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remember when they reprogramme Alex to feel deep revulsion whenever he heard beethoven because it was tied in with violence and sexual assault in his mind?
i now can't hear gifted hater without thinking of cheesy pasta.
say gifted hater and my mouth waters like Pavlov's dogs at the sound of the chime.
Gifted Hater's pubescent squeak reverberates and echoes in your head as you reach for the Annie's.
Referencing one of my top 3 all-time favorite films. It was called the Ludovico technique. Fun fact: Malcolm McDowell came up with Alex's surname DeLarge—which wasn't in the Burgess novel or Kubrick/Burgess script—for the film.
Alex DeLarge is a great name; it's like a posh, classy, respectable porn star name.
did you know that a lot of that slang [veddy, moloko, horrorshow, veddies, droogs] was all just Russian words? in some cases phoneticized [horrorshow was horvoshoke or something] but here i thought the man Burgess just lived in his head in this crazy world of slang and violence. still a pretty exciting internal monologue even if the language is borrowed.
Yep,
Nadsat is Burgess's made-up language; it's a bit of phoneticized or real Russian (as you mentioned) mixed with some Cockney rhyming slang. I'm really old; I had the movie on VHS and read the novel during my junior year of high school (1994-1995) and have been a huge fan ever since.
One of my favorite quotes has always been, "What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited."
Why just today I posted a reel of my 2 year old daughter playing with a soccer ball at the park, but edited to/accompanied by Wendy Carlos' Moog version of the "William Tell Overture" (from the soundtrack).