The Fly: Difference between revisions

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* [[Drunk With Power]] / [[Sanity Slippage]]: Seth suffers this. At first.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]] {{spoiler|The sequel, in stark contrast to the first movie.}}

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Monkeys]] - For all this film's darkness and horror, it ''does'' have a scene of Jeff Goldblum hugging a baboon.

* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]] - For all this film's darkness and horror, it ''does'' have a scene of Jeff Goldblum hugging a baboon.

** And the baboon has a constant erection in the film. Just listen to the film commentary.

* [[Eye Scream]]: In ''The Fly II'', {{spoiler|Martin ''pulls out his right eye to reveal an insect eye behind it.''}}

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* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] - The premise of the entire film.

* [[The Grotesque]] - Seth slowly becomes this.

* [[Half Human Hybrid]] - Brundlefly.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]] - Brundlefly.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]- At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Brundle is quite muscular for a scientist who doesn't get out much. Not that any of the female viewers are complaining, or anything.

* [[Hot and Cold]] - Veronica Quaife

* [[I Cannot Self Terminate]] - {{spoiler|Seeing the pathetic creature that was once Seth Brundle crawl out of the Telepod, fused with pieces of machinery and in horrifying agony is probably sadder than watching the end of Old Yeller. This can obviously end only one way, and, in one final display of humanity, Brundlefly [[Mercy Kill|silently begs a shotgun-armed Veronica to end it's life]], and after some painful hesitation, she does.}}

* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]] - {{spoiler|Seeing the pathetic creature that was once Seth Brundle crawl out of the Telepod, fused with pieces of machinery and in horrifying agony is probably sadder than watching the end of Old Yeller. This can obviously end only one way, and, in one final display of humanity, Brundlefly [[Mercy Kill|silently begs a shotgun-armed Veronica to end it's life]], and after some painful hesitation, she does.}}

* [[Idiot Ball]] - Which ever way you slice it, going after a deranged half human hybrid that vomits acid and has double the strength of a normal man ''by yourself'' is a pretty stupid move. All he needed to do was phone 911 and tell them that a deranged ex-boyfriend abducted his girlfriend from the abortion clinic in a blind rage - the gaping hole in the surgery wall should be fairly adequate proof.

* [[In Name Only]] - There's a scientist who gets turned into a fly monster in a teleportation experiment. Other than that, it really has nothing to do with the Vincent Price film and even less to do with Langelaan's story.

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* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body]] - Arguably implied by Brundle gradually losing his mind as he turns into a fly.

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]] - For the first half-hour of this movie, Jeff Goldblum is your boyfriend.

* [[Non Malicious Monster]]: Seth Fly doesn't attack and/or kill if he's not threated or if he really has to.

* [[Non-Malicious Monster]]: Seth Fly doesn't attack and/or kill if he's not threated or if he really has to.

** Though this wasn't true in the original screenplay, which had him vomiting on a homeless woman and preparing to eat her before he realized what he was doing.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Seth discovers he can't eat solid food "the hard and painful way." We're never told ''exactly'' what happened.

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{{quote| '''Seth''': I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake.}}

* [[Shirtless Scene]]

* [[Sir Not Appearing in This Trailer]] - To avoid giving people [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not for Kids|the wrong idea]], executive producer Mel Brooks (Yes, ''that'' [[Mel Brooks]]) tried to keep his name away from the film.

* [[Sir Not Appearing in This Trailer]] - To avoid giving people [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|the wrong idea]], executive producer Mel Brooks (Yes, ''that'' [[Mel Brooks]]) tried to keep his name away from the film.

* [[Split Personality Takeover]] - Seth's mind also gradually changed into that of a brutal insect. Near the final stages of his transformation, Seth goes so far as to warn Veronica that it is starting to affect his mind, and he fears he will hurt her if she stays.

* [[Stages of Monster Grief]] - Seth goes through all of them in his one-month transformation.

* [[Star Making Role]] for [[Jeff Goldblum]]

* [[Star-Making Role]] for [[Jeff Goldblum]]

** So much so that Gene Siskel and [[Roger Ebert]] actually said he was snubbed an Oscar nomination for Best Actor because of the Academy's refusal to consider horror when working out candidates. It truly is one of Goldblum's most riveting performances.

* [[Sweet Tooth]] - Flies love sugar.