a clockwork orange
The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze jucily at last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation... or otherwise known as A Clockwork Orange. Your humble narrator, Alex, is the main character in this 1962 classic by Anthony Burgess. Alex is a vicious 15 year-old in this nightmarish version of the future, where the criminals take over after dark. This is a great book for the coming of age teenager who would like to see what happens when you don't grow up. In telling the this interesting adventure full of chaos and evil, Anthony Burgess shows Alex's and his friends' mind set a in a invented slang. The movie, made some time in the 1970s or 80s, is the less than perfect duplication of the novel. In its own way, with its glits and glamour, the movie portrays the book better than most. But what it succeeds in it also fails in. Some of the most important a!nd intricate parts of the story were either left out, made glamorous by Hollywood, or were shown in a different light that most readers would not find respectable to the book. The movie in comparison to the book shows lit
The movie, although it tries to duplicate the book, fails to be an impacting and inspiring cinematic production. It failed to change and inspire my life as the book had. It is in my experience that movies made from classic novels rarely have the same awe that the book initially had. It is for this reason that if the directors and producers want to truly recreate the essence of the classic, they should study the book and also feel something for the story. The movie A Clockwork Orange derailed from the book entirely and utterly. This is probably why I myself had failed to even have knowledge that there was a movie made from this great book. This is only one reason why the written word has succeeded in lasting so long. Maybe this is because the imagination is more real than reality. from which one can pour liquid from by putting a glass next to the breast. This is very very far from what a reader might see in his mind as the initial setting. The overlying color theme, which is popular with many futuristic movies, is silver. This cliche is inappropriate for a novel as great as this. The milk bar, which also had the underlying theme of silver , had more people to interact with in the novel. People who Alex and his four droogs might interact with in a negative way. This would show at least that not all the people who lived in Alex's surroundings acted in such a way that Alex did and that his actions were very much non-commendable. Also the way the characters dressed was in a futuristic way unprecievable with what the future fashion, which is now, is. (anouncer):" Alex's sporting a white jumpsuit with a thin silver jacket and is a top off by eyeliner, makeup, and fake eyelashes". This will never be the popular fashion of the future. The movie does not s! tle of the artistic influence and more of the miscommunication from book to script. eem to pay much attention to details described in the book that pave the way to the understanding of where Alex and his friends are coming from. More importantly it does not pave
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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