The power of the original

Joanie 2021-12-22 08:01:27

Just finished reading the original novel of "Crash", the Hong Kong version. It is no exaggeration for Ballard to be regarded as the literary tutor of "Cyberpunk". The mainland only released another Ballard novel that was also adapted into a movie-"Empire of the Sun". It is estimated that "Crash", a heterochromatic novel full of sexual descriptions, will not be published in the mainland for the time being. If it is published, it may be half-worded. Even when this book was first published in the UK, it hit a wall everywhere. I've seen the movie and the book, and when I sit in the driver's seat, my heart is already beating wildly.
The comments on "Crash" are already quite comprehensive. Zhang Yuan also has a comment in the book "My Camera Doesn't Lie", so I won't be wordy anymore. Just transcribe the end of a paragraph in the original chapter for you.
"I looked at the night sky and felt that the entire landscape seemed to be bathed in his body fluids. It drives thousands of engines, circuit boards and personal destiny, irrigating the smallest gestures in our lives..."
Big guard. Konnenberg's movies are basically loyal to the original, shooting that kind of cold sexy. What a pity David. Lin Qi didn't grab Ballard's script beforehand, or, maybe there would be no "Lost Highway".

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Extended Reading

Crash quotes

  • Vaughan: [speaking into microphone] I myself shall play the role of Dean's racing mechanic Rolf Voudrich, sent over from the Porsche factory in Zuffenhausen, Germany. Now, this mechanic was himself fated to die in a car crash in Germany 26 years later.

  • James Ballard: After being bombarded endlessly by road safety propaganda, almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident.