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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. In the last decade or so, Cronenberg’s films have shifted in style considerably. He’s gone from making movies with massive special effects budgets and plenty of gore to quiet, realistic drama with…well, plenty of gore. What can you say? The man loves his action sequences. But 2002’s Spider represented a unique turn for the director. Starring Ralph Fiennes, the film is a subtle, meditative character study of a man who appears to be mentally challenged or insane as he wanders through his old neighborhood in England. He has no dialogue—he can only quietly mumble to himself. But we can still understand him, as Fiennes does an amazing job portraying this emotional character, struggling to tie the strands of his life together and understand how he became the person he is. Though it’s a much more realistic film for Cronenberg, and one that, both literally and figuratively, is set in foreign territory, it succeeds in portraying this character and his drama. There’s still some odd moments that suggest Cronenberg hasn’t lost his touch for horror—one scene in particular, when the Fiennes, in a flashback, remembers sitting down to dinner and looking into a bowl filled with a coiled, steamed eel. 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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