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Synopsis: In an England of the future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence," while jauntily warbling "Singin' in the Rain." After he's jailed for bludgeoning the Cat Lady to death, Alex submits to behavior modification technique to earn his freedom; he's conditioned to abhor violence. Returned to the world defenseless, Alex becomes the victim of his prior victims.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Production: Warner Bros.
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1971
136 min
3,437 Views


DIM:

I don't like you should do what you done. And I'm not your brother no

more and wouldn't want to be.

ALEX:

Watch that... Do watch that, O Dim, if to continue to be on live thou

dost wish.

DIM:

Yarbles, great bolshy yarblockos to you I'll meet you with chain, or

nozh or britva, any time, not having you aiming tolchocks at me

reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.

ALEX:

A nozh scrap any time you say.

Dim weakens.

DIM:

Doobidoob... a bit tired maybe, everybody is. A long night for growing

malchicks... best not to say more. Bedways is rigthways now, so best we

go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right.

INT. ALEX'S FLATBLOCK - MAIN LOBBY ENTRANCE - NIGHT

Alex passes a mural in the hall. Nude men and women. Their massive

stylised bodies embellished and decorated by handy pencil and

ballpoint.

The elevator door is buckled.

INT. ALEX'S FLAT - NIGHT

Alex pees in toilet.

Alex goes into his room. Tosses his loot into a drawer, full of money,

wristwatches, cameras, etc.

Fifty small loudspeakers cover one wall.

He puts his pet boa constrictor on tree branch mounted on the wall,

above four Christ figures who have their arms intertwined like a chorus

line.

He puts a cassette into the tape player.

A heavy shockwave of sound - Beethoven's 9th.

ALEX (V.O.)

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the

perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van.

Music starts.

ALEX (V.O.)

Then, brothers, it came. O bliss, bliss and heaven, oh it was

gorgeousness and georgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold

under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise, silver-

flamed and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out

again, crunched like candy thunder. It was like a bird of rarest spun

heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all

nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures. There were

veeks and ptitsas laying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was

smecking all over my rot and grinding my boot into their tortured

litsos and there were naked devotchkas ripped and creeching against

walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them.

INT. ALEX'S FLAT - DAY

He is asleep. The boa curled up at his feet. There is a knock on the

door.

ALEX:

What d'you want?

EM:

It's past eight, Alex, you don't want to be late for school, son.

ALEX:

Bit of pain in the gulliver, Mum. Leave us be and I'll try to sleep it

off... then I'll be as right as dodgers for this after.

EM:

You've not been to school all week, son.

ALEX:

I've got to rest, Mum... got to get fit, otherwise I'm liable to miss a

lot more school.

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Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle, Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of grammar school, there seemed to be little change in his attitude or his results. Hoping to find something to interest his son, Jack introduced Stanley to chess, with the desired result. Kubrick took to the game passionately, and quickly became a skilled player. Chess would become an important device for Kubrick in later years, often as a tool for dealing with recalcitrant actors, but also as an artistic motif in his films. more…

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