User blog:Battlefan237/Halloween Part II - Human Horror:Alex Delarge vs. Jack Torrance



In this year's halloween section for human horror, two iconic representations of human nature's dark side are selected from Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces and pitted against each other. Alex DeLarge, the eccentric and violent teenage street brawler of Dystopian London whose fate at the hands of his supposed saviors left us wondering whether a man should have the freedom to be evil  ; Jack Torrance, failed author whose desire to achieve success allowed demonic forces of a cursed hotel to transform him into a murder machine. '''Who is the deadliest ? '''

Alex DeLarge


"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar 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."

- Alex DeLarge

"I was cured all right!"

- Alex DeLarge

Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of "Droogs" partake in acts of "ultraviolence" on a nightly basis; robbing, assaulting and even raping innocent members of the public for their own sick amusement.

While robbing the house of a wealthy woman he is knocked out by one of his fellow gang members and left to be found by the police and is convicted of murder, as he unknowingly beat the woman to death when assaulting her. After several years in jail he is recommended for a revolutionary new treatment designed to eliminate criminal impulses by conditioning the participant to feel nauseating sickness at the mere thought of violence.

The treatment appears to be a success and Alex has his prison time commuted to time served and is released but he soon finds himself unable to adapt to society and is brutalised by his former victims and gang members, his treatment preventing him from defending himself. After he attempts suicide after being drugged and subjected to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by a former victim (the piece played to Alex during his treatment) he is given a high paying job by the government as compensation for the failure of his treatment. Little do they realise that the treatment has worn off and he is now back to his old sociopathic self, ready to commit even more crimes.And this is where the film ends.

In the novel,however,he eventually assembles a new gang. But after meeting Pete, a former gang member of his, Alex learned that he had reformed. Because of this encounter, he began to take less pleasure in ultraviolence and began to considering retiring from his life of crime to start a family.

Weapon

 * Signature-Sword-Cane: At first glance this is a normal cane and on most occasions Alex indeed uses this as a normal bludgeoning weapon. However, the handle can be detached, revealing an approximately ten to fifteen-inch long blade attached to it. Alex keeping the knife component a secret, only to bring it out at a key moment as a nasty surprise for his opponent.
 * Backup - Small razor blade & Usage of Environment:Alex has an additional razor blade in his pocket. It is quite small in size and requires close distance to take effect. Apart from his standard weapons, Alex is a master of using the environment, constanly picking up random items from the environment to attack his opponents. Note that according to the movie there aren't many things for him to pick up in the corridor & garden maze, but there are certainly a lot of things for him to use in main hall & banquet room, such as chairs & glass bottles.
 * Ignorable - Crotch Armor:Alex wears an underwear-shaped armor on his crotch to protect his....groin, essentially.

Jack Torrance


"Here's Johnny!"

- Jack Torrance

A writer that was hired as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Jack Torrance took the job for the pay and the chance of solitude for a chance to better his writing. Despite being warned about the former owner killing himself and his family after succumbing to cabin fever, Torrance decides to move his family out with him. His son Danny, who'd he'd harmed while binge drinking, starts to have violent hallucinations, and his wife Wendy questions a doctor about Danny's psychological health. A staff member, Hallorann, consoles Danny and explains his psychic abilities.

A month into the job, Torrance's writing has made no progress. Wendy becomes increasingly worried about the phone lines going out due to heavy snow, and Jack starts to have violent outbursts. Jack falls asleep while writing, but suddenly awakens and tells a worried Wendy he dreamed about killing her and Danny. Meanwhile, Danny stumbles in with a bruise on his neck and Wendy accuses Jack of beating him. Frustrated at the accusation, Torrance goes into the Gold Room of the hotel and shares a drink with a ghostly bartender, Lloyd.

Torrance and Wendy argue over taking Danny to the doctor, and he angrily storms back into the Gold Room. There, the ghost of former manager Charles Grady tells Jack he must "correct" his wife and child, and Torrance, gone entirely mad with cabin fever, agrees. Sabotaging the snowmobile and radio, Jack confronts Wendy and tries to kill her before getting knocked out and locked in the cabinet.

Grady, despite his doubts, lets Torrance escape to try and kill them again. Torrance grabs a fire axe, and starts to break through the bathroom where Wendy has locked herself in. He manages to break through, but stops when he hears the snowcat of Hallorman. Torrance surprises Hallorman, killing him. Torrance later pursues his son in the hedge maze of the Overlook Hotel, but loses him in the pursuit. Torrance, unable to escape the maze, freezes to death while Wendy and Danny escape on Hallorman's snowcat.

Weapon

 * SIgnature - Fire Axe: Jack's murder weapon of choice when he goes berserk is a Fire Axe. It is three foot long and weighs 10lbs with an axe head and a sharp point on the reverse side.
 * Backup - Ghostly Assistance：Jack will be assissted in this battle by the ghost of the Overlook Hotel. While they cannot directly harm Alex they have full control over the hotel and are able to do things like open and close doors as need be. They can also create apperations to try confuse, disorientate or scare Jason such as when the ghost of a woman who died in the hotel attacked Danny Torrance. They can also appear to Jack to give him encouragement or advice should he need it.  For the purpose of this battle, the Ghost bartender Loyld wil be present - he assists Jack through encourgement and making slight adjustments to the environment (I.E. locking up doors, unlocking doors, slight movement of furniture). The ghosts of a man in bear costume, a guest without his pants, two dead girls and a banquet guest with his bald head covered with blood will appear as well - they assist Jack through suddenly appearing out of nowhere/making eerie noises/behaving bizarrely to spook Alex. If Alex somehow enters room 237, the lady in the bathtud will appear to him in a her deceiving form as a beautiful young female. Upon walking towards Alex, she'll reveal her true form as a rotted corpse - but she can't directly harm Alex and won't encounter Alex if Alex doesn't the room.

Physicality
Alex DeLarge is an energetic youth. He is usually the most active one in a street fight, constantly outmanuvering youths of similar built and showing feats of above-average speed, reflexes and durability.He also possesses amazing strength for his skinny built, judging from the fact that his kick sent Dim (a remarkably larger individual) flying into the river. Jack Torrance is a middle-aged man with little exercise due to his drinking problem and career as a writer. However, after being affected by the Hotel's evil spirits, he demonstrated feats of high pain tolerance,high endurance, durability and above-average strength - he tanked damages from kitchen knife stabs and remained active in the maze for an awful long time before succumbing to the cold.

Experience
Alex Delarge is a very experienced street brawler, having lead his gang through countless assaults, robberies and gang duels with other gangs.Judging from their pride in themselves and the way they quickly dismantled Billy's gang (a knife-armed gang of German teenagers), it can be assumed that Alex and his friends achieved great success in their activities. However, note that Alex is a total stranger to supernatural oocurances. Jack Torrance was a normal-ass writer before incidents at the hotel, and has virtually no experience of fighting others aside from injuring Danny boy when he's drunk.

Intelligence
Both warriors are far from genius and rely mostly on impulses & blind rage.

Determination & Brutality
Alex DeLarge is just a street thug. He steals, he fights, he rapes and he crashes, but he never actively goes for the killing blow. Most of his assaults are intended to hurt others badly, but not to kill others.And his only kill was a result of him being extremely angered by the victim's retaliation and being made anxious by sirens. When things don't go as planned, Alex might flee like other thugs.It's safe to say that Alex won't get his hands dirty unless he is deeply frustrated or angered by the situation. Jack, on the other hand, is actively out there seeking for people to kill and won't stop until he kills them all.

Psychological warfare
Alex, while obnovious, is pretty straightforward in fighting, trying to make himself imposing through shouting,yelling, dancing, jumping, or singing Singing in the Rain in a twisted way. As for Jack, while he himself isn't very subtle in his approach, the ghosts of hotel overlook will make sure that Jack's victim will be intimidated or at least bewildered by their presence through appearing randomly, example being the blood-covered ghost carrying a glass of wine appearing in front of Wendy and shouting "Great party, isn't it ?" when she ran away from Jack and the bear costume ghost performing oral sex on a ghost guest in front of Danny.

Battle
After murdering cat lady and being knocked out by Dim, Alex woke up to find himself in the Overlook Hotel. And Jack, the caretaker, isn't too happy about the sudden presence of a stranger. Thus he decided to hunt him down. The battle starts on the corridor where room 237 is located, with each warrior positioned on one side, but the warriors are free to move to the main hall, the banquet room, or the garden maze. Note that among all the rooms only room 237 will be open. This battle will likely end in a fight to death.