Videodrome (1983)
James Woods: Max Renn
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Quotes
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Max Renn : Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
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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.
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Rena King : What about it, Nicki? Is it socially positive?
Nicki Brand : Well, I think we live in overstimulated times. We crave stimulation for its own sake. We gorge ourselves on it. We always want more, whether it's tactile, emotional or sexual. And I think that's bad.
Max Renn : Then why did you wear that dress?
Nicki Brand : Sorry?
Max Renn : That dress. It's very stimulating.
[looks at Rena]
Max Renn : And it's red. You know what Freud would've said about that dress.
Nicki Brand : And he would've been right. I admit it. I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation.
Max Renn : Listen, I'd really like to take you out to dinner tonight...
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Nicki Brand : Got any porno?
Max Renn : You serious?
Nicki Brand : Yeah. It gets me in the mood.
[looks through casettes]
Nicki Brand : What's this? "Videodrome"?
Max Renn : Torture. Murder.
Nicki Brand : Sounds great.
Max Renn : Ain't exactly sex.
Nicki Brand : Says who?
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Max Renn : [Handing Bianca the videotape] Careful... it bites.
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[about violence]
Max Renn : Better on T.V. than on the streets.
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Max Renn : I am the Video Word made Flesh.
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Max Renn : [just before Harlan explodes] See you in Pittsburgh.
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Max Renn : I'm looking for something that'll... break through. You know?
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Max Renn : [on hearing that Brian may send a tape, rather than meet] If he does, that's going to make conversation a little difficult.
Bianca O'Blivion : My father has not engaged in conversation for at least twenty years. The monologue is his preferred mode of discourse.
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Max Renn : What's that? You let someone cut you?
Nicki Brand : Yeah, what do you think?
Max Renn : Well, I don't know.
Nicki Brand : Would you like to try a few things?
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[Max is conferring with Shinji Kuraki of Hiroshima Video, who wants to sell "Samurai Dreams", a series of artful softcore films, to his network]
Max Renn : Well... I looked over the stills. I am interested - a little bit. How many shows you got?
Shinji Kuraki : Thirteen, with a possibility of another six if the sales go well.
Max Renn : You got cassettes?
Shinji Kuraki : [he and Max chuckle] Of course!
[he gestures to his aide, Hiro Nakamura, who opens a briefcase containing the tapes and takes out the first film]
Max Renn : No, hold it... ah, show me the last one.
Hiro Nakamura : [inquires in Japanese]
Max Renn : Number 13.
Shinji Kuraki : But Max, you won't understand anything! Everything is set up in the first two.
Max Renn : Hey, my audience ain't gonna see the first two shows. Now, show me the last one.
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Max Renn : D'you want a cup of coffee?
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Max Renn : I want you to stay away from it! Those mondo weirdo video guys, they've got unsavory connections, they play rough. Rougher than even Nicki Brand wants to play... You know, in Brazil, Central America, those kinds of places, making underground videos is considered a subversive act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh, who knows?
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Max Renn : Tell me about my 'Videodrome' problem.
Bianca O'Blivion : My father knows much more about it than I do.
[Biana hands Max a pile of videotapes]
Bianca O'Blivion : Listen to him.
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Barry Convex : okay we're rolling. The taping mechanism is all self-contained. You won't have to do anything now but hallucinate
Max Renn : yea, yea, okay
Barry Convex : I'll come back for you later. You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. I just can't cope with freaky stuff
