A Clockwork Orange (film)/YMMV

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  • Adaptation Displacement: Far more people have seen the (rather faithfully adapted) film than have read the book.
  • Award Snub: How the hell wasn't McDowell nominated for this?! It's a sin! It's a sin!
  • Complete Monster: In the movie, Alex double subverts the trope, ending it as totally irredeemable. He reforms in the book.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Wendy Carlos' score, particularly her rendition of Purcell's "Music For the Funeral For Queen Mary", which can be considered the unofficial theme music for the movie. And that's not to mention Rossini and our old friend, Ludwig van.
  • Fountain of Memes: Alex and his droogs' attire in the first act of the film, the various scenes (the intro, the Power Walk at the marina and the Ludivico Treatment) parodied and paid homage to in other works, and just about everything that comes out of Alex's mouth.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Mrs. Alexander (played by Adrienne Corri). As Frank's wife who got raped by Alex and the Droogs, having her be the one to receive and welcome Alex and deciding to either kill him or help him out of her objections to the Ludovico technique instead of her husband would've made for several story opportunities and a much greyer story. Instead she apparently died offscreen (from the trauma in the books or pneumonia in the film) if you believe her husband, Mr. Alexander. On one hand, having her Stuffed Into the Fridge to serve as her husband's motivation feels cheap to modern readers. On the other hand the point of the story was that she was the Morality Chain of Frank.
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