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while I was having a hard time chosing between jumping my exgirlfriend beside me in the sofa or follow the plot, I at least managed to find a new favourite mad scientist in Dr Strangelove. Absolutely amazing!..And I'd like to recommend Vanilla Sky, especially for the stopping-of-time restaurant scene, which was as startling as the one in The Matrix or what some holy smoke can do for "reality".
I hope I didn't spoil the fun for anyone, but I guess people are prepared for that here.And yes, I did get the girl in the end :)
/Ronnie
Follow Ups:
1. In Young Frankenstein - "That's FRANK-IN-STEEN!"2. Tim Curry as Frankenfurter in Rocky Horror.
3. Colin Clive in ....well, you know.
4. Woody Allen in Casino Royale.
5. Gert Forbe in Goldfinger.
6 The late, very great Peter Cushing in about a hundred Hammer films.
7. Jerry Lewis (who I usually dislike) in The Nutty Professor.
8. Sid Ceasar in 10 From Your Show of Shows (okay, this is a movie made from television skits but there was SID CEASAR!!!!)
9. Lon Chaney, Sr., Boris Karloff (the greatest horror actor of them all), and Christopher Lee in their respective interpretations of Fu Manchu.
10.Claude Rains in The Invisible Man.
Hmmmmmm... Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter (that's DR. Furter to you) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. There's no one madder than him. ;-)-=PC=-
... in which Lugosi's mad scientist says of his hulking killer assistant: "don't be afraid of Lobo, he's as gentle as a kitchen."
Isn't that the film where someone says to Lugosi that he is going to take him home, back to be honored by his country and its people, and Bela launches into a pretty good speech which begins "Home...? Home... I have no home. Hunted, despised, treated like a crimianl..."
Bride of the Monster contains some of Ed Wood's most memorable dialog. It's also famous for the scene where Lugosi wrestles an inert rubber octopus (he wraps its tentacles around himself) and the photo enlarger that's pretending to be a ray gun.
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"Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!"Great role.
n t
His Name was Michael Dunn. Here's Link to his Obituary notice & details re his life/career.
Wasn't his character's name..."Dr. Migueleto Loveless" ???How about the Victor Buono character ?
I always remember him as Alexander from the 3rd season episode "Plato's Stepchildren." I thought he turned in quite a fine performance. I had no idea he died so many years ago.Todd
in Reanimator. He had "the look" just right. must have been contacts :~)Cheers
John K
Being a research scientist, I am constantly struggling to downplay the "mad scientist/megalomaniac" stereotype. Some of us are merely irritated, not mad.Instead, I choose to use the "overacting ham" stereotype to describe both Gregory Peck ('mad doctor' Mengele) and Sir Lawrence Olivier ('mad Nazi hunter' Lieberman) in "The Boys From Brazil," an awful piece of conspiracy crap about the potential evil of human cloning shown on AMC Monday morning.
I haven't seen enough films depicting "mad" scientists, but those that I have don't do it very well. There is a "genius", an abnormality, in the mad that those movies don't seem to portray very well. They are rather normal people's fantacy of what geniuses would do if the go mad, to reassure what they already believe or to self-satisfy with wonders of what they might be capable of. Not that I understand what really constitute the state of being genius, though. For example, Good Will Hunting is particularly bad of portraying an abnormal and brilliant mathematician.Pi is another film which depicts a mad scientist and gives no explanation or interpretation, as far as I understand. Now, this is a step better than those films which feel the burden to explain the mad in 'mad scientists'. However, with careful research, I think people can depict interesting aspects of 'mad scientists, without trying to explain or understand.
Dr. Lecter in Silience of The Lambs is not a "mad" man because his portrayal is or can becompletely reasoned out by human; his evil comes out of normality and reason. ANd that's why I think its agreat movie.
(roughly paraphrased) by 16th or 17th poet John Dryden. Implying
a thin line. Genius usually thought of as having an intense focus
within consciousness, defined as intellectual in character, but with
talent and temperment often as influential channels of expression.
Scientists, inventors, etc., with proclivities toward rigorous
intellectualism, sometimes - being mortally frail with regard to
application of the Godlike power to create, transform, destroy - falter when
crossing into realms of that power and are destroyed by it. Is
that the premise behind
the "mad scientist", a powerful and common metaphor(?) an infatuation
with because many identify with the dual qualities of insanity and
genius, if only for brief vicarious periods.
Lecter, was he by definition a psychopath? As I understand the
term, he would be both morally and legally responsible for his
actions; thus, although possibly a genius by intellectual standards, would
nevertheless, be deemed sane. - AH
it may be the other way around, the psychopath is evaluated by
psychologists and deemed sane according to certain criteria. The
psychopath, in contrast to the psychotic, has sufficient "reality
contact" to be deemed sane, therefore, morally and legally accountable
for his or her actions. If I'm not mistaken, that's one of the
defining characteristics of psychopathy - sufficient reality contact
to be able to adequately discriminate between right and wrong. Thus, Ted
Bundy and Ed Gein are two completely different type of killers. - AH
You could have picked a better example..one that was less based on fact.
in reference to the character of Dr. Carrington, the chief scientist
in "The Thing"-1951. Carrington was portrayed as being rational in
the extreme, thus lapsing into irrationality by becoming obsessive
in his view on how to confront and deal with the alien. Of course,
his views and actions were countered by the more balanced and pragmatic ones of the Captain. Nevertheless, Carrington
suffered a broken arm (it could have been fatal) by the alien, mistakenly
thinking that he could have rational discourse with it. - AH
nt
Whenever someone mentions the Vanilla Sky I immediately think of Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky. Don't ask me why, I have no idea.Anyone liked the film?
Anywho, mad scientist, you say?
How about Max in Pi? Mad enough?
And I don't know if the chess champ could be considered a true scientist, but still, how about Luzhin in "Luzhin Defense"?
I'm still looking for a pressing of the Liquid Sky soundtrack. It was one of the first majors works created on the original Fairlight. From memory Slava Tsukerman composed and created it all.
I've been told that I could expect to pay $80 to $100US for it. I don't know if I like it THAT much, but I really like the movie.Cheers
John K
He was played by Ernest Theisiger, I believe.
A big yes to those two and I'll add the late Fox Harris as J. Frank Parnell in "Repo Man".There's very interesting info about Thesiger on BOF disc.
strange movie
Both Karloff and Bela Lugosi vie for the title of Best Mad Scientist Villian, in this acting tour de force.
The whole mood of this film, from set design, to acting, to soundtrack music, is simply astounding for a film of it's age.
nt
good one with a date of 1936!
-bolt
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