Friday 29 April 2022

A Clockwork May

If April was the cruellest month for Mrs Weathers, May is no picnic for our anti-hero as the long arm of the law finally has him in its grasp. 

Follow Juli Kearns astute analysis of these sequences here. Ms Kearns is a brilliant observer and deftly brings elements of Kubricks other works into the analysis.  She has some good points on the use of the eye and a possible tarot link which anyone reading here will probably appreciate. Don't read this, read her!

With that said, here's the 'meat and potatoes' ie the timings for May...  I've kept the same format, the summary details the scene changes, but scroll down below to the script if you want to find out exactly where we are in the movie on a given day. Just look for the date by the dialogue. As before, the timings should be ok, but occasionally the change occurs without a helpful bit of dialogue to sync it too, so allow a little leeway. 

May Summary

1st-7th: Police Station 


 Alex's misdeeds have finally caught up with him in May. After the police and Mr Deltoid have indulged in some retributive justice of their own we move to...

8th:  External Prison VO shot


He's sent to prison where a dehumanising admission process ensues

9th - 23rd: Prison Admission  




Followed by a sermon where Alex narrates how miserable his situation has become.

24th - 30th: Religious Sermon 


May ends in the library where Alex daydreams will prove to be as violent as ever. 


May Timings

 

ALEX

Ow... what's that for, you bastard?

1st

FATNECK

That was for your lady victim. You ghastly

wretched scoundrel.

Alex grabs his balls.

Alex is beaten by the other Cop.

Inspector exits to outside office where Sergeant sits, sipping a

cup of tea.

Deltoid has just entered.

INSPECTOR

Sergeant.

SERGEANT

Sir.

2nd

INSPECTOR

Ah, good evening, Mr. Deltoid.

DELTOID

Evening, Inspector.

SERGEANT

Would you like your tea now, sir?

INSPECTOR

No, thank you, Sergeant. We'll have it

later. May I have some paper towels,

please.

SERGEANT

Yes, sir.

INSPECTOR

We're interrogating the prisoner now.

Perhaps you'd care to come inside.

3rd

DELTOID

Thank you very much

They move into Interrogation Room.

Alex is on the floor in the corner covered with blood.

DELTOID

Evening, Sergeant. Evening, all. Dear,

dear, this boy does look a mess, doesn't

he? Just look at the state of him.

FATNECK

Love's young nightmare like.

INSPECTOR

Violence makes violence. He resisted his

lawful arrestors.

DELTOID

Well, it's happened, Alex boy, yes. Just

as I thought it would, yes. Dear, dear,

dear. 4th Well, this is the end of the line

for me... the end of the line, yes.

ALEX

It wasn't me, brother, sir. Speak up for

me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on

by the treachery of others, sir.

INSPECTOR

Sings the roof off lovely, he does that.

ALEX

And where are my stinking traitorous

droogs. Get them before the get away. It

was all their idea, brothers. They forced

me to do it. 5th I'm innocent.

DELTOID

You are now a murderer, little Alex. A

murderer, yes.

ALEX

Not true, sir. It was only a slight

tolchock. She was breathing, I swear it.

6th

DELTOID

I've just come back from the hospital.

Your victim has died.

ALEX

You try to frighten me, sir, admit so,

sir. This is some new form of torture. Say

it, brother, sir.

DELTOID

It will be your own torture. I hope to God

it will torture you to madness.

7th

FATNECK

If you'd care to give him a bash in the

chops, sir. Don't mind us. We'll hold him

down. He must be a great disappointment to

you, sir.

Deltoid spits in Alex's face.

8th (Alex wipes face)

HELICOPTER VIEWS OF PRISON

ALEX (V.O.)

This is the real weepy and like tragic

part of the story beginning, O my brothers

and only friends. 9th After a trial with

judges and a jury, and some very hard

words spoken against your friend and

humble narrator, he was sentenced to 14

years in Staja No. 84F among smelly

perverts and hardened prestoopnicks, the

shock sending my dadda beating his bruised

and kroovy rookas against unfair Bog in

his Heaven, and my mom, boohoohooing in

her mother's grief 10th as her only child and

son of her bosom, like letting everybody

down real horrorshow.

INT. PRISON CHECK-IN ROOM – DAY

A bell rings and a Warder goes and unlocks first a wooden door and

then a barred door.

GUARD

Morning. One up from Thames, Mister.

WARDER

One in from Thames, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Open up, Mister.

WARDER

Yes, sir.

He opens door and steps back. Alex and another Warden move to

Reception desk.

11th

WARDER

Good morning, sir. Committal sheet.

CHIEF GUARD

(who shouts everything)

Thank you, Mister.

He signs sheet.

GUARD

Name?

ALEX

Alexander de Large.

CHIEF GUARD

You are now in H.M. Prison Parkmoor and

from this moment you will address all

prison officers as sir! Name?

12th

ALEX

Alexander de Large, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Crime?

ALEX

Murder, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Take the cuffs off him, Mister.

The cuffs are removed.

13th

CHIEF GUARD

You are now 655321 and it is your duty to

memorise that number.

He hands clipboard back to Warder.

CHIEF GUARD

Thank you Mister. Well done.

WARDER

Thank you, chief.

CHIEF GUARD

Let the officer out.

Officer exits.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Empty your pockets!

Alex moves to desk and leans forward.

14th

CHIEF GUARD

Are you able to see that white line

painted on the floor directly behind you,

655321?

ALEX

Yes, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Then your toes belong on the other side of

it!!!

ALEX

Yes sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right carry on.

Alex tosses a bar of chocolate on the desk.

15th

CHIEF GUARD

Pick that up and put it down properly.

Alex does so, and continues to empty his pockets.

CHIEF GUARD

One half bar of chocolate. 16th One bunch of

keys on white metal ring. One packet of

cigarettes. Two plastic ball pens – one

black, one red. One pocket comb – black

plastic. 17th One address book – imitation red

leather. One ten penny piece. One white

metal wristlet watch, "Timawrist" on a

white metal 18th expanding bracelet. Anything

else in your pockets?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. Sign here for your valuable

property.

Alex signs.

CHIEF GUARD

The chocolate and cigarettes you brought

in – 19th  you lose that as you are now

convicted. Now go over to the table and

get undressed.

Alex walks to table and undresses. Chief Guard moves to table with

his clipboard.

CHIEF GUARD

Now then, were you in Police custody this

morning?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One jacket – blue pinstripe.

CHIEF GUARD

Prison custody?

ALEX

Yes, sir On remnd, sir.

CHECK-IN

One neck tie – blue.

CHIEF GUARD

Religion?

20th

ALEX

C of E, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Do you mean Church of England?

ALEX

Yes, sir, Church of England, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Brown hair, is it?

ALEX

Fair hair, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Blue eyes?

ALEX

Blue eyes, yes, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Do you wear eye glasses or contact lenses?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One shirt – blue, collar attached.

CHIEF GUARD

Have you been receiving medical treatment

for any serious illness?

ALEX

No, sir.

21st

CHECK-IN

One pair of boots – black leather,

zippered, worn.

CHIEF GUARD

Have you ever had any mental illness?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Do you wear any false teeth or false

limbs?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One pair of trousers – blue pinstriped.

CHIEF GUARD

Have you ever had any attacks of fainting

or dizziness?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One pair of socks – black.

CHIEF GUARD

Are you an Epileptic?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHECK-IN

One pair of underpants – white with blue

waistband.

22nd

CHIEF GUARD

Are you now, or ever have been, a

homosexual?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Right. The mothballs, Mister.

CHECK-IN

Mothballs, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Now then. Face the wall. Bend over and

touch your toes.

Chief Guard inspects Alex's anus with a penlight.

CHIEF GUARD

Mmmmmmm... any venereal disease?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Crabs?

ALEX

No, sir.

CHIEF GUARD

Lice?

ALEX

No, sir.

23rd

CHIEF GUARD

Through there for a bath.

ALEX

Yes, sir.

INT. PRISON CHAPEL – DAY

Priest in pulpit big rough state-proper type.

Convict audience.

Alex sits apart tending an overhead projector.

PRIEST

I ask you friends. What's it going to be

then? Is it going to be in and out of

institutions like this?Or more in then out

for most of you? Or are you going to

attend the divine word and realise the

punishment that awaits unrepentant sinners

24th in the next world as well as this. A lot

of Idiots you are, selling your birthright

for a saucer of cold porridge. The urge to

live easy. I ask you friends, is it worth

it? When we have undeniable proof – yes,

my friends, incontrovertible evidence that

25th Hell exists. I know, I know, my friends. I

have been informed in visions that there

is a place darker than any prison, hotter

than any human flame of fire, where

26th unrepentant criminals, sinners like

yourselves...

A convict burps.

All laugh.

PRIEST

Don't you laugh, damn you, don't you

laugh. I say like yourselves – scream in

endless and unendurable agony. Their

nostrils choked with the smell of filth,

their mouths crammed with burning ordure.

Their skins rotting and peeling. A

27th fireball spinning in their screaming guts.

I know... oh yes, I know.

A convict lets rip some lip music – prrrrrrrp. There is laughter.

Chief Guard moves forward – points.

CHIEF GUARD

I saw you, 920537. I saw you.

CONVICT

Up yours, mate.

CHIEF GUARD

Just you wait, 744678. One on the turnip

coming up for you.

PRIEST

Quiet, my friends. Quiet. Quiet, I say. We

will now sing Hymn 258 in the Prisoner's

Hymnal.

Piano starts up and Alex starts up overhead projector which

displays the words of the hymn.

28th

CHIEF GUARD

Show a little reverence, you bastards.

Quiet!

Convicts and all start to sing.

SINGING

I was a wandering sheep.

I did not love...

CHIEF GUARD

Sing up damn you. Louder, sing up.

SINGING

... the fold

I did not love my shepherd's voice.

I would not be controlled.

CHIEF GUARD

Come on, sing up, damn you.

SINGING

29th I was a wayward child

I did not love my home

I did not love my father's voice

I loved afar to roam.

ALEX (V.O.)

It had not been edifying, indeed not,

being in this hell hole and human zoo for

two years now, being kicked and tolchocked

by brutal warders, and meeting leering

criminals and perverts ready to dribble

all over a lucious young malchick like

30th your story-teller.

INT. PRIEST'S LIBRARY – DAY

Alex reading the Bible.

ALEX (V.O.)

It was my rabbit to help the prison

charlie with the Sunday service. He was a

bolshy great burly bastard, but he was

very fond of myself, me being very young,

and also now very interested in the 31st  big

book.

Priest walks by and nods pleasantly.

ALEX (V.O.)

It had been arranged by the prison

charlie, as part of my further education

to read him the Bible. I didn't so much

like the latter part of the book which is

more like all preachy talking, than

fighting and the old in-out. I liked the

parts where these old yahoodies tolchock

each other and then drink their Hebrew

vino and, then getting on to the bed with

their wives' handmaidens. That kept me

going.

BIBLE FANTASY – FIGHTING – DAY

Biblical fighting shot. Alex slashing away. Blood spurting.

HANDMAIDEN FANTASY IN TENT – DAY

Alex lying with three semi-nude handmaidens.

EXT. BIBLICAL STREET

Christ being whipped on by Alex, dressed as a Legionary.

ALEX

Move on there. Move on.

ALEX (V.O.)

I read all about the scourging and the

1st June crowning with thorns and all that, and I

could viddy myself helping in and even

taking charge of the tolchocking and the

nailing in, being dressed in the height of

Roman fashion.

BACK TO THE LIBRARY

Alex sits with his eyes closed.

Priest comes over and squeezes his shoulder.

Alex looks up at him and smiles.

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