A Clockwork Orange

FADE IN:

INT. KOROVA MILKBAR - NIGHT

Tables, chairs made of nude fibreglass figures.

Hypnotic atmosphere.

Alex, Pete, Georgie and Dim, teenagers stoned on their milk-plus, their

feet resting on faces, crotches, lips of the sculptured furniture.

ALEX (V.O.)

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie

and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our

rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold

milkplus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we

were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit

of the old ultra-violence. Our pockets were full of money so there was

no need on that score, but, as they say, money isn't everything.

INT. PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS TUNNEL - NIGHT

A Tramp lying in tunnel, singing.

TRAMP:

In Dublin's fair city

Where the girls are so pretty

I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone

As she wheeled her wheelbarrow

Through streets wide and narrow...

Shadows of the boys approaching fall across Tramp.

TRAMP:

Crying cockless and mussels alive,

Alive O...

Alive, alive O... Alive, alive O...

Crying cockless and mussels alive,

Alive O...

ALEX (V.O.)

One thing I could never stand is to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie,

howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blerp, blerp

in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten

guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age

might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.

The boys stop and applaud him.

TRAMP:

Can you... can you spare some cutter, me brothers?

Alex rams his stick into the Tramp's stomach. The boys laugh.

TRAMP:

Oh-hhh!!! Go on, do me in you bastard cowards. I don't want to live

anyway, not in a stinking world like this.

ALEX:

Oh - and what's so stinking about it?

TRAMP:

It's a stinking world because there's no law and order any more. It's a

stinking world because it lets the young get onto the old like you

done. It's no world for an old man any more. What sort of a world is it

at all? Men on the moon and men spinning around the earth and there's

not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.

The Tramp starts singing again.

TRAMP:

Oh dear land, I fought for thee and brought you peace and victory.

Alex and gang move in and start beating up on old Tramp.

INT. DERELICT CASINO - NIGHT

Billyboy gang on stage tearing clothes off a screaming Girl.

ALEX (V.O.)

It was around by the derelict casino that we came across Billyboy and

his four droogs. They were getting ready to perform a little of the old

in-out, in-out on a weepy young devotchka they had there.

Alex and gang step out of the shadows.

ALEX:

Ho, Ho, Ho... Well, if it isn't stinking Billygoat Billyboy in poison.

How are thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and

get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.

Billyboy snaps open a switchblade knife.

BILLY BOY:

Let's get 'em boys.

The fight begins, chains, knives, kicking boots. Police siren.

ALEX:

The Police... come on, let's go... come on.

Alex and the boys rush out of casino.

EXT. / INT. CAR - NIGHT - FAST DRIVING SHOTS

Swerving car, forcing other cars off the road, trying to hit

pedestrians, etc.

ALEX (V.O.)

The Durango-95 purred away real horrorshow - a nice, warm vibraty

feeling all through your guttiwuts. Soon it was trees and dark, my

brothers, with real country dark. We fillied around for a while with

other travelers of the night, playing hogs of the road. Then we headed

west, what we were after now was the old surprise visit, that was a

real kick and good for laughs and lashing of the ultra-violent.

EXT. "HOME" - NIGHT

A cottage on its own, on outskirts of a village.

Bright moonlight. Cheery light inside.

Car pulls to stop.

Alex shushes his giggling boys and gets out of the car.

INT. "HOME" - NIGHT

Mr. Alexander typing. Bell rings.

MR. ALEXANDER

Who on earth could that be?

MRS. ALEXANDER

I'll see.

Mrs. Alexander, a good-looking red head in a red jumper suit.

MRS. ALEXANDER

Yes? Who is it?

ALEX:

Excuse me, Mrs... will you please help, there's been a terrible

accident.

She opens the door on the chain and peeps out.

ALEX:

My friend's lying in the middle of the road bleeding to death. Could I

please use your telephone for an ambulance?

MRS. ALEXANDER

I'm sorry, but we don't have a telephone. You'll have to go somewhere

else.

ALEX:

But Mrs... it's a matter of life and death.

From inside the sound of clack clacky clack clack clackity clackclack

of Alexander typing stops.

MR. ALEXANDER

Who is it, dear?

MRS. ALEXANDER

There's a young man here. He says there's been an accident. He wants to

use the telephone.

MR. ALEXANDER

Then you'd better let him in.

MRS. ALEXANDER

Wait a minute.

ALEX:

Thank you, Mrs.

Mrs. Alexander opens door, saying...

MRS. ALEXANDER

I'm sorry, we don't usually let people in the middle of the night.

Alex and boys have put on their masks and rush into house, carrying and

dragging Mrs. Alexander along with them.

INT. HOME - NIGHT

They go roaring in.

Mr. Alexander is kicked in the face and goes down. Georgie leaps on

him. Pete jumps up and down and the settee. Dim grabs hold of Mrs.

Alexander. Alex whistles piercingly.

ALEX:

Right, Pete. Check the rest of the house.

Alex turns to Dim who holds the struggling Mrs. Alexander.

ALEX:

Dim...

Dim sets her down but holds her firmly. Alex starts to sing - "Singin'

in the Rain", accompanying it with a kind of tap dance.

ALEX:

(singing)

I'm singing in the rain...

He kicks Mr. Alexander accenting the lyrics.

ALEX:

(singing)

Just singing in the rain...

He clubs Mr. Alexander with stick, in the time to the music.

ALEX:

(singing)

What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again.

He pushes a rubber ball into Mrs. Alexander's mouth and binds it with

sellotape.

ALEX:

(singing)

I'm laughing at clouds so dark up above.

The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love.

Let the stormy clouds chase...

He kicks Mr. Alexander again.

ALEX:

(singing)

... everyone from the place.

Come on with the rain...

He puts ball in Mr. Alexander's mouth and sellotapes it.

ALEX:

(singing)

... I've a smile on my face.

I'll walk down the lane... to a happy refrain.

I'm singing... just singin' in the rain.

He knocks down the book cases and moves to Mrs. Alexander being held by

Dim. Starts to repeat on song as he cuts slowly up each leg of her cat

suit, until she is naked. This coincidences with the song finishing.

He turns to Mr. Alexander.

ALEX:

Viddy well, my little Brother. Viddy well.

INT. KOROVA MILKBAR - NIGHT

The boys enter yawning..

ALEX (V.O.)

We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been

an evening of some small energy expenditure, O my brothers, so we got

rid of the auto and stopped off at the Korova for a nightcap.

Dim moves over to milk machine and speaks to the statue of the nude

girl.

DIM:

Hello Lucy, had a busy night?

Puts money in machine.

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