Antiviral takes place in and around the Lucas Clinic, a company that caters to consumers who want to get very close to their idols, medically speaking: it buys viruses from celebrities and sells them to the public. The film follows one of Lucas' staff members, Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones), a young man who has a few secrets from his employers: he sells viruses on the side to the black market, and he's something of a fan himself,celine bags online.
The object of his attention is the pale, blonde and beautiful Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon), who is on the company's celebrity payroll, and he gets far too close to her for his own good.
As the pale, distinctive, androgynous Syd, Landry Jones gives an intense, driven performance. He appears in almost every scene. ''He's an incredible physical actor and one reason we cast him is because we got a sense of that from what we had seen,'' Cronenberg says. ''But I didn't realise the degree of physical control he had until we started working together, and I think the role became more physical to take advantage of that.''
There was a scene, Cronenberg recalls,Tory Burch shoes, halfway through the shoot, ''when we did a take, and Caleb said, 'Brandon, Brandon, did you like my choice to twitch my eye on that particular word?' It was a wide shot, so I didn't see anything. But he had that kind of extreme control over his performance, and it made it a huge pleasure to work with him.''
For the most part, we see the celebrities in Antiviral from a distance: they are names or topics of conversation or faces. Hannah is a slight exception: the film shows us her image on film and on giant posters that fill entire walls, but we also see her behind the scenes, briefly, at moments of vulnerability. The first occurs when Hannah asks Syd to go directly to her and take a sample of her blood.
Later, we see her even more exposed. It's a deliberately revealing moment, Cronenberg says, when we see the human being apart from the image. ''One of the themes in the film is the disconnect between the celebrity - who's really a fictional character, a construct of the media that exists in the public consciousness - and the human being, someone who is unrelated to it, and who ages and lives and dies, and is imperfect, a body and an animal.''
In Antiviral, we don't see any will or control or desire for celebrity,air jordon pas cher, either - the famous person has no agency. In reality, Cronenberg says, ''people definitely seek fame, they work hard, very hard, for it. But I think also that when someone becomes famous, that persona almost creates a celebrity double that has its own life and history. And it sort of runs away from them and lives publicly.
''You see some people who are oppressed by their celebrity. Not that they would necessarily trade it in - but they have to live these very reclusive lives.''
Growing up as David Cronenberg's son, he says, ''I had some contact with people who are big stars. But when you meet them they are obviously not like the huge, idealised, abstract version of them that exists in the media.
''It's not really a novel observation to say that celebrities as seen by the public are different from the person. But the degree to which that's true, when you see it firsthand, is still a little bit '' he pauses, searching for the word, ''a little bit shocking.''
We don't know why Hannah is a celebrity. We don't know why anyone is, or if their fame is engineered. ''There is no stated reason, and there is no other form of entertainment,'' Cronenberg says.
He knows there are fictional and factual parallels to the universe he has conjured, he says.
He became aware of a scene in a 1997 documentary about Star Trek fans, Trekkies, which contained a similar notion to his initial idea. There was an event, he says, when John de Lancie, who plays the character Q, was speaking at a convention. De Lancie was struggling with illness as he spoke; a fan ran onstage, grabbed his water glass, drank it down and proclaimed, ''I have the Q virus.''
Cronenberg is conscious that celebrity obsession is a form of worship. ''Saints are my go-to reference in interviews,'' he says, ''and, although the world of the film is meant to be satirical, and it's a slight caricature of that culture, I don't think it's a huge exaggeration. Someone bought John Lennon's teeth recently: the fandom is pretty extreme.''
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