A Clockwork Orange:
Secondary Resources
Cynthia Castro Velázquez
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Making a great book into a movie may be one of the
hardest tasks to do, but taking into account that “A Clockwork Orange” includes
violence and pornographic scenes involving mostly teenagers, making this book
into a movie might have been way harder. Stanley Kubrick did a pretty good job
when adapting “A Clockwork Orange” into the movie.
It was necessary for him to make some changes in the as
he age of the characters. He did this big change because public would perceive
the story as a little bit less aggressive if it was with older droogs than if I
was with fifteen year olds. The movie is
violent for sure, but so is the book and both do not go further beyond the
limits of what happens in real life.
In this story
violence is justified as part of human nature, and Alex’s violence cannot be compared
to the suffering he has from the treatment he receives from the government. According
to he author one of the most important parts of the book is making the reader emphasize
with the aggressor and not with the victims. Broadly the movie does have violence but
it is just fair enough to understand Burgess’s purposes for writing.
Great job!
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