NAKED LUNCH
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| Rated R
| | Copyright 1991 Naked Lunch Productions
| | Reviewed by Max Gardner
on 17 January 2001
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- Bill Lee - Peter Weller! Pest control man who's getting tired of his wife and his carnivorous typewriter.
- Joan Lee - Bill's wife, addicted on his bug poison. Killed when he tries shooting a bottle off her head and misses.
- Klartnova - Bill's case officer, a large talking beetle that doubles as a typewriter.
- Mugwump - An amphibious creature that would seem to be another incarnation of Bill's typewriter.
- Cloquet - Julian Sands! A "Swiss dandy," according to Mugwump, who keeps parrots and turns into a centipede.
- Kiki - Male prostitute in Interzone. Killed by Cloquet in an unpleasant manner.
- Tom and Joan Frost - Ian Holm and Judy Davis! Writers living in Interzone.
- Hank and Martin - Bill's literary-inclined friends.
- Dr. Benway - Roy Scheider! Bill's doctor and head of Interzone, Inc.
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Being based on a William S. Burroughs' novel and directed by David Cronenberg, this is an odd one.
Bill is an exterminator who is unsettled, to say the least, when a giant talking bug informs him that his wife is actually an agent of Interzone, Inc., a shadow organization run by Dr. Benway. After killing his wife, per his typewriter's instructions, Bill flees to Interzone and is embroiled in all manner of strangeness - horny typewriters, giant insects, telepathy and enough tentacle sex to make any hentai director proud. He's ordered by his caseworker to seduce a writer named Joan Frost. Her husband Tom doesn't seem to care much about that, but when Bill breaks his expensive typewriter he gets pissed off, and Bill realizes he'd better tie up his affairs and get out of Interzone before something happens to him. Naked Lunch moves a bit slowly at times, and it really isn't possible to translate Burroughs' novel directly onto film. Sometimes it seems a bit forced in that respect - all the typewriters sound like Burroughs, Cronenberg quotes him just for the hell of it - but it's entertaining on the whole.
Hell, at least it's better than Titanic.
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| Things I Learned From This Movie: | |
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- If you're going to use bug powder as a narcotic, cut it with baby laxative first.
- Exterminators eat their poison on a regular basis.
- Don't trust strange German men who grind up giant centipedes for a living.
- Typewriters are very territorial creatures.
- Don't let your housekeeper get hold of any blood, pubic hair or teeth, or she'll control your mind.
- Being raped by a six-foot-long centipede is not pleasant.
- Don't give your ass any ideas about having equal rights.
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- 12 min - That's not something you see on a regular basis.
- 52 min - Bill just killed that rather large centipede in his bathroom with his breath.
- 56 min - Battling typewriters.
- 62 min - Typewriter sex, I did not need to see this.
- 83 min - Now that's disturbing. Where the hell do you put the paper in?
- 106 min - Roy Scheider dressed as a large German woman! You will never see this again, folks.
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- Bill: "Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to."
- Bill: "Someone's been stealing my roach powder. He's got it in for me."
- Kiki: "I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. He specializes in sexual ambivalence."
Bill: "Sexual ambulance, did you say?"
- Klartnova: "Joan was a special case. Joan was an Elite Corps Centipede."
- Bill: "Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?"
- Bill: "Tom, I've brought you a new typewriter which conveniently dispenses two types of intoxicating fluids when it likes what you've written."
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Dialog |  | nakedlunch1.wav
| Klartnova: "Your wife is not really your wife. She is an agent of Interzone incorporated; you must kill her."
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| Bill: "You're acting like a full fledged junkie and it's bug powder for Christ's sake!"
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| Klartnova: "Women aren't human Bill. Or perhaps, more precisely, they're a different species than men with different wills and different purposes on Earth. You know this instinctively Bill and it's your instincts that make you such a good operative."
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| Tom: "No American should find himself in a foreign land without a pistol."
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| | Click for a larger image | IMAGES | Scenes from the movie | |
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| | Watch a scene | VIDEO | MPEG video files | |
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| Bill tries out his "William Tell" routine on Joan. This is actually pretty normal, when compared to the rest of the film.
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