Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: VIDEODROME (**SPOILER**) Message-ID: <301@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 11:47:19 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.301 Posted: Thu Nov 29 11:47:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:22:27 EST References: <121@ahuta.UUCP> <4690@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 17 > I think VIDEODROME should also be seen on TV since its so TV > oriented: the snuff tv station (24 hours of torture and sex > with no plot); the throbbing, pulsating tv set to which a guy > gives head to (he sticks his head into the tv screen which comes > out to engulf his head); the guy who > grows a slot in his stomach into which throbbing, pulsating > video cassettes are inserted; the guy who will only appear on > tv talk shows on a tv (that is, instead of him actually sitting > there in a chair, there is a tv set with him on it and the host > carries on a conversation with him). ... and what about that scene with James Wood seeing himself shoot himself on TV, followed by the "regurgitation" (gurgitation?) by the television set. Makes it all the weirder when YOU watch him shoot himself on YOUR television set... -- Oh, crumbs! Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr