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He's created a niche for himself in the marketplace, Cronenberg has.
He and his producers can roughly figure out how many people will see a particular film, budged accordingly, and take home a fat check at the end of the day. It doesn't matter if it will only be a few mil for Spider or more for existenz. Profit is profit.
Delillo follows his muse, even when he doesn't fully understand it himself. He's a poet on a journey, a true artist for our time, a voice piecing sense from wilderness, and does not consider money when putting sentences together.
Let me put it this way: Delillo would exist without Cronenberg; Cronenberg wouldn't exist without Delillo. (Or Ballard. Or Burroughs. etc.)
(I'm just fucking with you all. existenz was a great movie, Delillo's FALLING MAN sucked shit.)
But seriously, read COSMOPOLIS.
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