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How did the first rape victim end up on the stage with the billyboys??

posted 9 years ago by user-169-360487
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It just strikes me as weird it seems that they did not carry her on stage but she was voluntarily meeting them up on stage, otherwise why would they carry her on stage to undress her isn't it the worst location for a gang rape especially consider it's wide open to the outside world??

[–] superspygoestowar 9 years ago

I assume they chose the derelict casino because it was so run-down it would usually be deserted---but I agree it is not explained how the victim was enticed/tricked into ending up there with them.

[–] boloyolo 9 years ago

It's sure effective, isn't that the point with Kubrick, symbolism. They all put on a show.

[–] CapnKaos 9 years ago

Who's to say they weren't chasing her, she ran in there to hide and that's where they caught her?

Kubrick is known for a lot of things and rarely is anything in his movie done for no reason. The reason for them doing this on the stage, and Alex and his droogs in the darkness of the auditorium, is that they're putting on a show for the audience.

Sometimes the "why" in Kubrick isn't as important as the "what" as in "what does it mean".

[–] MichaelTheBicycle123 9 years ago

The billyboys wanted a real horrorshow, going on stage is the symbolism of that.

[–] CapnKaos 9 years ago

The billyboys wanted a real horrorshow, going on stage is the symbolism of that.

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Do you know what "horrorshow" means in Nadsat? Do you even know what Nadsat is?

Nadsat was the language that the droogs and Alex spoke. It was something that Anthony Burgess came up with and was a mixture of Enlgish, Russian and Cockney Rhyming Slang. As such horrorshow came from the Russian word "khorosho" meaning "good" or "well".

It's used in the example in the movie, "The Durango '95 purred away real horrorshow. A nice warm vibratey feeling all through your gutty-wuts".

Now think back to what you said about it, that it's some sort of "horror show" which it isn't unless you happen to be the young devotchka on stage.

[–] MichaelTheBicycle123 8 years ago

Yeah I've read the book, and the movie is a favorite of mine. I was just doing a "play" off the word horrorshow.