She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a fl…
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A Clockwork Orange
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing
Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear? Alex: As an unmuddied lake, friend. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, friend.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast. Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. if I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oom…
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would…
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
I was cured, all right!
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
But what I do I do because I like to do.
But what I do I do because I like to do.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.