... in trailers for the film but it was the one that stuck. In fact, after more than twenty years, that one line from a fairly pedestrian pop culture movie has become part of our cultural vocabulary, usually just shortened to, “Be afraid.” Of course, David Cronenberg, the head writer for the movie knew what he was doing. Versions of that line or lines very like it had been used before by other writers aiming for high drama. Shelley wrote, in his sonnet, Ozymandias: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look ...
