebert Hated The film seems to avoid this concept (remember Georgie’s robbery-based death being cut?), p...
The title of A Clockwork Orange is very strange, and without any explanation, seems to make no sense. There are no oranges, and no clockwork, as far as we can tell. The interpretation that seems to be rather popular is that those carrying out this ultra-violence have an orange for a brain, which is being operated by clockwork, and thus they have no...
Even though it makes up the entire second act of the film, we don’t see a lot of Alex’s actual life in prison. There are other inmates shown briefly, but we don’t learn names or see a great deal of interaction with them. RELATED: 10 Most Disturbing Stanley Kubrick Scenes, Ranked In the books, however, Alex commits another murder while in prison. Th...
One of the most iconic shots from A Clockwork Orange shows the camera slowly zooming towards the Droogs, who are each sipping milk in the milk bar, dressed in their haunting white attire. In the book, this image isn’t quite as powerful, with the creepy all-white being replaced with a much more stereotypical black outfit.
Arguably the greatest difference between the book and film is the entire ending. After Alex goes back on his conditioning, the film ends straight away. We leave thinking that Alex isn’t cured, but have no idea what happens to him afterward. In the book, there is an epilogue that explains how Alex actually is cured. As he ages, his desire for violen...
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 83 reviews, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Disturbing and thought-provoking, A Clockwork Orange is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor". [44]
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