I ask you friends. What's it going to be then? Is it going to be in and out of institutions like this?Or more in then out for most of you? Or are you going to attend the divine word and realise the punishment that awaits unrepentant sinners in the next world as well as this. A lot of Idiots you are, selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge. The urge to live easy. I ask you friends, is it worth it? When we have undeniable proof – yes, my friends, incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists. I know, I know, my friends. I have been informed in visions that there is a place darker than any prison, hotter than any human flame of fire, where unrepentant criminals, sinners like yourselves...
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
PRIEST
A screenplay character in A Clockwork Orange (1971).
- lines
- 17
- words
- 433
- scenes
- 3
- dialogue
- 3.9%
- avg words / line
- 25
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 131
Sample dialogue
I ask you friends. What's it going to be then? Is it going to be in and out of institutions like this?Or more in then out for most of you? Or are you going to attend the divine word and realise the punishment that awaits unrepentant sinners in the next world as well as this. A lot of Idiots you are, selling your birthright for a saucer of cold porridge. The urge to live easy. I ask you friends, is it worth it? When we have undeniable proof – yes, my friends, incontrovertible evidence that Hell exists. I know, I know, my friends. I have been informed in visions that there is a place darker than any prison, hotter than any human flame of fire, where unrepentant criminals, sinners like yourselves...
scene 26 — INT. PRISON CHAPEL – DAYYou have, my son.
scene 28 — EXT. BIBLICAL STREETSeek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them, because their minds studieth robberies and their lips speak deceits.
scene 28 — EXT. BIBLICAL STREETWhere did you hear about this? Whose been talking about these things?
scene 28 — EXT. BIBLICAL STREETThe question is weather or not this technique really makes a man good. Goodness comes from within. Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
scene 28 — EXT. BIBLICAL STREET
Bookends
Choice! The boy has no real choice, has he? Self interest, fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.