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Line 1: {{work}} * [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Far more people have seen the (rather faithfully adapted) film than have read the book. * [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The name of their car is the Durango 95, although it's not a truck or an SUV. Ford released a Durango throughout the 1980s while Dodge Durango ~~[[SU Vs]]~~SUVs have been around since the mid 1990s.▼ * [[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]]: [[Memetic Outfit\|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. ▲* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The name of their car is the Durango 95, although it's not a truck or an SUV. Ford released a Durango throughout the 1980s while Dodge Durango [[SU Vs]] have been around since the mid 1990s. * [[Ho Yay]]: Alex's foster respect. * [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Maybe a little too sympathetic a label for Alex, but his merciless beatings at the hands of his victims-turned-victimizers come the closest to humanizing him. Also the near-prison rape in the book. Line 13 ⟶ 9: While in the beginning, the government states that their only concern is cutting down crime. In the end, however, they cover up the whole incident with Alex's cooperation, essentially making a deal with the devil to protect themselves. When the anti-government opposition leads Alex into attempting suicide by playing classical music in a locked room. * [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]: Mrs. Alexander. 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, 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. {{worksubpagefooter}} ~~{{reflist}}~~ ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:A Clockwork Orange]], A (novel)}} ~~[[Category:YMMV]]~~