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Movie & Book : A Clockwork Orange 1971

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 Hanging with my Droogs The ultimate teenage boy story for my Generation was A Clockwork Orange & all of us read the book & of course saw the Stanley Kubrick movie . We couldn't get enough of the ultra-violence that these droogs got up to they were the quintessential group of troublemakers of our time. What adventures these boys got up to was just so scandalous & down right naughty to read between the pages of this fine literature of our times. Stanley made a most amazing film & followed the tellings of the book so beautifully & the two went hand in hand like great movie making should do. The language of Nadsat crept into our vocabulary & anyone reading or seeing A Clockwork Orange knew what it was all about. Alex & his Droogs are the ultimate bad boy gang of my GenerationX but we would never follow their shenanigans only read & dream of the mischief they got into. A Clockwork Orange  is a  dystopian   sa...

Books & Movie : A Clockwork Orange

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 Every Teenage boy Reads & Learns Nadsat I drink my milk with knives in it while hanging out @The Moloko Vellocet with my droogies ... omg learning a new language like Nadsat while reading a most awesome novel just made my teenage years. Following the escapades of Alex and his droogs as they get up to all kinds of mischief & adventures.  Viddy well,  viddy well  to all !! Alex  is a  fictional character  in  Anthony Burgess 's novel  A Clockwork Orange  and  Stanley Kubrick 's  film adaptation of the same name , in which he is played by  Malcolm McDowell . In the film, his  surname  is  DeLarge , a reference to Alex calling himself  The Large  in the novel. In the film, however, two newspaper articles print his name as "Alex Burgess".   ( Wikipedia text ) A Clockwork Orange  is a  dystopian   satirical   black comedy  novel by English writer  Anthony...