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>Really?? I always thought a closer adaptation of the novel would've made a
>better movie, and I wish Cronenberg had been more faithful to the novel and
>less to the stylistic methods used in the novel...(Cronenberg's adaptation


But as Cronenberg notoriously remarked in 1993:  "It would cost $400-500
million if you were to film it literally, and of course it would be banned
in every country in the world."  (Sure we can give him a little
exaggeration, right?)

LT

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