“A Clockwork Orange” quotes
(1971)
Stanley Kubrick
directed this movie
in 1971
Title A Clockwork Orange
Year 1971
Director Stanley Kubrick
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime
Year 1971
Director Stanley Kubrick
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime
Plot – Alex loves Beethoven's music more than everything. He's the leader of a group of hooligans that commit any kind of violence aroud the city. His friends are irritated by his despotic attitude and finally they knok him out and leave him to the police. Convicted and imprisoned, Alex is offered a chance of freedom but in exchange he has to try an experimental treatment ironically called "Ludovico".
All actors – Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, John Savident, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Pauline Taylor, Margaret Tyzack, Steven Berkoff, Lindsay Campbell, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Barrie Cookson, Jan Adair, Gaye Brown, Peter Burton, John J. Carney, Vivienne Chandler, Richard Connaught, Prudence Drage, Carol Drinkwater, Lee Fox, Cheryl Grunwald, Gillian Hills, Craig Hunter, Shirley Jaffe, Virginia Wetherell, Neil Wilson, Katya Wyeth, Frankie Abbott, Roy Beck, Robert Bruce, Maurice Bush, Steadman Clark, George Coulouris, Jeremy Curry, David Dawkins, Andros Epaminondas, Helen Ford, Norman Gay, Dr. Gundry, Peter Hannon, Margaret Heald, Nicholas Hill, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Fred Hugh, Katharina Kubrick, Viktor Lutze, Olive Mercer, Leslie Nye, George O'Gorman, Nat Pearn, Rex Rashley, Fred Real, Pat Roach, Henry Robert, Billy Russell, Winifred Sabine, Barbara Scott, Shane Shelton, Tom Sye, Arthur Tatler, Alec Wallis, Sister Watkins
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“Well, like he says, it's mostly odd things he does. Helping like... here and there as it might be.”
“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.”
“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 sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of...” (continue)(continue reading)
“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise God!”
“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.”
“Then, by God, you've been sent here by providence! Tortured in prison, then thrown out to be tortured by the police. My heart goes out to you, poor, poor boy. Oh, you are not the first to come here in distress. The police are fond of bringing their victims to the outskirts of this village. But it is providential that you, who are also another...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I've suffered the tortures of the damned, sir... tortures of the damned.”
“It was like for a moment, o my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milk bar. And I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise. And the shivers crawling up like slow, malenky lizards... and then down again. Because I knew what she sang. It was a bit from the glorious 9th by Ludwig van.”
“- Prison Chaplain: He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice!
- Minister: Padre, there are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime and with relieving the ghastly congestion in our prisons. He will be your true Christian, ready to turn the other cheek,...” (continue)(continue reading)“Naughty, naughty, naughty! You filthy old soomka!”
“You know what you can do with that watch? Stick it up your ass!”
“It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.”
“Can ya spare some cutter, me brothers?”
“- Mr. Alexander: [surprised by Alex's poor condition] My God! What happened to you, my boy?
- Alex: [voice-over] And would you believe it, o my brothers and only friends. There was your faithful narrator being held helpless, like a babe in arms, and suddenly realizing where he was and why home on the gate had looked so familiar, but I knew I was...” (continue)(continue reading)“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”
“No time for the old in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter.”
“This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition.”
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