I have a question: Is Clockwork Orange, the 50th anniversary edition is loyal to the original text, and does it have 21 chapters? Or is it different from the original text?

I have two copies of the book, one with only 20 chapters with a glossary of the Nadsat language at the back, and another copy with all 21 chapters but no glossary. Is there an edition of the book with everything included? If so, please let me know

Just watched this movie. I thought it was pretty good, but not sure what I’m missing?

I thought it was stylistically impressive/interesting, and the first half was interesting and had some scenes and visuals that are iconic.

The contrast between beautiful classical music and disturbing acts of violence is done well, and I understand it was probably one of the first films to explore that technique.

However, I wasn’t all that blown away by the moral question(s) posed, and it didn’t feel like some bizarre spectacle that has left an impression on me. Basically, I just didn’t find it to be all that thought-provoking or intense. Not much replay value.

Maybe that’s because of the time, but it just didn’t feel as groundbreaking as I anticipated. A good, above average film though.

Stanley Kubrick’s film and Anthony Burgess’s novel tell essentially the same story, but they reach very different conclusions. In this video, there's an explication the missing final chapter, each version’s treatment of free will, and how the contrasting endings reshape Alex’s character. Which version do you think handles the story better?

How well do you think alexander delarge and his droogs could survive in the warriors universe but there 4 members so lets assume all the other gangs are 4 members how well do you think alexander’s gang would hold up?

I use some nadsat slang Lmao. I go on autopilot and say "glassies" or something

In both Anthony Burgess’ novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange is concerned with the same disturbing question: what happens to morality when choice is removed?

This video essay examines how Burgess and Kubrick tell the same story through radically different conclusions. In the novel, Alex begins as a precocious adolescent whose violence, language, and love of classical music reveal a grotesque contradiction: he is monstrous, yet still capable of beauty.

In the film, Kubrick transforms Alex into something more iconic and preserved — a cinematic emblem of appetite, spectacle, and stylized evil.

Though the book and film share the same basic narrative — ultraviolence, betrayal, prison, the Ludovico Technique, and Alex’s attempted suicide — their endings create two distinct moral visions. Burgess imagines Alex as someone who may eventually grow tired of violence and move toward maturity. Kubrick, by contrast, restores Alex to his former self, leaving him grinning, applauded, and unchanged.

Burgess gives us evil that may be outgrown.
Kubrick gives us evil preserved as an image.
And both suggest that freedom, however dangerous, remains inseparable from humanity itself.

Courtesy of The Complete Kubrick by the Criterion Collection, trailer here. This footage is about 45 seconds in.

I've seen plenty of photos but no footage of A Clockwork Orange behind the scenes. Did I miss it somewhere else or is this new?

Disclaimer: I have not read the book.

I noticed that in the film’s script there are extra lines in Alex’s narration during the Ludovico technique, where he starts wondering whether the films being shown to him (the one where a man gets beat up, and the one where a woman is sexually assaulted by a group of malchiks) are actually fictional, and if the government would actually produce films of real violence just for this treatment. These lines were omitted from the movie.

This one is a bit of a rare breed. You can’t find this one anywhere other than Discogs. It’s basically the Rossini Pieces in their full extent and the Beethoven pieces in their full length.

https://on.soundcloud.com/KSPd9jXQQlGV2NoLXb

That's it that's all I have to contribute today

This is an absolutely captivating commentary on the book vs the film, I'm honestly astonished that this question hasn't been approached in such thorough detail on YouTube, really bold and just what I needed

I do plan on posting one of my first press I just have to get it cleaned.

https://on.soundcloud.com/8i7v4YeJ1bEJSGv3PD