Cronenberg on Cronenberg 

+cinematographos Thank you!

+cinematographos cheers!

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rlfstr I love that movie!! My first introduction to his work.

+Jin Kazama Me too. I never knew these things before

hi

Oh yeah along with shivers the fly the dead zone the fly videodrome the brood nightbreed scanners.🖤😆

Donald Waits : Judging from your comment, I assume you're already quite familiar with his body of work. If you've already seen " Crash " I highly recommend you read the book by J.G.Ballard. I read the book first, and although I did enjoy David's film I was a bit letdown. It may have been because I read Ballard's book about 10 years before the movie was made so, I'm sure my preconceived notions played a part in that. So, If you've already watched the movie I think you'll really dig the book. D.C. is easily one of my all-time fave directors. And, I agree with your assessment of the interview. Ciao!

The interviewer doesn't even have a microphone

@@markusforsberg6741Dead Ringers...Naked Lunch? -Nightbreed directed by Clive Barker...Cronenberg acted in it and Jason X. His son's movie...The Possessor was disturbingly amazing too

i realize I'm kind of randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to watch newly released movies online ?

LOL, I wrongly remembered it as "Soon, all of us will have special needs," which eerily mirrors the extreme rise in autism which mimics the Body Changes Cronenberg delves into.

Count Floyds Chiller Horror Theatre 3000 extreme rise in autism?

And we have become soft here in the U.S...and desensitized to extreme violence..this movie predicted alot and here we are.

that's a line lifted directly from Marshall McLuhan, who was one of the inspirations behind the philosophy of that film

well he does. according to him, you really learn by watching movies which he makes. so technically, he does teach film.

@@genuineletterthat’s not formal teaching which he was referring to

if you listen to him I think he is implying just what I said. At least I dont think Cronenberg is a very formal guy education wise, but thats just my opinion.@@knownpleasures

Well, let's all agree David Cronenberg is one of the best modern filmmakers of our time, yes

long live the new flesh.

I once had an idea for a movie that I could see Cronenberg directing. It was something like a crime-drama mixed with a murder-mystery thriller. Something like The Departed meets Se7en or Criminal Minds (TV series) meets The Shield (TV series) but as a movie. The story centered two female protagonists in their late twenties to early thirties. One woman was a straight-laced and brilliant FBI agent who is assigned to recruit and lead an elite team of special agents to track down and capture a cunning yet highly-intelligent serial killer who starts targeting her and her team when they get too close to his tail. The other woman is a hard edged and unorthodox DEA agent who goes rogue by going undercover and infiltrating a notorious crime-boss' organization and uses illegal and unethical tactics to destroy his empire including igniting a war between his gang and the other crime families of the city. Her ultimate goal is to kill him and his crew in retribution for her murdered son who she believes he's responsible for. The two young women's lives and investigations eventually collide and they both begin to realize that their cases are somehow connected to each other. What do you think about that? Do think it's a kinda film that Cronenberg would direct?

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Maybe later Cronenberg. But idk It feels more like a Michael Mann/William Friedkin movie which, trust me, is a compliment.

all very fine directors in my opinion. i just love cronenburg's choice of framing, style of edits, angles, and practical effects and actors. he cares about character stories and high concept art. i love this guy!

Have you seen videos of him when he was younger? He was a total hottie!

KreepiPati he IS A HOTTIE :P damn I love him 😍

It's not about I like men who are way too older than me or having daddy/grandpa issues. I like older men (40 to 50), I don't think I'm sick or something like that.

The fact that I feel attracted to older men doesn't mean I must go out with the first one who asks me. Also, I don't live in North America. Sorry.

What is the problem with people like you who always say things about someone who they don't even know? Even if I had a traumatic childhood, it's none of your business.

How so? He sounds like everyone else that has made great films!

Triniti Coclough he sounds deeper than Tarantino, for example.

I’ll do my best

Not so much with Cronenberg, but neither Carpenter or Argento could translate themselves fully into the digital age, as their aesthetics homes were always in 35mm.

100% agreed. Those 3 cannot ever be matched. In other styles the same can be said about Peckinpah, Friedkin and Cimino.

but you have now Crimes of the future.

I would mention Alejandro Jodorowsky, too.

Byron Dunbar Most people aren’t that perceptive or self aware. And sometimes it’s the subtle things or seemingly benign that have a strong effect on us.

Actually, I feel like if I had a dollar for every person who said those classic Disney cartoons (especially "Bambi") traumatized them as kids, I could retire right now. I remember Dustin Hoffmann, for one example, saying of Bambi, "That shit should've been R-rated!"

Yeah, and The Blue Lagoon too !!! Oh man, he killed me with this one !

Horror directors should be made to study Bambi as an example of how to set up characters and theme in order to make the horror more visceral…Watership Down and Secret of Nimh also comes to mind lol.

Has anyone else noticed that Cronenberg seems to have complicated opinions about people being punished for downloading images, such as child porn?! (Child porn is the example he himself uses.) He seems to think that is a remarkable idea, to arrest such people. I wish the interviewer had challenged him about “just” clicking on or seeking images like that, as if there’s no real harm involved.

it's called telegony

ColJochen his book, "Consumed", certifies what you say. Immensely culturate, educated, he also masters the art of writing.

well Existenz was terrible but his other films were awesome!

+McArio1 of all the flims that COULD be a tv series, I cannot fathom why they didn't franchise that one.

eXistenZ is not the only and either the most gay related film of Cronenberg. People who have the least affinity to any kind of art have no problem with it at all.

"Tell me the truth" "Are we still in the game?"

I think its completely stupid to compare them

otflipz1 Nobody compared anything. Someone said they had a favorite David.

surly a comparison of sorts must of taken place in order to determine which david was the favourite

otflipz1 No , I think it was very personal and fixed opinion based on three Davids.

ok thanks

Shit, I just wrote that, and saw your comment right after. He even kind of looks like him a little.

Very true

I think there was something marvelous about his interpretation of The Dead Zone. ...And, looking back at your remark, DZ was also a love story.

Look I love the Fly. A lot. But what are you talking about? A love story in a horror movie has never been done? You can't be serious right? La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau in 1946? Phantom of the Opera? Literally HUNDREDS of other movies before? Come on dude, watch some movies will ya? :D

Woah man

@@superneko99 woah man, what? it's true.

Modernist Apocalypse it food

I think the surrealists pioneered that area.

Same here. I assume it came from his whole techno-human themes plus his earlier fascination with entomology.

Did you see "Crimes of the future"?

You are right to note Dead Ringers. I will never forget the nightmarish surgical instruments, gowns, and operating theater. Dead Zone was remarkable for different reasons. I had tremendous pity for that school teacher, and I loved how he quoted "Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

+ted norton its hilarious when people change their youtube names

I too love La Strada, but my favorite is Nights of Cabiria.

as a child its other perception Herbert!

The first movie I ever saw was Psycho. The second was Bambi. One of these films, my parents had to remove me and my sister from the theater, hysterical. Guess which movie? Bambi is hardcore, you’re watching these adorable forest babies and then his mother is straight murdered lol.

yeah, right.

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