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I imagine it would be difficult to get the tone right for any film adaptation of High Rise. It’s always going to read better as a book, I guess. Did you like Cronenberg’s version of Crash? I was actually thinking about reading some more Ballard over the holidays. I still haven’t read Concrete Island or The Unlimited Dream Company—those other two seventies novels.
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I thought Crash was good, but I only watched it once, when it came out…like 20 years ago. I turned Cronenberg’s adaptation of Cosmopolis off.
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Yeah, I did the same with Cosmopolis. Funny, because History of Violence, Eastern Promises & A Dangerous Method are among my favourite movies of the last decade. He can be very ‘hit and miss’.
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I’m a huge Cronenberg fan. And a big DeLillo fan. But I couldn’t take the tone of that film. Seemed like a parody or something of a Cronenberg film.
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