A Clockwork Orange is a brutal Stanley Kubrick film, based on the Anthony Burgess novel. In the near future society is in decay, and the streets are overrun by violent gangs. The government has a new heavy-handed test project, designed to re-program these renegades, in order to free up the overcrowded prisons to make space for political prisoners.
Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange: "What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent."
Aubrey Morris as Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange: "What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?"
Anthony Sharp as Minister of the Interior in A Clockwork Orange: "Public opinion has a way of changing."
- Movie
- A Clockwork Orange
- Year
- 1971
- Character
- Mum
- Actor
- Shelia Raynor
Alex’s mum has very little control over him, or even knowledge of his day to day life.
A Clockwork Orange – Alex’s Mum Quotes
Alex is disturbed by a knock at his bedroom door:
Alex: What d’you want?
Mum: It’s past eight, Alex, you don’t want to be late for school, son.
Alex: Bit of pain in the gulliver, Mum. Leave us be and I’ll try to sleep it off… then I’ll be as right as dodgers for this after.
Mum: You’ve not been to school all week, son.
Alex: I’ve got to rest, Mum… got to get fit, otherwise I’m liable to miss a lot more school.
Mum: Eeee… I’ll put your breakfast in the oven. I’ve got to be off myself now.
Alex: Alright, Mum… have a nice day at the factory.
Alex’s parents don’t seem particularly knowledgeable about what he gets up to in his spare time:
Mum: He’s not feeling too good again this morning, Dad.
Dad: Yes, I heard. D’you know what time he got in last night?
Mum: No I don’t know, luv, I’d taken my sleepers.
Dad: I wonder, where exactly is it he goes to work of evenings?
Mum: Well, like he says, it’s mostly odd things he does, helping like, here and there as it might be.
Alex is released from prison, and the brainwashing program, and returns home to his parents. He gags nauseously as he raises his fist, after being riled by Joe:
Dad: Are you all right, lad?
Mum: Dad…it’s the treatment.
Joe (the lodger): Well, it’s disgusting. I mean, it’s enough to put you off your food.Mum: Oh leave him be, Joe, it’s the treatment.
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Cast and Characters
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Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange: "What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent."
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Sheila Raynor as Mum in A Clockwork Orange: "But you've not been to school all week, son."
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Michael Bates as Chief Guard Barnes in A Clockwork Orange: "Shut your filthy hole, you scum!"
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Aubrey Morris as Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange: "What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?"
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Warren Clark as Dim in A Clockwork Orange: "Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. Well, it stands to reason I won't have it."
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Madge Ryan as Dr. Branom in A Clockwork Orange: "Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it...You felt ill this afternoon because you're getting better. You see, when we are healthy, we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all. By this time tomorrow, you'll be healthier still."
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Carl Duering as Dr. Brodsky in A Clockwork Orange: "Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject to experience a death-like paralysis, together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness. One of our early test subjects described it as being like death, a sense of stifling or drowning, and it is during this period we have found that the subject will make his most rewarding associations between his catastrophic experience-environment and the violence he sees."
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Patrick Magee as Frank Alexander in A Clockwork Orange: "Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police, proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning. Oh, we've seen it all before in other countries. The thin end of the wedge. Before we know where we are, we shall have the full apparatus of totalitarianism."
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James Marcus as Georgie in A Clockwork Orange: "All right, no more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way."
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Clive Francis as Joe in A Clockwork Orange: "Look, he's weeping now. But that's all his craft and artfulness. Let him go and find a room somewhere else."
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Anthony Sharp as Minister of the Interior in A Clockwork Orange: "Public opinion has a way of changing."
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Godfrey Quigley as Prison Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange: "Choice! The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. The insincerity was clear to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice."
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Pauline Taylor as Psychiatrist in A Clockwork Orange: "Now then. Each of the slides needs a reply from one of the people in the picture. You tell me what you think the person would say. Alright?"
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Paul Farrell as Tramp in A Clockwork Orange: "Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!"
Random Dystopia Quotes
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Morena Baccarin as Inara in Serenity: "I just want to know who I'm dealing with. I've seen too many versions of you to be sure."
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Sigorney Weaver as Ripley in Alien: "Wait a minute. We let it in, the ship could be infected. You know the quarantine procedures: 24 hours for decontamination."
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Sheila Raynor as Mum in A Clockwork Orange: "But you've not been to school all week, son."
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Cyril Cusack as Charrington in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements..."
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Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises: "I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns."
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Michael Bates as Chief Guard Barnes in A Clockwork Orange: "Shut your filthy hole, you scum!"
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Julie Christie as Clarisse in Fahrenheit 451: "Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?"
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Heinrich George as Grot in Metropolis: "Where are your children??! The city lies underwater, the shafts are completely flooded -!! Who told you to attack the machines, you idiots? Without them you'll all die!!"
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Oskar Werner as Montag in Fahrenheit 451: "Behind each of these books, there's a man. That's what interests me."
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