Videodrome Page #3

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Well, it's your market.

Do you know a show

called Videodrome?

- Video-what?

- D-R-O-M-E.

Videodrome,

like video circus, video arena.

- You know it?

- No.

It's just torture and murder.

No plot, no characters.

Very, very realistic.

I think it's what's next.

Then God help us.

Better on TV than on the street.

Arnold on line three.

You interested in, uh,

tracking it down for me?

I'll see that you get

the agent's commission.

I'm interested.

Let me try.

Max...

did you ever think...

of producing your own show?

Right here?

I could be your agent...

worldwide.

I could sell subterranean

for you everywhere.

- No, I don't have the temperament.

- But if you did...

what kind of show would you do?

I mean,

for the subterranean market.

Would you do... Videodrome?

Max.

- Mm-hmm.

- I'm goin'away tomorrow for two weeks...

on assignment.

Guess where?

L.A.

- Pittsburgh.

- Fabulous.

Don't stay in the sun too long.

I hear it's bad for the skin.

Oh, come on.

Isn't that where they make Videodrome?

Yeah. Why?

I'm gonna audition.

I was made for that show.

Nobody on earth

was made for that show.

Hey. Listen to me.

- Listen to me.

- What?

I want you to stay away from it.

Those mondo weirdo video guys,

they've got unsavory connections.

They play rough, rougher than

even Nicki Brand wants to play.

Do you understand me?

Sounds like a challenge.

Got a cigarette?

It's not a challenge.

I swear. You know, in Brazil,

Central America, those kinds of places...

making underground video

is considered a subversive act.

They execute people for it.

In Pittsburgh, who knows?

Max.

Nicki, don't!

Nicki, don't.

Don't.

- Do you have a hangover?

- No. Stayed up late watching TV.

Did you get in touch

with our friends in Pittsburgh?

In a way.

At a distance.

- Subterranean grapevine.

- And?

Max...

Videodrome is something

for you to leave alone.

It is definitely not

for public consumption.

Channel 83 is

a little small to be considered public.

It is still too public.

- Do you understand me?

- No. What's the punch line?

I think it's dangerous, Max,

Videodrome.

- Why? It's Mafia? They do business.

- No, no.

It's more, um -

How can I say?

More political than that.

- Come on, Masha. What are we talkin' about?

- Videodrome.

What you see on that show...

it's for real.

It's not acting.

It's snuffTV.

I don't believe it.

So don't believe.

Why do it for real?

It's easier and safer to fake it.

Because it has something...

that you don't have, Max.

It has a philosophy...

- and that is what makes it dangerous.

- Whose philosophy?

There must be a name.

Give me a name I can talk to.

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