Cronenberg’s Mugwumps were extraterrestrials from Venus and appeared much more benevolent than the creatures in Burrough’s book and were said to be “sexually ambivalent”. Indeed, he went as far as to decide that they should be based on William Burroughs himself, that it should look like him, have something about him in his face, chest and posture. While only roughly described in the novel, Cronenberg’s intention was to make the creatures look like a junkie’s body, and more humanoid than the creature described in the book. BURROUGHS: 1945-1959 User Review - Kirkus The MTV generations idea of an outlaw-writer, Burroughs finds himself a minor/grand old man of sortswhich is why. Burroughs’ subversive, allegorically political depiction of drugs and homosexuality becomes the perfect playground for Cronenberg’s oft-cited love of “body horror” but instead of our human protagonists, it is the Giger-esque insectoid typewriters whose bodies are metaphorically pleasured and mangled.īut even more shocking (and delightful) than these talking typewriter-bugs that communicate through their pulsating sphincters is “The Mugwump”, designed by Stephan Dupuis.
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