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Cronenberg Still Rages
Author: Simon Sellars • Oct 31st, 2007 •Category: Ballardosphere, David Cronenberg, film
From the New York Post:
David Cronenberg, director of the smash “Eastern Promises,” is still mad at writer-director Paul Haggis for naming his 2005 Oscar-winning racial drama “Crash,” just nine years after Cronenberg had his own movie called “Crash,” about wackos who get sexually excited by car accidents. “I’ve told [him] that he was a [bleep]hole basically for doing that. And so have many other people,” Cronenberg tells Complex magazine. “It’s very disrespectful, not only to me, but to J.G. Ballard, who wrote the book . . . I made my movie . . . in a very respectful way. Haggis just co- opted the title, and he knew what he was doing.” Haggis had no comment.
‘Wackos who get sexually excited by car accidents’ — beautifully balanced reporting, there.
By the way, I wonder how Harley Cok(e)liss feels about his Crash! being dead and buried?
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