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A Clockwork Orange is a film that will always be talked about as long as other films are being made and produced. The reason this film is so popular is because it was one of the most exalted and problematic motion pictures of all time. It was liked by many people because of film work and intelligence that went on in the film. People also despised the film because of violence, murder, and rape. One person in particular that did not enjoy the film was Ben Russell, a filmmaker who wrote a review about this movie.

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, develops a fictional account of a violent futuristic society, while integrating commentary on  current political and social issues.

In December of 1971 Stanley Kubrick released A Clockwork Orange for the entire world to enjoy. The movie is an adaptation of the book by the same name that was written by Anthony Burgess in 1963. The story begins with the main character, Alex narrating while he and his fellow gang members Georgie, Dim and Pete sit in the Korova Milk Bar discussing what violent acts they will be part of that night. The drink of choice is milk that is laced with drugs that is dispensed from the breast of nude statues of women that adorn the bar. After Alex and his gang leave the Korova, they go on a crime spree that includes mugging, robbery, a gang fight, grand theft auto, breaking and entering and rape. The rape of the woman is especially brutal; Alex and

Their traditional instruments create the mood of the film, having some of the best musical scores that I’ve heard in a film. Zhangs use of instrumental music throughout his scenes create a sense of intensity and mood. At the beginning of the scene the music starts with a soft tune and slowly increase in volume as Broken Sword walked through the hall ways. The scene used more of a strings melody that created a calmer, more intimate scene. This is then followed by a dynamic transition into the following fighting scene. As the film progresses though the fighting scenes, the score evolves into a more epic and intense melody which uses the sounds of objects in movement, accompanied by a percussion that creates an intense mood, and the soft vocals of a female to create a more elegant melody. Dun Tan, the composer of the score used more traditional forms of instruments to create a feeling of immersion in the time period chosen. The music is one of the strongest elements in the film really creating the

A Clockwork Orange, a novel written by Anthony Burgess in the 1960’s takes place in dystopian future in London, England. The novel is about a fifteen year old nadsat (teenager) named Alex who along with his droogs (friends) commit violent acts of crime and opts to be bad over good. In time, Alex finds himself to be in an experiment by the government, making him unable to choose between good and evil, thus losing his ability of free will, and being a mere clockwork orange. A “clockwork orange” is a metaphor for Alex being controlled by the government, which makes him artificial because he is unable to make the decision of good verses evil for himself and is a subject to what others believe is right. In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

The film A Clockwork Orange and the novel A Clockwork Orange are like fraternal twins. Indeed they share the same foundation, but there are disparities between the two that restrict them from being recognizably identical. The film contains plot modifications and omissions that lead the story astray from what Burgess originally intended.

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

Misty Nichols 8/15/14 Sabel AP LIT 1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 2. Characters – Alex is the main character and the narrator of the novel; he gives us insight into the minds of the unimaginably violent youth. He is, very likely, a sociopath – he greatly enjoys classical music and seems to be quite the escapist in this instance.

Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, a critically acclaimed masterstroke on the horrors of conditioning, is unfairly attacked for apparently gratuitous violence while it merely uses brutality, as well as linguistics and a contentious dénouement, as a vehicle for deeper themes.

In Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, he depicts a dystopian future by uses elements of literature that almost let reader see what is happening, but the film can take it further. Stanley Kubrick’s version of A Clockwork Orange differs from the novel by featuring visual and musical elements that are not described in the books but are metaphoric in cinematography. Both the novel and the film still follow the same plotline. The protagonist and narrator, Alex, is a violent young boy who would go into the night with his friends to commit heinous crimes to anyone they come across.

This clearly explains the significance of music and the role that has in motion pictures. Music has to match the emotions that the actors are showing and the environment they are in. If fail to do so, the movie could be a dreadful thing to watch.

In the novel, the first freedom of choice Alex made was the type music to which he listens too and loves, which is Mozart, Beethoven, and G.F. Handel, this type of music makes him very energetic, it helps him foster violence, and it is the only thing in his life that he truly cares for. This music represents the element of his choice and free will. When this choice is robbed from him in attempt to help him, he loses his love for music in which he said, ?All the time the music got more and more gromky, like it was all a deliberate torture, O my brothers" pg 131. The music that represents

Stanley Edger Hyman, in his efforts to add a glossary and afterword, may not have effectively cheapened the novel, but it certainly takes something away from its meaning when every single word that was meant to be understood through context is highlighted, boldfaced, and slapped with a Webster's-safe dictionary definition. Reading Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is a deceptively easy task when compared to reading the likes of Shakespeare or Marlowe. A good amount of the work involved in reading Burgess' famous novel is the use of contextual perception. One word expressed one way can convey no sense of what its meaning is, but when used in another fashion it becomes decipherable. In the introduction to Stanley Edgar Hyman's Nadsat dictionary, he says:

When first published in 1961, the American edition of Anthony Burgess’s novel, A Clockwork Orange was published without it’s twenty-first chapter, outraging it’s author. But what, one might ask, could be so important in a single chapter to cause such an outrage? The answer is blatantly obvious. Omitting the final chapter of any book would likely cause much dismay to the author. But in the case of A Clockwork Orange, the final twenty-first chapter completely shapes the entire meaning of the novel by the hand of a single concept: moral development. Omitting the twenty-first chapter, there is not a sliver of it. Burgess himself says in the 1987 introduction that there is, in fact “not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the

It shows roughly 12,000 acts of violence, murder and rape being the most portrayed, and over 1,000 studies guarantee that too much screen time for boys increases their aggressive behavior. Such as the numerous crimes inspired by Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. If the various murders of teenage boys and the assault of a woman by a man dressed as a droog were not disturbing enough, Kubrick indefinitely took it off the market after a gang rape was conducted