List of cultural references to A Clockwork Orange

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The novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and the movie adaptation have wide-ranging influences on popular culture, such as popular music, television, movies and other entertainment media.^[1][2] Some of the influences are based on themes central to the story, such as the use of Nadsat words or phrases, whilst others have incorporated visual elements from the film. The film A Clockwork Orange made Kubrick one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century,^[1] and the film is today a cult classic that is frequently referenced in popular culture.^[3]

Contents 1 Music 1.1 Hip hop and contemporary R&B 1.2 Metal 1.3 New Wave 1.4 Punk 1.5 Rock 1.6 Electronic Music and dance pop 2 Television 3 Films 4 Sports 5 Games 6 Locations 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links

Music

A Clockwork Orange, like other dystopian science-fiction novels, had an important influence on industrial and cyberpunk music. The film version influenced bands' fashion styles. The band Tolchok took its name from A Clockwork Orange.^[4]

Hip hop and contemporary R&B

• Rap group D12 released a song in 2001 titled "American Psycho," on their album Devil's Night. In the track D12 member Eminem, on the opening verse, raps the lyric "Lock your doors, drop to the floors, get your shotguns drawn - here comes another Clockwork Orange."
• The video for "My Way" by R&B singer Usher is heavily influenced by the movie. In the video, Usher's outfit is similar to the main character in Clockwork Orange. He wears a bowler hat and has the trademark drawn eyelash on his left eye (Alex wore it over his right eye). He plays the protagonist to singer Tyrese Gibson, and playfully flirts with his girlfriend. He has a street gang with members who all wear bowler hats.
• Three 6 Mafia producers DJ Paul & Juicy J sampled the movie's main theme in Frayser Boy's song Pistol Playa from his 2003 album Gone On That Bay.
• The Beastie Boys song "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" from the album "Paul's Boutique" includes references such as "ultra violence is running through my head" and "I am like Clockwork Orange going off on the town."
• Finnish rap artist Ezkimo's first album "Iso E" has a similar cover to that of Clockwork Orange's.
• Artist Cage Kennylz (Chris Palko) better known as Cage was highly influenced by the movie. His single "Agent Orange" sampled the theme from Stanley Kubrick's film.
• Artist Blaze Ya Dead Homie Released his album entitled, "Clockwork Gray" on August 21, 2007

Metal

• In Rob Zombie's song "Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)", there are several lyrical references to the A Clockwork Orange film. The line "My Durango number 95, take me to the home" refers to a car that the droogs drive in one of the film's scenes, eventueally ending up at a house called "HOME". The line "Step back and watch it flow" refers to the blood that pours from Alex's victims, whereas the lines "ultra live", "a horrorshow", "in out" and "real savage" refer to other commonly used terms throughout the movie and book. In the video, Rob Zombie is seen dressed as Alex, with his band members dressed as droogs. The video includes an homage to the Korova Milkbar scene and the hogs of the road scene. The song's alternate title is "Red, Red Kroovy". obviously similar to the actual term used krovvy, a Nadsat expression for blood.
• French industrial metal band The Cosa Nostra Klub (then named Count Nosferatu Kommando) released an album called "Ultraviolence Über Alles" in 2002, and are heavily influenced by A Clockwork Orange. The album cover bears references to the film cover, with Hreidmarr pointing a shotgun at the camera (Alex is holding a knife in a similar fashion on the film cover) and Heinrich Von B giving the Kubrick stare.
• The band Megadeth's fans are known as "droogies", a reference to the gang^{[citation needed]}. Similarly, Megadeth sells a T-Shirt that features their skeletal mascot, Vic Rattlehead, dressed as Alex from the film, in artwork that is similar to the classic film poster.
• In Mötley Crüe's music video "Hoogilan's Holiday" Many scenes are derived from the movie and the video includes 4 people dressed as the droogs.
• In the Carcass song "Room 101" there is line "No clockwork orange - The doom watch ticks" which probably means that the end of the world in nuclear conflict will come even sooner than the men's conversion to "clockwork oranges".
• One of the songs from the Buckethead album Island of Lost Minds is titled "Korova Binge Bar", an obvious reference to the Korova Milk Bar in the film.
• Sepultura's album A-Lex is based entirely on A Clockwork Orange.
• Cavalera Conspiracy's song "Ultra Violent" is based on A Clockwork Orange.
• Carnivore's song "Sex & Violence", there are the lines "Clock work orange, fast be coming" and "Ultra - violent offsprings of gore"
• Acid Bath's song "Cassie Eats Cockroaches" contains audio clips from Alex in its intro.
• Newcastle band Grannyfist's song "Filthy Old Soomka" is inspired by A Clockwork Orange
• Agoraphobic Nosebleed's 7" release A Clockwork Sodom, features artwork based on the movie poster.

New Wave

• The band The Shirts refer to "all you lovely Droogs" in the song "Poe" on their debut album in 1978
• The Edinburgh post-punk band The Scars recorded a song called "Horrorshow" as part of a double A-sided single that was released by the Fast label in 1979. It is almost a complete retelling of the Clockwork Orange novel, which was at the time a huge influence on lead singer Robert King, and its title is from the novel's slang term for good.
• The band Sigue Sigue Sputnik used both the word "ultraviolence" and samples from the film on their single 'Love Missile F1-11' in 1986, also adopting the film's imagery for their stage costumes and video clips. The band uses a great deal of references to the film and book, including using the film soundtrack to open their concerts. Their 1990 album The First Generation includes a song called "Ultraviolence". Many remixes of their songs, such as the 1986 remix of the song "Love Missile F1-11 (The DMX remix)" by Paul Dykene features other A Clockwork Orange references, including samples of the song "I want to Marry a Lighhouse Keeper."
• Heaven 17 derived their name from a list of new artists posted at a record store. Two girls ponder their choices including Heaven 17 or Goggly Gogol in a scene during the film.
• The Korova record label, major outlet for Liverpool band Echo & the Bunnymen, was named after a bar in the novel.
• The American rock band Billy Boy on Poison is named after the character of Billy Boy from "A Clockwork Orange".
• Rivetril a hungarian new-school/anhalt EBM band also has a song titled 'Ultraviolence' with lyrics about the film.

Punk

• The Punk Rock band Rancid has a song on the album B Sides & Csides called 'Clockwork Orange'. It makes vague references to the movie and book.
• Proto-Oi! band Cock Sparrer has a song called "Droogs Don't Run."
• English Punk Band, The Adicts dress in costume resembling that of the droogs.
• Blitz and Major Accident were other British punk bands that dressed in outfits resembling the droogs.
• Lower Class Brats, whose singer goes by the moniker Bones DeLarge, has maintained a theme of both the film and the book in the band's lyrics, merchandise and tattoos.
• The Ramones album Too Tough to Die features an instrumental called Durango 95 (named for a vehicle Alex drives in the film), and the album cover shows the band backlit at the mouth of a tunnel, echoing the film scene where Alex and his droogs attack a derelict.
• On the covers of their 1983 Blood Lust EP and 2004 CD Talking to the Dead, Rosemary's Babies vocalist J.R. is dressed as a droog. “Happy Song” describes rampaging youths, containing the lyrics "ultraviolence sex and death" as the chorus(track 3 on the EP, track 6 on the CD).
• In 1988, the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen released a concept album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (a reference to Alex's Nadsat phrase a bit of [the old] horrorshow [ultraviolence]). The members had been involved as musicians in a German stage production of A Clockwork Orange.'
  • The song "Here Comes Alex" by the band UK Subs is an English cover of the song "Hier Kommt Alex" from this album. This song refers to A Clockwork Orange several times, and the theme of the song echoes the theme of the movie. The original version of the song is also a playable song in the video games Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band (as DLC for the latter).
• The Skoidats' 1999 album, A Cure for What Ales You, contains a song called "The Night of the Droogs," with lines such as "The blood will flow like clockwork red." The chorus is "This is the night, the night of the droogs."
• There is an underground French punk band called Orange Mécanique, which is the French title of the movie.
• Manchester band The Fall had a song from their 1985 album This Nation's Saving Grace "To NK Roachment :Yarbles". 'Yarbles' appears in the book as nadsat for 'testicles'.
• The Birthday Party's 1982 song The Dim Locator is about a character called Dim. The line "Don't call me Dim!" is similar to that in the film "And don't call me Dim no more, either. Officer, call me."
• The band Horrorshow Destruction (hardcore punk / France) got their name from the book.
• The 4Skins have a song called "Clockwork Skinhead", one of the lyrics of which is "He's just a Clockwork Skin'ead and he's got no choice"
• A Czech bad named Degradace have a song called "Clockwork Orange".
• The French band Molodoi used the Clockwork Orange's imagery and dialect. A previous band, Bérurier Noir, of which members formed Molodoi, also used the lettering and themes of Kubrick's masterpiece.
• Rhode Island local punk band The Ultraviolence is named after the 'ultra-violent' acts committed by Alex and his droogs.
• English punk band UK Subs have a song called Here Comes Alex that references A Clockwork Orange.

Rock

The music video "Freaks" by the alternative music group, +Live+, has obvious references to Clockwork Orange.

• The single release U2's The Fly had a piece of music entitled Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1 from the score of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Clockwork Orange. The performance was scored by Bono and The Edge from U2.^[5]
• David Bowie's song "Suffragette City" (from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) includes the lyrics "Hey droogie don't crash here." In the Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars film, the pre- and post-concert music is from the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. The liner notes of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars features a photograph of Bowie and his band dressed in A Clockwork Orange paraphernalia.
• Rock band No Doubt have announced that their 2009 tour theme will be based on the modernism of A Clockwork Orange.
• The album Up The Bracket by British indie band The Libertines features a track titled Horrorshow.
• Clockwork Orange is the name of a progressive rock band from Bangalore, India.
• Clockwork Orange was a band that gigged in London in 1972, and the group was intentionally modeled on the film. The group featured John Butler of Diesel Park West on vocals at one time, as well as keyboard player Mick Bolton from Mott the Hoople.
• There was a surf rock band in the 1960s called The Clockwork Oranges.
• The song Ludvico Drive-In by the band At the Drive-In is a reference to A Clockwork Orange's fictional treatment.
• The music video for British band Blur's single "The Universal" is inspired by A Clockwork Orange. In the video, the band members dress up as Alex and his droogies.
• British band Muse dress up as Alex and his droogs for the album Hullabaloo Soundtrack.
• The Polish band Myslovitz had released an album entitled Korova Milky Bar.
• The song Clockwork Orange by polish band Bachor is all about Alex.
• Drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, inspired by the film, dressed in a bowler hat and a white jumpsuit for a 1975 Madison Square Garden performance. Additionally, Robert Plant introduced Bonham at concerts as "Mr. Ultraviolence" during the 1975 Led Zeppelin tour.
• The commemorative tee shirts from the Mick Ronson Memorial Concert in London in 1994 featured a Clockwork Orange-inspired design. It features the familiar triangle artwork and lettering style, but with Ronson holding his guitar instead of Alex holding his knife.
• Murdoc Niccals of the British band Gorillaz claimed to have once played bass guitar for a band called "Durango 95". He later goes on to explain that he named the band after the car Alex drove in the movie.
• Still in Gorillaz, the same scene (Alex driving your car) was the main inspiration of 19-2000 video clip.
• A music video for New Zealand band Shihad titled 'Pacifier' is inspired by A Clockwork Orange. In the video, the band members dress up as Alex and his droogies where they reenact scenes from the film.
• In Blur's music video for their single "The Universal". Damon Albarn is Alex and the rest of the band are his droogs. The set of the music video is supposed to be the Milkbar.
• Panic at the Disco's music video style for their first album is reminiscent of the that of Alex and his drooges'. And Brendon can be seen wearing a bowler hat similar to that of Alex.
• The 1982 song "Uno, Dos, Ultraviolento" ("One, Two Ultraviolence") by Argentinian rock band Los Violadores uses Spanish translations of words taken from Nadsat, among which are "drugo" (droog), "militso" (millicents), "grudos" (groodies) and "drencrom".
• Powerman 5000 features a song called "Horror Show" on their 2009 album Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere, referring to the movies that Alex had to watch during his treatment.

Electronic Music and dance pop

• Cygnus X does The Orange Theme based on the movie's theme.
• The 1980s British electropop band Heaven 17 took their name from a band in the book.
• British dance act Moloko's name was adopted from Nadsat, a term invented by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, referring to a milk drink with admixed drugs.
• The gypsy folk band DeVotchKa also named themselves after a Nadsat word meaning "girl".
• Kylie Minogue's "Fever tour" in 2002 featured the thematic set "Droogie Nights", which was strongly influenced by A Clockwork Orange. Minogue and her dancers were dressed like Alex and his gang. The set's official story mentioned "Clockwork Orange", and was based on the plot of the movie.
• In 2005, Stereo Total of Germany turned the film's title music into their song "Orange mécanique".
• Electric Hellfire Club, a mock-Satanic industrial/dance band, features a song entitled "Ultraviolence", replete with sound effects from the film, on their 1996 Cleopatra release "Calling Dr. Luv".
• There was a synth/dance/techno/pop band from the Flint, Michigan area known as UltraViolence.
• German DJ Paul Van Dyk dress up as Alex in the music video "White Lies"(featuring Jessica Sutta).
• The video for Unklejam's 'Stereo' is heavily influenced by the Korovo Milk Bar
• Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy incorporate samples from the film in the song "Rivers" on Rabies (album).
• Lady GaGa has used a remix version of the title theme for live performances and video content.
• New Order has a song titled "Ultraviolence".
• The record "Deimos says: Clockwork" by Dutch techno artist Deimos featuring the track "Good Old Ultraviolence"
• Popular House artist, Deadmau5, created his own adaptation of the movie's theme; calling it simply, "Clockwork."

Television

• The popular cartoon series The Simpsons contains frequent references to the film version of A Clockwork Orange.^[6][7] In several episodes, Bart is portrayed as Alex DeLarge from the movie.
  • In the episode "Dog of Death", Smithers props Santa's Little Helper's eyes open and forces him to watch a sequence of destructive scenes set to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, a la the Ludovico Technique. Santa's Little Helper transforms from playful and friendly to vicious and violent, the opposite reaction of Alex.
  • In the episode "Duffless", Bart reaches for cupcakes placed by a vengeful Lisa, copying the extreme high and low angle shots used in the film when Alex reaches for the woman's breasts. Due to Lisa's conditioning, Bart then falls shivering on the floor, similar to how Alex begins reacting.
  • In the episode "Treehouse of Horror III", Bart dresses up as Alex for a Halloween party.
  • In the episode "A Streetcar Named Marge", Bart states "I have a pain in me gulliver" almost directly quoting Alex.
  • In the episode "Homer the Smithers", Mr. Burns is lying in bed in a body cast, chewing loudly and pausing his speech for Smithers to spoon-feed him, in a direct allusion to the closing scene in the film when the Minister of the Interior feeds Alex in his hospital bed.

• In Teen Titans, Malcolm McDowell (who portrayed Alex DeLarge in the film) voiced Mad Mod, a recurring villain who used technological illusions and brainwashing techniques. His appearances have included several nods to A Clockwork Orange, including a scene in the episode bearing his name where Starfire was attempting to resist a brainwashing that was strongly similar to the Ludovico Technique; her eyes were held open by the chair restraining her in front of a hypnotism screen.

• The Goodies' episode "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", in which Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor roam the streets dressed in rabbit suits styled after Alex's mode of dress (including the mascara on one eye) and beat people at random with giant carrots.

• In The Mighty Boosh, in the "Electro" episode, the band Vince joins is called Kraftwerk Orange. He also wears a droog-like outfit when performing.

• In the LOST episode "Not in Portland", one of the characters is subjected to the same sort of brainwashing/aversion therapy techniques in Cell #23, which is the same numbered room in which Alex gets his therapy.

• In the British program Star Stories, which parodies famous celebrities, one episode has Michael Douglas suffering from an addiction to sex. His rehabilitation involves him being forced to watch a sexual scene (to the sound of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) whilst being physically beaten.

• The character of Zim from Jhonen Vasquez's Invader Zim is conceptually similar to Alex and in the memorable episode "Parent Teacher Night", forces the roboparents to watch a parental guidance video, attaching them to chairs, and noticeably holding their eyes open with devices similar to those in the movie.

• In Yes, Dear, Kim trashes a truck with a tire iron while whistling "Singing In The Rain".

• In the Doug episode "Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo St.", Porkchop ties up Doug's hands and opens his eyes, parodying the Ludovico technique in the film.

• In the Duckman episode "I, Duckman", Cornfed is imprisoned in Duckman's attic and is forced to watch home movies where Duckman takes on the personae of various cartoon characters from Mickey Mouse to Homer Simpson, all the while rigged in a similar fashion to Alex.

• In the Disney cartoon series Recess, the preppy girl group The Ashleys find out that tomboy Spinelli has the first name of Ashley and is therefore "one of us" (which they chant in a way referencing the old classic horror film Freaks). As part of her conditioning, Spinelli is tied to a chair by the Ashleys, her eyelids scotch-taped open, as she is forced to watch a My Little Pony-type cartoon.

• Alex Delarge himself appears briefly in the straight-to-DVD director's cut of the South Park Imaginationland trilogy, as one of the many characters to come from the evil half of Imaginationland.

• In the VH1 television series I Hate My Thirties, there is an episode in which the characters of Carole and Chad babysit the ill behaved son of the character called Travis. For a brief moment he is seen dressed as Alex while cutting the curtains with a box cutter.

• In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Super Trivia", Frylock straps Meatwad and Master Shake in front of his computer in the style of the Ludovico Technique so they can answer trivia questions.

• In the Comedy Central television series Lil' Bush, which parodies the life of George Bush and other political figures, Jeb Bush, who is portrayed as an animal-like, brain dead person, receives a knock on the head, and becomes intelligent. He is later subjected to a Ludovico type experiment, that is even referenced as part of A Clockwork Orange, to turn him dumb again.

• In the opening title of the cartoon Robot Chicken, a chicken is strapped down with its eyelids forced open in front of dozens of TV sets.

• In the second season episode of Sledge Hammer!, "A Clockwork Hammer", criminals try to neutralize Sledge Hammer through a variation of the Ludovico Treatment. It is unsuccessful, despite having worked on others before - Sledge loves all the violence he is shown, and asks for a copy of the videotape: "I take VHS!"

• In the fourth season of The O.C., Julie Cooper tells her daughter Kaitlin, "I can't have you running around like Miss Clockwork Orange!" after Kaitlin is found stealing clothes from a clothing drive.

• On an episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert mentions A Clockwork Orange as part of a series of patterns he used to predict the winning nominees of the 2009 Academy Awards.

• In an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide Ned is forced to watch a video teaching him to say No, while listening to Beethoven's 9th with his eyes taped open with scotch tape, parodying the Ludovico technique in the film.

• In an episode of The PJs Thurgood is in a full body cast. The President of HUD is feeding him as he cuts a deal.

• There have been several references to the film on South Park:
  • In the episode "Helen Keller the Musical", Cartman closes his eyes and sees a series of strange images, just like Alex in the film.
  • The episode "Tsst" revolves around transforming Cartman's violent character into complete submissiveness, only to have that reversed in the end. The closing shot depicts Cartman smiling viciously into the camera, with classical chants in the background, in a similar manner to the film's ending.
  • In the episode "Dances With Smurfs", Cartman's book says Wendy likes "the old in-out," which is what Alex often refers to as rape.

• In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life Spunky is harassed by a gang of dogs that throw away his collar leading him to be picked up by the pound, the leader of the gang has black makeup on one eye and wears a bowler derby like Alex.
• In the spanish series Aida, the Mauricio's character is disappointed with the A Clockwork Orange’s DVD, because it doesn't talk anything about the legendary Netherlands national football team.
• On Phineas and Ferb Gets Busted, they were forced to remove their imageation by sitting in chairs,with their eyes held open by the chair restraining.

Films

The film version of A Clockwork Orange immediately revolutionized the science fiction film genre, opening the way for other films to portray elaborate dystopian narratives and to intelligently analyze social dilemmas. Many film directors have borrowed themes and cinematic techniques from the film.^[1] The film is an essential part of modern cinema and films often reference it.^[8]

• Heath Ledger said he based his portrayal of The Joker on Alex DeLarge.^{[citation needed]}

• Films directed by David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino have copied A Clockwork Orange's very ambiguous and complex central character.^[1]

• Films that use similar cinematic techniques to A Clockwork Orange include A Boy and His Dog, THX 1138, and Westworld.^[1]

• The torture scene in Reservoir Dogs being set to "Stuck in the Middle With You" was described by Quentin Tarantino in an interview as a direct reference to the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex kicks the writer and rapes his wife to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain". A Clockwork Orange is also referenced at the beginning of the film when all the men are walking in slow motion, as Alex and his droogs did.^[9][10]

• In Gangster No. 1 Malcolm McDowell, the actor who played Alex in the film version, plays his character of a gangster as an older version of Alex.^[11]

• In the Coen Brothers film Fargo, Carl says he's in town for "just a little of the ol' in-and-out," a direct quote from Alex. In Raising Arizona, another movie by the Coens, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" is heard in the film score - only this time as a bluegrass banjo tune, to fit with the general mood of the picture.

• In Queer Duck: The Movie, the lead character undergoes therapy similar to the Ludovico treatment to "cure" his homosexuality. He is forced to watch films with his eyes clamped open. However at the end he reveals that he would like a copy because it's a "less gay version of A Clockwork Orange."

• There is a pornographic movie, entitled A Clockwork Orgy, starring Kaitlyn Ashley. In this version, Alex is a female (Alexandra), the Korova is just a regular, run-of-the-mill bar, and there is no prison chaplain.

• In the 2004 film Mean Girls, Cady Heron cuts holes in the breast areas of Regina George's shirt while she's in the gym showers, which is a reference to Alex cutting holes in the author's wife's shirt in the same spot before he rapes her.

• In the film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Jack Black, trying to sleep on a park bench, is assaulted by a gang which are dressed as the Droogs. As the Droogs approach Jack, the first note from the main theme plays. One of the Droogs fails to speak with an English accent and is hit by a fellow gang member. They beat Jack Black up and then run off on their own, allowing Kyle Gass to approach Jack who is half unconscious and take credit for the gang's running off.

• In Richard E. Grant's film Wah-Wah, the main character, Grant himself as a child, has his life changed by watching a late night screening of A Clockwork Orange. This acts as a turning point in his life, symbolized by the image of Alex's face superimposed over Grant's.

• In the 1997 Batman & Robin, the characters Barbara Wilson (Alicia Silverstone) and Dick Grayson (Chris O'Donnell) go to one of the seedier areas of Gotham to race. One of the gangs present in this area wears the same costumes as those worn by Alex and his 'droogs.'

• In the mobile phone network Orange's cinema only advert for their offer "Orange Wednesdays" the script features a play on words, saying that it comes around every wednesday with the orange network - leading the audience to believe the offer will be called clockwork orange, until the real title Orange Wednesdays is released.

Sports

• Professional wrestler Scott Levy, more commonly known as Raven, is noted as popularizing the Clockwork Orange House of Fun Match, a variation of a hardcore match used exclusively in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. A variation of the film's logo was used to advertise such a match on the June 18, 2009 edition of TNA IMPACT!
• The Princeton University ultimate teams are known as "Clockwork Orange." The team disc features a recreation of Alex's unique eye makeup. Additionally, the letters "CO" are visible in the pupil, and use the same font that is seen on the film posters.
• In Wrestling Society X, Ring Announcer Fabian Kaelin (Ryan Katz) often dressed up like Alex, with the derby hat, suspenders, old-fashioned clothes, and the eye make-up. Also, WSX ran a storyline where Team Dragon Gate were brainwashed in a Ludivico Technique-type fashion.
• The film inspired the name for the Italian football team Juventus FC's ultra group who are called The Drughi (The Droogs in Italian language).
• The professional wrestling promotion Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) uses the term ultraviolent in reference to their brand of hardcore wrestling.
• Also the professional wrestling promotion Ken Folk Wrestling has a wrestler that uses the term "ultra-violence" as part of his call name "The King of Ultra-Violence" Issac Cain.
• When the Dutch national soccer team is doing well in a game, commentators will often refer to their success as "clockwork orange". A phrase that works on several levels, it obviously draws its title from the film, but also indicates that things are going 'like clockwork' (meaning things are going well) and recognizes the fact that the Dutch team typically wears bright orange jerseys during their games.

Games

• The opening scene of Conker's Bad Fur Day for Nintendo 64 is a parody of A Clockwork Orange intro. It has the same music and also starts with a first shot of the face of the main character, Conker The Squirrel, with an evil grin, holding a glass of milk, sitting in a throne surrounded by several characters from the game. While camera moves back, enlarging the view of the scene, Conker starts to tell his story and introduces himself.

• In the game Kingdom of Loathing, A Clockwork Orange is referenced in the form of the Clockwork Grapefruit item.

• One of the difficulty settings in the game Doom is "Ultra-violence".

• The character White from Fatal Fury seems to be based on the main character of the novel.

• Before the first mission on The Getaway: Black Monday one of the characters say "I want this to run like clockwork, not a clockwork bloody orange"

• In the first level of Duke Nukem 64 on the wall opposite the snack bar is a poster for the film titled "Come Get Some" which looks the same as the poster for the film.

• In Grand Theft Auto IV there's an Addiction Level based on your game playing time. One of these levels is "Ready for the old Ultra-Violence".

• In the game Worms World Party, there is a worm called A Clockworm Orange.

• In The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis, the final battle with The Mad Hatter features the character with Alex's unique make-up under the right eye.

• On the virtual pet site Misticpets, there is an item called Clockwork Pomme, with eye makeup and a bowler hat similar to Alex's.

Locations

• The Korova Milk Bar in New York City references the bar from A Clockwork Orange, and even features décor similar to that of the movie, as well as milk and ice-cream themed drinks.
• The Korova Milk Bar in Bourke Street, Melbourne also references the bar from the film, with similar décor and milk themed drinks soon to be added to their bar menu.
• The Glasgow Subway in Glasgow, Scotland is referred by locals as The Clockwork Orange. This is because the trains are bright orange and the system is circular. It is mentioned in the Iain Banks book Espedair Street, which also refers to the "clockwork orange pub crawl."

References

Further reading

• Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange by Stuart Y. McDougal Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN 0521574889
• Ludovico's Cure. On Body and Music in "A Clockwork Orange" by Gianfranco Marrone, Legas publisher, 2009

External links

• * A Clockwork Orange Media Mentions and pictures

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