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Extra Credit 011 - Film Adaptations: The Island of Dr. Moreau (Patreon)

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2023-05-30 16:51:36
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We're talking about the major film adaptations of The Island of Dr. Moreau, including the versions from the 70s and 90s, with a lot of love for 1932's The Island of Lost Souls.

Here's that German silent adaptation, and the trailer for The Twilight People.

Oh yeah, and Eaten Alive!

Video link for this episode: https://youtu.be/8tQRQSwUNNE

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John Escobales

I’d still love to see a Richard Stanley Island of Dr. Moreau.

Science Doctor, PhD

[This is a complex topic not well suited for a comment-post, apologies for any nuance skipped, poorly explained, or otherwise unclear] The idea of men being more commonly sacrificed or devalued (in terms of lives and harm) is an interesting one because it can be used to see the inconsistencies among "Men's Rights Groups". This concept, called "disposable male/men", is exactly as you describe. Society, and media, often does not view men's lives as important as women's lives. However, where Men's Rights groups go wrong (deliberately, due to faulty logic, or due to internal bias) is presuming that "women/feminism" is to blame for this. This is absurd, and this movie is a perfect example. Women, in general, were probably not major decisionmakers for films from the 1930s, so the idea that "feminism" was driving this trope is hard to believe. If we give these men the benefit of the doubt, it may be a result of a misunderstanding of the goals of feminism; if one views feminism as "making things good for women" then one can see how this might fit. But, in reality, feminism is of course about making things equal for women (and all people/genders ideally, but TERFs are another topic for another day). Summarizing: Yes, historically men are expected to go off and die more than women, harm toward men in media is often considered more acceptable than toward women*, etc. However, "women" are not the ones driving this, other men are, anti-feminism is, patriarchy is. Women aren't the ones making decisions about violence toward men in movies (generally), women aren't the ones making decisions about sending men off to war, women aren't the ones making decisions to put men in prison, or subject them to violence within prison, women aren't driving increased suicide rates among men, etc. This is true of a lot of "Men's Rights" issues; the issues are often "real", but for any number of reasons they erroneously attribute the cause of these problems to "women/feminism", when the call is coming from inside the house... *Not that violence toward women in media is uncommon, just that it's often used to signal "This guy hitting this woman is a bad guy", or as you point out, making dog-boys is fine, but dog girls?!

Ethan Cordray

It sounds like the film world is overdue for a new adaptation. I know you guys aren't really looking for Hollywood work nowadays, but maybe this pitch will change your minds: Moreau versus Manimal.

Jim Cannon

I have not been able to watch _Island of Lost Souls_ myself (not for lack of trying, but it's not available on any of the services I already have, even for rent), but I have to assume that all those places banned it not for the violence, but for the implied bestiality, right? Its too bad the 70s film doesn't work too well, I like both York and Lancaster (remember the days when Michael York could open a movie?), but the trailer I watched didn't look all that interesting, not as interesting as the one for _Lost Souls_ at least. And I'll say this for Brando and Kilmer: my understanding is that one was mourning a daughter and the other had just been served divorce papers, so their terrible behavior may have had something to do with being trapped on an island working when they would have much rather been somewhere else.

Owen Elliot

Hey guys. I’ve actually recently subscribed to Criterion’s streaming service. I checked and Island of Lost Souls isn’t there at the moment but they rotate monthly. However, it was where I was able to watch Matango and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. They also have a Paramount Pre-Code collection. It’s completely replaced Netflix for me.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

You did neglect to mention the post-modern take on The Island of Dr. Moreau that is every incarnation of the Muppets. Then there's Goofy...

Sludgecrawler

Sorry to be blunt, but are these filmed and unedited shows that much easier to produce and put out? Is that why you're doing this? If money is the issue you should know I'd rather pay more for the higher quality stuff rather than pay the same for less.

Steve

GotG 3 suffers from being an adaptation of Moreau. I'm not sure it's suitable for any children (or adults).

Stacy Schumacher

There's a kind of adaptation you missed. Batman: the Animated Series did an episode called Tyger, Tyger. Had a panther man and Selina Kyle turned into a cat woman. Serum, thankfully, not surgery.

Richard Horsman

Terror is a Man is quite fun really. It has a William Castle-like gimmick in it where they ring a loud electric buzzer when the goriest scene happens, to “give you time to look away”. It also launched a series of movies based on the same island (Blood Island). These get increasingly more exploitative as they go on. The later entries have a ton of gore and at least a couple softcore sex scenes. They’re not great cinema, but they’re fun and are an interesting footnote in horror history.

It's a Ghost.

As a teen in the 90s, I thought the previews for ’96 version of Moreau looked great, but then I didn’t see it right away and then heard it was bad, so I never saw it. But with your generally positive comments of the movie, I checked it out, and really enjoyed it. I think I mostly just liked the performances by the different actors. It’s hard to imagine what the movie would have been like if Montgomery and “Pendrick” were played by any of the other myriad sets of actors they had lined up to play the parts.

Ian O'Toole

Cannot agree with Chad enough that everyone should watch The Letter. Bette Davis' entrance in that film is an all-timer.

Luke G

I've always liked the '96 version. It's up there with another Val Kilmer 90s action-horror, 'The Ghost and The Darkness', as one of the underrated movies of its time.

Louis Jaquet

Popping this here as Im not sure where it fits best…. Just finished ‘The War of the Worlds’ in a week while on holiday in Italy, inspired by your coverage of this, and wow - what a book! Quite short and easily digestible, and such a great read. Having grown up with the (admittedly amazing) original Jeff Wayne musical recording soundtracking long car journeys with my parents, the story has always fascinated me (best ending to an alien invasion story ever - and won’t be beaten), it was great to finally read the original text. The middle section describing the exodus from London is particularly visceral and engaging, even more so as London is my home and I know many of the locations well. So many disappointing film adaptations - we sorely need a big budget version that sticks to the original Victorian London setting. BBC tried recently but it felt more like a teleplay, lacking the grandiose scope required to really do it justice. And let’s not even mention the Tom Cruise effort :-/ Needless to say it will make perfect material for your coverage, whenever you get around to it, there’s heaps to discuss in there from ideas about technology, empire, the future biological development of humankind, religion and much more, can’t wait for it to have the Chad & Chris treatment! Loving the show as always, big love from the big smoke x