Anthony Burgess

Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1971) of Alex Delarge as played by Malcolm Mcdowell when he is going to rape Mrs. Alexander while joyously recounting “singing in the rain.” Not even apart of the original screenplay as written by Anthony Burgess, Mcdowell adds a sense of deeper depravity to the situation by singing the tune mad-lib style. This scene finishes with Mr. and Mrs. Alexander tied and up and Alex telling Mr. Alexander “viddy well little brother, viddy well.” Viddy,…

Mister Socrates by Choi Jin-won Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, a not typical gangster film but a movie which combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect to other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his by another friend, he gets kidnaped by a gang. He is kept…

government which sets in stone the notion of right and wrong, good and bad, and the laws which force behaviors deemed acceptable. In Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, society is controlled by a government which attempts to protect its citizens, but falls short because of the corruption within its branches. Furthermore, Burgess addresses the…

Artemis Fowl the 2ed is a 12 year old son of an Irish crime lord. He is a child prodigy who lived a life of crime. He is very sinister and smart. He tried to take the fairy’s gold 24k. He is a manipulator that tricks people into doing things that they don’t realize he wants them to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juliet is Butlers sister. She is not that smart but he played a role in the story. When…

The film Drunken Angel, considered to be Akira Kurosawa's breakthrough film that demonstrated his talent. Drunken Angel released in 1948, it is one of the postwar Japanese films. The film stars two actors who were Kurosawa favorite actors, Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. The synopsis of the film is about a doctor, who is an alcoholic. He struggles to make a difference in a neighborhood that is full of crime. Although some people may consider it is a film noir, it carries a more positive…

Freedom When one considers freedom, he or she may think of the ability to choose what to do and when to do it. In the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, freedom is one issue the main character, Alex, has to deal with. In the novel, it states, “If lewdies are good that is because they like it…” (Burgess, Clockwork 40). This points to the idea that if people are good, they are choosing to be such due to a desire to do the right thing. If people do not have the option to choose, they are…

Antisocial Personality Disorder in A Clockwork Orange. Clockwork orange is a dystopian movie revolving around Alex, the main character and also the narrator. The movie starts with Alex and his group beating up an old man because they disliked how he sound while singing. As the movie progresses on you see a couple more scenes of violence. A particulary important scene is when Alex and his drooges invaded the Author's house and raped his wife. It's clear that Alex enjoys causing distress in other…

main character’s dialect is written to reflect this, so sentences like “I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to sloshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world.” are common place. (Burgess 13) This makes the book very difficult to get through for some readers and can even challenge people who would call themselves well…

The philosophical question of if we, as individuals, have free will is one that does not produce a concrete answer. But in 1971, Stanley Kubrick brought that question to life in a film called A Clockwork Orange. This film portrays a young man named Alex, who is a criminal gang leader, and participates in the Ultra-Violence. Does Alex have the free will to choose his fate as a dangerous, drug-induced criminal in society or is has his fate been predetermined since birth? Could the environment in…

As much as the mainstream Japanese filmmakers excel in family drama, the "underground" ones excel in exploitation. Since the end of the 60's, when the increased popularity of television had already taken a significant toll on the industry, the majority of the large-scale studios were forced to produce films that included sex, violence and S&M, to earn a profit. Thus the rise of the exploitation genre, a category that manages to shock people, even nowadays. The following list includes ten of the…