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In the Movie |
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There is no mention of this. |
Alex has a pet snake. |
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The girl that is about to be raped by Billyboy's gang is 10 years old. |
She is a young woman.
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Alex takes home and rapes two 10-year-old girls, Marty and Sonietta, after meeting them in a record shop. Alex buys the girls ice cream and food prior to raping them. |
The girls are teenagers, and their sexual encounter with Alex appears to be (at least mostly) consensual. He doesn't provide them with food at all. |
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Dr. Branom is a male. |
The character is portrayed by a female.
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Alex beats an old man carrying library books, who later recognizes him and (with other aged people) assaults him in a library after his treatment. |
Alex and his droogs beat a tramp, who later recognizes him and, with other homeless people, assaults him after his treatment. |
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Alex's weapon of choice is a britva (razor). |
He wields a cane with a knife concealed in the handle.
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When trying to escape from the cat lady's house, Alex is stopped by Dim, who attacks him and leaves him for the police. Dim uses his "oozy" (or chain) to whip Alex across the face. |
Dim smashes a milk bottle across the side of Alex's head. |
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While imprisoned Alex learns of the death of his former droog Georgie during a botched burglary. |
Alex meets with Dim and Georgie after his release from prison, but what happened to Pete during Alex's incarceration is unknown.
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F. Alexander recognises Alex through a number of careless references to the previous attack (e.g., his wife then claiming they did not have a telephone). |
Alex is recognised when singing the song 'Singing in the Rain' in the bath. |
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Alex is conditioned against all music. |
He is only averse to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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F. Alexander can walk when he takes Alex in, lives alone and takes care of his own chores. |
Alex's gang's attack leaves F. Alexander confined to a wheelchair, and he gets a manservant named Julian. |
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Dr. Brodsky's team monitor Alex from behind an opaque mirror during the Ludovico experiment. |
They monitor him from the theater's back seats, in plain view.
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Alex watches the Ludovico experiment films all by himself. |
A doctor is by his side to apply eye drops as he watches them. |
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Alex is brutally beaten up by Dim and Billyboy after being released from prison. |
Alex is attacked by Dim and Georgie.
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Alex and his gang rob a shop, later presenting an alibi to the police in the form of some old women they bought drinks for swearing they'd been at a café all night. |
This does not happen. |
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F. Alexander has 3 co-conspirators join him in taking care of Alex. |
Only two co-conspirators.
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Conspirator Rubinstein is a male. |
Rubinstein is a female. |
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The title of the book comes from a fictional essay F. Alexander was writing, about the Ludovico procedure and how a man with a conscience but that is unable to make his own choices is no longer a man. Alex remembers and mentions this during the demonstration after the experiment's conclusion. |
The title never comes up, nor is it explained.
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Alex commits, or is blamed for, a second murder. This takes place in the prison cell and the victim is a quarrelsome man who is not liked by any of the other inmates. One particular night they decide to "teach him a lesson". Some hold him down while others take a go at him. Alex finishes it off and the inmates decide to blame it all on him. |
The other inmates aren't a big part of the movie. |
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The gang members wear black tights with cups underneath their tights |
The gang member wears white pants with their cups over their pants
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The book has a chapter after the hospital scene where Alex is 'cured', revealing that as he grows older, Alex naturally loses his affinity towards violence and desires to start a family. |
The film ends immediately with the hospital scene where Alex is de-conditioned. |