![]() ![]() Of his enthusiasm for it, Kubrick said, 'I was excited by everything about it: the plot, the ideas, the characters, and, of course, the language. Kubrick's wife, in an interview, stated she then gave him the novel after having read it. Screenplay writerTerry Southern gave Kubrick a copy of the novel, but, as he was developing a Napoleon Bonaparte–related project, Kubrick put it aside. The cinematic adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (1962) was not initially planned. Oh, we've seen it all before in other countries the thin end of the wedge! Before we know where we are, we shall have the full apparatus of totalitarianism. Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning. Mr Alexander fears the new government in a telephone conversation, he says: “ The story portrays the 'conservative' and 'liberal' parties as equally worthy of criticism: the writer Frank Alexander, a victim of Alex and his gang, wants revenge against Alex and sees him as a means of definitively turning the populace against the incumbent government and its new regime. This leads to the theme of abusing liberties-personal, governmental, civil-by Alex, with two conflicting political forces, the Government and the Dissidents, both manipulating Alex purely for their own political ends. After Alex has undergone the Ludovico technique, the chaplain criticises his new attitude as false, arguing that true goodness must come from within. His goodness is involuntary he has become the titular clockwork orange - organic on the outside, mechanical on the inside. After aversion therapy, Alex behaves like a good member of society, though not through choice. ![]()
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