... and A Clockwork Orange, the missing of the original ending in the film has accidental reasons: "When Burgess originally wrote the book it was twenty-one chapters long and ended with Alex escaping the effects of behavior modification, outgrowing his lust for violence, and yearning for peace, a wife, and a baby. Editors ... from the book to the film was not only the result of missing chapters, and that some of the film's most vivid images, the chanting of Singing in the Rain during the rape scene for example, was never part of the book. The amplification of the horror provoked by Alex's cr...

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... the new American version of the book was in opposition to how it was first published in America. A Clockwork Orange was originally written and published in Britain with twenty-one chapters, when it was released in America the publishers omitted the last chapter and subsequently so did Kubrick when he made the film version. Burgess was unhappy about this as he ... the reader/viewer finding them selves in the position of making a choice. The choice whether or not they should accept or even like Alex. Burgess and Kubrick challenge the worse part of the human body-somewhere in-between the h...

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• Grade Level: High School