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The Fly : The Visit: The Grotesque Presentation

Veronica (Geena Davis) visits Seth Brundle’s (Jeff Goldblum) loft-laboratory, and he presents his fly-like transformation to her, as they bond through the abject and despair of his physical and psychological disintegration.

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ambient sound , atonality, background, backlighting, beat, emotion, blocking, brightness, character, character development, close-up, continuity editing, costume, dialogue, diegetic sound, diminuendo, establishing shot, establishing sound, high angle, hue, inciting incident, insert, low angle, makeup, match cut, match on action, medium close-up, medium close-up, metaphorical costume, mise-en-scene, mobile framing, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, naturalistic acting, over the shoulder shot, overlapping dialogue, prop, psychological setting, reaction shot, setting, shot/reverse shot, side lighting, single-camera (single-cam), social blocking, soft lighting, sound, nondiegetic, source lighting, traveling shot, two-shot, underscore

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American

"The Visit: The Grotesque Presentation" in The Fly. Directed by David Cronenberg, SLM Production Group, 1986, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3470

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Charlie Mc Kinnon

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