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.