Essentially, the movie adaptation of "Naked Lunch" and bits and pieces out of its author's life into a sci-fi spy film noir steeped in the paranoid, conformist, homophobic, powermad, barely post-fascist, cold war zeitgeist which the original novel critized and parodied - essentially, it is a movie about the dissolution of social identity in a subconsciously surging swirl of surrealism. If you are willing to explore the topic of "the dissolution of social identity" further by means of cinematic fiction.. - I would suggest a quadruple bill of "World on a Wire", "Naked Lunch", "Waking Life" and "Paprika" - but with sufficient pauses in between - so: an early morning to noon screening (the first film is pretty long), an afternoon screening, an after-dinner screening, and then a late night screening. Lots of marvelous stuff to take in, wonder about, digest, discuss in between screenings and afterwards - quite a cinematic bender, but topical.
Very interesting stuff I think I will delve into it. Cronenberg was obsessed with the self. It’s prevalent in a lot of his work. That being said, naked lunch was an almost impossible adaptation. The fact that Cronenberg was able to pull it off speaks volumes about how good of screenwriter he was. Charlie Kaufman, another writer that was obsessed with the self, took a page out of Cronenberg’s work to make the movie “adaptation.” I don’t know that for sure but I suspect it’s true. Regardless, it seems as if both of them set out to adapt the unadaptable.
@@Jesusx23x I absolutely loved Adaptation when it was recent. I have only watched it once, alas. Maybe I can get my hands on a copy to re-watch it. Other great movies (at least partly) on the self by other directors are "Living in Oblivion", "The Science of Sleep", "Being John Malkovich", "The Machinist", "Filth", "Still Alice", "Possessor", "The Lighthouse", "Beau Is Afraid", "Linoleum".
@@a.hellion4806 Jeanne Beker: ground breaking music behind the scenes programs in the 80's (with world renown Much Music) and later her fashion television (not my thing but even so) broadcast around the globe. Also a cancer survivor. Because you have no idea who someone is doesn't mean they are no name nor does it increase your worth by revealing your ignorance.
@@eyeseer1More artistic, creative, daring, expressive, original, philosophical, and far less boring, conformist, mind-numbing, repetitive, socially unaware than the 2000s, 2010s and the early 2020s.
He never said his own movie was a masterpiece
Essentially, the movie adaptation of "Naked Lunch" and bits and pieces out of its author's life into a sci-fi spy film noir steeped in the paranoid, conformist, homophobic, powermad, barely post-fascist, cold war zeitgeist which the original novel critized and parodied - essentially, it is a movie about the dissolution of social identity in a subconsciously surging swirl of surrealism.
If you are willing to explore the topic of "the dissolution of social identity" further by means of cinematic fiction..
- I would suggest a quadruple bill of "World on a Wire", "Naked Lunch", "Waking Life" and "Paprika" - but with sufficient pauses in between - so: an early morning to noon screening (the first film is pretty long), an afternoon screening, an after-dinner screening, and then a late night screening.
Lots of marvelous stuff to take in, wonder about, digest, discuss in between screenings and afterwards - quite a cinematic bender, but topical.
Very interesting stuff I think I will delve into it. Cronenberg was obsessed with the self. It’s prevalent in a lot of his work.
That being said, naked lunch was an almost impossible adaptation. The fact that Cronenberg was able to pull it off speaks volumes about how good of screenwriter he was. Charlie Kaufman, another writer that was obsessed with the self, took a page out of Cronenberg’s work to make the movie “adaptation.” I don’t know that for sure but I suspect it’s true. Regardless, it seems as if both of them set out to adapt the unadaptable.
@@Jesusx23x I absolutely loved Adaptation when it was recent. I have only watched it once, alas. Maybe I can get my hands on a copy to re-watch it. Other great movies (at least partly) on the self by other directors are "Living in Oblivion", "The Science of Sleep", "Being John Malkovich", "The Machinist", "Filth", "Still Alice", "Possessor", "The Lighthouse", "Beau Is Afraid", "Linoleum".
Ornette Coleman on the soundtrack. Leads one to believe interpretation is being called into question.
Music at the start?
We need a re installment if this mivie pls pms
I’ll be damned if I can tell what this movie had to do with Tarzan or John Carter or the Hollow Earth. 😉
the interviewer girl is in love with him
no name can you blame her lmao
@@a.hellion4806 Jeanne Beker: ground breaking music behind the scenes programs in the 80's (with world renown Much Music) and later her fashion television (not my thing but even so) broadcast around the globe. Also a cancer survivor. Because you have no idea who someone is doesn't mean they are no name nor does it increase your worth by revealing your ignorance.
@@owenwswain he is replying to "no name" he isn't calling her a no name. Settle down
She is a fully grown woman.
On another note, how could anyone NOT be in love with David Cronenberg - at least on an artistic level?
@@elevenseven-yq4vu if i were married and i met her it be hard not to cheat. Look at that body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A few cinematic delicacies. Like wtf is up with the dumb scripted puns!?
Man, that era was a dark, goofy time.
@@caliaccedito615 You know goofy? Gawrsh!
The eighties and nineties were on a lot of trips.
@@eyeseer1More artistic, creative, daring, expressive, original, philosophical, and far less boring, conformist, mind-numbing, repetitive, socially unaware than the 2000s, 2010s and the early 2020s.