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Literally saw this for the first time last night. What the fuck was Cronenburg meaning by this?

i have no idea man

>David Cronenberg recalled how, when he was a child, he used to pick up television signals from Buffalo, New York, late at night after Canadian stations had gone off the air, and how he used to worry he might see something disturbing not meant for public consumption. This formed the basis for the plot of Videodrome.

Guys why is Debbie Harry so hot?

>watched this while in the midst of schizophrenic prodrome
don't do this bros

> was
She's 73 now.

Great movie. But I still don't get what was going on at the end when James woods becomes "the new flesh". It felt really ambiguous but in an unfinished way, sorta like scanners IMO.

She actually looks good for her age

>Three different endings were filmed, and the ending used in the final film wherein Max shoots himself on the derelict ship was James Woods's idea.[7] One of the initial intentions for the ending was to include an epilogue after the suicide, wherein Max, Bianca, and Nicki appear on the set of Videodrome. Bianca and Nicki are shown to have chest slits like Max, from which grotesque, mutated sex organs emerge. Cronenberg described his original vision of the ending as follows: "After the suicide, [Max] ends up on the 'Videodrome' set with Nicki, hugging and kissing and neat stuff like that. A happy ending? Well, it’s my version of a happy ending—boy meets girl on the 'Videodrome' set, with the clay wall maybe covered in blood, but I’m not sure. Freudian rebirth imagery, pure and simple". In his director's commentary for the Criterion Collection release of the film, Cronenberg credited his decision to omit the epilogue at least partially to his own atheist beliefs, as the apparent resurrection of Max and Nicki on the Videodrome set could be interpreted as their having gone to an afterlife, whereas Cronenberg himself does not believe in one.

Never knew this. I liked the ending though.

This was a weird movie. I think I sorta liked it? idk

Canadian kino at it's finest

One of the most prophetic films of all time which predicted everything from youtube celebrities to the rise of ISIS snuff films.

Also this is the first use of a character saying "It's all good" in a movie.

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

Akira Yamaoka said in an interview that he based the Silent Hill series off of James Wood's character when he said "I don't know where I am now...I am having trouble finding my way around"

Shit I never knew that. Very interesting.

Look closely at that scene in the film. Akira used the inside of the rusted boat as the model for Henry's haunted apartment in SH4.

It's sad that Cronenberg let his personal bias adversely affect the ending by leaving out the complete ending.

Of course. You will be re birthed into the new media. The analogy is pretty straightforward to anyone who grew up before omnipresent entertainment.

But Nicki pretty much appears as a ghost in Videodrome on the ship in the filmed ending.

Just replace television with the internet and in the end he fuses with his phone instead. Pretty much everything else is still relevant.

I love the fact that an Atari 2600 was supposed to convey an example of overstimulation in Max's life.