I worship Cronenberg, but his stance would have more weight if there hadn't been nine other movies (http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=crash&x=0&y=0) named Crash before he made his Crash (and three of those were made before Ballard wrote his book).
It's kind of a generic title; it's not like Haggis called his movie Videodrome or something. Heck, I wonder how Philip K. Dick felt about Cronenberg's Scanners ('No, it has nothing to do with A Scanner Darkly, PKD might've wearily said hundreds of times in 1981).
Nevertheless, I think the real point is that Cronenberg's Crash is excellent while the Haggis Crash is a predictable exercise in politically correct Hollywood "message movie" tripe.
I too would respect this stance much more if A) "Crash" weren't a ridiculous word/title to presume you've somehow copyrighted the use of just by, uh...using it and B) Cronenberg's Crash were even a quarter as fun and truly envelope-pushing as the book it's based on. A tiny insert of M/M tattoo-licking does not the English-language equivilant of Baise-Moi make, sir.;)
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Date: 2007-10-30 05:30 pm (UTC)It's kind of a generic title; it's not like Haggis called his movie Videodrome or something. Heck, I wonder how Philip K. Dick felt about Cronenberg's Scanners ('No, it has nothing to do with A Scanner Darkly, PKD might've wearily said hundreds of times in 1981).
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-30 06:21 pm (UTC)Oh, the director.
Never mind.
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Date: 2007-10-30 10:25 pm (UTC)