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The Fly (1986)
In the superior and scary remake by master of horror
David Cronenberg - about a scientist who had accidentally merged
himself at a molecular-genetic level with an ordinary housefly during
a teleportation incident using an experimental telepod device:
- the gruesome scene when a baboon was teleported
inside out during an experiment gone awry - the squirming remains
were viewed
- the scene of girlfriend/lover/science reporter Veronica
Quaife (Geena Davis) feeling hairs growing on the back of a slowly-degenerating
Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), her shy scientist boyfriend
- Seth's first realization that he had become fused
with a fly - the computer typed out: "FUSION OF BRUNDLE AND
FLY AT MOLECULAR-GENETIC LEVEL" - his new name was Brundlefly
- his displays of superhuman strength after a teleport
session - breaking a competitor's arm during an arm-wrestling match
in a bar (with the bone protruding) - and then climbing up and down
walls, etc.
- a degenerating Seth's ear falling off in front of
his girlfriend/lover/science reporter Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis),
as he clutched her in fear and whispered:
"I'm scared. Help me. Please"
- Seth's videotaped explanation of vomiting during
preparations for his breakfast
- the scene in which Veronica experienced a nightmare
of aborting a maggot
- the scene in front of his bathroom mirror when slowly-degenerating
and mutating Seth stored
"relics" of his human body in the cabinet ("the Brundle
Museum of Natural History")
The Rapid Disintegration of Seth Into a Fly Creature
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- his warning to Veronica in his 'insect politics' speech
to leave and never come back because he might hurt her: ("You
have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard
of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects don't have politics.
They're very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust
the insect. I'd like to become the first insect politician. You see,
I'd like to, but, oh, I'm afraid, uh... I'm saying, I'm saying, I-I'm
an insect who dreamt he was a man but he loved it. But now the dream
is over and the insect is awake....I'm saying: 'I'll hurt you if
you stay.'")
- the scene of Seth's painful attack on Stathis Borans
(John Getz) by using acidic digestive vomit; Seth first covered his
left fist with the white substance, causing it to disintegrate into
a bloody stump. He then regurgitated the whitish acid onto his right
ankle and peeled off his foot. At Veronica's urging and begging,
he paused
- the scene of Seth's horrifying discussion with Veronica,
pleading with her: "Help me. Help me to be human"; he asked
her to engage in a fusion sequence (with a two minute countdown)
to come together with him: "I go there. You go there. We come
apart. And then we come together there. You, me, and the baby, together...it
will be the ultimate family, a family of three joined together in
one body, more human than I am alone"; as she resisted his attempt
to drag and throw her into the transporter, his fleshy skin from
his jaw fell off in her hand and he was transformed, in the most
grotesque scene of all, into an actual human fly; his plan failed
when he was inadvertently fused with metallic components of his telepod
device; the seriously-wounded Borans had disconnected the power lines
to Veronica's telepod with a shotgun blast, causing a shower of sparks
and aborting her connection to the fusion process
- in the poignant final scene after the failed transport,
anguished and completely disfigured 'Seth' flopped out of the telepod
and wordlessly begged Veronica to kill his monstrous self by guiding
the shotgun's muzzle to his body with a deformed claw; he wished
for her to end his monstrous life with a mercy killing, although
she at first begged: "No I can't"; but then she dropped
to her knees after the deed was accomplished
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Baboon Teleport Accident
Stiff Back Hairs
Seth's Super-Human Strength at Arm-Wrestling Match
Veronica's Squirming Maggot Nightmare
Attack with Digestive Vomit on Stathis
Veronica's Shot-Gun Extermination of Seth Brundle
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