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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. With 1999’s eXistenZ, Cronenberg returned to a bizarre world of his own making—this time turning to virtual reality for his inspiration. The story stars Jude Law as a marketing trainee who inadvertently becomes sucked into a virtual reality game created by a fabled game designer played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. As they venture further and further into the bizarre logic of the game, a series of double-crosses and murders turn their race to freedom into a dangerous cat and mouse game. As with other Cronenberg films, the subject of alternate realities, and specifically realities that are dependent on a meshing of technology and organic flesh, is a central theme. The film becomes even more confusing than Croneneberg’s other abstract films largely because the farther into the game Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh’s characters go, the more a weird kind of "game logic" begins to steer the plot’s events. Much like in Videodrome, where strange machine-flesh hybrid guns were used, the video game involves a bizarre "bio-port" that implants the game station directly into the body. If you’ve followed this series this far, than you can see the connections that director David Cronenberg is trying to make. 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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