5) Fungus Gets The Scream Extractor Treatment In Monster’s, Inc.
Remember Fungus, the poor little wind bag assistant to Steve Buscemi’s sly scarer Randall Boggs in Monster’s Inc.? He’s the three-eyed, put-upon wretch obediently handling the admin as the other guys get to have all the fun. He’s also the one left drained, sallow, and apparently fighting for his already pitiful life after the film’s ostensible heroes place him in Randall’s nightmarish scream extractor machine.
The darkest thing about the moment isn’t that the scene’s played for laughs, even though Fungus is a bullied innocent quite clearly in agonizing pain. No, the most sinister aspect of Fungus’ scream extractor fate is that it’s ‘good guys’ Mike and Sully who introduce him to the device, for no good reason (couldn’t they just have tied him up somewhere?), in a move that in the real world would most definitely be considered a breach of the Geneva Convention.
Published: Dec 28, 2015 01:48 pm