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Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man. This Science-Gone-Mad film is the source of the quotable quote "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
This version of THE FLY is an update of the original horror classic about a brilliant scientist who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds, but inadvertently combines his DNA with that of a fly. Jeff Goldblum gives an outstanding performance as Seth Brundle, the heart-wrenching victim. David Cronenberg's classic won an Academy Award for Best Makeup.
Considered fairly gruesome in its day, the original 1958 The Fly looks like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood compared to this 1986 remake. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star as Seth Brundle, a self-involved research scientist, and Veronica Quaife, a science-magazine reporter. Inviting Veronica to his lab, Seth prepares to demonstrate his "telepod," which can theoretically transfer matter through space. As they grow closer over the next few weeks, she inadvertently goads Seth into experimenting with human beings rather than inanimate objects. Seth himself enters the telepod, preparing to transmit himself through the et...
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her -- but he doesn't know that he is sharing the telepod with a tiny housefly.
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Seth Brundle, een briljante maar excentrieke wetenschapper, geeft de journaliste Veronica Quaife de primeur voor zijn laatste uitvinden: een teleporter, waarmee materie verplaatst kan worden van de ene naar de andere plaats. Als hij zichzelf teleporteert vliegt er echter net een vlieg zijn capsule binnen. Hierna is Brundle niet langer dezelfde, en krijgt hij steeds meer eigenschappen van de vlieg.
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If I can get you to stop staring at " The Expendables 2 " poster for just one second... thanks. Here's another item for Great Director Leaves Promising Update of Cultish Old School Genre Material Friday: according to The Playlist Fox has passed on David Cronenberg 's sorta-remakey sequel to his seminal 1986 horror film " The Fly ."At an interview for his new movie, " A Dangerous Method ," Cronenberg told The Playlist, "I wrote a script and at the moment Fox is not wanting to do the project." And that's that. That's also pretty disappointing stuff. If we were skeptical of another movie about " The Fly " -- especially after, y'know, the other another movie about " The Fly " -- we'd just think about the fact that Cronenberg's version is a)a remake itself, of the 1958 film starring Vincent Price , and b)one of the handful of greatest remakes in the history of cinema and c)would be by Cronenberg,
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