http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouw3j...eature=related

 

ok now I'm really creep-ed out, if someone looked like this and lived on my block I'd never let my children out of the house.

 

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."

Once you see A Clockwork Orange it will confirm that you don't want Alex on your street.

FYI - Vellocet, Synthemesc or Drencrom are drugs like LSD, synthetic mescaline, or adrenochrome. They are drinking milk laced or spiked with strong hallucinogens before going out for a fun night of "ultra violence."

Amazing film though.

Adam

 

Guess I'm showing my age. I assumed everyone knew Trip's avatar was Malcolm McDowell as Alex.

Good movie and book, but unsettling. Book got me an 'A' on an 11th grade book report though, in addition to a lecture by the teacher on pushing the envelope in my choice of high school reading. She mentioned that sometimes she wished Salinger, Burgess and Vonnegut weren't available to high school boys because most she knew couldn't handle them. I told her if I couldn't get the books myself, my college age cousin would get them for me.

 

I still think Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the strangest things I've read and seen. I got priase and compliants for reading the opening chapter of Benchley's Jaws as a public speaking assignment.
I hated public speeking. You are supposed to speak calmly and breathe quietly. I was a nervous wreck and my rate of speech got faster and faster each page. I was gasping for breathe by the end. My teacher felt my reading was amazing due to the panic and emotion I brought throught chapter.
The first chapter is basically the same as the opening scene in the film. A couple are drunk and have sex on the beach (the cause of the complaints, grade 9 kids don't "need to hear that") and the the woman goes skinny dipping and is attacked by the shark. It describes her swimming and feeling tug on her foot, reaching down to find she no longer has a foot and then her being attacked in the torso.

No other reading would my fear of public speaking have helped.

Adam

 

I hear ya Rock. I read those books with a passion back in the day. It wasn't the fact of the violence but it seemed like everything back then was all about the dystopian society. Many books and movies from that era had the same idea. Even TV shows like Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, etc. were themed in this way. I never thought my avatar would elicit such commotion, I find it funny. I think I'll go eat some paint chips and go ride a bike without a helmet now. Slaughter House Five, Breakfast of Champions, Clockwork Orange and a host of others books in that genre still line my shelves.
If you like that kind of movie check these out: http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the...s-of-all-time/

 

Alex was a murderous womanizing rapist sicko sociopath.
Everbody should have his pic hanging in their house in a place of honor.

You could have Adolph Hitler's picture as your avatar you couldn't assume everybody would know who he is.

 

I was too young to see it but just old enough to recognize it, now I'll have to watch it - every time I see his avatar it really does sicken me, and I don't get that way often - just downright creepy. yuk.

 

Slaughterhouse-Five was the one that finally pushed the English Lit teacher over the edge with me. She made me stick to the recommended reading list after that, which was not really much fun.

My Uncle Gene (god rest him, died last March aged 96) was a voracious reader and exposed me to all these authors. He thought highly of Leon Uris and Joseph Heller (actually knew Heller from WW2 days in the Army Air Corps).

And what did my cousin do with all of his books when he downsized and moved into the trailer? donated them to Goodwill before I had a chance at any of them.