Round 1: Both men racing to figure out invisibility, discover that the other has figured it out first and wants to kill them and steal their research.
Round 2: Both men try to take one another out after becoming invisible.
Round 3: Both men decide to go on a killing spree. Who kills more people before they are stopped?
Bonus Round: Both men decide to team up. How far do they get before they are stopped?
One of the aspects of this new imagining that I really enjoyed was the psychological aspect of domestic abuse that was touched on but never really went too far or too deep. The set up of the suit and optics engineer will still be there.
So, I would propose that we run with that. I would break the movie into three sections - setting up the relationship as abusive, psychological torment, confrontation.
I propose a gender swap to help with the notion that people would be inclined to dismiss and isolate the victim. In the original movie, people accept that cee was abused. This adds a layer of inconsistency with characters reactions to cee and get behavior. For example, within a month of escaping an abusive relationship, the sister is ready to cut ties over a very generic antagonistic email.
Set up: The original movie starts off with Cee running away, we can connect the dots for the most part, and out intuition is verified once the Adrian punches the car. We don't get this benefit with a gender swap so it would require set up.
The movie would start with them as a couple going out with Adrians brother and friend. Cee would order food for Adrian, make decisions for him and otherwise dominate the conversations. Small things that would seem off. Have a scene of Adrian taking anti-anxiety medicine. Show Cee insisting he take more, that he never takes the right amount.
Next we would cut to a scene with Adrian having a black eye. His brother would ask him about it, joking if he got into a fight at the bar. I would add mockery/disinterest to the brothers character here - showing that their relationship isn't great. The brother says he shouldn't skip his anxiety medicine and he needs to relax and stop picking bar fights. We see Adrian look over a video on his phone he took of her beating him, contemplating showing his brother... then putting it away.
Finally, we will see Cee come at Adrian with a knife. She gets more and more agitated, claiming that she will kill herself and blame him for it. She slashes at him and accidentally hits him in the face. He panics and escapes.
Next scene, he's at his friends house explaining what happened. The friend doesn't really believe him but is concerned about the injury. The police show up and arrest Adrian for the murder of Cee. It takes the cell phone videos he took and hidden camera footage in his house to show that she was abusive and that she committed suicide. He is cleared, but the whole ordeal is clearly too much f
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Too bad I won't be able to see it.
He really couldn’t see himself doing it.
"Tell him I can't see him!"
It’s scary and concerning how true this quote is, and it just shows how stupid people are to accept religion but be skeptical about such small things
Their appearance was kept under wraps
"If he gets the rest of them clothes off, we'll never catch him in a thousand years." -Constable Jaffers
Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) has been doing experiments on himself and finally succeeded in turning himself invisible. He starts working on an antidote, but a side-effect of his experiments cause Griffin to go insane. As Jack goes off on a murdering spree, the police do everything in their power to stop them, but will it be enough? Jack has threatened to murder an old colleague. Will they be able to catch him before he can follow through?
What Works:
The Invisible Man succeeds largely because of the performance of Claude Rains. His screen presence is palpable even when he is invisible. He has a distinct and memorable voice and is very menacing. He frequently threatens murder and has no problem following through. Though a lot of the performances is voice-over, Rains does a great job and gives us a delightfully villainous protagonist.
This movie is also surprisingly funny. It threw me for a loop with an early gag involving a guy in a bar pretending to play the piano. Most of the humor is slapstick, but it's good slapstick. At one point, Griffin picks up a police officer and begins swinging him around in a circle. It was completely unexpected and absolutely hilarious.
The biggest positive I have for this movie is the special effects to make it seem like an invisible man is interacting with various objects. It's actually really impressive work and I was blown away by how well this movie has aged. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's still really cool. There is a lot more invisible chaos in the film than I would have expected and it's always a lot of fun. Plus we get some nice minautes and surprisingly good disasters with the train crash scene and a really excellent car crash.
What Sucks:
Apart from the Invisible Man, none of the characters in this movie are remotely interesting. They are all pretty dull and I was never invested in any of them. The story jumps around between characters dealing with the Invisible Man, first with the villages, then Dr. Kemp (William Harrigan), and finally the police. The narrative feels a bit jumbled. It feels less like a movie and more like a series of events happening.
The worst character of them all is Jenny Hall (Una O'Connor), who is the wife of the inn owner where the Invisible Man stays. Her characters does a lot of shrieking and screaming. It's really over-the-top and extremely irritat
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"The studio has whittled down its list to two top candidates to play the role of Adrian Griffin, a billionaire sociopath who made his money by developing an invisibility suit for the Deparment of Defense: Armie Hammer and Alexander Skarsgard. "
Modern times confirmed?
He took him to the ICU
Golden Era of horror, and the practical effects are absolutely incredible by 1933 standards.
Claude Rains is such an imposing figure with a commanding voice, that cuts right through you. To this day it is still one of my all time favorite horror movies.
If you’re looking for something classic that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome, check it out! Perfect Halloween vibes. Looking forward to next year’s remake!
The biggest benefit of psychedelics to me is that they help us break free of past conditioning which allows to experience the same reality in new and profound ways. It's been almost two years since I drank ayahuasca and a month since bufo but I STILL feel the benefits of the whole experience. I understand the title quote and strive to live in harmony with Nature/God.
I tripped on mushrooms for the first time when I was 19 after a Halloween party. I remember feeling like the Joker, a bit crazy in a very crazy world and feeling the need to connect deeper to my ancestry and to nature. That was 2009.
Over the last decade, I've experimented with some high-quality acid, a variety of mushrooms, a lot of cannabis. In 2017, I was called to ayahuasca and San Pedro. The two of them reconnected me to the miraculous nature of existence and made me feel like a child before the Creator.
In May, I revisited ayahuasca to process a lot of major changes in my life and to get even more established in this new way of life. I had a very powerful experience that I plan to do a full write-up about soon. After that, I went to Florida where I smoked bufo, which Michael Pollan called the 'Mount Everest of psychedelics'. Write-up coming soon!
I feel that I will visit entheogens as I am called to or as they end up in front of me from a person I trust. I never went looking for shrooms, acid, DMT, ayahuasca, San Pedro, or bufo...they found me through really good friends and I trusted them because I knew many people I admire experimented with entheogens in their creative/spiritual journey.
So grateful for the times we live in despite all the chaos all around. Also grateful for this sub where we can connect and see progress happen in our individual lives and in the collective psyche of humanity.
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I get where the top comment is coming from but I think this misses the point of the quote. The author was an astrophysicist who was keenly aware of humanity's positive potential too.
There is no differentiation to me when I read the quote. I just sense a sober description of human history.
I believe Reality is beyond concepts and words, music and math do a much better way of describing the indescribable.
Imagine the world without fire, without the wheel, without writing or numbers, without science or industry, without telecommunications or technology. I am grateful for all of it but I sense the need for evolution to continue.
It's good that many are keen to point this out th
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My dad made a pretty funny observation that it was stupid of him to actually walk into her room in the psych ward because then he was trapped as much as she was. So I guess he just sat there all night doing absolutely nothing since he couldn't leave when she went to sleep lol.
...trans-parent?
He couldn’t see himself doing it!
He couldn’t see himself doing it.
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