What does the title A Clockwork Orange mean?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, December 1, 2007 22:35
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Droogisall
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Orang means man in a language where the author was writing the book, it was apparently mistaken as being a misspelled orange so the original meant a clockwork man. The connotations of that title are obvious.
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Thanks Fred.
So...did ya like the movie?
Dimisall
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Don't know for sure.....possibly something to do with drugs...like in the Milk Bar?
I ruined my first VCR many years ago repeatedly trying to play extreme slo-motion of the scene where Alex takes the 2 girls from the record shop back to his room.
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Quote:Silly silly British man.
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I ruined my first VCR many years ago repeatedly trying to play extreme slo-motion of the scene where Alex takes the 2 girls from the record shop back to his room.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
So...did ya like the movie?
Yep, haven't read the book yet though.
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Quote:This was a strange case where the movie was just as good as the book IMO.
Originally posted by fredgiblet:
Yep, haven't read the book yet though.
Read it long ago Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Don't know for sure.....possibly something to do with drugs...like in the Milk Bar?
I ruined my first VCR many years ago repeatedly trying to play extreme slo-motion of the scene where Alex takes the 2 girls from the record shop back to his room.
CLASSIC! Sounds like something I'd do...
The movie was pretty much a cult thing with the grubby, pre-goth crowd I ran with in high school...saw it umpteen times over my junior and...2nd junior year of high school...haven't seen it since.
Read the book (again, not since HS)...as I recall it was pretty good, and shed some light on the slang/argot they used. I think in the late 80s a version was published with a "lost" final chapter - an "author's cut" I guess you might say. I DID NOT LIKE IT.
Edit: Re the name's meaning, my intel is pretty much the same as FredG.'s, except that "Orange" came from "orang" which is short in some parts for "orangutan"...minor point, since the whole homo sapiens thing remains the same...
Edit Edit: Okay...behold my ignorance...not sure just how much creature territory "homo sapiens" covers, particularly as regards orangutans...but I trust my drift is got (and no big loss if it isn't)...
It was all "great, bolshy yarbles me droogies" when we got here!
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Actually, the title refers to something brought up in the book, but not the movie. It refers to the idea of trying to take something natural and biological and trying to turn it into something man made and precise. To function in a mechanical way. The whole movie is about free will and that by trying to deny something of it's true nature that it always goes wrong. Thus, Alex after being conditioned by the govt to be physically ill when confronted with sex, violence and Ludwig Van is like a clockwork orange.
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"And it starts with a sentence that might last a lifetime, or it all might just go down in flames. If I let you know me, then why would you want me? Each day I don't is a shame. Each day I don't is a great shame."
Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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No idea. Interesting question. I like ReginaRoadie's explanation though.
Can't say I liked the film. Saw it when I was at college when everyone seemed to like and understand it as though it was a Peter and Jane book!
Never could handle films with rape scenes in them, so can't say I'll be watching it again anytime soon. 
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