A Clockwork Orange
written by Stanley Kubrick, from the novel by Anthony Burgess

Alex: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie Boy and Dim. And we sat in the Korova Milk Bar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold milk plus - 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. (the Droogs approach a drunken bum slurring/singing "Molly Malone") One thing I could never stand is to see a filthy old drunky 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.
Bum: Can you spare some cutter me brothers? Oh, go on do me in ya 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?
Bum: It's a stinking world cause there's no law and order any more. It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you've done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What kind 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. "Oh dear dear land I fought for thee...!"
(Alex and his three droogs laugh and begin to beat up the old man with various weapons.)

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