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Alex de Large
A Clockwork Orange film (1971)
Alex de Large is an English teenager (ca. 1995, imagined from 1965), whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultraviolence. He is leader of a small gang of thugs, called the "droogs". Alex speaks mainly in "nadsat", the fractured, contemporary adolescent argot comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang. The boy Alex is irreverent and abusive of others; he lies to his parents and skips school.
Alex and his droogs take narcotics and beat up old tramps as well as rival gangs, one led by Billy Boy.
Alex and the gang steal cars and beat and rape unsuspecting victims. He also picks up teenyboppers and takes them home, for sex.
One night, Alex is set-up by two of the droogs (Georgie and Dim) when he is beaten unconscious, during a burglary for previously knocking them both into shape. He accidentally kills the the owner and is sentenced to 14 years in prison.
After serving two years, he is offered parole if he submits to the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy developed to solve societal crime. The technique involves being exposed to extreme depictions of on-screen violence under the influence of a nausea-inducing drug. He is unable to look away from the screen, his head is held immobile and each of his eyes held open by small speculums.
Alex is thus rendered incapable of violence, even in self-defense, and also incapable of touching a naked woman. Sadly, in an unintended side effect, the Technique has also rendered him averse to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
After the therapy, he returns home, only to discover his room is rented out and his friends have become Policeman who show he a good beating.
He eventually finds the writer whose wife he had raped and beaten, Mr. Alexander, who drugs Alex and attempts to drive him insane with an electronic version of the Ninth Symphony played at full volume. The boy attempts suicide by jumping out a window, but survives. As a result he conquers his fear of death, and cures himself of his psychological anguish.
During his recovery in hospital, he receives an apology from the Minister of the Interior who selected Alex for the Ludovico Technique treatment for the treatment's consequences.
The government promises Alex a job if he agrees to campaign on behalf of the ruling Conservative political party, whose public image has been severely damaged by Alex's attempted suicide. Anticipating his return of villainous behavior again, Alex relives his surreal fantasy of having sex with a woman in the snow, surrounded by applauding Victorian ladies and gentlemen.
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
Billy Boy gang members. |
STRENGTHS : |
A successful gang leader with a great taste in Beethoven's music. |
WEAKNESSES : |
Alex is rendered incapable of violence, even in self-defense, and also incapable of touching a naked woman, once he has undertaken the Ludovico technique. |
WEAPONS : |
Knives. |
QUOTE : |
"We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure." |
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