Saturday 22 January 2022

A Clockwork February

 You know the drill. Descent down the tree of death, live action recreation of cult movies, the usual... January ended at the beginning of a grim scene at the Alexander home and this is where we pick up the action on 1st Feb. Each day corresponds to 22.5 seconds ACO and the time indicates the start of this period. I've inserted a couple of notes in brackets where the script doesn't detail the on screen action. 

February summary



1-5th -Alexander home

Alex and his Droogs stage a brutal home invasion culminating in the rape of Mrs Alexander.  

6-14th Korova Milk Bar

Tired. they return to the milk bar where Alex and Dim come close to blows.




15th to 28th Alex's home

Alex returns to his parents apartment to stash his loot, listen to Beethoven and relive his exploits.



Day by Day script

ALEX:

(singing)

What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again.

He pushes a rubber ball into Mrs. Alexander's mouth and binds it with

sellotape.

ALEX:

(singing)

I'm laughing at clouds so dark up above.

The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love.

1/2/22 0:11:10

Let the stormy clouds chase...

He kicks Mr. Alexander again.

ALEX:

(singing)

... everyone from the place.

Come on with the rain...

He puts ball in Mr. Alexander's mouth and sellotapes it.

ALEX:

(singing)

... I've a smile on my face.

I'll walk down the lane...

2/2/22 0:11:54

to a happy refrain.

I'm singing... just singin' in the rain.

He knocks down the book cases and moves to Mrs. Alexander being held by

Dim. Starts to repeat on song as he cuts slowly up each leg of her cat

suit,

3/2/22 0:12:17

until she is naked. This coincidences with the song finishing.

4/2/22 0:12:39

He turns to Mr. Alexander.

05/2/22 0:13:01 

ALEX:

Viddy well, my little Brother. Viddy well.

INT. KOROVA MILKBAR - NIGHT

The boys enter yawning..

06/2/22 0:13:24

ALEX (V.O.)

We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been

an evening of some small energy expenditure, O my brothers, so we got

rid of the auto and stopped off at the Korova for a nightcap.

07/02/22 0:13:46

Dim moves over to milk machine and speaks to the statue of the nude

girl.

DIM:

Hello Lucy, had a busy night?

Puts money in machine.

DIM:

We've been working hard too.

Takes glass.

DIM:

Pardon me. Luce.

He raises glass to breast, pulls red handle between her legs. Milk

spurts into glass.

Dim joins the others. Alex looks at a party of tourists.

08/02/22 0:14:08

ALEX (V.O.)

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,

09/02/22 0:14:31

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, athe  shivers crawling up 

10/02/22 0:14:53

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?

11/02/22 0:15:16

ALEX:

For being a bastard with no manners and not a dook of an idea how to

comport yourself publicwise, 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... 

12/02/22 0:15:38

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, any time, not having you aiming tolchocks at me

reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.

13/02/22 0:16:00

ALEX:

A nozh scrap any time you say.

Dim weakens.

14/02/22 0:16:23

DIM:

Doobidoob... a bit tired maybe, everybody is. A long night for growing

malchicks... best not to say more. Bedways is rigthways now, so best we

go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right.

15/02/22 0:16:45

EXT Alex walking through streets

INT. ALEX'S FLATBLOCK - MAIN LOBBY ENTRANCE - NIGHT

Alex passes a mural in the hall. Nude men and women. Their massive

stylised bodies embellished and decorated by handy pencil and

ballpoint.

16/02/22 0:17:07

The elevator door is buckled.

INT. ALEX'S FLAT - NIGHT

17/02/22 0:17:30

Alex pees in toilet.

Alex goes into his room. Tosses his loot into a drawer, full of money,

wristwatches, cameras, etc.

18/02/22 0:17:52

Fifty small loudspeakers cover one wall.

He puts his pet boa constrictor on tree branch mounted on the wall,

above four Christ figures who have their arms intertwined like a chorus

line.

He puts a cassette into the tape player.

heavy shockwave of sound - Beethoven's 9th.

19/02/22 0:18:14

ALEX (V.O.)

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the

perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van.

20/02/22 0:18:14

(Close up of Beethoven painting)

Music starts.

ALEX (V.O.)

Then, brothers, it came. O bliss, bliss and heaven, oh it was

gorgeousness and georgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold

under my bed, 

21/02/22 0:18:59

(Naked woman painting on wall, Snake on branch, Lewd Christ statues montage)

and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise, silver-

flamed and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out

again, crunched like candy thunder. 

22/02/22 0:19:21

(Christ montage continues. Alex masturbating as VO continues)

It was like a bird of rarest spun

heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, 

23/02/22 0:19:44

gravity all

nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures. There were

veeks and ptitsas laying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was

smecking all over my rot and grinding my boot into their tortured

litsos and there were naked devotchkas ripped and creeching against

walls and I plunging like a shlaga into them.

(montage showing Alex's fantasies includes woman being hanged, Alex as a vampire with blood dripping from fangs and people being crushed by falling rocks)

24/2/22 0:20:06

INT. ALEX'S FLAT - DAY

He is asleep. The boa curled up at his feet. There is a knock on the

door.

ALEX:

What d'you want?

EM:

It's past eight, Alex, you don't want to be late for school, son.

25/02/22 0:20:28

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.

EM:

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.

26/02/22 0:20:51

EM:

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.

INT. KITCHEN - DAY

Pee sitting at breakfast table.

Em enters.

EM:

He's not feeling too good again this morning, Dad.

PEE:

Yes, I heard. D'you know what time he got in last night?

EM:

No I don't know, luv, I'd taken my sleepers.

27/2/22 0:21:13

PEE:

wonder where exactly is it he goes to work of evenings.

EM:

Well, like he says, it's mostly odd things he does, helping like...

here and there, as it might be.

28/02/22 0:21:35

INT. EM'S BEDROOM - DAY

Alex comes out of his room and finds P.R. Deltoid sitting on bed in

parent's room.

01/03/22 0:21:58

ALEX:

Hi, hi, hi there, Mr. Deltoid, funny surprise to see you here.

DELTOID:

Ah, Alex boy, awake at last, yes? I met your mother on the way to work,

yes? She gave me the key. She said something about a pain somewhere...

hence not at school , yes?

Sunday 9 January 2022

A Clockwork January

You are viewing a rough sync of the events of Stanely Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' mapped to January 2022. Don't ask me why, as the Simpsons said, whenever you don't know 'a wizard did it'.  Divided over the year there's roughly 22.5 seconds per day. See the Hermetic Lessons for more on the clockwork year ahead.

1/1/  0

 Red frame

2/1  0:22

Red / Blue frame

3/1 0:44

Red cut to close up of Bowler hatted Alex Delarge. 

First scene: Int Korova Milk Bar

4/1 1:06

The camera pulls back on milk drinking Alex

5/1 1:29

We can see the Droogs now as the shot continues with VO introducing them.

6/1 1:51

'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. 

Long pull out shot continuing.

7/1 2:13

Second Scene Int Pedestrian Underpass Tunnel 

'This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.'' 

We cut to the drunkie, slumped in an underpass and singing of Molly Malone

8/1 2:36

'As she wheels her wheelbarrow'

9/1 2:58

Alex voices his disgust for drunkies 'going blurp blurp'

10/1 3:20

'Can you spare some cutter me brothers?' The drunkie has picked the wrong mark. They set to him.

11/1 3:43

'There's no law and order any more'  Under Alex's stick the drunkie laments on societies ills.

12/1 4:05

'Men spinning around the earth, no attention paid to earthly matters'. The drunkie breaks into song and the droogs set about him viciously. 

13/1 4:27

Third scene Int Derelict Casino

We cut away from one assault scene to another. Classical music plays as the camera pans back to reveal a theatre stage and another gang assaulting a naked woman. 

14/1 4:50

 VO 'It was around by the derelict casino that we came across Billyboy and his four droogs'

15/1 5:12

The assault on the young Devotchka continues

16/1 5:34

As Billy Boy's gang drag the girl to a bed on the stage. Alex's droogs emerge from the shadows:

'Ho, Ho, Ho'

17/1 5:57

Alex: 'Well if it isn't fat, stinking Billygoat Billyboy in poison?'

18/1 6:19

'Let's get him boys!'  Billy and his droogs set to, whilst the girl takes advantage of the distraction to flee. 

19/1 6:41

A vicious fight is underway to a classical soundrack. 

20/1 7:04

Alex's droogs have triumphed

21/1 7:26

Sirens! 'The police, come on let's go'. They flee the casino and we cut to the car scene. 

22/1 7:49

Ext/Int Car - Night - Fast Driving shots

VO: 'The Durango 95 purred away all horrorshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts'

23/1 8:11

Alex brings mayhem to the roads and delight to his droogs.

24/1 8:33

More crashes occur as Alex jousts with other travellers of the night.

25/1 8:56

'What we were after now was the old surprise visit, that was a real kick and good for laughs and lashing of the ultra-violent'

26/1 9:18

Ext 'Home'- Night

A cottage on its own on outskirts of a village., 

27/1 9:40

Int -'Home' we see Mr Alexander typing at his desk. Bell rings 'Who on earth could that be?'

28/1 10:03

'I'll go and see' - Mrs Alexander goes to the door. 

29/1 10:25

'I suppose you'd better let him in'

30/1 10:47

The droogs invade the house assaulting Mr and Mrs Alexander

31/1 11:10

Alex is singing in the rain as he orders his troops to secure the house and check for other victims. 



 Find the script to ACO here.  

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