Unlock Now Crash The Screenplay Scripted By David Cronenberg Formatted As Paperbound

in a bleak, passionless world of multilane freeways, Crash presents the story of James Ballard and his wife Catherine, whose search for authentic experience leads them into the sump oilsoaked world of Vaughan, a renegade scientist who seeks sexual release by crashing into cars on the freeway, hoping in this way to achieve a new relationship between flesh and metal, man and machine.
The conversation that Cronenbergs Crash has with Ballards original material is mark of an exceptional adaptation,

Ballards depersonalised insular schizophrenic cautionary tale about the extremities people will seek to find even microscopic satisfaction, is transformed by moving image into a personal, romantic observation of a niche subculture seeking a revolution of affect in a cold, distanced world.

Couldnt have had a better filmmaker adapt this, fits so perfect into Cronenbergs filmography,

The script is so stripped back n economic, .
Most of the dialogue is one line, where the descriptions/action borrows heavily from Ballards articulation of automobile similes
eg
“Below it, the traffic moves sluggishly around the crowded concrete lanes, the roofs of the vehicles forming a continuous carapace of polished cellulose.
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The James Ballard character is just as much Cronenberg situated in his own narrative, as Ballard was, naming him after himself.
James Ballard comes to signify Cronenbergs own exploration of technomutilated bodies in search of a profound eroticism, that his films were working towards.

would say that Crash was definitely his most personal film, until the release of Crimes of the Future, Enjoyably bizarre and obsessive. Unlike the novel, the screenplay is so short fewer thanpages that the themes don't have a chance to get redundant or boring.
An incredible meditation on

the vapidity of sexual worship via car crashes and airplane hangars, A rare film of remarkable disturbing power, the bare bones of the script as stark and revealing as the subject matter.


Crash isn't for everyone, It should come with a boldly underlined cautionary warning, It does disturb me. I do wonder why someone would want to write about this, let alone make a film about it, but the power, quality and sheer class of the art speaks for itself.


One of my absolute favorites,

And did I mention my copy is hand signed by David Cronenberg himself No I'll have to remember that.
David Paul Cronenberg is a Canadian film director and occasional actor, He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre.
This style of filmmaking explores peoples fears of bodily transformation and infection, In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical, In the first half of his career, Cronenberg explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, culminating in his visceral and emotional remake of The Fly, with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, followed by Dead Ringers, with Jeremy Irons in the lead role.
Cronenberg has worked with Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, David Paul Cronenberg is a Canadian film director and occasional actor.
He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre.
This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection, In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical, In the first half of his career, Cronenberg explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, culminating in his visceral and emotional remake of The Fly, with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, followed by Dead Ringers, with Jeremy Irons in the lead role.
Cronenberg has worked with Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, both crime thrillers, and period drama A Dangerous Method, also with Michael Fassbender Promotheusand Keira Knightley, and Twilight star Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolisand Maps to the Stars, also featuring Julianne Moore.
Consumedis the first novel by Cronenberg, sitelink.