Naked Lunch (879 hits)
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Submitted by <the slave releases himself from bondage only to find a thic (View user info) at 2004-09-20 12:04:09 EDT
For those of you who haven't seen this movie, do.
It's a late 70s movie, i believe, and it moves seamlessly from reality to halucinations of the main character. It's great. I first saw it when i was in my teens so i had trouble understanding the whole movie, even though it still kicked ass, but i saw it again yesterday and can now appreciate the subtleties that i missed back then. Can't say enough about it. (peter weller is the main character)
This movie should be held in the same reguard as classics like Clockwork Orange. No kidding.
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-09-20 13:12:56 EDT (#)
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Burrough, not burrow, ahh well.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-09-20 13:12:12 EDT (#)
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yidele thanks, I did not realize that. I haven't seen this movie, but I've been reading a shitload of the beat generation, and planned on tackling burrows next. Jack Kerouac's writing turns me on, for lack of a better description, and he regards burrows as the greatest writer, so I imagine he is very good.
Submitted by yidele (user info) at 2004-09-20 12:53:03 EDT (#)
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not even close. Burroughs was an unashamed sodomite and naked lunch has some of the more explicit scenes of homoeroticism, very much central to the story, which have been treated by David Cronenberg as though they did not exist. All told, this is the reason why the movie is titled "David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch" and not "William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch" - and that reason is that a book like naked lunch doesn't lend itself to filmmaking, because like most of Burroughs' work it's non-linear, there is no one distinct plot line. Also it is graphicly homoerotic ( as are most of his books, except for "Junky" and filled to the gills with the seedier aspects of the 30-40-50's drug subculture. The only person I would trust to make a movie about Burroughs would be Uncle bill himself, and he unfortunately died in 1997, leaving me unconsoled.
Ther have been a number of film projects, some of which starred Uncle Bill as himself or himself barely characterised as someone else, vide Opium Jones in Chappaqua (1966)
look here ---> for a list of films he acted in: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123221/
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-09-20 12:31:08 EDT (#)
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how about that. it is a 90s movie.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-09-20 12:29:30 EDT (#)
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90's adaptation of the famous Willy Burroughs book.
Bugs and asses.
Good stuff.
Submitted by lowsodiummonkey (user info) at 2004-09-20 12:25:58 EDT (#)
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90's movie - http://imdb.com/title/tt0102511/