Movie - Naked Lunch

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Description:
115 min.

Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose
typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.


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Good on you for starting the Naked Lunch thread.

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Yeah, I remember when it was out.

How much does the star look like a really skinnied-up Ed Harris? It does! Or his brother.

Anyway, they catch the interzone aspect pretty well, but New York's vibe feels almost entirely absent from the movie. It is much more dry, dusty, araby than the book in my opinion.

Look, I can't fault the movie. If you consider the limitations they faced, I call it an admirable effort where they played to their strengths, and the animatronics were quaintly endearing, especially the sexed up typewriter "My Maahrtinelli!" with all it's oozy cocks and buttocks getting whipped by the austere, severe Frau Crankfert type houselady.

But I needed wafting vapours, gloopy ectoplasm, pale blues and translucent jelly that so dominates the book.

To be honest, I reckon Naked Lunch is ripe for a fantastic feast of a remake, using the best that artistry has to offer today, but even now, I wonder if CGI or anything can rival his faculty for description, he's just that good.

I've borrowed a friends copy about six years after first devouring it, it is just bleeuurgh what a world to offer up gifts like that.

Also for a few years I've had a garage sale copy of a video of the movie taped off tv!

The quality of the recording is terrible, but still I love that movie, as I said, it was a good effort.

Also, I think, for the time, they were right to admit they couldn't rival the book, so just made a totally different kind of movie.


However, I must say, I've always wanted to ask the producers questions about their particular creative decisions, like the bug spray thing. Yes it fits in with the bugs, but there is a massive emphasis on it early in the movie, and I always found that curious.

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SWIM was about 10 or 11 when he first watched this film, completely pickled his brain, thanks dad! The talking typewriters/bug things were pretty cool though.
SWIM thinks he shall have to give it another viewing.