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 Alex DeLarge - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alex is portrayed as a sociopath, who robs, rapes and ultimately murders without a twinge of conscience, even though he knows intellectually that this sort of behavior is wrong.
At the beginning of the novel, Alex is fifteen years old and already a veteran of several stays in institutions for juvenile delinquents.
Alex recognizes the writer as well—as a man he and his friends had once beaten nearly to death (hence his paralysis) and forced to watch as they raped and murdered his wife.
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 A Clockwork Orange Letter Essay | Student Essays
Alex is 15 years old, as are the year tens, and is leader of a gang of four droogs.
Alex is the narrator of the story and speaks in "nadsat", the dialect of teenagers in this era.
As the gang are walking home, Alex asserts his positiion of authority and attacks the three gang members with his knife, cutting them in the hope that they learn their lesson about mutany and who is the leader of the group.
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 With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies
Alex and Marko are exaggerated examples of the alpha-dog mentality that exists in human nature.
Alex DeLarge is the antihero of Clockwork Orange.
In relation to Alex's age, the girls he brings home from the record shop are supposed to be 10 or 11 years old, and rather unwilling participants as opposed to the randy jaunt that is portrayed in the film.
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 A Clockwork Orange
Eventually Alex is caught and "rehabilitated" by a program of aversion therapy spearheaded by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem, which, though rendering him incapable of violence (even in self-defence), also makes him unable to enjoy his favourite classical music as an unintended side effect.
The moral question of the film is that Alex is now "good", but his ability to choose this has been taken away from him; his "goodness" is as artificial as the clockwork orange of the title...
Alex is then promised a position in government working for the party if he'll agree to agree to improve the current political party's public image, which had been damaged on account of Alex's experience.
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 Memorable Quotes from A Clockwork Orange (1971)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alex: There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a-howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as if it were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts.
Alex: And the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage.
Alex: So I waited and, O my brothers, I got a lot better munching away at eggiwegs, and lomticks of toast and lovely steakiwegs and then, one day, they said I was going to have a very special visitor.
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 aclockworkorange
Although often described as one of the great anti-heroes of popular culture, Alex deLarge can be seen as a heroic character as he is essentially a young man moving alone through a barren landscape, making a statement by being himself whilst fighting against a harsh, oppressive governmental society.
After the group break into the "cat-woman"'s house, alex is tricked by and eventually abandoned by his "droogs" and is shortly imprisoned by the state authorities.
Some argue that the state can be seen as a kind of faceless father figure for alex, however he is used by the state as a political tool; the state believes that they can cure the evils of society (ie.
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 Alex - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alex is a short form of the given name 'Alexander'.
Alex (parrot) a famous talking parrot studied by Irene Pepperberg.
Alex, Haute-Savoie a commune in the Haute-Savoie département of France.
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 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is the leader of just such a group, marked out by their preferences for phallic masks and boiler suits.
A chance encounter happens to reveal Alex's autocratic control of his comrades, though it seems that he is capable of assuaging any dissension.
Alexander is eager to help (and use) young Alex, when he doesn't know who he is, yet as soon as the realisation dawns, he's happy to search for revenge at the same base level.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Clockwork_Orange.html   (777 words)

  
 A Clockwork Orange Wavs Sounds Quotes - Movie Sounds Central
Alex DeLarge: We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure, O my brothers.
Alex DeLarge: And the first thing that flashed into me gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out.
Alex DeLarge: Because I knew what she sang, it was a bit from the glorious Ninth by Luwig Van.
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 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - A Clockwork Orange vs Mulholland Drive
Alex's parents were also very eerie to me. There family dynamic seemed severely off, and just like in Lynch movies, the atmosphere makes me believe this more so than the facts of the movie.
Maybe Alex's subconcious knows he wouldn't survive depression if he were to experience it at this point in his life.
Alex no longer has weaker people to victimize, as his fellow prisoners would prove to be much worthier adversaries.
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 A Clockwork Orange (1971)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Plot Outline: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem...
Goofs: Continuity: In the next to last scene when Alex is getting his pictures taken, he has a handkerchief over his neck brace after they brought out the stereo, then the next shot reveals the neck brace.
Alex: 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.
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 SparkNotes: A Clockwork Orange: Character List
Dim is the biggest, dumbest, and most brutish of the four Droogs, and Alex describes him as a “mindless, grinning bulldog.” He becomes a policeman and uses his thuggish brutality to impose law and order.
Alex finds her in an exercise room, which she has decorated with modern, almost cartoonlike paintings of women in sexual and sadistic poses.
Alex is dressed only in his underwear, but Deltoid encourages him to sit down next to him on the bed while he warns him about not getting himself in trouble.
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 ACO Image Library. (Page 1)
Alex and his three droogs confronting the filthy old drunkie.
Alex and Dim making up their rassoodocks as to what to do with the evening.
Alex heading west-ward for a little of the old surpise visit.
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 A Clockwork Orange - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Anthony Burgess got the inspiration for the evilness of the lead character Alex Delarge from the villain who had sexually abused his hamsters for 20 years.
When Alex talks about "a bit of the old in-out in-out", he actually refers to his hobby of knitting his long-suffering mother a woolly jumper to match her fetching purple hair.
When Alex kills a rich woman in one of the scenes it is believed he did it with a sculpture of a penis, it is in fact a bust of Ashton Kutcher who was born 3 years after the movie was released.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange   (772 words)

  
 A Clockwork Orange (Philosophical Films)
Alex is the leader of a gang of droogies and is particularly vicious.
After accidentally killing someone he is imprisoned and volunteers to under go a new form of treatment in which his body associates violence of any kind with extreme feelings of nausea and sickness that are strong enough to paralyze him.
While Alex is in prison he talks to the Chaplain about the treatment and about wanting to be good.
www.utm.edu /research/philfilms/1/clock.htm   (721 words)

  
 Clockwork Orange Movie Quotes - Atlyrics.com
Alex: It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Von.
Alex: So now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and what not to do, with Dim as his mindless grinning bulldog.
Alex DeLarge: It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
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 Alex DeLarge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alex DeLarge - Played by Malcolm McDowellA young hoodlum and the antihero of the film.
Murderously aggressive and also good-natured and innocent, Alex is both horrible and likable.
He speaks in a slang influenced by Russian, Slavic, Gypsy, Shakespearean English, rhymes, and baby talk, and he addresses the audience directly as “my brothers and only friends.” He loves classical music, particularly Beethoven, though the music elicits images of violence and depravity for him.
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 SciFlicks.com ---> A Clockwork Orange - The Quotes
As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict.
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.
www.sciflicks.com /a_clockwork_orange/quotes.html   (780 words)

  
 A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange chronicles the life of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), the young leader of a band of hoodlums who spend their nights in thievery, rape, and, of course, ultraviolence.
Alex and his goons have managed to withdraw any form of goodness from their hearts and replace it with an unconscious, unbridled passion for violence and self pleasure.
Little does Alex realize that the viddies he will see and the drugs he will be given will take away his zeal for violence.
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 Clockwork Orange (A) -
The book’s “protagonist” is Alex DeLarge, a “viscious, fifteen-year-old droog,” as the back cover says, whose principal interests are rape, murder, and ultraviolence.
Alex starts the book the leader of a gang of merciless juvenile delinquents, but he is distinguished from the rest in that he is the only one who consciously knows what he is doing throughout his villainous activities, and he has enlightened sensibilities, such as his love of classical music.
The book, neatly divided into three parts, then moves on to the “punishment” phase, wherein Alex, sentenced to prison for murder in furtherance of theft undergoes a new “curative,” rehabilitation method called the Ludivico technique.
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 Text Gear
Alex DeLarge: No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
Alex DeLarge: The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow.
Alex: Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.
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 Alex Delarge Quotes - Literary Quotes About Alex Delarge and Practically Everything Else   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alex Delarge Quotes - Literary Quotes About Alex Delarge and Practically Everything Else
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
- Alex Delarge, "A Clockwork Orange" ($) (?
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 Port Townsend Film Festival (2006) Malcolm McDowell
The film's director, the late Lindsay Anderson, was "as near as I've ever met to a genius," said McDowell.
Anderson, McDowell explained, helped him find the key to his most famous role: the murderous, rage-filled Alex of Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (also shown at the fest, in a Friday late-night screening).
Special guest Malcolm McDowell, best known for his portrayal of the chilling gang leader and Beethoven enthusiast Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, ``A Clockwork Orange,'' will be on the scene.
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It can take alex several days to move just through one tree.
Alex is the male seed of a flower blossom which has been gathered and treated by bees!
Alex was originally green, and actually contained cocaine!
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 Martini Republic » Right wingers inhabit a different world. . .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I’ve gone over my post to see where I may have suggested that “all was sweetness and light in the good old days under Uncle Saddam,” but for the life of me I couldn’t find it.
Pretending that the Islamist parties like al Jaafari’s, Sadr’s and the SCIRI-backed parties who dominate the current government are opposed to the imposition of conservative Muslim mores on Iraq’s women is simply more fatuous nonsense.
Posted by Alex on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 at 9:39 am, filed under Martini Republic.
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 Movies for Guys: Page Title
Alex, much like the waste material that used to be fuel for a nuclear power plant, is a horrid, disgusting shadow of what he once was.
What started out as a fairly normal kid has turned into a toxic byproduct of our modern warped society.
Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring
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 Alex at AllExperts
Alex is a short form of the given names Alexander or Alexandra, which has become very common in the English-speaking world since the middle of the twentieth century.
* Alex DeLarge, the antihero of A Clockwork Orange
* Alex Rowe, the captain of the battleship Silvana in the anime series Last Exile.
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 Term Paper on The Free Will and Spirituality of Anthony Burgress' Alex DeLarge
The Free Will and Spirituality of Anthony Burgress' Alex DeLarge A Clockwork Orange.
The action centers on a young man, Alex DeLarge, who is fascinated with “a …
Through this novel, and many other outstanding works, Burgess has become one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
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