Stiže u petak! :lol:
Danas SPIDER počinje da se daje u USA (limited release).
Tačno nedelju dana kasnije film ima premijeru u Beogradu, u okviru FESTa.
Ko zna, možda ga oni najnestrpljiviji nađu... negde... i pre toga – anyway, evo u tu čast par najzabavnijih delova iz intervjua koji je Cronenberg dao povodom SPIDERA:
"The bad thing about winning an Oscar," he says, "is that when you die, people will say, 'Oscar-winner David Cronenberg just died' -- as though it's the highpoint of your life."
For me, the appeal of "Spider" was a study of the human condition -- not schizophrenia, not a neurological disorder. As not quite a card-carrying existentialist myself, I have to say the Kafka-esque trope stills holds -- and maybe now more than ever. But it seems to be taking on a different shape. The media really has a huge reality for people. The idea that celebrities and their lives seem to be more real to people than their own lives seems to be a new form of alienation.
And reality is what you make of it. It's almost as though you choose one and you cling to it. We see that politically. I see that in Mr. Bush. You see these people living out a different reality and they're acting on it. And they're not compatible realities, but they are ferociously devoted to these realities. It's kind of interesting, when it's not terrifying. And you realize that they will kill people to maintain the level of realness of those realities. That's a scary thing, but it's a very human thing. No other creatures in the universe do that.
An inability to accept mortality means an inability to accept the human body as real. That's why I resist doing movies with ghosts. Hollywood would never understand why I don't want to do "The Exorcist 4" -- though I did read the script -- but I just can't really make a reality of the devil, because it's too positive: that there's an afterlife and that we live after our bodies die. And I just can't do that.
In fact, I took the special effects sequences out of the script, because I think those effects -- the bleeding potato, the rat in the bread, the voices and glowing eyes -- are recognizable to an audience as effects, as hallucinations that can't possibly be real. And the unspoken purpose of the movie was to make the audience be "Spider." So when he's hallucinating and thinking something is real, we must also feel that.
I just find reading science very productive and it provokes me. Science and philosophy books will help me write characters and scenes, whereas I don't get any of that from seeing other movies. When I'm preparing a script, I don't look at movies for inspiration. I read. And I mostly read philosophy and science.
Whenever I get a studio project, I always approach it with great enthusiasm, like maybe this time... And then halfway through it, I'm so depressed, and thinking I'll kill myself if I have to do this movie. I think, "I'll sell out, I'll just do it for the money, it will be interesting"; but then I can't.
He he he – ain't he, like, the funniest and cleverset guy – EVER!?