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Translated and adapted from EDMOND ROSTAND by ANTHONY BURGESS...
...unwritten epilogue to A Clockwork Orange. The 35-year-old man in the witness box could resemble an aged Alex, back in the public spotlight after a few years hidden from scrutiny. But somehow, the romanticized notion of brain transformation that Kubrick served up on the screen and Burgess depicted--to a lesser extent--in his novel seemed far away from the austere chambers of the Wayne County courtroom...
...Burgess said that the response of youth to the book had made it possible for a film to be made. He added that before Stanley Kubrick, the director, decided to make the film, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones had expressed a great interest in directing and acting in the film...
...Burgess said that although Kubrick had created a great visual work, he failed to realize many of the philosophical ideas behind the book. "The plot that Kubrick saw occurring in the future, I saw occurring in the present or even the past," he said...
...Burgess added that the film fails to explain the title to the viewer, and has a sensuous quality that he finds repulsive...