Videodrome

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Videodrome is a 1983 horror/science fiction/erotica film directed by David Cronenberg.

Dialogue

Prof. Brian O'Blivion: Of course, "O'Blivion" was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.

Prof. Brian O'Blivion: After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there? You can see that can't you?

Prof. Brian O'Blivion: The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena — the videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.

Prof. Brian O'Blivion: Max, I'm so glad you've came to me. I've been through it all myself you see. Your reality is already half video hallucination. If you're not careful, it will become total hallucination. You'll have to learn to live in a very strange new world.. I had a brain tumour and I had visions. I believe the visions cause the tumour and not the reverse. I can feel the visions coalsce and become flesh. Uncontrollable flesh. But when they removed the tumour, it was called Videodrome.

Harlan: North America's getting soft, patron, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're giong to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we're going to survive them. Now, you and this cesspool you call a television station and your people who wallow around in it, your viewers who watch you do it, they're rotting us away from the inside. We intend to stop that rot.

Masha: Videodrome. What you see on that show, it's for real. It's not acting. It's snuff TV.

Max: I don't believe it.

Masha: So, don't believe.

Max: Why do it for real? It's easier and safer to fake it.

Masha: Because it has something that you don't have, Max. It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous.

Harlan: I don't work with you for the money.

Max: I know that. 'Cause piracy's never just for the money, is it?

Max: Death to videodrome! Long live the new flesh!

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