Long Live The New Flesh (Final Scene) | Videodrome (1983)

[@gooblop]

The original ending had a flash of "YOUR TURN" for just a few frames, but that cut never even made it to theaters due to suicide prevention groups influence.

[@ordermind]

That was probably a good idea.

[@isabelageekarts8947]

@@ordermind true

[@Kamil2142]

@@schlomoshekelstein908 yeah, no; settle down there, schlomo, haha

[@chadrogers4614]

That sounds like an urban legend.

[@manojkr9198]

@@schlomoshekelstein908 or maybe they need IMMEDIATE help

[@sipesthebest128]

This film was definitely ahead of its time... Woods never topped his performance in this one, and hasn't gotten over it yet.

[@Mantinhas]

He was great in Once Upon a Time in America, and has also been great lately playing a disconnected from reality Trump supporter.

[@harrisonharbers4577]

I don't think so. Indictment: The McMartin Trial was his best. Or Citizen Cohn. He's made a bunch of good flicks.

[@sipesthebest128]

@@harrisonharbers4577 Correction: He's been in some good films and TV adaptations.

[@JohnWick-vh2qy]

@@Mantinhas Hey look I found the communist.

[@Mantinhas]

@@JohnWick-vh2qy good. Now find your way out of your mom's basement.

[@deadpelicanguy]

This scene is so powerful. It's dark and disturbing and at the same time there's something sweet and beautiful about it. Suicide is horrible, and yet somehow I completely understand why he's doing it. When the screen fades to black it has me believing that Max and Nicky are together somewhere, somehow, happy and at peace.

[@ziahood5003]

beautifully said. this movie, although seemingly hollow to some at first glance, is extraordinarily revolutionary. there’s something new every time you watch it, that somehow changes the entirety of the plot. everything about this movie, especially this end scene, is disturbing, dark, horrifying, but somehow compellingly beautiful.

[@ziahood5003]

also, why do you think that’s how the ending went (nicky and max being together in the end and being happy), since there’s so many ways the end could’ve been interpreted? like i said, depending on how you interpret the ending (and other parts), it changes parts of the plot

[@deadpelicanguy]

@@ziahood5003 It's more of a vibe that I get. I guess it's because she sounds convincing when she tells him that to become the new flesh, he has to kill the old flesh. She says that she is going to show him the way and I guess I believe her. She tells him that he's moving to the next phase so I guess I believe her.

[@ziahood5003]

@@deadpelicanguy yeah, i can see that. the thing is is that we have to remember that it's not really nicki in the TV - she's a hallucination most of the time. so it's kind of up to us to determine when max is hallucinating, when it's videodrome, and when it's real (if it even is lol).

[@arcane8110]

@@ziahood5003 Yeah exactly, at this point, Max's mind could be completely distorted by Videodrome's power and he's been driven to end himself because of it - hence all the hallucinations of Nikki.

[@tehf00n]

The moment my last child was born, my wife said "Long live the new flesh".

[@ReplyequalsNerd]

Hello, based department?

[@nateisnobody5041]

That's amazing.

[@pedroalves3161]

@@nateisnobody5041 No, that is bad.

[@nateisnobody5041]

@@pedroalves3161 Enlighten me.

[@pedroalves3161]

@@nateisnobody5041 Unfortunately, another Max will arise :(

[@LostStylus]

I remember seeing it for the first time and be completely overwhelmed by how it felt that my actual TV is gonna explode in my living room the same way the one in the movie did. I think that was the intention for this scene

[@tomservo9254]

Something about the exact same scene running through twice in a row creeps me out like nothing else

[@gregx5096]

Except that as pointed out above there is a tiny difference between the first and second versions of the scene. That tiny difference when paid attention to has a huge effect!

[@ulture]

@@gregx5096 his expression? or something else?

[@ministry.ofsound]

​@@ulture there's 2 things that I noticed. In the first version he doesn't look up and into the camera until he's pointing the gun to his head and he doesn't close his eyes before shooting. In the second version he looks up and into the camera then starts raising the gun to his head and he closes his eyes a bit before he shoots

[@gpl992]

Deja Vu...its a Glitch in the Matrix

[@MrMRCTV]

Only Cronenberg can make a suicide feel hopeful and optimistic. This is a movie that makes you want to burn the world down.

[@marcusdaloia2974]

I think that suicide is generally a act of optimism. Desperation as well but if it wasn't at least slightly optimistic then even that wouldn't be enough. At least in this context it's, if I'm reading it right, a promise of something other then relief.

[@watamatafoyu]

"We're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we're going to survive them."

[@obscure.reference]

the only way it’s remotely hopeful is if you look at it entirely meta, which it somewhat intends, otherwise it’s just his mind being beaten with the illusion of success. same as most dystopian fiction.

[@peacefuljeffrey]

I didn’t need this movie for that.

[@AldenRDavis]

“Death to Videodrome... long live the new flesh.”

[@hermetic_wizard777]

This scene is beautiful... His ascension is complete.

[@smoothALOE]

I go back and forth between this movie and The Fly. They are both great films by David Cronenburg. I think this one has a better ending, but overall, I think I like The Fly a little bit better. This ending is really chilling, though.

[@watamatafoyu]

The Brood may have a more chilling ending

[@TheGoodDocter1972]

I've seen this movie many times, but for the first time I noticed that in the simulation he doesn't smile; and in reality, as we know it, he does. This opens up so many wonderful metaphors and allegories I fear to even tread them.

[@stefanopiroddi2687]

I know many will disagree with me, but I do not believe this is a nihilistic ending. Rather, I see it as both life-affirming - and death-affirming. Only by letting go the 'old flesh', which is, the body rejecting technology, can mankind achieve its next evolutionary step, as O'Blivion said. I believe Bianca O'Blivion did not program Max to commit suicide: I think his own hallucination of Nikki shows that his 'new flesh', his new techno-biological self, has become self-aware and is guiding him to let go of the old flesh. That's why the suicide happens twice: Max firsts lets go of his old flesh, and then appears on our own screens to guide us to do the same. The message is very clear: technology mustn't simply be 'controlled' (like Videodrome wants us to believe), nor must we simply 'control' technology (like the Cathode Ray Mission). Max embraces the new flesh by becoming something else entirely, the true joining of biological and technical. He BECOMES the television signal, and the radio wave is now his new true body.

[@ziahood5003]

i don’t necessarily disagree, but i’m curious to ask you more. there’s too much to be said about this movie then i’m merely a youtube comment, but the ending (along with many other scenes in this movie), can be interpreted in many different ways, and depending on how you choose to interpret it, key places in the plot change. this movie does have a “clear” message (controlling of technology + insanity/psychological torture due to technology), but it’s definitely a movie that needs to be watched and analyzed many times to begin to understand the hidden meanings behind it, which to me, are much more important then the “central” one

[@travisdillon8460]

Can I buy some pot from you?

[@matthewdietzen6708]

Hmmmm... yeah, I dunno. It seems more likely that he was used as a pawn, and then manipulated into killing himself after he outlived his usefulness. Earlier on, he was a passive receiver of programming, but then he becomes somewhat empowered in that he develops a capacity to destroy. So it seems likely that someone used him to take out Harlan and Convex, but now they want to be rid of him because he's dangerous.

[@yamafofana]

Bianca used him as a weapon just like Convex did. Then she made him kill himself so the murders could not be traced back to her

[@diogeneslaughed2099]

One of the trippiest n most chilling film endings.

[@petesmith9475]

Such a brilliant movie. I still remember of the depression and silence after movie ented at the theatre,

[@gregx5096]

I would be absolutely dazed, had I seen that in a theatre.

[@heavystarch100]

This movie still holds up!!

[@sammydane5988]

We need a 'Videodrome 2: The New Flesh' movie! 0:24 I want to see Max in his new flesh, facing the complex Videodrome

[@stephenkissane4268]

Something about David's endings that leave you cold. With this one I can't tell if it's positive or negative

[@AdamStiller-xv8bj]

There is an alternate ending scene where as Max raises his hand to shoot himself at the very end, you see that unlike the scene on the tv his hand is normal and not deformed and gun shaped.. And he's not holding a gun either, its just empty. Max makes the motion of pulling the trigger with his empty hand, but as the screen goes black you still hear a gunshot. So its open to interpretation. It was in some of the ads and tv versions, but I dont think it ever played in theaters.

[@AdamStiller-xv8bj]

As it is I'd say its pretty negative as it strongly implies he killed himself irl

[@gpl992]

We gotta talk about the absolutely beautiful Score playing when hes on the TV doing this "Act" and then after when he does it in real life.

[@Driven2Beers]

Reality is always more chilling and frightening than fiction. I bet the short remainder of my life on it.

[@jonahfalcon1970]

I never noticed the television has a "Videodrome" label on it. Thank you, Blu Ray!

[@infinityzer054]

The new flesh is dead, machines are here Never die, death serves no means…life has purpose

[@gorelover6921]

is the internet not the (new) new flesh

[@DarkAnomaly]

Just finished watching this movie now and even yet I still find it incredibly disturbing but the performance though was superb.

[@kingkaijuslayer1109]

2:48 then guts explode out of your phone/computer screen

[@KD--sj8eo]

That’s the idea.

[@Sc0rp83]

Got dammit, there goes my lifetime phone warranty. And half of my own face...

[@spiritgirl41192]

Think you could upload The Fly (1986) whenever you get a chance?

[@freedom_rock18]

Probably one of my favorite roles by woods he never disappoints but man he really went all the way! 🤪

[@freedom_rock18]

I just watched this for the first time on Peacock on acid and oh my gosh David knows how to makes. Movie that’s for sure..I was gonna watch rabid but I’m gonna hold off until Sunday afternoon lol

[@michaelreeves4529]

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

[@johna8973]

and 👎 DOWN WITH BIG 📺 BROTHER

[@jonahfalcon1970]

You didn't include the great, sad line by Max: "I was wondering when I'd get to see you again."

[@АлексаМладић]

Geeze Nicki, you make it sound so easy! Oh well...

[@hellowan93]

CHARLI XCX GOOD ONES BROUGHT ME HERE

[@boggsmckracken7796]

Now that's the new flesh we've been waiting for

[@geovanniandrade8321]

so i’ve never seen this movie. fell down a rabbit hole. wanna check it out. they said this was the only jump scare of the movie, true?

[@judehutchinson8355]

Just watch the movie

[@Draxtor]

someone probably commented on this already but it is quite interesting that James Woods has INDEED gone ALL THE WAY ..... to ... well: madness :))

[@yoyourstanker6669]

Welcome to the new flesh Wow this film is fucken great!

[@Murphwordz]

I'd love to see a re-quel of this movie, but only if Brandon Chronenberg is making it

[@sudd3660]

god damn that was too close the real world right now.

[@freedom_rock18]

This movie on acid is disturbingly good

[@ThisHandleIsInteresting]

Is this an alternate ending?

[@Bert_de_Wit]

It's the normal ending.

[@MB32904]

me: mom, can we have long live the new fresh? mom: no, we have long live the new fresh at home long live the new fresh at home: no hate tho

[@only257]

👍love this movie

[@nonconformist4439]

Great score. 2:19

[@Njbear7453]

I LOVE this movie

[@magicvampirelver1321]

Damn!

[@UnitedCorporationsOfAmerica]

Is that Blondie.

[@attackoftheclonesisnotthat790]

Yes

[@deadpoolchimichangas7111]

Interesting

[@josetorresx8941]

Fifth

[@patricksfence2231]

Who cares kid

[@rodolfocabuhat7703]

First

[@patricksfence2231]

No one cares

[@muhammadsmith7029]

Whoa impressive! Very cool!

[@peacefuljeffrey]

I could have sworn that in the version I saw, it didn’t end with Max killing himself. I thought I remembered him walking off into the distance. Is it possible that I did see such a version? I’ve heard that there are multiple endings out there. … Or maybe I hallucinated it? 🫣😧

[@AdamStiller-xv8bj]

There are. In one of them his hand is normal at the very end, and hes not holding a gun.