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Since \"this troper thinks\" shouldn\'t be on actual pages, I\'ll work the discussion here:
\"I just watched this movie, and looking around the Internet, while I\'ve seen much discussion of the movie\'s overall themes and message, I\'ve seen surprisingly little discussion of the central question nagging at me as I watched it: what in the name of Jesus H. Cronenberg is \'\'happening\'\' in the film? Taken at face value, the movie is filled with bizarre supernatural events that lack even the slightest rationality to them. The explanation given in the film itself--that the video gave the protagonist a brain tumor causing him to experience wild hallucinations--doesn\'t make a whole lot of sense. What sort of brain tumor would lead to \'\'controlled\'\' hallucinations that Videodrome could direct, let alone use as a means of brainwashing him? My best guess as to what\'s really supposed to be happening is simply that the videos have used some form of post-hypnotic suggestion on the protagonist, and everything else that we see is simply how he perceives what\'s happening--his mind\'s symbolic (and somewhat Freudian) interpretation of the events.\" ~marbehraglaim
\"I just watched this movie, and looking around the Internet, while I\'ve seen much discussion of the movie\'s overall themes and message, I\'ve seen surprisingly little discussion of the central question nagging at me as I watched it: what in the name of Jesus H. Cronenberg is \'\'happening\'\' in the film? Taken at face value, the movie is filled with bizarre supernatural events that lack even the slightest rationality to them. The explanation given in the film itself--that the video gave the protagonist a brain tumor causing him to experience wild hallucinations--doesn\'t make a whole lot of sense. What sort of brain tumor would lead to \'\'controlled\'\' hallucinations that Videodrome could direct, let alone use as a means of brainwashing him? My best guess as to what\'s really supposed to be happening is simply that the videos have used some form of post-hypnotic suggestion on the protagonist, and everything else that we see is simply how he perceives what\'s happening--his mind\'s symbolic (and somewhat Freudian) interpretation of the events.\" ~marbehraglaim
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Yeah... that's way too big a change to do without any sort of discussion. I'm going to request a mod revert so we can hash it out and decide what needs to stay and needs to go.
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Yeah... that\'s way too big a change to do without any sort of discussion. I\'m going to request a mod revert so we can hash it out and decide what needs to stay and needs to go.
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EDIT: Okay, it's been reverted by a mod. I agree some fat could be trimmed, and the definition could be tightened, but that was just the wrong way to go about it.
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EDIT: Okay, it\'s been reverted by a mod. I agree some fat could be trimmed, and the definition could be tightened, but that was just the wrong way to go about it.
Christian, I think the issue here is that your Cuhrayzee is not the same as the broader trope of SpectacleFighter. Going to the CGG wiki (which a cursory googling indicates to me is the main source of the name), its criteria don\'t overlap perfectly with ours. After all, [[VideoGame/MadWorld the trope naming game]] for SpectacleFighter isn\'t even on that wiki.
Christian, I think the issue here is that your Cuhrayzee is not the same as the broader trope of SpectacleFighter. Going to the CGG wiki (which a cursory googling indicates to me is the main source of the name), its criteria don\'t overlap perfectly with ours. After all, [[VideoGame/MadWorld the trope naming game]] for SpectacleFighter isn\'t even on that wiki.
