ANDRE DE LEON
Remakes
The Fly (1958)
David Hedison is the lead in this original work of science fiction and he plays Andre
Delambre; He’s a horrible father and husband and he’s been neglecting his kid and wife
for some experimental teleportation device that kinda ends up working but when Andre
accidentally gets in with a fly he ends up fusing with the insect so Delambre hides the
results from his family for most of the movie until his wife eventually grows tired of him
and pulls a rag off his head to reveal this terrifyingly realistic fly’s head that freaks me
out and it freaks out his wife so she screams this blood curdling scream and her fly
husband is watching with that mosaic effect in which there are like 50 of the same
screaming wives repeated to represent a fly’s compound eyes and so she tries really hard
to help Andre for most of the movie because she knows it’s her husband but he has no
control of the fly head or the fly arm he’s stuck with so Andre Delambre has a
breakdown and asks his wife to crush his head with this giant hydraulic press by
pushing a big red button and she does.
The Fly (1986)
It’s Jeff Goldblum because let’s be honest Jeff Goldblum only ever plays himself and he’s
just a Cronenberg mess in this one; He has his claw gripped around his girlfriend’s wrist
and he’s like let’s fuse together like I did with that fly because he wants to be more
human or like a “family” or something but she’s just freaking out because Jeff is like this
bubbling flesh creature because his DNA is so spliced so she tries to push him away but
instead she kinda rips off his lower jaw and she’s screaming because I would be too and
Goldblum starts loosing more human flesh and he starts growing bug legs from his rib
cage and his toes and his skull split apart and underneath his human face he has like a
fly’s face with like human skin and he throws his lover in this machine that can fuse
things together and he gets in too but she escapes and so Jeff Goldblum accidentally
fuses with the machine itself and like he literally has bits of fly and bits of machine
peeking out from underneath his globby body and he’s in so much pain he begs his
girlfriend to shoot him with a hunting rifle and she picks it up and she does.
The Fly (2018)
They ask me if I love them and I say yes; I hold their head in my hands and press my lips
against their forehead and I try to be a rose in a bouquet of thorns but they are just so
broken, they’re hurting, they are quickly growing an exoskeleton around their heart and
I’m peeling at it with my nails just as quickly and it’s coming off in clumps like the skin
off a rotting fruit and they are in so much pain and they are screaming through their
wriggling insect mandibles that they no longer have control over. When I finally reach
the center of their heart flesh, it's been infested with maggots and turned to mush/ They
beg me to reach for the hunting rifle/ Or that big red button/ But instead I stare at their
big black bug eyes and wipe their tears/ They have their claw gripped around my wrist
and they say I love you/ And they do.
The Fly (1958)
David Hedison is the lead in this original work of science fiction and he plays Andre
Delambre; He’s a horrible father and husband and he’s been neglecting his kid and wife
for some experimental teleportation device that kinda ends up working but when Andre
accidentally gets in with a fly he ends up fusing with the insect so Delambre hides the
results from his family for most of the movie until his wife eventually grows tired of him
and pulls a rag off his head to reveal this terrifyingly realistic fly’s head that freaks me
out and it freaks out his wife so she screams this blood curdling scream and her fly
husband is watching with that mosaic effect in which there are like 50 of the same
screaming wives repeated to represent a fly’s compound eyes and so she tries really hard
to help Andre for most of the movie because she knows it’s her husband but he has no
control of the fly head or the fly arm he’s stuck with so Andre Delambre has a
breakdown and asks his wife to crush his head with this giant hydraulic press by
pushing a big red button and she does.
The Fly (1986)
It’s Jeff Goldblum because let’s be honest Jeff Goldblum only ever plays himself and he’s
just a Cronenberg mess in this one; He has his claw gripped around his girlfriend’s wrist
and he’s like let’s fuse together like I did with that fly because he wants to be more
human or like a “family” or something but she’s just freaking out because Jeff is like this
bubbling flesh creature because his DNA is so spliced so she tries to push him away but
instead she kinda rips off his lower jaw and she’s screaming because I would be too and
Goldblum starts loosing more human flesh and he starts growing bug legs from his rib
cage and his toes and his skull split apart and underneath his human face he has like a
fly’s face with like human skin and he throws his lover in this machine that can fuse
things together and he gets in too but she escapes and so Jeff Goldblum accidentally
fuses with the machine itself and like he literally has bits of fly and bits of machine
peeking out from underneath his globby body and he’s in so much pain he begs his
girlfriend to shoot him with a hunting rifle and she picks it up and she does.
The Fly (2018)
They ask me if I love them and I say yes; I hold their head in my hands and press my lips
against their forehead and I try to be a rose in a bouquet of thorns but they are just so
broken, they’re hurting, they are quickly growing an exoskeleton around their heart and
I’m peeling at it with my nails just as quickly and it’s coming off in clumps like the skin
off a rotting fruit and they are in so much pain and they are screaming through their
wriggling insect mandibles that they no longer have control over. When I finally reach
the center of their heart flesh, it's been infested with maggots and turned to mush/ They
beg me to reach for the hunting rifle/ Or that big red button/ But instead I stare at their
big black bug eyes and wipe their tears/ They have their claw gripped around my wrist
and they say I love you/ And they do.
Andre De Leon is a queer brown 6'2" writer, poet, and Aquarius born in the border town of San Diego, CA. Their creative nonfiction piece, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, won them the Student Prose Award in Vol. 24 of the City Works Literary Journal (2017). On three separate occasions, Andre has been told they smell like burnt tortillas and they're totally fine with that.