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The Fly tickets are now available to be purchased or sold online at Stubhub.com. Where does high art and low art meet? You’d best pose that question to David Cronenberg, the famed cult film director whose visions of insect and flesh-inspired horror have influenced movies for decades now. But while he’s made his name in the world of cinema, he’s branching out into an entirely new field. An opera adaptation of Cronenberg’s best known movie, The Fly, will premiere in September 2008 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Cronenberg directed the opera, and the music was composed by Howard Shore, who was also responsible for the film’s score (as well as many others he’s collaborated on with Cronenberg). There’s a good chance the opera crowd might not be familiar with the gory special effects Cronenberg’s fan base appreciates. For them, this series of articles will be helpful. Each article briefly examines one of the films from the director’s extensive canon. Crash represented yet another shift in Cronenberg’s oeuvre, away from the special effects and bizarre, hallucinatory nightmares of Naked Lunch and back to the poignant character studies of Dead Ringers. Yet another adaptation of a cult author (J.M. Ballard), Crash features a brilliant cast and a title that will be forever be confused with a more insipid film about racial relations released in 2004, leading to untold hilarity as audiences unfamiliar with Cronenberg are introduced to his work via James Spader’s sexual exploits. The same as the book, the film is about a group of emotional cripples so desperate for intimacy that they turn to unknown bounds of sexual deviance to achieve empty, momentary pleasure. James Spader plays Ballard—yes, the title character is named after the book’s author—a man who stumbles on a secret group of people who are aroused by car crashes. For them, the car becomes a phallic object to penetrate others with. They fantasize about crashing into Marilyn Monroe. Their leader drives a replica of the car Kennedy drove when he was assassinated. It’s yet another brilliant and obscene take on the theme of technology becoming an extension of the human. Only through their cars can these people touch one another. During the act of actual sex, they’re remote and untouched. It represents some of the finest, if disturbing, storytelling in Cronenberg’s oeuvre. Written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub.com. StubHub sells sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world. Don't miss this Cronenberg classic with The Fly tickets.
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