The Fly
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Happy Halloween! Although David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of The Fly is more interested in exploring existential horrors, its central theme of transformation still made it feel like an appropriate pick for the holiday.
It's gory, it's gruesome, and Cronenberg's one-of-a-kind sensibilities are anchored by three incredible lead performances that approach this somewhat hokey premise with total sincerity.
Topics include: the unlikely benefactor behind the film, the resistance to casting Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, how their real life relationship effected the production, some of the more infamous deleted scenes, alternate endings, unmade sequels, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the fly? |
| 0:06.6 | Hello and welcome the fly? Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.4 | And today we're revisiting The Fly. |
| 0:53.7 | Music And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the fly. So whenever there's a conversation about the best remakes, this movie always comes up, |
| 0:58.9 | deservedly so. |
| 1:00.0 | But it's also one of the first movies that gets mentioned when you're talking about |
| 1:03.3 | remakes that are better than the original, which is a fairly short list. |
| 1:07.6 | And I think we found that out when we did that Patreon episode about some of our |
| 1:11.0 | favorites. And that's where we first discussed this and the possibility of covering it here on the |
| 1:15.9 | main show. So if the patrons were paying attention, they've known that this was going to be the |
| 1:19.9 | Halloween episode for a couple months now. And I know at first I was like, I love the movie. I |
| 1:25.5 | definitely want to do this. Suddenly, I'm not sure it feels |
| 1:28.2 | very Halloween-y. But that was silly, because Halloween's all about putting on a costume, |
| 1:33.9 | becoming someone else. And so in that way, what could be more fitting? So this has been a |
| 1:40.4 | long time coming. We've been wanting to get to this one for a while. And between this and Adam's family and the stuff we've been covering on Rogue's Gallery. This has been such a great |
| 1:48.7 | Halloween season as far as the podcast goes. Usually it's because of the podcast, I always feel like, |
| 1:55.1 | oh, there's so many movies I love to watch every year and I just don't have time because we have |
| 1:58.6 | these other obligations. This year's been fantastic. |
| 2:01.3 | I'm hitting two birds with one stone. |
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