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" Did you realize how old David Cronenberg is? That isn&amp;#039;t to be ageist, but the beloved director of all things icky just doesn&amp;#039;t seem like he should be 70 years old, the age he just turned today. There&amp;#039;s a certain narrative about growing up as a filmmaker, maturing. Martin Scorsese, who is the exact same age as Cronenberg, has never made movies like his Canadian peer, but while he may not be giving into nostalgia entirely, it&amp;#039;s hard to believe he&amp;#039;d ever return to the punishment of Taxi Driver or Raging Bull after the ride through glittering film history that was Hugo. Cronenberg, on the other hand, took a chance last year by making a sci-fi head-trip starring a teen idol in which someone gets a hole blown through his hand in excruciating detail and another person sets himself on fire. Oh, also, capitalism ends. Next he wants to make a movie about actors being ruined by Hollywood depravity. So much for settling into older age! (It&amp;#039;s also worth mentioning Cronenberg looks almost exactly like he did in 1992. What&amp;#039;s his regimen?) Cronenberg still avoids making movies in America. He&amp;#039;s always existed outside of the Hollywood complex, and in interviews he&amp;#039;s made it clear he likes it that way. And so there may be a more practical reason why he hasn&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;grown up.&amp;quot; But by watching his movies, it&amp;#039;s easy to think he just doesn&amp;#039;t see growing up like a lot of people. We&amp;#039;d like to think Cronenberg will never let his basest, by which we mean his highest, instincts go. Can you imagine if the man who made Videodrome ever let us believe, for a second, that the movies aren&amp;#039;t dangerous? The horror, the horror. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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