The Invisible Man ~ Lost in Adaptation 

Cal Lmao 😂. Did you find the hg wells book.

That is weird what happened to us in grade school I don’t remember what grade I was when this happened heck I could’ve been a middle school but The librarian thought it was a great idea to read to us this book I remember some of us freaking out at the gruesome ending then again I read Jekyll and Hyde that same year 😩

I almost snorted my drink at this. Perfect.

That almost happened to me. Last year, my English teacher told our class to choose a book from the American Lit. section to read and do a project on. Seeing Invisible Man, I immediately got excited, until my teacher explained the plot a bit and my excitement was immediately crushed.

@@vicenzostella1390 I suppose that's why people seem to not like reading in school, given you never get to read what you want in school.

SCIENCE! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V83JR2IoI8k.html

Yes, but nobody wants to sleep with the Invisible Man. Probably.

@@Rognik He might be perfect for a dark room enthusiast?

Unless that unhinged science is the product of an abusing manipulative murderous psychopath who loves to torture their ex girlfriend. The new invisible man movie is great.

Oh yeah definitely that guy sucks. But the movie was great!

Yeah. And the guy in front of the green screen ain't too rough on the eyes either!

Yeah, hes dope.

It's magical, isn't it? 😁

Embla Nótt Björnsdóttir Ikr

Embla Nott Bjornsdottir, please forgive me for not being able to find the characters in my phone to say your name properly. I know that there's a selection of characters with the proper accent marks above them SOMEWHERE in this device, but I couldn't find them when I was actually looking for them, unfortunately. ...... anyways..... It IS strangely yet TOTALLY adorable, isn't it!?

Ashton Rogers if you wrote it on a computer then it would’ve had to have special letters included on the keyboard but if it was on a smaller device then you have to hold the character such as A for a couple of seconds to Á,À,Â,Ä,Æ,Ã,Å,Ā

Hollow man also took this approach with its invisible man. Funny that the most popular adaptation of the invisible man has the least accurate portrayal of the character.

Even three years later this comment still rings Hollow Man.

Both

because as we all know disease can't get you when it can't see you!

@@sarafontanini7051 they were talking about the beginning, when Dominic was all wrapped up.

Sir, you have won the internet today.

Yeah, but all of those things apply to an invisibility cloak, too.

@@RabblesTheBinx Actually no, they dont. An invisibility cloak is just that, a cloak that makes you appear invisible. It uses magic so it works on an entirely different level than this

@@PrincessAshley972 magic or no, it's invisible either because it causes all light to pass through it, or because it bends light around itself so that no light ever hits it. Either way, you're blind, at the very least.

@@RabblesTheBinx That much i can agree with

@@RabblesTheBinx No, there's a difference. The whole blind thing and compromised ultraviolet protection is what scientists believe will happen if EVERY BIOLOGICAL component of your body were rendered completely invisible. An invisibility cloak bypasses the side effects by making you appear invisible when you wear it but also allows your biological functions to remain intact and unaltered, like wearing a piece of camouflage equipment.

Appreciate ya

Lets keep commenting to change the algorithm.

@@daniellado2523 I second that

@@Ben-vf5gk I third it ;-)

Oh yes, realised my mistake without anyone yelling at me for forgetting to mention her last time 😅

Love your vids roses

@@Dominic-Noble Have you considered doing a Lost in Adaptation episode for the book I Am Legend and it's three movie adaptations? (Last Man On Earth, The Omega Man and I Am Legend)

@@0816M3RC I'm pretty sure he only does Patreon sponsored reviews these days 'cause his backlog is so long. So, even if he wanted to, he wouldn't be able to get to it anytime soon unless someone requested it

I think in order to have an interesting anti-villain protagonist, you are gonna either need to make them extremely sympathetic (Frankenstein or Bojack) or extremely unlikeable but thoroughly enjoyable to hate because we wanna see their downfall or they have some kind of cool charm in spite of their dastardly ways (Humbert Humbert or Dracula). Anything just a bit too vague or not extreme enough on either pole, then you got what seems like a shallow character. "Hollow Man" was a good film and basically was the modern day Sci-Fi thriller serial killer version of the same story. But I remember enjoying that movie actually because the murderer is genuinely a bad unhinged guy and you enjoy watching his villain rampage of carnage /seeing people chase after him. You also kinda feel bad for him too though as he never asked to be put into this position of having madness. So it works better there.

Van Helsing is the only Victorian doctor I would trust. Most of the others are.....mad.

@@absolite6 I were about to disagree, but I can't.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a phenomenal book, great characters all around

+

+

Came looking for this comment!

The tragedy and terror?

this is hotel transilvania erasure

I hear the latest iteration of Invisible Man is good, also: rumor has it that James Wan is in line to make a Frankenstein flick

The new Invisible Man is good.

I think the problem is what Dom said at the top. These old horror stories are just too tropey. In most cases, it's better to tell a new story riffing on the same themes. Like, why directly remake Frankenstein when you can make something like Ex Machina which covers the same story ground and philosophical concepts, but updated and expanded to better fit into the modern world? That approach will have a lot more power and audience appeal, rather than repeating a story that everyone has heard a million times. Dracula, Frankenstein, et al, aren't figures of terror any more. They're just mascots.

Amber S I thought he was doing a Curly impression.

I love the Stooges reference & having Terrence show up like a HP character 😅

same XD

Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a great episode about this very thing. Everyone at the school ignored the girl, so she legit turned invisible. It's either from the second or third season (second, I think) and it's called 'Out of Mind, Out of Sight'. Worth a watch if you haven't already!

@@erinhaury5773 A UK, channel 4 show called Misfits does this as well! The character Simon (but through superpowers) is ignored so much/is a very introverted person so his powers reflect that part of his personality and he eventually gains control of turning it on and off. Great show.

@@erinhaury5773 Season 1, Episode 11. I love that episode.

I know that was a plot in Gortimer Gibbons one time

Wait, BBC made an Invisible Man adaptation in the 80’s?! Where can I watch this? ( I am unhealthily obsessed with The Invisible Man )

Yes! Although I already upvoted anyway. The part in the original book where the Invisible Man HURT. A _KITTY_ was when I KNEW I hated him. He was already an asshole; now I was fully on the side of the frightened villagers and he couldn't die fast enough. Do not hurt floof. Do not make floof invisible. Leave floof alone!

I feel Jules Verne isn't being given enough credit here. His influence on sci-fi is at least as great as Wells and Shelley, if not greater.

@@imperium3556 .... And what did he do? Im sorry, but I do not recognize the name

@@dragonheart1236 2000 leagues under the sea which foreshadowing the invention of a submarine. Land of the lost world and Journey to the center of the earth which popularise dinosaurs before Jurassic Park. There’s also that one story about a man travel to the moon via rocket foreshadowing space voyage.

And anonymity powers was the thing that pushed him into outright monster

Which brings up an interesting question: On a scale of 1 to Texan Pastor, how narcissistic/delusional was he to believe that Kemp would be down for the “Reign of Terror via random murder” idea?

@@thequietdreamer2186 If was an undiagnosed psychopath, it is entirely possible he wasn't aware of his illness and thought everybody thought like him. It is a common mental mistake in many assholes.

Carewolf Fair enough. Though I don’t think it’s the greatest analysis to say “he was the unfunny version of J.D. from Heathers.”

Another Person As a moon man I am offended!

Another Person it says you were here before the video was uploaded and that you edited the comment

Embla Nótt Björnsdóttir Edited yes, I added the praise under the joke after finishing the video. I commented 17 minutes after the video came out.

My guess is a Morphsuit, rather than makeup.

As a Greenlander, I'm offended by this cultural appropriation.

Frankenstein is less than 200 pages? It’s a crazy short book.

I remember I tried to read Bram Stoker's Dracula when I was in Middle School, because I really liked Dracula from the movies...boy was I in over my head!

Dracula was easier to read for me, I didn’t enjoy Frankenstein nearly as much because it just seemed to drag on and on with its monologues and descriptions.

That sounds like a job for Sarah Z.

Riley ooooo I shall look into this Sarah Z-thank you!

I think the big thing is that films can't show you what's going on inside a character's head in the way a book can, also a film generally has much less time to tell its story than a book does (even an average-sized book can cover a lot more ground than a two-hour film possibly could). So depending on the story, a film can only really do the Cliff Notes version of the plot, and has to spell out a lot of the things that a book might convey in numerous hints. On the other hand, I think it is true that historically Hollywood (and American culture in general) doesn't like portraying moral grey areas, and tends to go for a simplified narrative of (American) whiter-than-white heroes defeating (usually non-American) dastardly or insane villains.

imperium3 Very true about the internal dialog being difficult to adapt well. Perhaps subtlety was the wrong word, because even when the nuance of motivation or conflict isn’t explicit, you can still have grey characters in film. I wonder why Hollywood frequently chooses the two dimensional route-often as you correctly point out with an almost propaganda level of white patriotism(*cringes in American* sorry world...). Does that sell more tickets? Do the movie going audience prefer to not examine potential assumptions or biases-and so films with grey characters or plots limit audience appeal? Maybe is also limits the amount of type of press the film receives (I’m thinking of The Joker as a recent example). I’m currently leaning towards that line of thought, but I’m sure there is some food for a conspiracy theory too! 😅

Pretty sure that's not what Jekyll and Hyde was about

Yeah, that's nowhere near what Jekyll and Hyde was about...

@@kateworkman921 There were two legal cases at the time of the writing. The first was a little known Scottish case where a man that seemed to be a normal person, but was found out to be killing his neighbors for the fun. Stevenson sat in on the trail for a bit, before the man met the noose. The other legal case is far more infamous -> Jack the Ripper.

@@peterwindhorst5775 Good try, but Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published in 1885. The Ripper killings began in autumn of 1888.

@@kateworkman921 There was a serialization as well (each chapter coming out only once every other month - he had a fight with the publisher over that, it was not pretty, nearly led to a lawsuit) which took it right up to early Autumn 1888 (the first murders). Then there was a stage play - which had to be shut down, the actors were briefly accused of being the Ripper.

Oh definitely

I agree the Elizabeth Moss version is absolutely, harrowingly brilliant! However: Massive f*#king trigger warning for domestic violence, gaslighting and other forms of emotional abuse as well as nobody f*#king believing the victim (being disbelieved as atrauma victim is traumatizing in itself). If you're gonna watch it, brace yourselves! This is not a drill. If you prefer not to watch it, that is totally valid. Take care.

Saw it a couple of days ago, I loved it.

@@Galvion1980 THIS. I kinds knew there would be that present, since I saw the Kevin Bacon version, but they really ramped up the gaslighting and terror to the point where it was REALLY hard for me to get through. I've been abused in the past, and, yeeeaaahhh...this was extremely uncomfortable to watch. Especially the whole thing with no one believing her. That struck home way too hard.

@@WobblesandBean Let's hope it helps people who haven't experienced or witnessed abuse better understand how devastating it is...Hope you are doing alright.

This movie is a great answer to "well why didn't she just leave?"

They call me cellophane, Mr. Cellophane, You can bend my name, to Mr. Cellophane, 'Cos you can look right through me, walk right by me, And never knoooow I'm there... (From "Chicago". Just got reminded of that by your Queen song. :))

It'd be a lot easier to advocate for dog ruffrage if you're invisible

I’m doing this now

I did that

And I'd recommend stuff like H.G. Wells for it, too--the more oldschool science fiction just seems to _work_ as a radio play. ...not to mention the ACTUAL War of the Worlds radio play by Orson Welles...I think you can find that one for free online, last I knew. I played it on Halloween once. :)

That's an awesome mom!

@@erinhaury5773 Yes she is. She had me watching monster movies when I was four then my brother had me listening to Ozzy and the rest is history.