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A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in March 17, 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence.
Lolly rhymes with pretty polly, which is the name of an English folk song and in the world of A Clockwork Orange becomes a new expression for 'money'. [9] [better source needed] Hound-and-horny = 'corny' Twenty to one = 'fun' Fun means 'gang violence' in the context of the story. [citation needed] The language was also used in the film made by ...
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel.It employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
There have been many references to the film on South Park (when asked to name something he considered a mind-altering work of art, series co-creator Trey Parker said, "It's super cliché, but A Clockwork Orange really did fuck me up".) [52] In the show's controversial 201st episode, "201" (2010), Mitch Connor (Cartman's hand-puppet) pretends to ...
A Clockwork Orange may refer to: A Clockwork Orange, a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange, a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel A Clockwork Orange, the film's official soundtrack; A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score, a 1972 album by Wendy Carlos featuring music composed for the film
Probably in opposition to the French term vache ('cow'), or for the usual featureless gaze of police officers colloquially called face de bœuf ('ox face'). Allows to call a police car an 'ox cart' (char à bœufs). [citation needed] Booked UK and US, usually after being arrested, to be taken to custody suite and held there in a cell.
Alex is a fictional character in Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the same name, in which he is played by Malcolm McDowell. In the book, Alex's surname is not stated. In the film, however, Kubrick chose it to be DeLarge, a reference to Alex calling himself The Large in the novel.
Cockney rhyming slang is one of the main influences for the dialect spoken in A Clockwork Orange (1962). [39] The author of the novel, Anthony Burgess, also believed the phrase "as queer as a clockwork orange" was Cockney slang having heard it in a London pub in 1945, and subsequently named it in the title of his book. [40]