The Man in the High Castle Presentation

Review of plots and themes in The Man in the High Castle.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Yf3lF8m8xub3A4bE9lQzJRc0U/view?usp=sharing

Mariana Gómez Velarde
A01376401

Clock Work Orange

Clock Work Orange is a dystopia of what was happening all across the world, around the 60´s. Burgess, the author and creator of nadsat, tried to embody how gross and evilly can society act, taking it to its maximum expression. This is done because Burgess wills to make you feel something, because human race only reacts when the situation includes a different level to the one familiarized with. Therefore he creates Alex and his droogs, principle characters and physical example of evilness.

Later Stanley Kubrick directed the movie, event that Burgess didn´t like, nevertheless the movie and book are very close related, despite the little changes that were done in the movie. The movie starts with the same paragraph that the book starts with, but the book does not approach the extremely sexual motif, this can be seen at the beginning of the movie when they are the bar and as tables writhe women mannequins are used.

Another example is that they changed the age of the characters, because in the book they are 15 years old or about, while in the movie they are shown as guys in their twenties, this change was done because having 15 years old rapists wasn´t socially accepted in the early 60´s. Alex can be perceived as a no purpose evil guy, but actually he is trying to give a message of control and power at least in his little circle, because as Burgess mentions in his introduction he is seen as inferior by the adults, starting from his ignorance to his immaturity.

However, the essence of the book is kept throughout the whole movie, awaking in the viewers the same feeling that they could get from reading it, or even exaggerating it, because as the movie is a visual device, the muffin created by the nadsat is somehow erased because what isn´t understood can be seen.

Clockwork Orange: Movie vs book

Clockwork Orange: Movie vs book

Cynthia Castro Velázquez

Clockwork Orange is a book which was written by Anthony Burgess that was later on made into a movie by Stanely Kubrick who created a version similar to the original one but at the same time quite different. 

The movie and the book have two main differences, one one side the age difference. In the book Alex and his droogs are fifteen years old while in the movie they are around twenty years old which make the character´s personalities seem a little bit different because of the they could have at each age and the reasons for their actions. On the other side the use of Nadsat comes out the most in the book since it is almost impossible to understand the meaning of words at the first glance and reading with a glossary on the other hand can be great help. In the movie the use of Nadsat is very limited in part this may be because it would make the movie very hard to understand and less entertaining for the public it is destined to. 

Besides these two main differences there are many others specially in some scenes in which similar situations happen but not in the same way such as the rape scene of a woman in the movie which is a girl in the book. Also the way characters dress in the movie and the book are very different as well as the use of masks which are included in both the movie and the book but are different masks.

In conclusion athough the book and the movie of Clockwork Orange are very different in many ways, they both have the same main idea and the surface surrounding the book is the same crazy one as the one in the movie. In this way Burgess and Stanely both alough the public to react to the story as they want without losing the main idea.

Book and Movie, Compare and Contrast

BOOK VS. MOVIE

When you watch the movie and read the book of Clockwork Orange, you can notice that they are almost completely different, the reasons are all split around the story, but for the first chapter their alignments are the ones I will make reference of. First of all and most important I think, is the fact of where are the things going, when you read the book you can only hear the phrase “In out in out” and that’s all, even if its a very though and strong thing, the book is not oriented to the fact of sex and raping, while with the movie you can totally feel that at least the main character is a lot into the sex and violations because he can sneak anywhere and stuff.

Another point would be that the synchronisation is a little confused, for the event happening and the shifting of the places, it is true that the Milkbar and the houses and even the car are all the places  where the scene happens, but there is not as lookalike as it should be, the places are a part that matters a lot, that is why movie directors and people of cast try to make the places just as they are said on the book, because they have a reason to be like that and as they changed them in the movie, the story has a different point of view.

But what they are similar on, is on the important events, the fact they fought a group that was going to rape a girl, the thematic of the Milkbar, and a very important one, the use of “Nadtsa" on the book and in the movie, because implementing a new language on a movie which cannot be understood at first instance, is not easy, but they achieved it.

As well, the book and the movie share the plot and the principal characteristics of the movie, not he one from the age of the characters, but they show their attitude and characteristics, which can make you trust more in the fact that this movie has something to do withe the actual book.

Finally I have to mention that it is true that in the book all the story develops around boys of 15 years old, and that they weren’t even aloud to drive, but it is also true that putting on a movie that young people to do scenes of rape and sex were not the best to watch or even show to kids. So the ages change, but in my opinion for a book as complicated to read as one by Anthony Burgess and for their own language, they did a pretty good job, but it has a group of differences that may be important to teach what the author of the book wanted to teach.

Book (chapter 1) VS Movie

Differences

• According to the book Alex and his droogs(friends) have fifteen years old, while in the movie they looks more like if they were twenty.

• In the movie there is a scene where Alex and his droogs are walking down the “Boothy Avenue” and a boy is coming out of the library with some books in his hand, at first Alex is polite and then he kick him with his friends while in the movie the person that they see is a drunk old man singing and as in the book ,at first Alex is kind and then his friends kick the old man.

• When Alex and his friends are in the bar there are three girls and they are constantly looking at them, but as they are four and the girls are three they don’t pay attention to them and they leave, in the movie that scene never happened, and there are some people from the newspaper instead.

• Talking about the characters in the book it says that all of them are dressed “ In the height of fashion”, wearing “ a pair of black very tight tights with the old jelly mould...and also a sort of design you could viddy clear enough in a certain light, I had one in the shape of a spider...We wore waisty jackets without lapels...we wore our hair not too long and we had boots for kicking…” and in the movie all of them are dressed with white, a black hat and black boots.

• Every time they are about to commit a crime in the book they wear different “maskies”, “I had Disraeli’s mask , Pete had Elvis Presley, Georgie had Henry VIII and poor old Dim had a poet veck called  Peebe Shelley”(chapter 1,page 12), and in the movie they are wearing a strange mask with a big nose.

Similarities

• In the movie and in the book, Alex is always the narrator and he is constantly saying “My Brothers” like in the book and also Alex and his friends saved a girl from being raped by another gang.

• The constantly use of NADSAT between Alex and his friends.

MOVIE- BOOK differences and similarities

A clockwork orange

Comparison between Anthony Burguss’s book and Stanley “AMAZING” Kubrick’s movie:

I love the way the movie starts because it starts with the same paragraph of the book for me this gives the movie the sense of being based on the book considering these and giving the book some credit and of course also to the author.

I think Nadsat is another them to discuss it is really different to read in nadsat and makes the text a little bit of difficult to read but then in the movie nadsat is more like another part of the of the movie that is not completely relevant because now it can be fully comprehended by the actions of the characters. Like for example when they are at the milk bar and they are drinking when you read is a little bit difficult to understand that they are consuming drugs and in the movie e without knowing anything of nadsat at all you can understand and comprehend what the group of droogs is doing.

Another huge difference is the age of the characters that make a lot of change, in the book Alex is fifteen years old even I am older and he commits all the ultra-violence these gives the book a much more harsh and rude book that will be considered morally incorrect for older people these is why in the movie Mr. Kubrick decided to put a 20 year old guy to be the protagonist to avoid the sensation that a kid was the ultra-violent and it releases the audience off the feeling of the protagonist being a much more morally incorrect kid and instead we can say it is a morally incorrect man.

Jaime Daniel Garza Gonzalez A01376627

P.D.: We must watch other Stanley Kubrick’s films like Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, or anyone at all 

A Clockwork Orange

The Link for the Movie.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Yf3lF8m8xuc3dvQ0pWQmVHSDg/view?usp=sharing

Comparing first part of the movie and chapter one of "A Clockwork Orange"

The first part of the movie and chapter 1 have some difference. For example, in the movie Alex and his “droogs” are not equally dressed. In the movie they all wear white clothes, but in the book they wear black. Also they differ in the first action they do. We all agree that both text forms start showing the young men in Korova Milkbar, tasting different substances with milk; but after that in the book what they do is attack a “science” man that was walking down the street, but in the movie they attack an old man singing peculiar songs (which is actually in the book happens after attacking and robbing a store). When they prevent a girl from being rapped by another gang, in the movie there is 5 to 4 fight, and in the book was a 6 to 4 fight.

They also have similarity. In both text forms they prevent a girl from being rapped, the young people uses nadsat to talk to each other and to other people, they use baby-talk (baddiwad for bad) and Alex hears a woman singing opera that he enjoys, but his friend makes fun of her singing making Alex get upset.

Obviously, there is a lot of sex-related scenes in both. There is a clear show of nudity, violence and crime in both. But a really interesting thing is that Alex and his “drooguies” in the book are around 15 years old, meanwhile in the movie the are like 18 or 20; making us understand the use of age by the movie director to create a shock absorber in the audience.

A Clockwork Orange Differences and Similarities

Diego Espinosa Piñeyro

A01376596

Group 60 

Differences

• In the book, most of the story has a lot of NADSAT, but in the movie, the characters do not say as much NADSAT words as in the book.
• Alex and his friends save a girl from being raped by another gang. In the book the girl age is around 12 while at the movie, the girl is around 20.
• In the book, Alex is 15 years old but in the movie, he looks like a grown up man, I mean, something around 20. 
• The bar where the gang drinks milk, is completely different to what I imagined. It had some nude girl statues and is full of boys. At the book, there are 3 girls singing while the movie is just one surrounded by boys.
• At the book, when Alex and his gang enter a house to ron or rape a woman, they uses famous people masks as Elvis Presley, but on the movie, they all use like a mask with a giant nose like the one Pinocho has. 

Similarities

• They are the same amount of people that form the gang.
• They drink "moloko" milk at the extravagant bar. 
• They enter a house to rob and rape the woman.
• Alex and his quad save a girl form being raped.

Conclusion

The movie and the book are the same, I mean, the gang does the same activities (rob, rape and hit the old man) but there are some little details (the ones mention previously) that make the movie have a different approach and message to transmit.

Differences and Similarities of CO.

Mariana Valdés

A01376836

Differences:

•     In the book Alex and his droogs use “ pair of black very tight tight with an old jelly mould... waisty jackets without lapels but with very big built-uo shoulders… and white cravats with the form of a potatoe, wore hair not too long and had flip boots”, but in the movie, they wear all white, with a black hat and their boots.
•  In the book they are like 15, but in the movie they look like 20 or so.
•  Although in the book and in the movie they drink milk, in the movie they do not specify if they put drogs in their milk.
• We can notice that in the book nadsat is present in all the story, only in the first page Burgees wrote at least 25 words in nadsat, but in the movie he uses more English than this intented language.
• In one of the scenes of the movie, Alex and his gang entered a house where a couple lives and they pull apart a bookshelf and destroyed the house and we can suppose that he rapped the wife, but in the book  they came across a man who had some books and they started to rip the apart and then they punched him.
• When the gang is in the milk bar, in the book we are told that there are 3 young girls, but in the movie we saw a group of men and a women who was singing.
• Whenever they entered a house to rob, they use masks. 
• In the book Alex wore a Disraeli's mask, Pete an Elvis Presley's, Georgy a Henry VII's and Dim a Peebee Shelley's, but in the movie they wore like Pinoccio’s masks.
• In the book Alex do not mention that they wore a hat, but in the movie they wore it.

Similarities:

• ·      Alex and his droog stop a gang that was going to rape a girl.
•      He uses “my brothers”.

Relationship book and movie, 1st Part

Crystal Montemayor
Anthony Burgess's book A Clockwork Orange was adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick. In the first part of the book and the movie we can see quite a few differences and similarities.
In both, the novel and the film, Alex is the narrator of the story, but I actually believe that in the book this narration kind of more "powerful", the way he describes and acts makes you think of him more of an insane 15 year old,  that is not mature and acts really cruel and violent against others without thinking of his actions. On the other hand, in the film is Alex is not as young as in the book, but we see him in a different way because the fact that he is older makes us think that he is conscious about his actions and that the only thing that is happening through his head is madness and a desperation for sex, we don't see as much cruelty as in young Alex in the book.
The first difference that I saw is the way the milk bar was imagined by me and by the creators of the movie. I imagined it more of a traditional bar but in the movie we can see that it is a really fancy and modern bar, there are a lot of statues of naked women in it and it is really colourful.
The next scene is when Alex and his gang start beating up a drunk old man who is on laying the street and in the book Alex and his friends hitter a man who was walking on the street.
Another scene is when Alex and his friends rape a women around her twenties in the theater. In the book Alex a 15 year old and his friends who are around the same age rape a 12 year old. This scene changing IS OBVIOUSLY intentional because of the impact it would make on the public mind and the image that the public were going to have of Anthony Burgess. Just imagine the different scenes, which one would you prefer?.
In conclusion, both the book and the film are recognised worldwide. They both maintained the books essence of Alex's madness and the really weird world he lives in.

A Clockwork Orange; book and film

A Clockwork Orange is a book written by Anthony Burgess in 1962, but it was adapted as a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.

This two works are known worlwide by their social impact and extravagancy, but they differ from each other in very slightly changes that I will recount.

Starting with the characters, in the book the author stablished that Alex and his grooves were 15 years old, while in the movie they appear to be older, yet not old enough to be mature. I think this change was made so the public wouldn´t feel the story was that harsh and cruel.

Another change in the movie was the scene where Alex and his friends beat up a drunk homeless man. In the book they kicked and hit a man who was carrying various books while walking on the street. Again, this change of events make the impact of the scenes more bearable.

We can appreciate the change of ages in the characters once more during the rape scene. Anthony Burgess stablished that the girls was 14 years old, while Stanley Kubrick decided the woman would be about 20 years old. Considering the fact that the principal characters wouls appear older in the film, it is obvious that all the other cast wouls suffer the same changes, because if not, the movie would have been bizarre.

Even though some of the secuences of the book appear in a different order in Kubrick´s adaption, they still have the same main idea in general. They visit the same places and act the same way, making the movie very true to Anthony Burgess´ writings.