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Cronenberg had considered making an adaptation of Naked Lunch since the early s and even went on a trip to Tangiers, the setting and inspiration for the novel, with Burroughs and producer Jeremy Thomas in As a junkie, his reality is altered, and, real or not, his subjective experiences affect him. This hesitant acceptance of the fantastic is clear from the first hallucination. After Bill is arrested and placed in an interrogation room, the police officers leave him alone with a giant bug that proceeds to talk to him out of an anus-like hole on its back, beneath its wings. By this point, Bill is fully embroiled in the conspiracy and has backslid into addiction. In so doing, it captures the way that drug addiction and writing were intimately joined in Burroughs life.

The best funniest moments in Cronenberg's Naked Lunch are in fact 'routines' transplanted whole from the book and delivered by Peter Weller in Burroughsian monotone - the famous talking arsehole riff, or the story of the man whose guts become entangled around the hack axle of a car and has his entire insides pulled out with a ghastly 'schlup'. Cronenberg's movies have never been afraid of talking heads. Many of his protagonists talk incessantly - most notably the motormouth Seth Brundle in The Fly, a film which Cronenberg once modestly described as 'people in a room, talking'. As he told Rolling Stone recently, 'To me, the "talking head" is the essence of cinema. Exploding heads are always a sign of gore for a thinking audience. It is, understandably, the worst fear of a clever person like Cronenberg.

Robert Downey Jr. Sign in. Watch now. When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality.

A key idea of the Beat generation was to treat the most authentic, uncensored human thoughts and desires as art. Both eventually won their respective trials, ultimately helping to liberate American publishing. Liberalisation was, in many ways, what the Beat generation was all about: from strait-jacketed literature, from sexual repression, from lock-step social conformity.