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
- Dim
- Actor
- Warren Clarke
Dim is one of Alex’s droogs. He’s not too bright, perhaps that why he sticks by Alex even when he is abused by him, because of the indirect security it gives him to come under Alex’s authority – a typical gang mindset.
A Clockwork Orange – Dim Quotes
Alex: [voice-over] There was some sophistos from the TV studios around the corner, laughing an govoreeting. The Devotchka was smecking away, and not caring about the wicked world one bit. Then the disc on the stereo twanged off and out, and in the short silence before the next one came on, she suddenly came with a burst of singing, and it was like for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar and I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise, and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again. Because I knew what she sang. It was a bit from the glorious 9th, by Ludwig van.
Dim makes a lip-trump followed by a dog howl, followed by two fingers pronging twice in the air, followed by a clowny guffaw.
Alex brings his stick down smartly on Dim’s legs
Dim: What did you do that for?
Alex: For being a bastard with no manners, and not a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise, O my brother.
Dim: I don’t like you should do what you done, and I’m not your brother no more and wouldn’t want to be.
Alex: Watch that. Do watch that, O Dim, if to continue to be on live thou dost wish.
Dim: 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.
Alex: A nozh scrap any time you say.
Dim: Doobidoob. A bit tired, maybe. Best not to say more. Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right?
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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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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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John Hurt as Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else will follow."
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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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Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner: [narrating] "The report read 'Routine retirement of a replicant.' That didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back."
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Christopher Fairbank as Mactilburgh in The Fifth Element: "we've put it through the cellular hygiene detector, the cell is, for lack of a better word, perfect."
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Gregor Fisher as Parsons in Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Sean Maher as Simon Tam in Serenity: "She always did love to dance."
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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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Gore Vidal as Director Josef in Gattaca: "I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a million keystrokes. Phenomenal. It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan."
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