David Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome not only predicted multimedia obsessions, but also star James Woods' recent career trajectory.
‘ name trends on social media, it’s usually because he’s either posted something inflammatory from a right-wing, anti-government, “anti-woke” perspective, or been accused of skeezy behavior and appetites. It’s sometimes hard to recall that, unlike his fellow Twitter Troll travelers like Kevin Sorbo, Woods was consistently acclaimed as one of the best actors of the ’80s. He was also acclaimed as one of the smartest, albeit mainly by his own publicists.
McLuhan more or less predicted the World Wide Web; Videodrome, one could argue, predicted something like the troll factories and bots that feed on users’ addiction to outrage and skew them towards particular behavorial and voting patterns. It’s no small irony that Woods himself appears to have gotten so hooked on the particular dopamine hit of hate-retweets. Nor that the conspirators in Videodrome claim to be motivated by America getting soft relative to the supposedly “tough” rest of the world.
Between the 4K and the Blu-ray, the consumer gets two alternative ways to watch. The Blu-ray, with brighter colors and more grain, feels like an old movie, and looks like a great vintage print hauled out of storage, like you’d see at a rep house. The 4K, on the other hand, feels like a new movie — its color-correction really gives it that cold, clinical feel that so much of Cronenberg’s work embodies.
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