Vidéodrome (1983)

Partager la citation sur facebook The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. That's why I refuse to appear on television, except on television. 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.

Partager la citation sur facebook After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there? You can see that, can't you?

Partager la citation sur facebook 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.

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

Partager la citation sur facebook Your head, we have you head in the box.
After Renn asks about the content of a box Harlan is closing inside the Spectacular Optics shop

Partager la citation sur facebook After Renn asks about the content of a box Harlan is closing inside the Spectacular Optics shop

Partager la citation sur facebook You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. I just can't cope with freaky stuff.

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Partager la citation sur facebook Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!

Partager la citation sur facebook I am the video word made flesh.

Partager la citation sur facebook Masha: Videodrome. What you see on that show, it's for real. It's not acting. It's... snuff TV.
Max Renn: I don't believe it.
Masha: So... don't believe.
Max Renn: 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.

Partager la citation sur facebook Max Renn: Have you been hallucinating lately?
Harlan: No. Should I be?
Max Renn: Yes, you should be.

Partager la citation sur facebook Harlan: I don't work with you for the money.
Max Renn: I know that. With pirates, it's never just for the money, is it?

Partager la citation sur facebook Barry Convex: Why would anybody watch a scum show like Videodrome? Why did you watch it, Max?
Max Renn: Business reasons.
Barry Convex: Sure, sure... what about the other reasons? Why deny you get your kicks out of watching torturing and murder?

Partager la citation sur facebook 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. I was the-- I... I... was... Videodrome's... first victim...
Max Renn: Who's behind it? What do they want?
Nicki Brand: I want you, Max. You.

Partager la citation sur facebook First it controls your mind... then it destroys your body.

Partager la citation sur facebook First it controlled her mind, then it destroyed her body... Long live the new flesh!

Partager la citation sur facebook A shocking new vision.

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Partager la citation sur facebook Videodrome is a bioelectrical addiction. Videodrome is the ultimate addiction.