Naked Lunch

[iscream22]

<p>This is one of the&nbsp;strangest damn movies ive ever seen!&nbsp; Along with Eraserhead, Holy Mountain, and El Topo.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Any one else see &quot;Naked Lunch&quot;?</p><p>http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/8099/pf980025nakedlunchposters3id.jpg (http://imageshack.us)</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by iscream22 on 3-16-06 @ 3:16 PM</span>

[SatCam]

Never seen the movie but...

<img src='http://www.ondarock.it/photo/Steelydan.jpg' border=0>

...I bet these guys have

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[A.J.]

<p>&quot;I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.&quot;</p><p><img height="240" src="http://www.duffzone.co.uk/framegrabs/3f17/3f17-056.jpg" width="320" border="0" /></p>

[iscream22]

Yeah, I remember that line!

[PhishHead]

it is actually one of the best books i have read...William Burroughs is a genius, not as good as Junky but still good.<br />

[iscream22]

<p>Yeah I tried reading the novel and it was very difficult. It makes &quot;Doors Of Perception&quot; look like Dr. Suess!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>*p.s. phishhead, deadheads are way cooler*<img height="54" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smoke.gif" width="101" border="0" /></p>

[mendyweiss]

Wasn't William Burroughs banging Alan Ginsburg?

[bobrobot]

Wasn't William Burroughs banging Alan Ginsberg? <p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><font color="#000099">They tried it once&nbsp;or twice, but&nbsp;it wasn't satisfactory&nbsp;for either of them. They remained the closest of friends for life and died w/in months of each other. Their souls were intertwined.</font></strong></p><p><font color="#000099"><strong>Actually David Cronenberg's film, &quot;Naked Lunch&quot; is culled from 3 of Burroughs' books, &quot;Junky,&quot; &quot;Exterminator,&quot; &amp; &quot;Naked Lunch.&quot; Fun film... Tho I would argue that the 3 films mentioned above,&nbsp;</strong></font><font color="#000000"> <strong><font color="#000099">David Lynch's Eraserhead &amp; Alexandre Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain, and El Topo are more successful from an artistic standpoint, but&nbsp;I LOVE them all...</font></strong></font></p><p><img height="648" src="http://hankonealphoto.com/portraits_fi_images/Hank-O'Neal-Portraits-38web.jpg" width="510" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!</font></strong></p>

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[klaus_kinski_Jr]

Saw it in the the theater and sure it was trippy, and tried its best to capture the book. But like Tristam Shandy which i saw recently some books just can't be filmed.

BTW Tristam Shandy fucking hysterical movie

[MilkmanDann]

<p>One of my favorite all time flicks, something we used to get really baked to and watch Jr. / Sr. year in highschool on Video. Old G'friend turned me onto it. &nbsp;Cast was great, liked Peter Weller alot in this. Must've been incredibly hard to adapt book to movie for this , book becomes incomprehensible at times to the non-junkie. </p><p>Only movie ever seen William S. Burroughs in btw was end of Drugstore Cowboy, another lost gem. Matt Dillons best film. </p>

[bobrobot]

<p><font color="#000099"><strong></strong><font color="#000000">Only movie ever seen William S. Burroughs in btw was end of Drugstore Cowboy, another lost gem. Matt Dillons best film. </font><strong></strong></font></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">The Priest they called him...</font></strong></p><p><img height="128" src="http://www.fast-rewind.com/drugstorecowboy4.jpg" width="200" border="0" /></p><p><img src="http://www.nirvanafreak.net/albums/pics/priest2.jpg" border="0" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 3-16-06 @ 9:18 PM</span>

[Coach]

What makes me feel more like a failure is that Peter Weller is a professor in Ancient History

[bobrobot]

<p>What makes me feel more like a failure is that Peter Weller is a professor in Ancient History </p><p><strong><font color="#000099">That's Professor Indiana Jones, you silly Coach !!!</font></strong></p><p><img height="303" src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c7/200px-Indiana_Jones_2.jpg" width="200" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">miss Professor Longhair...</font></strong></p><p><img height="268" src="http://www.blaskan.nu/Bilder/Bilder4/professor_longhair.jpg" width="200" border="0" /></p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>I love most of the movies mentioned, but as a fan I also see how difficult, or how easy it is to miss the mark, as if I could do any better, of translating really trippy text into film. I think thats why so much of Stephen King's writing just turds up when someone tries to put it on film. Maybe we all have our pre-conceived notions in our heads of what the characters and mood and tone of a book are, we read the same squiggles of ink but I think our heads paint very different pictures.</p><p>meaning; it can really be cool or really suck to watch a movie scene with a guy at a bar w/ a creature a la Star Wars Cantina Scene next to him. Or flailing at bats when the ether kicks in. Or lesbian cowgirls with big thumbs. Or what occurs to someone who tapes a shitload of pages together and just types away endlessly while cranking it up a notch.</p>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">William S. Burroughs is a remarkable&nbsp;success story&nbsp;in the Arts. He went from the Avant Garde to acceptance by the Academy &amp; popular culture&nbsp;well within his lifetime. Success of this sort is usually the domain of&nbsp;the hacks&nbsp;who pander to a target audience. The &quot;cut&nbsp;up&quot; technique ostensibly &quot;invented&quot; by his dear friend, Brion Gysin, which Burroughs employed sparingly &amp; poignantly in most of his important writings, was an attempt to reinstate magic in modern storytelling. The apparent randomness of the cut up technique became a method of relinquishing &quot;Control,&quot;&nbsp; while simultaneoulsy personifying and&nbsp;practically deifying the notion of &quot;Control&quot; as a collaborative force in his writing process. Burroughs believed that this process foretold events in the real world and the world of his characters. He would then edit these &quot;cut ups&quot; into an appropriate context for his writings. The cut ups were never simply dropped into a novel without reworking as is popularly conceived by those unfamimliar w/ his work. A strange sign of greatness, is that people who know nothing of an artist's work, think they know something of the artists process through rumor or conjecture! That a myth maker&nbsp;should himself become mythology is a beautiful conundrum. This is the principle strength of the film, &quot;Naked Lunch.&quot;</font></strong></p><p><img title="Gysin & Burroughs & the Dream Machine" height="174" alt="Gysin & Burroughs & the Dream Machine" src="http://researchpubs.com/images/wsb_dream.JPG" width="210" border="0" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by bobogolem on 3-17-06 @ 10:19 AM</span>