The Ludvig Maxis Technique

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A famous novel written in 1962 written by William Heinemann known as 'A Clockwork Orange' is a story set in a near dystopian future where society is full of extreme youth violence. The protagonist, Alex who is a teenager is reformed in the novel and talks about his experiences. One method of reforming him was known as the Ludovico technique.

 

The Ludovico technique is a form of aversion therapy. The therapy involves making the patient watch violent images for long periods of time, while being forced to have their eyes open via a specula. Also, they were given drugs to induce nausea, paralysis and fear. Eventually, the patients would experience severe nausea when causing, experiencing or thinking about violence. This means they then have an aversion to violent behavior, hence aversion therapy. In the 1971 movie, Alex is subjected to the Ludovico technique and as a result gets an aversion to violence. But, he also gains an aversion to the background score that is playing to the images. The background score is Beethoven's ninth sympathy. Ludovico is the Italian translation for Ludwig, as in Ludwig Beethoven.

 

Image of specula for reference

 

Now by now I imagine you are wondering what this has to do with anything. For those who may have caught on already, the Ludovico technique seems to have some correlations to our story. The first link that I had found was with Kino der Toten. This was where Maxis had tried to control the undead, as Richtofen put it: "Doctor Maxis almost had his undead army, if only he could have broken the trust barrier." "Those seats, that screen, they wanted to implant the mind with instructions!"

 

Also, the audio reels suggest that Maxis was trying to control the undead through an aversion therapy using the projections in Kino der Toten. The images we see on the screen to me, suggest a method was being used to control the undead much like the Ludovico technique. To me, the idea of controlling the undead using this method makes sense, but I think that the influence Maxis tried to use was to make the undead not only averted to violence, but also open to following the orders of whoever Maxis wanted, yet again through the use of the Ludovico technique. Aside from this, I have other reasons to believe the events happening at Kino der Toten were linked to the Ludovico technique. One of which I have referenced in the title. It was Ludvig Maxis who was conducting these experiments, though he isn't named Ludwig it is still a very close and coincidental name to Ludwig which translates to Ludovico. I by no means think that Maxis' name was inspired by the Ludovico technique, but I just see that as either a coincidence or possibly the reason for why Maxis was the one who set out to control the undead in this manner, not Richtofen.

 

Not only is Kino der Toten a strong link to this theory, but Nacht der Untoten as well. The Black Ops loading screen for it depicts somebody seemingly training and conditioning the undead.  In this example they watch screens, which could be an example of the beginnings of Maxis using the Ludovico technique.

 

 

 

After this, I cannot really infer anything about the subject. I do not know if this is important in any way or whether it is just a nice little thing to know, but either way this has been my Ludovico technique analysis. I hope it at least interested people or at the most could spark other theories.

[InfestLithium]

Never heard of this technique, but I suppose I'm familiar with the forcing of images into the mind ordeal. No doubt that was happening during the zombie-controlling process. That's crazy interesting friendo! Good catch.