“The Fly” quotes
(1986)
David Paul Cronenberg
directed this movie
in 1986
Title The Fly
Year 1986
Director David Cronenberg
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Year 1986
Director David Cronenberg
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Plot – In an isolated and outdated laboratory, a physicist called Brundle discovers teleportation and he shows Veronica, a journalist, his lab and his invention. The scientist decides then to experiment it on himself, but a fly enters the machine too and the man undergoes an unexpected mutation. Brundle progressively changes becoming a mutant monster with an uncontrollable force. Veronica is the first one to notice the extraordinary phenomenon. Brundle starts to eat only sweets and sugars and the woman realizes she's pregnant. The scientist has now completely changed his appearance and he's reduced to a creeping and giant beast. Brundle is however still able to think and begs Veronica to shot him. After killing him, the woman cries over a mass of flesh.
All actors – Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo, Michael Copeman, David Cronenberg, Carol Lazare, Shawn Hewitt
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“I'm working on something that will change the world, and human life as we know it.”
“- Seth Brundle: The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore... I know what the disease wants.
- Veronica Quaife: What does the disease want?
- Seth Brundle: It wants to turn me into something else. That's not too terrible, is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else.”“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.”
“- Veronica Quaife: Those weird hairs that were growing out of your back. I took them to a lab. I had them analyzed.
- Seth Brundle: The hairs? That's a strange thing to do.
- Veronica Quaife: Not as strange as the results. The guy at the lab had trouble identifying them. He finally came to the conclusion, that they were definitely not human. Not...” (continue)(continue reading)“Help me. Help me be human.”
“We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three joined together in one body. More human than I am alone.”
“- Veronica Quaife: It tastes... synthetic. So, what have we proved?
- Seth Brundle: The computer is giving us its interpretation of a steak. It's translating it for us; it's rethinking it, rather than reproducing it, and something is getting lost in the translation.”“- Dr. Cheevers: I don't mean to interfere, but I detect a certain uncertainty here. You know, there are tests we can do to determine whether or not...
- Veronica Quaife: I don't want tests. Tests can't guarantee anything. The baby could start off normal and then become... I want an abortion. I'll do it myself if I have to.”“I will say now, however objectively, that human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown, reformation, is inherently purging.”
“You were right. I am diseased, and... it might be contagious somehow. I wouldn't want to infect you.”
“- Seth Brundle: It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living.
- Veronica Quaife: Why?
- Seth Brundle: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them... I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn.”“Something went wrong, Seth. When you went through, something went wrong.”
“- Seth Brundle: The teleporter insists on inner pure. I was not pure.
- Veronica Quaife: I don't know what you mean.
- Seth Brundle: A fly got into the transmitter pod with me that first time, when I was alone. The computer got confused - there weren't supposed to be two separate genetic patterns - and it decided to... splice us together. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
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