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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-04 00:06:00

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creator: alan moore, creator: kevin o'neill, title: league of extraordinary gentlemen

LoEG: Season Two: Edward Explains It All

Was reading Century, which I thought was thoroughly enjoyable... except for one thing that kind of upset me for personal reasons.

Anyway, here's Mr Hyde explaining why he does what he does from the Second Volume,

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	besamim 2009-06-03 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry to tell you, but this was already posted recently. The Stardust stories to which you link are worth reading though. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-06-03 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	Aw. :( Should I take the post down then... I'll pots something from one of the earlier series. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	espanolbot 2009-06-03 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	Posted the Mr Hyde motive speech from Volume Two instead. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thehefner 2009-06-03 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	And I greatly appreciate it! I'm writing something Harvey Dent related that got me thinking the other day about how I wanted to revisit this very scene again, but I can't find my issues. So really, thanks hugely! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ex_stig213
2009-06-04 02:38 am UTC (link)

Feh, I think the comparison between Two-Face and Jekyll/Hyde is misguided. If you go back to the source material, you have to remember that Jekyll specifically chose to become Hyde, and continued to make that choice throughout the book until it became something he couldn't control. Harvey Dent never gets that choice - his scarring is forced upon him by sheer bad luck, and he isn't simply able to go from being two-Face back to being Dent again.

Really, Harvey has much more in common with Dorian Gray. While Jekyll has to make a transition to become Hyde, Dorian's 'evil self' is always present at the same time as Dorian, if locked in an attic, just as Dent's is always present on his face. Similarly, you'll notice that as time has gone by, artists have continually drawn Two-Face uglier and uglier as audience tastes grow...

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	thehefner 2009-06-04 06:15 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I completely agree, actually. I've got a point to make. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ex_stig213
2009-06-04 06:26 am UTC (link)

Heh, while we're on the subject of Dorian - remember the LoEG movie? Rumour has it that when the casting were told they had to have Dorian, and they couldn't find him in the comic, they were told he was on the cover to Vol. 1. They then used, as a reference - rather than the picture clearly labelled with Gray's name - the picture of Francis Varney on that same cover. Hence why the movie version of Gray doesn't look like any other version from anywhere.

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	thehefner 2009-06-04 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	Y'know, I could never actually bring myself to watch it. I just didn't have the heart, especially after FROM HELL. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-06-19 12:12 am UTC (link)

Cannot, will not, and have never been told any reason I should. In fact, it would be like letting someone shit in my eyes, I'm told.

All I ever saw was a clip with the Invisible Man explaining his invisible life, not a word of which came from Moore, not a bit of which showed the characterization that makes him a worthwhile character, just about showing off the effect. That was enough to ensure I'd never look.

FROM HELL pissed me off most not just because it's just another Jack the Ripper movie that they just used Moore's title on. But even more insultingly, I had said many times that based on Campbell's drawings, Robbie Coltrane should be Abberline. Not only was he not, they made him Depp's SIDEKICK. Also, the movie made me start to dislike Johnny Depp. It was a lazy performance and his character didn't make any sense. I can accept that a movie has to have changes(I like Kubrick's THE SHINING better than King's, and thank god the film of the Godfather ISN'T like the book), but not ones that violate the heart of what you're adapting.

Or you could be like WATCHMEN, and be incredibly faithful and still miss the whole point.

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	besamim 2009-06-03 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	And a fine choice of scene that is. Brrr. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	red_cyclone 2009-06-04 02:02 am UTC (link)
	We did Jekyll and Hyde in uni this year, when the whole gay thing came up I couldn't help remembering this scene, which if anything, compared so some criticisms, downplays Jekyll's homosexuality. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-06-04 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	That Fortune City link got flagged by Google for distribution of malware. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-06-04 03:20 pm UTC (link)
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