While walking over to his girlfriend""s small-town bungalow house with the modest gift, he took out his pen and changed he price-tag (on the rear of the box) from $1 dollar to a higher value of $4 dollars, to impressively pretend that he was richer than he actually was.Originally rated X,A Clockwork Orangewas nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Screenplay, but was defeated in each category by William Friedkin""sThe French Connection (1971).The racist, close-minded rancher (and proud member of the ruling elite) had finally proven to his equally-stubborn feminist wife, a champion for the rights of the downtrodden Mexicans, that he had evolved in his thinking and hadn""t failed in life.She told him she still couldn""t sleep very well, although she wanted to be awake for different reasons: "I have more reasons to stay awake now.