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{{quote|''"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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* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: Very downplayed. Alex and his gang, especially Alex, commit
** In the books, before encountering the drunk homeless man, Alex and his gang had already mugged and stripped an elderly male schoolteacher and robbed a convenience store, beating the shop owner and his wife unconscious (Alex even rips the woman's clothes and considers raping her before deciding to [[Five Second Foreshadowing|save that for later in the night]]).
** The drunk homeless man's beating was more savage in the novel. He's punched in the mouth rather than jabbed in the gut with Alex's cane, and they beat him until he vomits... [[Up To Eleven|and then beat him further until he's coughing up blood because they're disgusted that he vomited]].
** [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|While Billyboy's gang had it coming (even moreso in the novel as their would-be rape victim was a ten-year-old girl rather than a grown woman)]], in the novel Alex's gang have knives and a razor and actually cut and bloody Billyboy and his gang.
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** The home invasion was even worse in the novel. There's no [[Rape Discretion Shot]], Alex and the gang take turns with the author's wife (both the author and his wife are left ''bleeding'' after their ordeals) and after trashing ''all'' of their furniture the gang urinates on the wreckage. Dim was even about to defecate on the floor before Alex stopped him. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|They also tear up the author's work rather than scatter the pages, and they don't sing "Singin' in the Rain"]].
** They conclude the night by pushing the stolen car into a river and riding the train back home... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and partake of a bit of vandalism on the train by ripping up the seat and smashing a window]].
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: When Alex realizes what {{spoiler|the Ludovico Treatment will do to him, and especially that it will make him unable to enjoy Beethoven's music}}, Alex yells and begs for the doctors to stop the therapy, to no avail.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Alex's parents.
* [[An Aesop]]: Human goodness must come from free will; as such it is intrinsically wrong to deny even the [[The Sociopath|vilest of individuals]] their capacity for moral choice.
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{{quote|Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The Cat Lady in the first act, and then Alex himself for the rest of the film.
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: George and Dim are as violent and vicious as cops as they were in their respective gangs. Also, the only scene in which they're shown (as cops) has them being concerned with revenge, as Alex was known to tolchock both of them repeatedly, and its implied the only reasons they're able to best Alex is because they're police officers and the Ludovico treatment means Alex can't fight back even in self-defense.
* [[Bait and Switch]]: After being carried into Frank's home by his bodyguard, and explaining to him what had happened, the writer suddenly exclaimed "I know you!" But it's because he recognized Alex's picture in the papers that morning, rather than Frank recognizing Alex as the rapist of his wife.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Anytime Alex talks out of turn in prison, Chief Guard Barnes often responds this way.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Much of the characters' slang is actually Russian, or at least pseudo-Russian.
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{{quote|"''I was cured, all right."''}}
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{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains}}
[[Category:A Clockwork Orange]]
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[[Category:Danny Peary Cult Movies List]]
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