Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde Movie Review

 

When I began watching the movie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I expected it to reflect exactly what the book presented.

 

Negatives:

-The movie left out characters that the book had, such as Utterson and Lanyon. This affected the suspense that the book had provided. The lack of Utterson from the book makes the movie seem more confusing, because the characters having to make up for the missing pieces.

-Jekyll/ Hyde’s death in the movie was different than the book. In the book, Hyde committed suicide. This affects the guilt that Hyde felt for taking action to all of his crime. The movie makes it appear that he did not feel any guilt for what he has done.

-In the book, more characters were provided to back the whole story line up, and make it sound more of a suspense to people.

-The movie expresses that Jekyll experiments on animals, instead of himself. This provides evidence to more people how evil he really is from the heart. Because most people are against animal abuse, he is trying to figure out a way to change the mammal without killing it, which would be his way of not killing himself.

Positives:

-The movie adds additional scenes than the book does, to go into a more vivid explanation and give more of a story about the sneakiness and evilness of Mr. Hyde.

-The book provides more background of how evil Mr.Hyde is and his deviousness to his experiments.

-The movie has a full circle ending with the church and the prayer over his death at the end of the movie. This is a totally different opening and closing than the book, but I think it was more effective than the beginning and ending of the book. It provided a more realistic way to end a life.

 

 

Overall:

The movie has the same general effect that the book has. Though there is a lack of characters, the story-line differs, there are similar connections that can be made if comparing the book to the movie. But, it does not give off the full suspension as the book provides.