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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: The Fly (1986)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 228 minutes

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Summary

Samm Deighan and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss The Fly. Released in 1986, David Cronenberg’s film stars Jeff Goldblum as scientist Seth Brundle, a man who meets a journalist, Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis). The film tells the tale of their relationship as they get together and become driven apart after an accident changes Brundle irreparably.

Special guests are Emma Westwood, author of the Devil's Advocates book on The Fly and producer Stuart Cornfeld who discusses his work on The Fly as well as Tropic Thunder, Mimic, and more.



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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.6

Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.

0:12.1

Will everyone in the theater hold on family to his seat, please?

0:18.5

I think you're making a mistake. I think you really want to talk to me.

0:21.6

Sorry, I have three of their interviews to do before this party's over.

0:24.5

Yeah, but they're not working on something.

0:25.5

They'll change the world as we know it.

0:27.7

They say they are.

0:29.4

Yeah, but they're lying.

0:31.4

There is a limit, even to the imagination.

0:34.6

Human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown, and reformation

0:38.7

is inherently purging.

0:42.9

Where our greatest creations

0:44.7

meet our deepest fears.

0:47.0

Something went wrong, Seth.

0:48.4

When you went through, something went wrong.

0:52.5

You are about to go beyond that limit.

1:00.9

Those weird hairs that were growing out of your back, I had them analyzed.

1:05.0

But they were definitely not human.

1:07.5

If you saw how scared and angry and desperate he... I'm sure typhoid Mary was a very nice person too when you saw her'm scared and angry and desperate, he...

1:11.0

I'm sure typhoid Mary was a very nice person too when you saw her socially.

1:14.9

No!

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