Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002)

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Movie
German title Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Original title Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Maurice Phillips
script Martyn Hesford
production John Hannah
Murray Ferguson
Analisa Barreto
music David Ferguson
camera Daf Hobson
cut Nick McPhee
occupation

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a 2002 British televised horror film based on the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson . The title role was played by John Hannah .

action

Late in the evening, the lawyer John Utterson is urgently required to visit Dr. Henry Jekyll ordered. Poole, the butler, and Mrs. Bradley, the housekeeper, are completely beside themselves because in their room lies the body of the young maid Mabel with her throat cut. All of you gentlemen - the doctor - is in his laboratory with a blood-stained shirt and also dead. In the hands of the dead man there are notes that Utterson takes and from them the whole terrible truth about the connection between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde finds out.

Dr. Jekyll's dream was to advance humanity through the stages of evolution by using a chemical substance to encapsulate the bad from the good in the human mind. After the board of the medical school rejects his request for a human test subject, his good friend, Sir Danvers Carew, who wants to be elected to parliament in the next elections, offers his support. Sir Carew, who has already brought young Mabel to Jekyll's house as a maid for publicity reasons, lets his relationships play out. In fact, an Edward Hyde incarcerated in a mentally ill health volunteer volunteered as a guinea pig. But here, too, Jekyll experiences a bitter disappointment, Hyde died of suicide before he even saw him. Tired of waiting, he hides the death of his new assistant and instructs him to prepare a room. Jekyll secretly injects himself with the serum and then loses consciousness.

When he comes to hours later, he notices that his elegant frock coat, top hat and walking stick are in the corner and has vague, dreamlike memories of rampant sexual debauchery. Jekyll tries to get to the bottom of this and the next evening injects himself again with the serum, under the influence of which he meets Sarah - Sir Carew's daughter - and brutally rapes her.

The next morning he doesn't remember anything again, but has dream-like inspirations again. These are thickened by a visit by Sir Carew when he tells him about the crime. He asks Jekyll for medical assistance for his daughter, without realizing that he is sitting across from the perpetrator. Jekyll is relieved to learn from Sir Carew that he does not intend to involve the police, as he fears that such a scandal will endanger his choice.

Jekyll is scared and yet continues his experiment, as this absolute loss of his moral barriers and the ecstatic intoxication of being completely free from social conventions fascinates and excites him. He keeps taking the serum and calls himself Edward Hyde on his forays through London's brothels. Jekyll doesn't stop even when Ned, his messenger boy, begins to blackmail him, knowing that the real Hyde is dead. When Ned continues with his demands, Jekyll suddenly has a dropout and when he comes to, he stands in horror in front of the dismembered body of the boy, which he buries in his panic in the backyard.

Things are beginning to slip away from Jekyll, he has blackouts more and more often and then has to find out about new atrocities of his alter ego in the newspaper . His reputation begins to falter as he is beginning to be recognized in the entertainment districts. Eventually Sir Carew confronts him about his daughter's abuse and Jekyll can only prevent him from taking legal action by arguing the upcoming elections.

When Hyde breaks out again and starts an argument with Sir Carew, the situation escalates as Hyde humiliates the old man and finally hits him in the skull with his walking stick.

Jekyll's mental state becomes more and more unstable, he has dialogues with his evil inner being, Hyde becomes stronger and stronger and fights for supremacy in Jekyll's soul. Mabel, Jekyll's young maid, takes pity on her master and offers him her help. She believes that God is ready to forgive him because as long as he lives he can go back on the right path. He almost made it, but after another mental dropout he finds out that he has cut her throat with his surgical knife. Plagued by his despair and his conscience, he rushes into his laboratory to kill himself with poison, hoping to destroy Hyde as well. With rapidly dwindling strength, he manages to write his story down until he collapses dead in his chair, where he is finally found by his longtime friend Utterson.

Others

  • Unlike other film adaptations of the classic material, this TV film does not rely on spectacular transformation effects and elaborate make-up, the transformation from Jekyll to Hyde only happens through the change in character.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of the international film : “ Fairly faithful film adaptation of the Stevenson novel suitable for the cinema, which does not gain any new nuances from the horror classic, but entertains on a good level and is ultimately one of the more interesting of the numerous adaptations. "
  • Cinema : “ English doctor (John Hannah) discovers his dark, hidden side. - Snoring version of the schizo classic by Robert Louis Stevenson. "

literature

DVD release

  • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde , Universal 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 24, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used