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Videodrome Page #3
- R
- Year:
- 1983
- 87 min
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- Uh -
- What?
Are you all right?
Bridey, I didn't mean to hit you.
Hit me?
You didn't hit me.
No? No.
No, I know I didn't hit you. I meant -
Do you want me to stay here?
- Uh -
- You look awful.
- Can I get you something?
- Uh, no, uh -
No, I'm just, uh -
Uh, I'm -
I'm exhausted.
I was in a deep sleep when you knocked...
and I guess I'm still not out of it.
I'll remember to set the timer.
Don't worry.
- You're sure? Are you sure?
- I'm sure. Yeah.
Thanks, Bridey.
Tomorrow.
Max, that other cassette
is from the office of Brian O'Blivion.
I promised
I'd hand-deliver it directly to you.
Will you call me
if you need me?
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
Therefore, television is reality...
and reality is less than television.
Max.
I'm so glad you 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 tumor...
and I had visions.
I believed the visions
caused the tumor...
and not the reverse.
I could feel the visions
coalesce and become flesh.
Uncontrollable flesh.
But when they removed the tumor...
it was called Videodrome.
I was the -
L- I...
was Videodrome's...
first victim.
But who's behind it?
What do they want?
I want you, Max.
You.
Come to me.
Come to Nicki.
Come on.
Don't make me wait.
Please.
I want you, Max.
You.
Come on.
Come on.
Come to me now.
Come to Nicki.
Don't keep me waiting.
Please.
Please.
Today Lady Luck
may smile on these four players...
and start them on the road
to $ 12,000-
We have a new group of people
coming in this afternoon...
- so tell the staff about that.
- All right. Good.
Exciting. Very lively.
Careful. It bites.
- You watched the cassette?
- Yeah.
- And?
- It changed my life.
I'm not surprised.
It's dangerous, you know.
Because your father admits
he's somehow involved with Videodrome?
More than that. It bites.
Isn't that what you said?
What kind of teeth
do you think it has?
It triggered off a series of hallucinations.
I woke up with a headache.
- First time ever?
- No, l-I've been hallucinating for a while...
- ever since -
- What?
Since I first saw Videodrome.
How did you come
to be exposed to it?
Pirate satellite dish.
A- An accident.
I made some tapes.
This is part of my own
Videodrome collection.
But that tape is just your father
sitting at his desk.
The tone of the hallucinations is determined
by the tone of the tape's imagery.
But the Videodrome signal,
the one that does the damage...
it can be delivered
under a test pattern, anything.
Mmm.
Damage?
The signal induces
It's the tumor that creates
the hallucinations.
You let me watch it?
I expect them to come to me eventually
to hurt me. I thought it might be you.
Now I realize you're
just another victim...
like Father was.
Where is your father?
I think I'd better talk to him.
He's in there.
I'm afraid he'll disappoint you.
This is him.
- This is all that's left.
- What are you talking about?
Brian O'Blivion died quietly
on an operating table 11 months ago.
- The brain problem?
- The Videodrome problem.
- You have it too.
- But he was on that panel show with me.
On tape.
He made thousands of them.
Sometimes three or four a day.
I keep him alive as best I can.
He had so much to offer.
My father helped
to create Videodrome.
He saw it as the next phase in the evolution
of man as a technological animal.
When he realized what his partners
were going to use it for...
he tried to take it
away from them.
And they killed him.
Quietly.
At the end, he was convinced
that public life on television...
was more real than
private life in the flesh.
He wasn't afraid
to let his body die.
Tell me about
my Videodrome problem.
about it than I do.
Listen to him.
Where's Harlan?
He's not in the lab.
- I think he's up in V.T.R. Max -
- Not now.
- Harlan.
- S, patrn.
Have you been hallucinating lately?
No.
- Should I be?
- Yes.
You should be.
I believe...
that the growth in my head -
this head, this one right here -
I think that it is not
really a tumor...
not an uncontrolled,
undirected little bubbling pot offlesh...
but that it is in fact...
a new organ...
a new part of the brain.
of Videodrome signal...
will ultimately create
a new outgrowth...
of the human brain...
which will produce
and control hallucination...
to the point that it will
change human reality.
After all, there is nothing real...
outside our perception of reality...
is there?
You can see that, can't you?
- Max Renn?
- Yes.
Who is this?
Barry Convex would like to talk
to you about Videodrome.
I've got a car waiting
downstairs for you, sir.
Please direct your attention to
the television set in front of you, Mr. Renn.
Mr. Convex has recorded
a little introduction for you.
Hi, I'm Barry Convex,
Chief of Special Programs...
and I'd like to invite you
into the world of Spectacular Optical...
an enthusiastic global corporate citizen.
We make inexpensive glasses
for the Third World...
and missile guidance systems for NATO.
We also make Videodrome, Max...
and as I'm sure you know...
when it's ready for the marketplace,
things will never be quite the same again.
It can be a giant hallucination machine
and much, much more.
But it's not ready.
Those were test transmissions you picked up.
We thought nobody
could tap into them.
He's good, that Harlan.
Good pirate.
Well, now that you have...
a little talk, don't you?
I thought maybe... my place?
I hope you realize
you're playing with dynamite.
That's our spring line.
Top secret stuff.
I brought it with me for a trade show
here in town later this week.
Max Renn, I'm Barry Convex.
I -
I think that machinery
you're wearing is...
too much for the shape of your face.
Overwhelms you.
Try something more, uh, spidery...
more delicate.
Here she is.
This is our prototype.
This is the little number
that started it all.
Max...
I would like you
to try this on for size.
I would like to use this machine
to record one of your hallucinations now.
Then I would like to take that tape
back with me to home base for analysis.
Do I get to keep the copyright?
I mean, I'd hate to see it show up as
a Movie of the Week and not get paid for it.
Max, I'm trying to help you.
What makes you think
I need help, Barry?
None of our test subjects
has returned to... normality.
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