![]() ![]() As a movie with a science fiction setting, but too gothic, I think that the movie that actually wins at mixin all three genres is Bride of Frankenstein. James Whale and his team created a some great movies, and there is a lot of science fiction mixed with the horror and comedy, but, unlike with his other movie (Bride of Frankenstein), in the Invisible Man there is no sence of science fiction, to be fair, it feels like the first Frankenstein. If you want a Griffin that is actually scary (or at least, able to scare someone), the Universal version is the way to go, he's so crazy and violent, but also surrounded in mystery and that makes him a much more scary villain. But not the sympathetic kind of monster like Frankenstein, Universal shows Griffin as a power hungry maniac with much more mistery to him and his decition to become invisible. In the movie, Griffin is a very crazy guy, he's least fleshed out as a character, but you always get the feeling of him as a monster. In the book, Griffin's decisions are more fleshed out, in someway, you're able to understand why is he doing the things that he does at the same time, he's a pacifist if you compare him to his movie contrapart. This may seem too easy and just make this one a tie, mostly because thay act the same way, but the truth is very deceiving. In both, we see Griffin as a great scientist that has suffered the backfires of his on experiments, this has lead him to the way of finding a cure, after that, we are able to see his descent into madness. Now, let's talk about the main attraction, the reason about why there is a story in the first place. The lack of realism in the movie's cast is what really affects the set up, especially with great characters like doctor Griffin himself. Gloria Stuart and Dudley Digges (excluding Claude Rains) are the ones that try their best to make their own characters believable I'm not bashing any of the other actors, but sometimes the extras overact a lot or simply forget that they are on a movie. We see one of the main characters of the novel get killed at the end of act two, Griffin has a girlfriend and they turned the lovable Mrs. The movie, as I said, has a different roster of characters and the stuff that they do with them is also very different. Let's start with the book, there are not a lot of characters aside from Griffin, but the ones that exist are very serious and there are even some times in which they tell the story from their point of view, making them feel more real people. There are very few similarities with this part, because the characters even if they share name, they act very different from each other. I have to say that the movie does a better job at presenting the plot without the overwhelming amount of details described in the book I mean, the beginning of the book extends all the way until half of it, the movie makes it just what it supposed to be, a beginning. ![]() The movie is almost totally different, we still get the same treatment of story revolving around the Invisible Man, but the pace is a lot more fast, this cuts the fat from the book and makes everything feel more thrilling. In the book, for example, we learn alot about our main character and every plot point revolves around the idea of a man that has become invisible, this helps to create a lot more dread to the idea, but this information can also made it more slow paced. The same story is presented, but there are some key differences between them, and these differences are what makes a plot better. The plot is simple, we follow the Invisible Man as his identity gets discovered and all hell breaks loose. With that been said, I have to said that the Invisible Man is in the same vein as the book sometimes it can seem just like any other movie, but then it gets you and is there were you find the greatness of this story.īoth authors have great records into their respective mediums, and the Invisible Man is handled very well by both of them, I think there is no way to put one over the other with that been said, this one is a tie. ![]() Whale is well known for mixing horror and humor in his movies, at the same time he keeps the message and creates a great story, as shown with Bride of Frankenstein. James Whale, at the other hand, manages to follow the same structure as the book but, as some of his other movies, he also sprinkles his own style to the story. His work in the Invisible Man is a lot more subtle that his other books, some times it can be seen as just another pulp megazine, but then it hits you right were it's supposed to and you realise the skill of Wells to mask psychology with a very simple prose. Wells has been regarded as the master of science fiction, mostly because of the iconic works in which he was able to mix social or political issues with hard fiction, with out entering the realm of fantasy.
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