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
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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