>no adaptation has ever understood the source material
>>214376310what's the source material about? crossdressing?
>>214376334there is no Jekyll and Hyde. it was always just Jekyll. Jekyll was a hoodlum when he was younger, became a respectable doctor and then figured out a way to make himself young with a new face and decided to use that new face to go kill hookers and be a piece of shit and do all the asshole stuff he missed doing because he was a doctor.
>>214376310>Doctor JEE-kylWhat’s up with that? Also the explanation of and motivation for his experiment felt really half baked. But yeah, Hyde was just kind of a lecherous amoral rapist, good thing it was made before the production code, it was a nice flick. Are there any other good versions? I saw some 70s perverted shit with Udo Kier (sadly dubbed over) where Mr Hyde rapes men and women to death with his giant dick.
>>214376310What would the title be renamed to in different cultures or races?i.e. what would be the names?
It would be great to have a series of faithful adaptations of the books that influenced horror films. Coppola's Dracula seemed to be heading in that direction. However, even that film added elements that altered the original meaning of the novel.
>>214376553I always thought Dracula's obsession with Mina was weird in the book, making him be in love with her because she looks like his dead wife isn't too far-fetched. Otherwise he just becomes infatuated with a random british woman he sees in a picture.
>>214376370that YouTube video was so incredibly cringe and shit I suggest reading the book yourself instead of forming an opinion from it and passing it off as your own
>>214376310I watched that recent youtube video too. It was good!
>>214376310They should do one where Jekyll is white and hyde is black.
>>214376664That's true, but Dracula is supposed to be a creature closer to a demon in Earth, lacking any positive traits. Given this characterization, it would have made more sense for him to become obsessed with corrupting Mina, viewing her as beautiful inside and out. However, I must admit that I haven't read the novel in years, so I may be misremembering some details.
>>214376740the only jekyll and hyde youtube video i have seen is the OSP one and that came out years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kUElZGMXm8
>>214376310Isn't the book a detective novel where it's gradually revealed they're the same person? I don't think any adaptation has done that
>>214376807Sometimes I feel like people exaggerate H. P. Lovecraft's weirdness and racism, which worries me. Most people only know him as "the guy who invented the octopus monster." I fear that in the future, they'll only know him as "the weirdo who was racist."
>>214376919i mean, it's pretty much his defining feature. what would you rather know him as? the guy who couldn't finish grade school mathematics classes?
>>214376919>that based guy who was racist*ftfy
>>214376973He wrote many good to great horror stories that inspired many future horror writers. He should be remembered for that.
>>214376919>>214376973or they remember his cat lol
>>214377135yeah but so did a lot of other writers. not a lot of them were as hilariously racist as lovecraft was though, that's what makes it his defining feature
>>214377238Name 5
>>214377238This is the most reddit post I've read in a while
>>214377442doubt that when half the catalog is capeshit and star wars
>>214377238he was rp on n question.
>>214376807Okey dokey. Didn't mean to accuse. This was one of those front page algorithm specials the day it posted https://youtu.be/uZqm6mqCJa0?si=0AhHrEUcXdm6yypu
>>214377238HE DEFINED A POPULARIZED AN ENTIRE HORROR SUBGENRE, FOR FUCK'S SAKENIGGERMAN HELP ME!
>>214376826Yes, he kills himself because the police were starting to figure things out, thats when the penny drops, they are one and the same.I thinks its far more interesting than the split personality plot they keep going with.
>>214376310>Hyde finally revealed in all his glory is a dark little man, not a monke fella or hulking brute
>>214376774Back then, they did a blaxploitation joint about that but with the reverse skin tones.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Black,_Mr._Hyde
>>214376310Dont you think there's a chance they simply chose to ignore it? You think you are smarter than then, and they're so dumb they really didnt understand it? Geez, you are giving me the ICK.
>>214376310Who cares, an adaptation, even the best always betrays here and there. It's the definitive Jekyll/Hyde movie, with the silent 1920 with John Barrymore coming right after. While March's Hyde is a horny ape, Barrymore's Hyde is more like a nervous insect.The Spencer Tracy one is good, but not as much as the Mamoulian movie. "Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde" is good if you like the tranny twist, I guess. "The two faces of Dr Jekyll" is better IMO, because it depicts the doctor as an old and not beautiful man and Hyde as a beautiful young man, yet amoral as fuck, showing the "beauty of evil".And there's Gérard Kikoïne's "Edge of Insanity", with an old Anthony Hopkins as a cocaine-addict Jekyll whose addiction turns him into a schizo and he becomes Jack "The Ripper" Hyde.
>>214376310Unironically true. Every adaptation I've seen has been a full transformation like the Hulk. "Mr Hyde" still has Jekyll's mind and body, but his emotions, confidence and inhibitions are altered.
>>214379511they are copying the first film which ignores the source material, tranny
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>>214379704Malkovich's Hyde in Mary Reilly probably comes closest then in that respect.. The book does include a measure of physial change though. His own friends couldn't recognize him.
>>214376310Eggers would know what to do.
>>214376774Now that's a fucking horror movie.
>>214376787In the novel we never get to see anything from Dracula's point of view so the reader has no idea why he does things or how he feels about them. He's very much portrayed more as animal and sort of force of nature than a person. >>214376310Great performances in this film from Frederic March and especially Miriam Hopkins (pic).
The Jack Palance production is the closest. The Utterson stand-in (his name is Devlin) actually says Jekyll is responsible and deserves to die. Hyde is actually a victim since he's merely Jekyll's darker desires unleashed. If you read the novel, it's blatantly apparent that Hyde and Jekyll are the same. Hence why he's called "Hyde"; it's just another skin Henry Jekyll is wearing. It's the Jungian Shadow.
>>214376310>>no adaptation has ever understood the source materialOh really?
