The Fly — Tony Banout

This Movie Changed Me

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4.6 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

David Cronenberg’s The Fly tells the story of one man’s quest to develop teleportation — and everything that goes wrong along the way. The 1986 sci-fi horror movie stars Jeff Goldblum as Seth, the genius scientist, and Geena Davis as Ronnie, a journalist who falls in love with him. After an experiment goes awry, Seth begins a grisly transformation into a human-fly hybrid. Tony Banout, who works in interfaith dialogue, says he saw the movie as a cautionary tale about the dangers of an unchecked ego — and took lessons from it about grappling with death, decay, and grief.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow movie fans.
0:01.9	I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Tony Bannute about the movie that changed him, David Konaberg's The Fly.
0:09.3	If you haven't seen it, don't worry.
0:11.0	We're going to give you all of the details you need to follow along.
0:14.1	And if you have seen it, I promise you won't think of it in the same way again after this episode.
0:36.6	Music in the same way again after this episode. The first time that I saw David Cronenberg's to fly, it was with my brother who loved to torment me by showing me things that would scare
0:38.7	the shit out of me. And all of my memories of the Fly were of it being a gross horror
0:45.2	film, which is why I was so surprised when one of our producers pitched the idea of doing an episode
0:50.9	about the Fly. The person that he found, Tony Bananoot, talked about the fly as something that, quite
0:57.7	frankly, I didn't understand.
0:59.8	He saw this movie as an interpretation of Icarus, of the reality of what happens when
1:05.1	someone flies too close to the sun.
1:08.0	I don't think I get it.
1:11.0	What happened? You got it all right. You just think I get it. What happened?
1:12.5	You get it all right.
1:13.4	You just can't handle it.
1:15.1	Um, your stocking has just been teleported from one pod to another, uh, disintegrated there and
1:25.3	reintegrated there.
1:27.6	Sort of.
1:29.7	It'll change the world as we know it, right?
1:38.3	You don't really need to know much about the fly to understand the premise.
1:42.4	Here's what you do need to know.
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