Comments on: Cronenberg in Crash Naming Furore

By: David McMillan

David McMillan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:43:28 +0000

Cronenberg’s rendering of the book Crash made me very unhappy. I don’t think he should get all flustered about confused kids scanning the shelves at Walmart. He should have concentrated on making a better film. If you read the original novels of Naked Lunch, Crash and Dead Ringers, I think you have to conclude that every single change he made to the original text (to work in his publicly personal “themes” ho hum), and nearly every single artistic decision he made was completely wrong – as someone wrote when Naked Lunch came out as a movie – “it’s a control freak’s portrait of a wild man.” I think that sums it up rather nicely.

By: D1

D1 — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:24:23 +0000

Funny. Well maybe not really because I told a friend that their was this movie ‘Crash’ that he should really see. I meant the Cronenberg picture, which I think is a beautiful, strange, and amazing film. Unfortunately, he picked up the Haggis picture instead (and I don’t mean to demean that movie). I saw my friend the other night and started recommending another movie to him, and he goes:I don’t wanna hear it after sitting through that last one you recommended to me. Then I go: yeah I know the auto-crash-sex thing puts lot of people off. At which point we both knew we were talking about a different flick. So long story short, this is obviously a problem and one that will undoubtly become worse the more years that pass.

By: johnny

johnny — Fri, 12 May 2006 18:14:46 +0000

I refuse to see that film. So lame. And then there’s all those mags with that title. Do any of them give the great book/film a nod? Doubt it.

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