"A Clockwork Orange (1971) is producer/director Stanley Kubrick's randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphic film of the near future- a horrifying, gaudy film adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel of the same name" (tdirks@filmsite.org). Although many critics feel Kubrick does an adequate job of transforming Burgess' pages to film, the two are very different in many ways.
Perhaps the most obvious difference between the film and the novel is the deletion of pertinent information. The film contained no scenes from the final chapter of the book. In the final scenes of the movie, Alex is seen lying in a hospital bed daydreaming of raping a girl from the hospital. Right before the final credits roll, we look into
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