David Cronenberg Interview (Part 1)

[yumyum97]

I wanna be a director if possible !!

[somberlight]

Cthulhu-mythos + This guy = Profit? am i the only one fixated to that idea? a cronenberg cthulhu. think about it.

[RageOfTheKage]

HE IS THE KING OF VIOLENCE!

when a person is hurt in one of his films, so do I......

[planetofthedead]

Personally, my favorite Cronenberg films are Videodrome and The Fly. Videodrome being one of my all time favorite films. But I will definately say that Eastern Promises is one of his strongest films, which is ironically not a movie you'd watch and immediately say "That's a Cronenberg film." But that's what's great about it. Cronenberg is a director who doesn't mind exploring other genres, and doesn't mind making films that are more, I guess, mainstream.

[yumyum97]

@planetofthedead true, is new movie is completely a new genre hes exploring .

(a dangerous method)

[brainsick213]

athiest

[gibbi8]

You can tell by the way he talks he knows what hes on about. I'd rank him with James Cameron as one the most talented directors in film today.

[CharletonHeston]

awesome...history of violence and eastern promises great movies - here's hoping the next viggo-cronenberg joint is in the same vein.

[seventhanubis]

I love Cronenberg to death, but Eastern Promises sucks balls. eXistenZ is my favorite Cronenberg film :)

[mwells219]

@seventhanubis really. the story was kind of not interesting but the directing was absolutely spot on. Did the scene with Viggo Mortensen's cock upset your repressed homosexual tendencies?

[shralster]

@seventhanubis

Completely disagree. Eastern Promises was on of his stronger movies.

[LTBL88]

the intro sound effect is taken from a telefon tel aviv song i think

[Tigerlily21]

Is he the smartest director?

[fraserclubbx]

Great unpretentious filmmaking philosophy.

[hhead44]

Smart Man

[aaoppe]

Bright guy.

[LemmyDecaution]

CRONENBERG an absolute favorite of mine.

(btw. Thank you Carlsberg for giving me headache!!!)

[BrianASoto]

David Cronenberg is a brilliant director.

[BankruptMonopoly]

great interview but the music is extremely annoying.

[Bassbait]

Now I really want to see a black comedy about the reality side of slapstick:

A guy slips on a banana peel, and instead of a funny sound effect and birds flying around his head, he gets his skull cracked open.

Ok, so maybe that's a really cruel idea, but I'm pretty sure there are people out there who would find that funny.

[RecordEditUpload]

If life was a film, he'd make a very convincing God.

[styops]

Such a bright guy! Makes great movies.

[OldBoy968]

He mentions Dead Ringers, that's a very overlooked one, probably the only romance movie I like enough to buy on dvd.

[TomHPMc]

have just recently watched 'The Dead Zone' & 'Videodrome' & am about to watch 'Scanners' after this interview I can definitely see myself becoming a Cronenberg fan!

[TheGreaterGood80]

Cronenberg truly has a style all his own.

[BlowDeBloodyDoorsOff]

He's a hell of a film maker. He does what Kubrick did, in a way. He photographs things very practically, but it all takes on a mystique because he has been using dialogue, music and characterisation to add layers of meaning. What he does, too, is mirror scenes so well make abstract connections. There's the opulence of the dinners in the russian club, mirrored with the small dinners in Anna's house. There's Semyon's grandkids playing violins and then there's the young women in the brothel.

[Bassbait]

Kubrick does that too. He mirrors scenes and dialogue, but Kubrick does it to the most extreme degree that any director has done it, and that's why he's my absolute favorite:

Alex De Large says "a moment of pain perhaps, but then sleep, forever and ever and ever". The twins from The Shining say "Come play with us Danny, forever and ever and ever". Jack Torrance in the same film says "I wish we could stay here forever and ever and ever". Everything in late Kubrick films are mirrored.

[IfIfsandands]

@Bassbait When I said mirrors above, I didn't mean the shiny surfaces you look at your reflection in. I meant both Cronenberg and Kubrick would have very similar scenes at different points in their movies. In Eatern Promises, the scene where Viggo has sex with the prostitute is mirrored by the fight scene he has in the bath house. Kubrick did this trick too. Kubrick also used mirrors(the shiny surfaces) in his movies, you are correct, but that's not what I meant in my 1st post.

[Bassbait]

@IfIfsandands Yes, I meant that too. He makes two scenes parallel each other all of the time. I never meant mirrors as in the shiny surfaces, but in The Shining he does that two, he makes two scenes parallel through the use of mirrors.

[someone6878]

i love his voice! i could listen to him talk about ardvarks and i would still be listening!

[someone6878]

i love his voice! is that odd?

[MatthiusSama]

@someone6878 I can listen to him talk all day. No homo.

[smjjohnson]

Videodrome was the BEST

[haloseven7]

He's one of the few true artists left in the movie buisness.

[HeroOfCanton99]

Man, what the hell would a Cronenberg western be?

[Zarkovagis9]

@HeroOfCanton99 it would be awesome

[LimeGreenFever]

Heehee..I know where david cronenberg lives xD and where he keeps his cars...That just makes me sound like a creeper though! xD

[tdhtv]

A director that actually made a remake better than the original. 

[SergeantBasterd]

Hail Cronenberg! One of the greatest directors of all time. My 4th favorite at least. I've collected all the movies by the 14 best directors. Oh, yes, he is one of them. Scanners is the best horror movie of all time.

[erocdelashaw]

viggo mortensen is that shit!

[mushroomleg]

shut your mouth's... you fucking crybabies. the music is soothingly gay.

[coprographia]

Shout their mouth's what? (one mouth? like a big, collective mouth?)

[TheKokachu]

The background music makes me want to beat up whoever is responsible for it.

[Tubesploitation]

IGN interviewing David Cronenberg? Now I've seen everything.

[DrowningArt94]

Really? have you ever seen a man eat his own head?

[Deadmeatproductions]

the music draws the attention away from him..

[lolll0xx]

Good job with the ANNOYING BACKGROUND MUSIC IGN!!

[VincibleDionysius]

Great insights from one of horror's most innovative director. He may have veered away from that genre but the subject matter in his movies remains dark and provocative

[screwball82]

@VincibleDionysius - I totally agree....oddly, I almost prefer his more....I dunno, shall we say "more human" stories? I know all his films tend to relate to the human condition in some way, but pretty much since Thee Fly, he has been more provocative to me, personally.....I like how complext the character arcs are, and how well he handles it. I'd also add that I think both his most recent films have really shown Viggo to be the new master of low-key subtlety since De Niro

[imacoollikedat]

@screwball82 I agree with you entirely, I'll have to tell him to keep it more human (I know him) hes a really chilled dude

[SailorCallie]

Thanks, IGN! David Cronenberg is among my all time favorite directors! :D

[Codered31]

OMG NO ONE caRES

[Codered31]

You caught me....

[BBoyMerciless]

thats what i thought