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.