March summary
This is a supporting post for work published at the Hermetic Lessons.
Note, this month I was happy to find an excellent shot by shot analysis by Julli Kearns. Well worth checking out.
March begins at Alex's place, the morning after his montage reverie he awakes to find creepy Mr Deltoid waiting for him. Later he visits the record store where he meets Marty and Sonietta who accompany him back for a bit of the old in and out before he finds his Droogs waiting in the stairwell of his block. A tense encounter there leads to the final sequence of the month on the marina with Rossini's thieving magpie once again the soundtrack.
1-10th March Alexander home
11-16th Shopping arcade / record store
17th-19th Alex Bedroom
20th-30th Alex's towerblock stairwell / entrance
31st Marina
01/03 0:21:58
INT. EM'S BEDROOM - DAY
Alex comes out of his room and finds P.R. Deltoid sitting on bed in
parent's room.
ALEX:
Hi, hi, hi there, Mr. Deltoid, funny surprise to see you here.
02/03 0:22:20
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?
ALEX:
A rather intolerable pain in the head, brother, sir. I think it should
be clear by this afterlunch.
DELTOID:
Oh, or certainly by this evening, yes?
03/03 0:22:43
The evening's a great time,
isn't it, Alex boy?
ALEX:
A cup of the old chai, sir?
DELTOID:
No time, no time, yes. Sit, sit, sit.
Alex sits next to him.
ALEX:
To what do I owe this extreme pleasure, sir? Anything wrong, sir?
Deltoid "playfully" grabs Alex's hair.
04/03 0:23:05
DELTOID:
Wrong? Why should you think of anything being wrong, have you been
doing something you shouldn't. Yes?
He shakes Alex's hair.
ALEX:
Just a manner of speech, sir.
DELTOID:
Well, yes, it's just a manner of speech from your Post Corrective
Advisor to you that you watch out, little Alex.
He puts his arm round Alex's shoulder.
DELTOID:
Because next time it's going to be the barry place and all my work ruined.
05/03 0:23:27
If you've no respect for your horrible self, you at least might
have some for me who'se sweated over you.
He slaps Alex on the knee.
DELTOID:
A big black mark I tell you for every one we don't reclaim. A
confession of failure for every one of you who ends up in the stripy
hole.
ALEX:
I've been doing nothing I shouldn't, sir. The millicents have nothing
on me, brother, sir, I mean.
Deltoid pulls Alex down on the bed.
DELTOID:
Cut out all this clever talk about milicents. Just because the Police
haven't picked you up lately doesn't, as you very well know, mean that
you've not been up to some nastiness. There was a bit of a nastiness
last night, yes. Some very extreme nastiness, yes. A few of a certain
Billyboy's friends were ambluenced off late last night, yes. Your name
was mentioned, the word's got thru to me by the usual channels.
07/03 0:24:12
Certain friends of yours were named also. Oh, nobody can prove anything about
anybody as usual, but I'm warning you, little Alex, being a good friend
to you as always, the one man in this sore and sick community who wants
to save you from yourself.
Deltoid makes a grab for Alex's joint but finds his hand instead. Alex
laughs. Derisively and rises. Deltoid distractedly reaches for a glass
of water on the night table, and fails to notice a set of false teeth
soaking in them. He drinks from the glass. The clink of the teeth
sounding like ice-cubes.
DELTOID:
What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it
for damn well near a century,
08/03 0:24:34
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.
09/03 0:24:57
Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?
ALEX:
Nobody's got anything on me, brother, sir. I've been out of the rookers
of the milicents for a long time now.
DELTOID:
That's just worries me. A bit too long to long to be reasonable. You're
about due now by my reckoning, that's why I'm warning you, little Alex,
to keep your handsome young proboscis
10/3 0:25:19
out of the dirt. Do I make myself clear?
ALEX:
As an unmuddied lake, sir. Clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You
can rely on me, sir.
Deltoid drinks again but this time sees the teeth in the glass.
11/03 0:25:41
He groans and retches.
12/03 0:26:04
Alex enters. Two pretty micro-boppers, Marty and Sonietta, sucking
phallic ice sticks.
13/03 0:26:26
ALEX:
Pardon me, brother. I ordered this two weeks ago. Could you see if it's
arrived.
CLERK:
OK. I'll see if it's in.
Clerk exits. Alex turns to the girls.
14/03 0:27:11
ALEX:
Pardon me, ladies
He steps in between them and goes through the motions, looking through.
ALEX:
Enjoying it then, my darling?... A bit cold and pointless isn't it, my
lovely... What's happened to yours, my little sister?
Marty giggles.
16/03 0:27:33
MARTY:
Who you getten bratty, Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven
Seventeen?
ALEX:
What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on?
17/03 0:27:55
I bet you got little save pitiful portable picnic players. Come with
Uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You
are invited.
18/03 0:28:18 - 19/03 0:28:40
(sequence sped up to William Tell overture / Lone Ranger Rossini)
INT. ALEX'S BEDROOM - DAY
The two girls, naked, jumping up and down on Alex's still unmade bed
zonked by the booming, all engulfing sound of Alex's incredible Hi-Fi.
20/03 0:29:02
INT. ALEX'S FLATBLOCK - LOBBY HALL - DAY
Alex finds the gang waiting for him.
21/3 0:29:25
ALEX:
Hi, hi, hi, there
ALL THREE:
Well, .
DIM:
He are here! He have arrived! Hooray!
ALEX:
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the
extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
Georgie rises.
22/03 29:47
GEORGIE:
We got worried. There we were waiting and drinking away at the old
knify Moloko and you had not turned up and we thought you might have
been like offended by something or other, so around we come to your
abode.
23/02 30:10
ALEX:
Appy polly loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to
sleep.
24/3 0:30:32
I was not awakened when I gave orders for awakening.
DIM:
Sorry about the pain. Using the gulliver to much like, eh? Giving
orders and disciplining and that perhaps, eh? You sure the pain's gone?
You sure you'll not be happier back up in bed.
25/3 0:30:54
ALEX:
Lets get things nice and sparkling clear. This sarcasm, if I may call
it such, does not become you, O my brothers.
26/3 31:17
As I am your droog and leader, I am entitled to know what goes on, eh?
Now then, Dim, what does that great big horsy gape of a grin portend?
GEORGIE:
All right, no more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way.
27/3 0:31:39
ALEX:
New way? What's this about a new way? There's been some very large talk
behind my sleeping back, and no error. Let me hear more.
28/03 0:32:01
GEORGIE:
Well, we go round shop crasting and the like, coming out with a pitiful
rookerful of money each.
DIM:
Pitiful rookerful...
GEORGIE:
And there's Will the English in the Muscleman coffee mesto saying he
can fence anything that anything that any malchick tries to crast.
DIM:
Yeah... Pete the English.
GEORGIE:
The shiny stuff. The Ice. The big, big, big money is available's what
Will the English says.
DIM:
Big, big money.
29/03 0:32:24
ALEX:
And what will you do with the big, big, money? Have you not everything
you need? If you need a motor-car, you pluck it from the trees. If you
need pretty polly, you take it.
GEORGIE:
Brother, you think and talk sometimes like a little child. Tonight we
pull a mansize crast.
30/03 0:32:46
ALEX:
Good. Real horrorshow. Initiative comes to them as waits. I've taught
you much, my little droogies. Now tell me what you have in mind,
Georgie Boy.
GEORGIE:
Oh, the old moloko-plus first, would you not say
DIM:
Moloko-plus.
31/03 0:33:08
GEORGIE:
Something to sharpen us up, you especially. We have the start.
The gang come out of the flatblock and walk along the marina.
ALEX (V.O.)
As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside but
thinking all the time,
01/04 0:33:01
so now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and
what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog. But, suddenly,
I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones
use like inspiration and what Bog sends, for now it was lovely music that
came to my aid and I viddied at once what to do. There was a window open
with the stereo on.
IN SLOW MOTION:
Alex clubs Georgie into water with his stick. Dim swings chain. Alex
ducks. Dim goes into water.
Alex kneels, hands behind back, takes knife from sword stick, offers
hand to help Dim, and slashes Dim when he gets it.
Dim falls back into the water.
Alex laughs.
