``Scanners'' A turning point for Cronenberg, who combined authorship and popular appeal.

The world of Cronenberg is merging

"Fusion" is an important keyword in many of David Cronenberg's works. `` Seaverse/The Island of Cannibals '' depicts the horror that occurs when humans and parasites merge. In the next episode, `` Rabid ,'' a mysterious organ appears after receiving an artificial skin graft. In `` Videodrome ,'' a mysterious pornographic video broadcast via satellite causes reality to become distorted, and a hand and a gun fuse together. ``The Fly'' is a remake of `` Terror of the Flies '' in which humans and flies are fused on a genetic level.

This trend can also be seen in recent works that have moved away from genres such as horror and science fiction. " History of Violence " (2005) is about a former yakuza who lives a peaceful life. In `` Eastern Promise '' (2007), a strong-faced yakuza is actually... In both works, a character appears who is a ``fusion'' of two attributes.

In the story, these ``fusions'' bring fear and hardship, but the ``fusions'' themselves are depicted in a very sensual way. In ``Seaverse/Cannibal Island'' (75), the parasitized people lose their reason and seek sex, and in ``Rabbit'' (77), they seduce the opposite sex and attack them with organs resembling penises. ``Videodrome'' (1983) was originally inspired by a pornographic image, and in ``The Fly'' he accepts fusion with a fly and instinctively plots to prosper his offspring.

Also, especially noticeable in the early works, the main characters all bear a vague resemblance to Cronenberg. Cronenberg now has silver hair, but when he was younger he had dark hair and a long face with a long nose. He is a tall, attractive-looking man whose black-rimmed glasses give off an air of intelligence. The main characters from the earlier works also have similar looks, and the actors chosen are those who never seem to break through a crisis through fistfights. Perhaps he was projecting himself onto the characters and dreaming of a sensual ``fusion'' that would never come true in reality.

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Now. In Scanners, Bale is played by Stephen Luck, a Cronenberg-like actor with dark hair, a long face, and a high nose, giving him a melancholy and soft impression. Near the end of the movie. Revok tells Bale that they are separated brothers and tries to pacify him, saying, ``Let's take control of the world together with our scanning ability,'' but when he learns that won't happen, he says, ``I'll absorb your abilities and become one!'' Start scanning the bails. Bale also begins a counterattack scan attack on Revok.

Each other's blood vessels swell, blood swells under the skin like a snake, boils, and finally bursts into flames. The ``concrete expression of concepts'' that visually expresses a scanning attack on the brain that is not normally expressed as movement is a Cronenberg-like production that is also noticeable in ``The Brood' ' (79).

The battle between Revok and Bale ends with a strange "fusion." Beside the room where the battle took place is a burnt out, carbonized corpse that is unrecognizable. In the background, Revok pulls Bale's coat over his head, but says in Bale's voice, ``We have won.'' The wound that Revok made himself was gone from its forehead.

The final scene, in which the brothers Revok and Bale are harmoniously mixed and ``fused,'' is a truly Cronenberg-like development that would be repeated later in `` Terror Bonds '' (1988).

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