How many to a cell?
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
MINISTER
A screenplay character in A Clockwork Orange (1971).
- lines
- 31
- words
- 1,038
- scenes
- 3
- dialogue
- 9.4%
- avg words / line
- 33
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 232
Sample dialogue
I can tell you that I... and the Government of which I am a member are deeply sorry about this, my boy. Deeply sorry. We tried to help you. We followed recommendations had been made to us that turned out to be wrong. An enquiry will place the responsibility where it belongs. We want you to regard us as friends. We've put you right, you're getting the best of treatments. We never wished you harm, but there are some that did and do, and I think you know who those are. There are certain people who wanted to use you for political ends. People who would have been glad to have you dead because then they would have been able to blame it all on the Governement. I think you know who those are. There is also a certain man – a writer of subversive literature – who has been howling for your blood. He's been mad with desire to stick a knife into you, but you're safe from him now, we've put him away. He found out that you had done wrong to him – at least he believed you had done wrong. He had formed this idea in his head that you had been responsible for the death of someone near and dear to him. We put him away for his own protection... I'm sorry, I thought you were ready.
scene 58 — INT. HOSPITAL – DAYWho said that?
scene 31 — EXT. PRISON YARDLet's hope you make the most of it, my boy.
scene 31 — EXT. PRISON YARDGood evening, my boy.
scene 58 — INT. HOSPITAL – DAYWe always help our friends, don't we?
scene 58 — INT. HOSPITAL – DAY
Bookends
One I think you will like... as a, how shall I put it, as a symbol of our new understanding. An understanding between two friends.