Ok, this weekend by pure coincidence, I watched The Fly one night and Wallace & Gromit the following day. I’d never seen either movie before, and as expected, The Fly freaked me out pretty good. What I wasn’t expecting was that the further I got into Wallace & Gromit, the more similarities I kept noticing between the two movies.Here is a broad description of both movies to prove my point:An ambitious inventor has a new creation that he’s confident is going to be revolutionary. He uses his invention to impress a beautiful young woman who eventually returns his feelings. However, she has a misogynistic ex-suitor who feels a strong sense of ownership towards her and is bent on ruining the inventor’s pursuit of her. Oh, and the inventor has a chummy relationship with an animal sidekick who helps him out with the machines. Anyway, one night, in a fit of hubris, the inventor decides to use the machine on himself without properly testing out it’s effects, which ends with him inadvertently combining his DNA with an animal’s. At first he doesn’t realize what’s happened. He does, however, notice a sudden increase in his energy level and strength, giving him a confidence boost and helping to woo the beautiful young woman. His unconscious, adopted animal habits, though, start to cause chaos in his city, but he is mostly oblivious to what he’s doing to others. His body starts displaying noticeable physical changes, especially his ears, which tips him off that something isn’t right. Despite efforts to reverse it, the physical transformation continues until he can no longer control himself. In his transformed state, he scoops up the beautiful woman and runs off with her while her ex-suitor chases after him and tries to kill him with a gun.That’s the point where the similarities end. W&G has a decidedly more anti-gun conclusion than The Fly, but that’s the main divergence. I haven’t seen anything anywhere else that compares the two movies, and I’m assuming that Nick Park and Steve Box weren’t actively trying to reference Cronenberg when they made their movie, though they do a lot of genre pastiche in their other shorts. The similarities here feel like pure, crazy coincidence which is kind of awesome. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3lIqYxv
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