And you thought I'd forget
May. 11th, 2004 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrI need a break from writing, and going back over Unequal so I can workon that again sometime soon...reminded about the thing I hated most about VanHelsing.
Jekyll and Hyde and Frankenstein are kick ass books. They freakin' rock, at least imho. The characters and roles are perfectly fine just the way they are - so why is it whenever they're put in other movies everyone feels the need to completely and utterly butcher them??? Argh!!!
First and foremost let's get Dr. Jekyll straight. He's not some weak, sniveling, incompetent. The whole problem started with Jekyll being damn near fucking perfect. Not some wuss - he was loved and adored by this friends, charming, attractive, popular, and respected as being a brilliant scientist. He wasn't poor or loney or anything. But he had what he called his darker side. He wanted to do not nice things upon occasion (though it's never straight up said what he wanted to do), probably had some not nice thoughts about people. Nothing extreme. So guilty and upset by this he sought a way to seperate his good side from his bad side. Only it didn't work quite the way he wanted.
Enter Hyde. Who ws most definitely not some huge, hulking monstrosity that went about mindlessly killing every young chick he ever saw. WTF? The murder that starts the whole thing is him clubbing an old man to death. And the guy that saw the whole thing observed only that his appearnce was "off" somehow. There's nothing physically or obviously wrong with the man - it's his inherent evil that upsets everyone, not his appearance.
Of course I'm messing around with J&H myself, but I'm egotistical enough to think I'm doing a better job than anyone in hollywood has ever managed.
The monster doesn't have a name. Do any of these people actually read the book? At least they got that much right in Helsing, though they seldom do anywhere else. Two: Victor was actually decently young, I believe. He was only a student, not some older man firmly established as a scientist & whackjob. He was a student who became obsessed with Alchemy when daddy said "don't read that."
Victor and the Monster had a really strange love/hate relationship. The monster both loved his creator and hated him, for a variety of reasons beyond his creation (the bride, the running away, the fear, the list goes on). Victor was primarily scared of the monster, but also knew that it was all ultimately his fault.
The monster was a menace, but he wasn't mindless or out of control. And he was smart - he taught himself to read, write, etc. He was just lonely, and didn't really go nuts until Victor started to make but then destroyed a bride for the monster. And he never went rampaging or anything. He rather methodically killed off everyone Victor loved, ending with Elizabeth (and this story btw has tons of slash potential. or maybe I really do need a new hobby). I don't know wtf was in the helsing movie, but it def wasn't Frankenstein and his monster.
Lastly, no one ever knew that Victor created the monster - not until Victor tells his story to the story's actual narrator. And they both died (okay the monster "died") in the arctic.
I could go on and on about these books, esp. Frankenstein. I love them to death. I get so damn mad when they're butchered over and over again. Granted I'm taking my own liberties, but my story is meant more as a tribute to all those books rather than a fucked up way of portraying them, if that makes sense (hell, I eve call the monster Frankenstein, but given what I named the other chars I didn't actually have a choice. So I guess in fairness I have to yell at myself for that one - which I've done. But like I said - I had no choice. these other people did).
All right, I'm done boring everyone.
Jekyll and Hyde and Frankenstein are kick ass books. They freakin' rock, at least imho. The characters and roles are perfectly fine just the way they are - so why is it whenever they're put in other movies everyone feels the need to completely and utterly butcher them??? Argh!!!
First and foremost let's get Dr. Jekyll straight. He's not some weak, sniveling, incompetent. The whole problem started with Jekyll being damn near fucking perfect. Not some wuss - he was loved and adored by this friends, charming, attractive, popular, and respected as being a brilliant scientist. He wasn't poor or loney or anything. But he had what he called his darker side. He wanted to do not nice things upon occasion (though it's never straight up said what he wanted to do), probably had some not nice thoughts about people. Nothing extreme. So guilty and upset by this he sought a way to seperate his good side from his bad side. Only it didn't work quite the way he wanted.
Enter Hyde. Who ws most definitely not some huge, hulking monstrosity that went about mindlessly killing every young chick he ever saw. WTF? The murder that starts the whole thing is him clubbing an old man to death. And the guy that saw the whole thing observed only that his appearnce was "off" somehow. There's nothing physically or obviously wrong with the man - it's his inherent evil that upsets everyone, not his appearance.
Of course I'm messing around with J&H myself, but I'm egotistical enough to think I'm doing a better job than anyone in hollywood has ever managed.
The monster doesn't have a name. Do any of these people actually read the book? At least they got that much right in Helsing, though they seldom do anywhere else. Two: Victor was actually decently young, I believe. He was only a student, not some older man firmly established as a scientist & whackjob. He was a student who became obsessed with Alchemy when daddy said "don't read that."
Victor and the Monster had a really strange love/hate relationship. The monster both loved his creator and hated him, for a variety of reasons beyond his creation (the bride, the running away, the fear, the list goes on). Victor was primarily scared of the monster, but also knew that it was all ultimately his fault.
The monster was a menace, but he wasn't mindless or out of control. And he was smart - he taught himself to read, write, etc. He was just lonely, and didn't really go nuts until Victor started to make but then destroyed a bride for the monster. And he never went rampaging or anything. He rather methodically killed off everyone Victor loved, ending with Elizabeth (and this story btw has tons of slash potential. or maybe I really do need a new hobby). I don't know wtf was in the helsing movie, but it def wasn't Frankenstein and his monster.
Lastly, no one ever knew that Victor created the monster - not until Victor tells his story to the story's actual narrator. And they both died (okay the monster "died") in the arctic.
I could go on and on about these books, esp. Frankenstein. I love them to death. I get so damn mad when they're butchered over and over again. Granted I'm taking my own liberties, but my story is meant more as a tribute to all those books rather than a fucked up way of portraying them, if that makes sense (hell, I eve call the monster Frankenstein, but given what I named the other chars I didn't actually have a choice. So I guess in fairness I have to yell at myself for that one - which I've done. But like I said - I had no choice. these other people did).
All right, I'm done boring everyone.
