The Fly is a 1986 science fiction film produced by Brooksfilms and Twentieth Century Fox Television, directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. It is a high budget remake of 1958 film of the same name, but with a substantially different plot. The soundtrack was composed by Howard Shore. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... David Paul Cronenberg (born March 16, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian horror and science fiction film director, who has also worked as an actor. ... Jeff Goldblum Jeffrey Lynn Jeff Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an American film actor. ... Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis (born January 21, 1956 in Wareham, Massachusetts) is an American film actress. ... Promotional poster for The Fly The Fly is a 1958 American sci-fi / horror film, directed by Kurt Neumann. ... // Plot in literature, theater, movies According to Aristotles Poetics, a plot in literature is the arrangement of incidents that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. ... Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a film composer. ...

The Fly was a box office success upon its release and was critically-acclaimed in the press.

As with many of Cronenberg's films, The Fly deals with themes of bodily disfigurement or metamorphosis and the darker aspects of human emotions and behavior. The film also deals with the dangers of the misuse of science to terrible consequences. An underlying aspect of the story is the doomed love affair between Goldblum and Davis and the rivalry between Goldblum and Getz that results from this. Transformation, or changing shape, from the Greek prefix meta-, equivalent to the English prefix trans-, and morph, meaning form. ...

Goldblum plays Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. He meets Veronica Quayle (Davis), a reporter who ends up interviewing Brundle at a convention. Brundle takes Veronica back to his place and shows her his latest invention: a set of devices that allow teleportation. She is highly impressed and agrees with Seth to act as a witness and document his work. Although the device can transport inanimate objects perfectly, it cannot do this with living things, turning them inside out. Seth demonstrates this with a baboon, killing it. Seth and Veronica begin a relationship, which inspires Seth. He realises the machine is not faithfully recreating living objects but is rather 'interpreting' them, and sets about adjusting his machine. Eccentric is from the Greek for out of the centre, as opposed to concentric, in the centre. ... This article is about the profession. ... Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the process of moving objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously, without using conventional transportation. ... Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The Baboon is the largest non-hominid member of the primate order. ...

He succeeds in teleporting a baboon with no apparent harm. Believing that Veronica is using him to further her career (and also drunk), he decides to teleport himself. Just as he's about to teleport, a fly gets into the pod with him. The computer, confused, splices together their DNA and Brundle gradually begins to transform into a hybrid (a "Brundlefly" as he calls it). Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The Baboon is the largest non-hominid member of the primate order. ... The Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, Ceratitis capitata A fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera, some of which can land on food and transmit bacteria to humans. ... In genetics, splicing is a modification of genetic information prior to translation. ... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule DNA Under electron microscope Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or deoxyribose nucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many viruses). ...

At first, Seth enjoys damn euphoria and heightened strength and endurance. As the metamorphosis progresses, he becomes violent and arrogant, and progressively less human in appearance, leaving discarded human organs in jars in his medicine cabinet. He also becomes incapable of eating solids and vomits digestive enzymes which dissolve food and even flesh. Eventually, he discovers that not only is his body mutating, his mind is becoming more insect-like, brutal and driven by appetites.

When he learns that Veronica is trying to have an abortion to rid herself of their possibly mutated child, he abducts her and traps her in a telepod, trying to restore his own humanity by fusing with her and their unborn child. Veronica's boss, Stathis Borans (Getz) goes to her rescue but is injured and almost killed by the almost fully-transformed "Brundlefly".

Veronica escapes, and Brundlefly is fused with his own telepod door while trying to smash it open. As a final act of mercy, Veronica kills what used to be Seth Brundle.

The sequel is The Fly II. The Fly II was a movie produced in 1989 starring Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga. ...

Trivia

Like the relationship in the movie, Davis and Goldblum become involved with one another. This led to their three-year marriage in 1987. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Director David Cronenberg makes a cameo as the doctor in Veronica's dream who delivers the maggot child.

The Fly was spoofed in an episode of Family Guy ("8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter"). Before the theme song, Stewie tests out his teleportation pods and is accidently fused with Rupert, his teddy bear. Of course, everything goes back to normal after the theme song. Family Guy is an animated television series originally created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. ... Teddy bear A Teddy bear, named after Theodore Roosevelt, is a stuffed toy bear for children. ...

Quotes

Seth: "Don't be afraid."
Veronica: "No. Be afraid. Be very afraid."

(at Seth's place, Veronica finds him climbing the walls and also doing movements of what a fly does {such as licking himself with his arms})
Seth: "I seem to have been infected by a disease with a purpose."
Veronica: "What does the disease want?"
Seth: "It wants to turn me into something else. That's not so terrible, is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else."

Seth: "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. Y'all see, I'd like to, but... I'm afraid..."
Veronica:"I don't know what you're trying to say."
Seth: "I'm saying... I'm saying I - I'm an insect who dream he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake."
Veronica: "No. no, Seth..."
Seth: "I'm saying... I'll hurt you if you stay."

External link

• The Fly at the Internet Movie Database
• The Fly Film Archive)

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