Did anyone else notice?


Hi there.
Did anyone else notice this...?
In the scene where Arsrinee Khanjian's character is talking to Eddie, the video clerk, about the videos that are most often taken out, we see Eddie putting various videos back on the shelf. It looked like one of the sleves he puts on the shelf was David Cronenberg's movie VIDEODROME. do you reckon this would have been deliberate? It certainly would figure, as the theme of seductive images seems to play an important part in both films.
Tell me what you think.
thanks.
D.

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yes i did notice it too

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Yeah, that looked like Videodrome alright. Videodrome was the first thing I thought of when I saw those creepy close-up shots of the video monitors.

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Yes I saw it, Yes it was deliberate.

This movie is about alienation and the power of media, a subject touched by Cronenberg in "Videodrome", although Egoyan approach is of course different than Cronenberg's.

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Yes, I noticed the tape of "Videodrome," though it wasn't super obvious. If this was Egoyan's nod to Cronenberg, it was a very subtle one. Other films I noticed: "Suspect," "Terminator" and "I Heard the Mermaids Singing" (at the counter, so it must have been what they were playing in the store at the time).

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Yes Videodrome is there: there's also another Videodrome reference (and just as subtle too). During the boardroom meeting when Clara is screening Lance's audition, we see a shot of the live feed. Just below it, we see the face of Lynne Gorman's character 'Masha' from Videodrome almost like a reflection. Was a little startled by it.

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Oh also, the movie that Lisa is given b.c it 'looks good' was 'The Decline of the American Empire' by Denys Arcand

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Also, watching the feed of the producer was somewhat akin to Barry Convex and Professor Brian O'Blivion's videofeeds to Max Renn.

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It was surely intentional. You also clearly see Cronenberg's "The Brood" on the shelf in an earlier scene. It's right by the register.

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