What is the meaning of the title of the movie clockwork orange?

Answer 1

A Clockwork Orange is a story about the moral standpoint of others, and how the government cannot change people with drugs or experiments, no matter what, people will always stay true to who they are.

Answer 2

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 darkly satirical Science Fiction film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. The film, which was made in England, concerns Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic delinquent whose pleasures are Classical Music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so-called 'ultra-violence.' He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film tells the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial psychological conditioning technique. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured, contemporary adolescent slang comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.

This cinematic adaptation was produced, directed, and written by Stanley Kubrick. It features disturbing, violent images, to facilitate social commentary about psychiatry, youth gangs, and other contemporary social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain. A Clockwork Orange features a soundtrack comprising mostly classical music selections and Moog synthesizer compositions by Wendy Carlos. The now-iconic poster of A Clockwork Orange, and its images, were created by designer Bill Gold. The film also holds the Guinness World Record for being the first film in media history to use the Dolby Sound system.

Answer 3

Cockney phrase from East London indicating something bizarre internally, but appearing natural, human, and normal on the surface.

Burgess wrote in his later introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked", that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange---meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil".

The brainwashing that our humble narrator Alex undergoes turns him into an automaton that has no free will of his own, turning him into...a clockwork orange.

Answer 4

If you are talking about the film....It's amazing!

It's about a teenager named Alex and his droogs (that's Nadsat for friends-the film is spoken and the book is written in nadsat, this is a mix of English, Russian, 'school-boy speak' and rhyming slang). Alex and his droogs attack, rape, steal, beat-up people-the lot. And are often getting into lots of trouble for it.

(Warning-Spoilers ahead)

One day Alex's droogs decide that they want a new leader who will take Alex's place. Alex kicks the crap out of his droogs to prove that he's still in charge, and when they all go to the bar afterwards and drink milk (yeah, a little out-of-character for people as violent as that) where One of the droogs tells Alex about a health farm just out of the city where this old woman lives and she's alone and the house is full of gold and expensive things. Alex breaks into the house, hits the woman on the head with an antique penis, hears the police coming and escapes throught the front door, his droogs are waiting for him and they hit him in the face with a glass bottle. Alex is temporarily blinded, the police arrive to find him on the doorsteps and his droogs have left him. He is taken to the police station where he is informed that the old woman he hit died. He is taken to a prison where he makes a good impression on the prison chaplin and is chosen for special treatment to stop him from being violent. The treatment is that he has to watch lots of films with violence/rape/general naughtiness wearing a straightjacket and his eyes pinned open. The doctors gave him a needle before the film-watching, which will make him really sick. The theory is that the patient will make a link between violence and the sickness so everytime he hurts anyone or think about hurting anyone, he gets very sick.

He gets out of the prison and his parents won't let him back into the house as they are renting out his room. While he walks the streets alone he sees a homeless person who he beat up at the begining of the film. The hobo remembers Alex's face and he and his other hobo friends beat Alex up. Two police officers who are passing by help Alex up, which is when Alex realises that the officers are two of his old droogs who stil hold the grudge against him. The droogs/officers almost drown Alex and leave him to wonder around in the wilderness.

Alex makes his way to a house that looks oddly familiar, He only realises that he's been there before when he sees a kind old man in a wheelchair that helps him and gives him shelter and food. Alex and his droogs had broke into the house, beat up the old man (leaving him paralysed) and raping his wife. Alex finds out that the mans wife died of an STD.

The old man eventually realises that it was Alex that attacked him and he finds out a song that will make Alex sick.

When Alex was having the treatment, he was 'programmed' to get sick when he hears Beethoven's 9th.

Alex gets so sick he tries to 'snuff-it' (kill himself) but ends up in hospital.

At the hospital he wakes up and the scientist who organised the treatment makes it up to alex and Alex gets another treatment from the hospital so that he can think normally again.

it's an amazing film to watch if you've got a few hours to spare. And for pure effect, I would like to finish this answer with the ending quote to the film.

"I was cured Allright!"

Answer 5

A Clockwork Orange is a story about the moral standpoint of others, and how the government cannot change people with drugs or experiments, no matter what, people will always stay true to who they are.

Answer 6

One of the themes in A Clockwork Orange is the ability to make our own choices regardless of the outcome. Alex's ability to make his own choices is stricken when he enters the Ludovico experiment and it isn't until his near fatal accident that he is cured and his freedom is restored.

Therefore "freedom" in the story is the ability to choose.

Answer 7

Apparently it comes from an English expression "as queer as a clockwork orange".

Also, in the book it is the name of the story that the writer is working on when Alex and his droogs attack him and his wife.

Answer 8

The role of free-will within a regimented society featuring law and order .

Answer 9

The controversy between the freedom of choice (which could finish in "bad") and conditionated behaviors (which are based in human perception about what¡s "good" or "bad")