"Be afraid. Be very afraid." Can anyone name this movie?
Richard Teta
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: Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
: A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
: ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
: Please reply via e-mail, vict...@fcw.com. Thanks!
I'lll reply here, thank you. Geena Davis said this line to a young girl
who had the misfortune to meet up with the mutating Jeff Goldblum in "The
Fly". In this remake, Jeff wanted the young lady to try out his matter
teleporter, the one in which his DNA was mixed with a fly's. So Geena
walks in and advises the girl to "Be afraid. Be very afraid."-
Richard Teta
b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
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Ford Lytle Gilmore
In article <victoria-280...@199.170.78.34>, vict...@fcw.com
Cronenberg's remake of "The Fly," which was released around teh same time
as "Aliens"
WesleyTaylor
In article <50271r$e...@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>,
b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Richard Teta) wrote:
>This line intentionally left blank (vict...@fcw.com) wrote:
>: Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
>
>: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>
>: A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
>: ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
>
>: Please reply via e-mail, vict...@fcw.com. Thanks!
>
>Fly". In this remake, Jeff wanted the young lady to try out his matter
>teleporter, the one in which his DNA was mixed with a fly's. So Geena
>
>
>Richard Teta
>b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
I thought the line was from Bugs Bunny (an Elmer Fudd quote). Not really a
memory, just a vauge recollection.
Wes Taylor
Ronald Freilinger
vict...@fcw.com (This line intentionally left blank) wrote:
>Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
>"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
>ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
THE FLY.
Genna Davis says this to the bimbo that Jeff Goldbloom picked up in
the bar.
Xiuhte...@worldnet.att.net
On 29 Aug 1996 06:27:55 GMT,
elw...@teleport.com (WesleyTaylor)
asseverated the following adage, precept, epigram and/or apothegm:
:In article <50271r$e...@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>,
: b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Richard Teta) wrote:
:>This line intentionally left blank (vict...@fcw.com) wrote:
:>: Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
:>
:>: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
:I thought the line was from Bugs Bunny (an Elmer Fudd quote). Not really a
:memory, just a vauge recollection.
It certainly does have an Elmer Fudd cadence to it.
Chris Lampton
>Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
>
>"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>
>A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
>ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
>
>Please reply via e-mail, vict...@fcw.com. Thanks!
I tend to think of this line as coming not so much from The Fly but
from the _trailer_ for The Fly. Ten years ago, for about two weeks,
Geena Davis must have uttered this line at least three times a night
on network TV. That's why you hear it quoted even from people who
wouldn't be caught dead -- there's a joke here, but I refuse to
stretch for it -- at a David Cronenberg film.
I hope your friend is now proud of your cinematic erudition! <g>
--Chris
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Matthew Gibbins
Chris Lampton (clam...@erols.com) wrote:
: On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:26:17 -0400, vict...@fcw.com (This line
: intentionally left blank) wrote:
: --Chris
It was used for the promotion for the original fly with Vincent Price
Great film in it's own right.
It amuses me that in the remake of the Fly and the Fly II No attempt
was made to improve the sequel. It was just as bad the second time around.
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Matthew Gibbins
mgib...@neumann.une.edu.au
Michael James Stewart
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996 02:15:40 GMT,
Xiuhte...@worldnet.att.net said to rec.arts.sf.movies:
: On 29 Aug 1996 06:27:55 GMT,
: elw...@teleport.com (WesleyTaylor)
: asseverated the following adage, precept, epigram and/or apothegm:
:
: :>
: :>: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
:
: :I thought the line was from Bugs Bunny (an Elmer Fudd quote). Not really a
:
: It certainly does have an Elmer Fudd cadence to it.
But if it was a Fudd quote, wouldn't it be:
"Be afwaid. Be vewwy afwaid." ?
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John Chivers
Xiuhte...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
> On 29 Aug 1996 06:27:55 GMT,
> elw...@teleport.com (WesleyTaylor)
> asseverated the following adage, precept, epigram and/or apothegm:
>
> : b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Richard Teta) wrote:
> :>
> :>: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>
> :I thought the line was from Bugs Bunny (an Elmer Fudd quote). Not really a
> :memory, just a vauge recollection.
>
> It certainly does have an Elmer Fudd cadence to it.
You're on the right track--Elmer Fudd said "Be vewy quiet" ("I'm hunting rabbits").
Ray
> :In article <50271r$e...@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>,
> : b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Richard Teta) wrote:
> :>This line intentionally left blank (vict...@fcw.com) wrote:
> :>: Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
> :>
> :>: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>
Chris Lampton
On 30 Aug 1996 13:16:04 GMT, mgib...@neumann.une.edu.au (Matthew
Gibbins) wrote:
> It was used for the promotion for the original fly with Vincent Price
> Great film in it's own right.
> It amuses me that in the remake of the Fly and the Fly II No attempt
> was made to improve the sequel. It was just as bad the second time around.
I remember the original 1950s version of The Fly. Seventy minutes of
exposition and ten minutes of horror. Pretty much like the original
story in Playboy.
Still a great film, though.
--Chris
ABlue892
Yeah, "Be afraid, be very afraid", was the tagline for The Fly, although
it often seems to be confused with the also famous tag for Alien--"In
space, no one can hear you scream."
Alain O. Duranceau
In article <victoria-280...@199.170.78.34>, vict...@fcw.com
(This line intentionally left blank) wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
>
> "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>
> A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
> ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
>
> Please reply via e-mail, vict...@fcw.com. Thanks!
Nope, it was David Cronenberg's "The Fly". It came out the same year as
Aliens, which may explain your confusion.
Brian John Wright
I always thought the quote was "Don't be afraid. Be very afraid." - not
from the film itself, but from ads or something.
-Brian
C.T. White
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:03:19 GMT, rfre...@ncr.com (Ronald Freilinger)
wrote:
>vict...@fcw.com (This line intentionally left blank) wrote:
>
>>Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
>
>>"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
>
>>A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
>>ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
>
>THE FLY.
>Genna Davis says this to the bimbo that Jeff Goldbloom picked up in
>the bar.
>
It has been in use long before the Fly. I remember seeing trailers
from old 50's movies that included that line as if it were a cliche.
I have heard it used many many times before.
CT White
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In article <322691d3...@test-sun.erols.com>
clam...@erols.com (Chris Lampton) writes:
> I tend to think of this line as coming not so much from The Fly but
> from the _trailer_ for The Fly. Ten years ago, for about two weeks,
> Geena Davis must have uttered this line at least three times a night
> on network TV. That's why you hear it quoted even from people who
> wouldn't be caught dead -- there's a joke here, but I refuse to
> stretch for it -- at a David Cronenberg film.
And, of course, Wednesday Addams says it in "The Addams Family" movie
-- to great effect!
Gael
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Bill van Heerden
: : :>: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
: :
: : :I thought the line was from Bugs Bunny (an Elmer Fudd quote). Not really a
: :
: : It certainly does have an Elmer Fudd cadence to it.
wabbits..."
Bill
--
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bv...@freenet.toronto.on.ca
"Two guys walk into a bar which is really stupid 'cause you figure if the
first guy walked right into it, the second one would've seen it" Howie Mandel
Rolf Berg
In article <aod-030996...@ma135.axionet.com>,
a...@axionet.com (Alain O. Duranceau) wrote:
>In article <victoria-280...@199.170.78.34>, vict...@fcw.com
>(This line intentionally left blank) wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
>>
>>
>> ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
>>
>
>Nope, it was David Cronenberg's "The Fly". It came out the same year as
>Aliens, which may explain your confusion.
"Moonlight And Valentino" recently.
I vaguely remember a trailer or two using
it in the voice over.
Regards
Rolf
BadAsChuck
The movie was the fly!
Wilibobo
THE MOVIE WAS ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES
Les
"The Fly" (remake) or perhaps any Brady Bunch movie.
David L. Veres
"The War Room" -- about Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
David L. Veres
Douglas Tricarico
In <32417A...@trib.infi.net> "David L. Veres"
<dlv...@trib.infi.net> writes:
>
>"The War Room" -- about Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
>
>David L. Veres
"The Fly." Starring Jeff Goldblum as an Arkansas politician who uses
hordes of flies, one of whom resembles Gena Davis, to take over the
White House.
Whoops... sent two different flicks through the ol' telecommuter pods.
Doug
willia...@gmail.com
TAWNY: So, are we going to breakfast, or what?
BRUNDLE (To TAWNY; he's, seemingly, half mentally "detached" from the reality of the moment): It's your turn...
TAWNY: To do what?
BRUNDLE: To "go through".
TAWNY: No, I don't wanna' try that...
BRUNDLE: It'll make you feel "sexy"...
TAWNY: But, I ALREADY "feel sexy".
TAWNY pauses on that thought, holds up & studies a liquor glass, and shifts the subject with a "new idea".
TAWNY (Hovering over BRUNDLE'S back with the glass): How about a nice "Alcohol Rub"?
She begins to slowly pour the contents of the glass over his bare back. He is not paying attention to what she is doing; he is STILL only "half there", mentally. As the alcohol contacts his back, he violently tenses-up - the alcohol is BURNING him for some reason! Rotating with "lightning speed", he SLAPS the glass from her hand, and it is launched off to the side of the room.
BRUNDLE: DON'T DO THAT, IT HURTS!
TAWNY recovers from BRUNDLE'S reaction, approaches him and begins to massage his back muscles. He's now flinching in obvious discomfort and pain.
TAWNY (While rubbing, etc., with "sexual suggestiveness" - not just to "soothe" his skin and muscles): Sorry, hon... I didn't know that you had the "skin of a princess".
BRUNDLE can no longer stand the burning and the pain. He suddenly spins on her, grabs her by her loose-fitting vest. She nearly slips out of it, but it holds just tight enough for him to be able to yank her off of the bed and he begins to drag her toward "Telepod 1", the "Transmitter Pod".
BRUNDLE: ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT... (still dragging her; she's violently resisting) YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE IT!
TAWNY: (Half-screaming) I DON'T WANT TO -- I'M AFRAID!
BRUNDLE: DON'T BE!!
Suddenly, VERONICA (QUAIFE) steps from out of the shaddows. BRUNDLE and TAWNY had not heard her enter the LAB/LOFT-APARTMENT during their exchange on the bed. She looks very stern, deeply concerned, and, mainly, DISAPPOINTED, AGGRAVATED AND ANGRY at finding them -mostly, HIM - "this way"!
VERONICA: NO... BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID!!
Everyone suddenly freezes in place at her jarring, unexpected, "ambush" words... especially because of her EXTREMELY SERIOUS, OMINOUS AND FATALISTIC DELIVERY.
It "goes on" just a bit from there... But, basically, THAT'S the scene - FROM BEST MEMORY - (might be a word-or-two "off", here-or-there, but pretty damned close!), ALL FROM MEMORY. THIS IS THE DEFINITIVE [MODERN-DAY] FIRST-USE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE.
(BTW: IT IS REPORTED THAT THE "TAG LINE" ACTUALLY CAME FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE FILM, MEL BROOKS, AND IT IMPACTED ON PRODUCER, STUART CORNFELD, AND DIRECTOR, DAVID CRONENBERG, SO STRONGLY, THAT CRONENBERG DECIDED TO INCORPORATE IT AS DIALOG, FOR GENA DAVIS, DIRECTLY INTO THE SCRIPT -- ALONG WITH USING IT AS THE "ONE SHEET" POSTER'S (AND OTHER, ASSOCIATED PUBLICITY'S) "TAG LINE"!)
I'm doing a current project, and "THE FLY" script/film has been a primary source of much of my research for same...
stil...@gmail.com
> In article <50271r$e...@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>,
> b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Richard Teta) wrote:
> >: Can anyone tell me what movie this line originally appeared in?
> >
> >: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
> >
> >: A friend asked me, and she thinks I know everything about movies, so I am
> >: ashamed to admit I'm stumped here. My guess was Aliens.
> >
> >: Please reply via e-mail, vict...@fcw.com. Thanks!
> >
> >who had the misfortune to meet up with the mutating Jeff Goldblum in "The
> >Fly". In this remake, Jeff wanted the young lady to try out his matter
> >teleporter, the one in which his DNA was mixed with a fly's. So Geena
> >walks in and advises the girl to "Be afraid. Be very afraid."-
> >
> >
> >Richard Teta
> >b063...@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
> I thought the line was from Bugs Bunny (an Elmer Fudd quote). Not really a
> memory, just a vauge recollection.
>
I also thought of Elmer Fudd, too. But I've seen the clip of Geena Davis in "The Fly", and that's the right answer.
Wolffan
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