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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day is becoming something that never existed before. It’s becoming… Brundlefly.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Ah, Cronenberg’s The Fly, how I love thee. It’s hard for me to rank my Cronenberg films, actually… He has kept a very recognizable voice throughout all of his films despite them each being significantly different from each other. The Dead Zone, for instance, is about the most rewatchable thing he’s ever done, but The Fly is so perfect and iconic and sad/fun that I don’t know if I could ever rank any of his other work above it. Yet it’s The Brood that jumps immediately to mind when I think the name “David Cronenberg.”
There’s very few filmmakers with that complex effect on the geek brain and for that, Cronenberg should be commended.
Today we are looking at The Fly, as make up artist Stephan Dupuis puts the finishing touches on Jeff Goldblum’s later stage Brundlefly appearance.
Thanks to William Forsche and the Practical Effects Group for the image! Click to (slightly) enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s pic has his father’s eyes.
-Eric Vespe
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Readers Talkback
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. . . my wife watched it for the first time a few months ago and had to quit. Awesome!
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90% greatness. Kind of falls apart in the final scenes. The makeup effects on Goldblum are great. The final Brundlefly creature effect is subpar. But Goldblum's performance is greatness. I can never tell what he's pointing out when he's on the ceiling and he says to Gina Davis "What's this...?" and pulls up his shirt.
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amen to that. especially in the Girls on Planet Earth are Hot. damn.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4 p.m. CST
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.
by loafroaster
Definitely one of the best horror films ever made.
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Guys, once the accident happens it's all downhill. There is no way to save anyone. There is no real plot. It's just icky stuff. In the original Vincent Price was trying to save his brothers wife from a murder charge. You know, exposition. Something to root for. An outcome. This was just pointless. Oh, and I'm a HUGE Cronenburg fan. But this was a major conceptual disaster.
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HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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'Exposition' is not a synonym for 'plot.' You have a point, though. However, I still think the movie is a great work of art. Some of the best movies violate the books on "How to write a screenplay." See, I disagreed with someone on AICN and yet conceded they had a point and argued mine. Let the flamebaiting, trolling resume (I'll admit that shit amuses me, too.).
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It's all very well saying that with hindsight as, yes, it doesn't end very well for all parties concerned. But the transformation process happens slowly, you've no idea how it's going to end going in fresh. How about rooting for Brundle to somehow reverse the process? Or rooting for Ronnie to escape the nightmare once it goes tits up? Or for Brundle to show her mercy and let her go? To hold on to his humanity and accept his fate? A major conceptual disaster? Sheesh...
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I remember watching the TV edit many times as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my teens that I rented the theatrical version and the level of gore kinda blew my young mind. A good friend and I had this, Dawn of the Dead, The Thing, and The Shining in a pretty steady rotation for a while there. The desolate holes in which these films leave the viewer are poignant and moving in their bleakness. There's something very attractive about epic doom.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:21 p.m. CST
exactly. the transformation is slow and you don't know how this thing will end.
by fred
is it going to be a happy ending? a bad ending? this is enough to keep you interested in the movie.
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who had transformed into a fly with a human head. Does anyone know the title of that series?
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:26 p.m. CST
I've a major phobia of insects (ESPECIALLY spiders) and I've a rather vivid childhoold memory of trying to watch The Fly
by TheSeeker7
When I think back on it now, I honestly can't believe I lasted as long as I did. This was a case of the TV in the family room with the VCR being the only TV in the house with the cable (hell there was only one other tv in the house at all, period lol a small b&w in me and my bro's room), and me sneaking downstairs at like midnight or one to try and watch the movie, almost entirely just out of because I knew it was rated R and the booklet said it had nudity. ohhhh boy is it a wee bit of a different world today when it comes to exposure to that stuff lol<br> <br> Anyway, I still distinctly remember watching the scene where a topless Geena Davis was riding Goldbloom on the couch, the experiment happens, yada yada, and things start to gradually go weird with him. The furthest I made it, his face had already started to get kinda fucked up, he was trying to eat a donut, I think it was, and right in the middle of it, he vomited this utterly disgusting looking bile, and it startled me so much, and mind you this whole time I'd had my finger right over the Channel Up button (or down, whatever) so I could get off that station at a second's notice if I saw something that freaked me out. Well, that did it. I hit that button on the cable box so hard and fast, I pushed it like all the way back across the top of the TV, almost knocking it off the other side.<br> <br> I proceeded to go to bed, but I know I did not actually get to sleep for AWHILE after that. To this day, I won't even watch the trailer for Cronenberg's Fly, because I'm sure there's going to be some money shots that'll scare the hell outta me and I won't be able to "unsee".
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When Brundlefly loses his teeth and puts 'em in his bathroom medicine chest body part collection....I think I see his dick in there, too. Maybe he keeps his balls in the freezer next to the dead baboons.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:28 p.m. CST
they sure don't make movie perfection like this anymore. Glad I lived through the Golden Age
by cozy
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:36 p.m. CST
I like when she tells him "We've been going at it for hours. You must not have an ounce of fluid in you."
by kindofabigdeal
But the fly in him won't let her rest. I also really like the scene when he puts hella sugar in his coffee. It was one of those iconic images of viewing this film growing up.
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DAMN, do I miss big, frizzy 80's hair on girls.
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He also has his mothers ears, but the rest belongs to you
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Oct. 8, 2012, 4:47 p.m. CST
When he says.."What's this? I don't know..." - my take...
by Darth Macchio
..was that he was pointing to vestigial "legs" sprouting from the side of his body, ie - he's growing a new pair of limbs to have 6 like the fly. Could be wrong on that... And I think the "concept" you were looking for was more "The Metamorphosis" from Franz Kafka more so than the Vincent Price original (a great movie too). I have no idea if true or not but it seems like Cronenberg remade the fly but themed it after Kafka a little bit. That's how I've always seen it... Oh and for those thinking it was when Gina Davis was hot (The Fly was 1986 I believe)...did you see her in that talking mouse movie from like 10 years ago? She was pretty in The Fly but beautiful in the talking mouse movie. All I can think is her true beauty was waiting for short, sculpted, red hair.
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The fried baboon, the arm wrestling scene, the donut puke...this has to be the ickiest movie ever made.
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Gomez, "He has my father's eyes." Morticia, "Gomez, take those out of his mouth."
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Oct. 8, 2012, 5:20 p.m. CST
Such a fantastic horror film, and yet...tears at the end are inevitable.
by iamatroll
Maybe it's the sentimentalist deep inside of me, but no matter how many times i've watched Cronenberg's "The Fly", and we are well into double digits here, there is no way for me to stop myself from breaking into tears at the tragic, heartbreaking conclusion. THAT is when you know you've witnessed a cinematic masterpiece, when a film can play you like a two dollar fiddle, right to the melancholy end, regardless of how calloused and hardened your outer shell of a psyche may be. Definitely one of the best horror films ever made. Case closed....
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Since when is saving anybody needed in good fiction. It's a fucking tragedy and a glorious one.
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Amen to that!
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C'mon dude, this picture stands on its own. I think I remember this same post concerning The Thing last week. These films are more than remakes, they are classics in their own right. You'll never know that I guess, so shitty deal for you.
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i'm pretty sure bantuwind was being facetious, 'cause all remakes suck right?
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Oct. 8, 2012, 6:15 p.m. CST
the fusion of Brundlefly with teleportion Pod still gives me the shivers
by aphextwin
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First of all, this is body horror-- of which Cronenberg is a master. It's about the magic and horror of the flesh. AND-- this is exactly how a real genetic transformation would look-- slow and awful. No other movie about mutations and transformations gets that right-- he changes at the rate that a new strand of DNA might actually affect the body-- at least it seems realistic.
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The downfall of a brilliant, troubled man. Once the accident happens, we watch his world fall apart, and pray Gina Davis won't be swallowed up along with Brundle. Beautifully written and executed.
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Based very loosely on the brilliant LucasArts game of the same name.
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Are you taking a beginning screenwriting class or something? THE FLY doesn't conform to what the author of your textbook (who has never had a screenplay greenlit) says is a great screenplay? THE FLY is a tragedy. And a great one at that. And as loafroaster astutely pointed out: if you go in fresh you don't know how it ends, and it works perfectly. I really hope you're being facetious bantuwind, because THE FLY and THE THING are great movies. A remake by a talented filmmaker who loves the original film and believes he can bring something new to it can be a masterpiece. A remake that a table of studio suits greenlight because they own the rights and believe they can make money off of it is shit. There is a difference. Unfortunately 99% of the remakes we get are the latter.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
fawst thanx. and yeah that game is brilliant. its sequel DOTT even more.
by fred
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Oct. 8, 2012, 8:03 p.m. CST
Re: I Notice At No Point Did You Equate Cronenberg With ...
by ArmageddonProductions
... "CRASH" or "NAKED LUNCH" or "SPIDER" or even "EXISTENZ". The guy does some great work ... but they ain't all VIDEODROME.
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Anybody equating Cronenberg's THE FLY or Carpenter's THE THING with today's studio-desperate slate of "a remake a month" cash grabs deserves to be fucking shot. I mean, even as a joke.
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Oct. 8, 2012, 8:22 p.m. CST
One of the best horrors ever, fulls stop. Scary, funny, tragic. I love the deleted scene where he bites of his new tentacle, that's some nasty shit.
by Mark Jones
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Oct. 8, 2012, 9:05 p.m. CST
And Raptor_Jesus well-said but somewhat trite detraction has inspired some great rebuts.
by ChaunceyGardiner
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Oct. 8, 2012, 9:10 p.m. CST
And as with many of Cronenberg's seminal pictures, "The Fly" is a grand exploration of theme. (One of my favourite things about "The Dead Zone" is how free-flowing it is, how it never commits to a specific plot but slowly and surely expands outward, expl
by ChaunceyGardiner
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...greatest acting work EVAH?! I've long said that if this wasn't a FUCKING BRILLIANT horror flick from the deeply, wonderfully twisted mind of David Cronenberg, Goldblum would have at least gotten an Oscar nod, if not have taken home a big ol' gold statue for his work. Imagine if, say, Brundle had been dealing with cancer, or some kind of wasting disease like AIDS. Sure, the movie would have been light years different, but the performance would have been much the same. And Goldblum had to act through all those layers of makeup and STILL make us care for Brundlefly. Never seen him do better in anything, and THAT is why this movie remains a classic!
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seriously, the story is just perfect, best remake ever done for me and jeff makes seth so interesting plus a ton of gore,
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DUDE THIS SHIT IS UNBELIEVABLE AMAZING ENDING I WAS WITH MY MOUTH HANGING THE FIRST TIME I SAW IT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-8L1iZq20
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Oct. 9, 2012, 1:22 a.m. CST
He just needs some chapstick and then Brundlefly is ready to hit the clubs and meet some fly honeys
by Bobo_Vision
See what I did there? Ah? Ah? Oh.
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Oct. 9, 2012, 3:34 a.m. CST
Seth Brundle/Brundlefly should have guested on an episode of "In Living Color" and hooked up with the Fly Girls
by jawsfan
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Oct. 9, 2012, 4:16 a.m. CST
...probably just part of the makeup application...but I think Goldberg just ate a powdered donut.
by DementedCaver
....nobody else noticed that?
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Fuck you for not making such masterpieces anymore.
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Out of all of Cronenberg's masterpieces (yes, masterpieces), I always felt that The Brood would have fared a remake the best. The story really stuck with me, but I think Cronenberg was hampered by a minuscule budget. I'd really like to see The Brood expanded and fleshed out (and I'm all for Cronenberg doing it).
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Oct. 9, 2012, 8:28 a.m. CST
Raptor, that's an incredibly limited view of the film's trajectory. You don't even begin to understand
by Proman1984
Watching the character deal with his situation is incredibly powerful.
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Cronenberg did a invaluable job with his vision of the "The Fly". It stemmed loosely from the HIV pendemic that suffocated the eighties - a fitting allegory of isolation, and segregation. Jeff Goldblum was superb in the role. Unfortunately, Geena Davis was annoying.
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Oct. 9, 2012, 11:33 a.m. CST
Great point on Goldblum, re - wasting away from a disease...
by Darth Macchio
I bet if it was a portrayal of a man with a terrible but "normal" disease, he may have indeed gotten an Oscar nod. But Hollywood then was worse than it is now when it comes to comedy or horror - that those genre's are "pulp" and unworthy of acknowledgment with very few exceptions. Those exceptions for horror always seemed related to some biblical-based elements (Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist) but the moment it's a traditional "monster" movie, their eyes roll and their noses turn up and they dismiss out of hand (it's reductionist to call The Fly a 'monster' movie but you get my point). You see this with comic book movies and action movies in general - some people still can't escape their neurosis driven arrogance. They have to shit on something as it validates their own views of their supremacy when it comes to taste. Not in all cases of course...sometimes shit is shit..even in the world of comic book movies, comedies, and horror. But these unelected self-important douchebags dismiss the entire genre as some bohemian/barbarian form of entertainment. Not any more tho - Avenger's nets a billion dollars and those beady eyes quit rolling in a BIG hurry. They're still assholes, though.
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Quint, you're possibly the most respectable person on this site, but The Dead Zone? Please tell me I'm thinking of a different movie than you. Because that movie was a tragedy, especially if you've read the original book.
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