I’ve started taking Cronenberg more seriously recently just spending more time examining what he’s doing and how he’s getting there. My local library had the DVD of crash which I hadn’t seen for a very long time, and I hadn’t even finished watching it before I ordered a copy for myself because it’s dense.
James Spader‘s performance is just eerily disembodied for something that’s body horror. I was also thinking that Tom Cruise dangling off of the world‘s tallest building probably didn’t take as much artistic courage as what Holly Hunter does in this film. Mr. Cronenberg undertook two notoriously unfilmable pieces of literature, naked lunch and crash, and he delivered on both of them.
Absolutely, I agree with every word of that. It's one of the strangest films I've ever seen but also one of the most compelling. I think Mark Kermode called it a perfect film because it's so tightly sealed, so expertly wound like a watch...although when I showed it to a friend for the first time I realised I'd somehow forgotten how much sex is in it!
"The Fly" was made into an opera?? This is news to me! But it's a classic tragic story (you're right, it's very much a love story), ripe for the stage.
It's so unexpected, isn't it? Of all the horror films to have been made into operas there's no way it would have been in my first twenty guesses! Thanks so much, Sheila, it is super exciting! x
I’ve started taking Cronenberg more seriously recently just spending more time examining what he’s doing and how he’s getting there. My local library had the DVD of crash which I hadn’t seen for a very long time, and I hadn’t even finished watching it before I ordered a copy for myself because it’s dense.
James Spader‘s performance is just eerily disembodied for something that’s body horror. I was also thinking that Tom Cruise dangling off of the world‘s tallest building probably didn’t take as much artistic courage as what Holly Hunter does in this film. Mr. Cronenberg undertook two notoriously unfilmable pieces of literature, naked lunch and crash, and he delivered on both of them.
Absolutely, I agree with every word of that. It's one of the strangest films I've ever seen but also one of the most compelling. I think Mark Kermode called it a perfect film because it's so tightly sealed, so expertly wound like a watch...although when I showed it to a friend for the first time I realised I'd somehow forgotten how much sex is in it!
But no intimacy! 😄
Exactly!
Thanks for adding yet another layer to The Fly
Thanks Rimika!
"The Fly" was made into an opera?? This is news to me! But it's a classic tragic story (you're right, it's very much a love story), ripe for the stage.
Congrats on your libretto, Rebekah! So exciting!
It's so unexpected, isn't it? Of all the horror films to have been made into operas there's no way it would have been in my first twenty guesses! Thanks so much, Sheila, it is super exciting! x