Videodrome

The American science fiction- horror film Videodrome and from 1983 was directed by David Cronenberg. Videodrome is considered one of the most important cult filmsof the twentieth century. ==Story[ Edit] == The film opens with images of Max Renn who runs the television station CIVIC-TV on channel 83. CIVIC TV is a commercial TV station that there is always on out is to "tantalizing" erotic and operation-television.

An employee of CIVIC TV, Harlan, shows him than images of a sadistic and violent program called "Videodrome" in which tortures and murders in a bright red room be screened (so-called. snuff-TV). Max wants those images have at all costs, because "it's just murder and torture. No plot. No characters. " He will contact his supplier Masha and asks her to find out who is responsible for the images.

A few days later know Masha to tell him that Videodrome are real snuffmovies. The sadomasochistic girlfriend of Max, Nicki has a penchant for self-harm and decides to try audition in Pittsburgh. Max will get her in person again.

In a talk show meet Max than professor Brian O'Blivion exclusively communicates through videofootage of themselves. O'Blivion turns out to sit and he puts behind Videodrome Max out that the TV screen is the retina of the mind. (Because the spirit dwells in the brain, causing brain tumors at the Videodrome broadcasts viewers.These tumors ensure that reality does not become video-hallucinations. But these facts are concealed by O'Blivion.) The "new reality" as O'Blivion calls it, is television."Real" reality for employing less than television.

Max visits the "Cathode Ray Mission" is led by O'Blivion. The Cathode Ray Mission is a shelter where the homeless who are deprived of their daily dose of TV television can "pick up". Here he meets O'Blivion's daughter Bianca who tells him that her father died eleven months ago.

Later, Max a videotape in which O'Blivion's who warns him for a political and social movement that calls itself "Videodrome". Max begins to hallucinate, hallucinations are distortions of the human body. In a famous scene sees Max Renn change his own abdomen in an organic mouth opening where a Betamaxvideotape -in fits. Also he sees images of his girlfriend Nicki in Videodrome-the red room.

Then the producer of Videodrome Barry Convex, of the company "Spectacular Optical", contact him. He asks Max to set up a headset that images of Max's own hallucinations are playing. Hallucination and reality go beyond intertwine. In Max ' stomach appears organic mouth opening and he is then literally (mentally) programmed through a video tape in which the opening is stopped by Barry Convex under one hat turns out to play with his former colleague video-pirate Harlan. The video cassette looks remarkably organic from. It becomes quite clear that Videodrome-organization was created to people coming to operation-watch grow by tumors in to punish them after they have seen a broadcast Videodrome.

Under the influence of his reprogramming grabs Max a gun that is organic adds to the shape of his hand – it is a handgun – and he shoots his former business partners down.

Bianca O'Blivion reprogrammeert him again. At the next attempt of one of the bad guys to get back a tumor-like tape into him to stop to let Max know a hand grenade fuse together with the arm of the man (hand grenade). The hand grenade explodes and the man is killed. Max's next target is Barry Convex, which he shoots death during a trade fair. The Videodrome tumors then try to "escape" from Barry's dead body.

In the end are looking for Max Renn on an abandoned boat in a port. Nicki Fire appears there to him on TV. She tells him that his transformation is almost ready and now he's ready for the next phase: say goodbye to the old flesh. Then he sees an image of themselves that put a gun to his head and after the words "Long live the new flesh!" (Long live the new flesh!) shoots himself to death. The TV explodes in an explosion of human organs. Max repeats the action for real. He pulls the trigger and the image goes to black. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film initially made little money on. He was Probably what to absurd and too little camp for hard-core horror enthusiasts, but too bloody for moviegoers who wanted to see a more intelligent film. Later, the film was immensely popular and got a big cult status, particularly when the film on VHS and dvd, later on, again appeared.


 * In the film are many metaphors which have to do with reflection and especially with how we look at the world and how our gaze often clouded or filtered. In the shop of "Spectacular Optical" (actually an optician) is a woman a new glasses frame to try it out, but the seller congratulates her with her "script". What is actually being said in this short, somewhat absurd dialogue is that you with looking through glasses actually are working on a script to write.
 * The surname O'Blivion (the English "oblivion") means "Oblivion".
 * Rick Baker is responsible for the special effects, especially the known images of half-organic videocassette's that breath seem to get, tables and televisions, as well as the mixing of the mechanical with human flesh. Cronenberg would Later in his own film eXistenZ again use this kind of images.
 * Reality and hallucinations intermingle, a theme that later was used among other things in The Matrix . Deborah Harry tells on the DVD that they even during the shooting of the film there but not at all a real person behind Nicki could come or was, or just a figment of Max.
 * Cronenbergs main theme in all his films is the transformation of the human body. His films Rabid, The Brood and Scanners also have that theme.
 * Between the sometimes absurd images by treats the film topics such as reality TV, interactivity, and how our perception of reality is determined by what the media us. In the time the film was made, these were still not a big issues, and reality TV was not provided. The internet was yet to be born. Wimpelt Cronenberg anyway right up to today the fact that he would have a foresight, af.
 * The famous television scene from the Japanese horror Ringu is not taken from the novel of the same name by Kôji Suzuki, but from Videodrome. The American remake (The Ring) took this scene about in a somewhat modified form.