#jekyll and hyde adaptations

[ange331]

I just watched some Jekyll and Hyde parody movie and I wanted to show you the transformation

movie: Dr Jekyll i Mr Hyde według Wytwórni A'YoY

[magiefish]

can we hear about mary and david's friends to enemies arc? 👀

Okay. So. It's kind of hard to properly describe in detail because it is also very mixed up with a lot of worldbuilding and convoluted plots, which is why I took so long to get back to you, so I'm just going to describe the general idea of it in relation to the story's themes and the character's emotions.

So, POV David Cane (nee Miriam Alterman) to Mary Angell (nee Cecilia DeAngeli):

What if we were both children who were raised by single parents who abused us emotionally. What if my mother never respected my privacy and isolated me from everyone else, never taught me the skills I needed to survive on my own, and got angry if ever rejected her or complained, so I developed an impassive facade and never learned how to handle conflict or express my emotions. What if your father was a con-man who moved around constantly, who taught you never to trust anyone and to only ever look out for yourself because everyone is out to get you, who used the fact you were an innocent child to better deceive people, and then discarded you when you became a 'liability'.

What if, after years of you going hungry and fending for yourself and me finally deciding to run away from my mother, we both signed up as nurses in WW1 and met in the trenches of one of the worst conflicts ever imagined. What if we became all each other had, but neither of us was telling the whole truth to one another because we had been raised to believe that we shouldn't. What if you cared for me unconditionally and shaped all your medical research around helping me specifically because you wanted to prove to yourself that altruism could be rewarding, and because you believed that you were only worth anything when you were being useful. What if you performed being innocent and naive and optimistic specifically so that I wouldn't leave because you thought I wouldn't trust you if I knew the truth about how you were raised. What if I didn't know how to handle your kindness because my mother's gifts were always double-edged, and I was always waiting for the other shoe to fall. What if I became convinced that I was weighing you down and holding you back from scientific greatness because you were fixated on something I was born with over the path you could make for yourself. What if I decided that the only way to get you to leave me was to force you to, and make sure that you couldn't come back. What if I wanted you to hate me because I thought it would be for your own good if you got over me.

What if I then ended up right back in another situation where someone cared for me completely while I did nothing to help myself. What if I abandoned them so that they would hate me. What if I did it again. What if it became a pattern. What if I thought that I was so spineless, so utterly useless and incompetent, that my mere existence was inherently parasitic, and the only way to help the people I loved was to leave them, to make them understand just how awful I really was so that they would never chase after me. What if I realised that abandoning you had never really been about helping you in any way, but just reducing you into a tool that I could use to hurt myself. What if I realised that I had sacrificed our entire relationship, the potential for a happier future for both myself and you, on the altar of my own self-destruction.

What if I became so sick of myself, I illegally stole a technology that would allow me to inhabit a different body, a different persona, just so that I could loosen up and express my emotions and be free. What if in the process I realised that I had always actually been a man, but also just used the anonymity to spiral even deeper into drug-abuse, and loneliness, and self-loathing. What if I got so high I lost all sense of reality and shot myself in the head, and only realised when I woke up that I had murdered my original self. What if I realised I had made a mistake that I could never take back, that I had lost my entire identity, that there was nowhere to hide anymore and I would finally have to confront myself. What if, knowing I had nothing left anymore, I decided to go and find you just so that I could apologise, could tell you that what I did was wrong and you didn't deserve it, that I had regretted it every day of my life since then. What if I broke every law and went all the way into hell just to find you.

What if, when I found you, you were no longer the person I had called my friend. What if my abandonment had been the last nail in the coffin for you, and I hadn't even realised it. What if you decided that the only thing that mattered was being on top, was being the used and not the user, was being the person who stomped on everyone else instead of being the one getting ground under the heel. What if you put aside ethics in the name of your pursuit of science, sabotaged your opponents, stole your colleagues' work, and were rewarded for it with fame and success and money and adoration. What if you played at being the philanthropist, the homemaker, the dazzling host, while in private you used all that money you had to drink and drink and drink. What if you decided that instead of making people want you, you would make them need you, so you went around picking out the downtrodden and the isolated and setting them up with jobs and homes, so that they would owe everything to you, so that they would adore you completely. What if you cheated on your husband and neglected your child because you didn't know how to handle vulnerability, the possibility of failure, the weakness of trust.

What if, after you had gotten everything you had ever thought you wanted, you discovered that you weren’t happy or content, because getting there had required becoming the kind of person who could never rest, never live in the moment, never let their guard down for even one second. What if the only way you could justify treating other people the way you did was by telling yourself that everyone else was just as opportunistic and cynical as you, and then that meant you began to suspect everyone else of being out to get you, because that’s what you would do. What if, underneath it all, you still empathised with other people, you still wanted people to sincerely love and trust you, but you had dismissed these feelings as weaknesses and came to despise everyone who invoked them in you, so you hurt those people even when it made you feel worse about yourself. 

What if you decided that what was wrong with humanity (you) was just rooted in biology, in nature, in evolution, so you decided that the only way to ‘fix’ it was to ‘fix’ humanity. What if you had gotten older, and a new generation of scientists inspired by your work had come along, and desperate not to be replaced or forgotten, you decided the only way to get everyone’s attention again was to recreate the miracle, was to come up with a new flashy scientific discovery. What if you kept drinking. What if you weren’t wise. What if you weren’t cautious. What if you didn’t care. What if you destroyed everyone and yourself as well in the name of your own short-sighted selfishness, but you were so used to thinking of yourself as the victim that you refused to accept any blame for what happened. What if you insisted to me that I should be sorry, that I should be guilty for what I had done because it had led to this, and yet you never accepted any of my apologies. What if you had the blood of the entire world on your hands, and you blamed me for getting them dirty in the first place.

What if, when confronted with you face to face, I lied and told you I was nothing but a messenger, that I was just a friend of myself. What if, when confronted with me face to face, you lied and told me that you were still human, that you weren’t a monster, that you hadn’t caused any of this. What if we both knew the other was lying, and yet, even now, we still couldn’t be honest with each other. What if we had both lived our whole lives acting like we were isolated individuals, that our actions would have no long-term consequences because they could never affect anyone other than us, while being completely and utterly shaped by one another. What if we ruined each other. What if we ruined ourselves. What if, even while claiming that you hated me, you still kept talking to me, still kept trying to get me to validate you, still tried to make me laugh. What if I went along with it. What if I needed you. What if you needed me.

What if we weren't friends, or enemies, or lovers, but something worse. What if you

were my other half. What if we were the same person, really. And what if I had to kill you anyway.

***

So. Yeah. They’re both completely insane <3 I think about them every day <3 My Mary Angell playlist is almost 4 hours long <3 Girlie should have actually read Macbeth instead of just pretending to have read it in order to seem ‘cultured’ <3 <3

Because I’m insane, I have also taken all 22 of my major characters and aligned them with major arcana cards, because that number symmetry was just too good to pass up, and within that David is definitely The Wheel of Fortune and Mary is The Magician. I would have made her The Fool for the name alone, but unfortunately that card fit another character better.

The two of them were also born in 1899 (Mary on January 5th, David on December 25th -- yes, he is born on Christmas, now you know why he's suffered more than Jesus) and the story takes place in 1949, so they are both about 50. The two fell apart around 1925.

[oh1thehorror]

Me with Jekyll and Hyde adaptations

historical inaccuracies in period dramas are okay as long as i like them

[oblisker]

what if the transformation didn’t do ANYTHING to his appearance and u couldn’t see it either. so jekyll sits there in silence for a minute and then starts calling you a cunt

[sillytron2000]

a lot of adaptations depict henry jekyll as a helpless charitable guy tainted by sins, haunted by hyde and unable to suppress him. they paint him as barely responsible for hydes terrible actions and honestly like a victim who can do no harm. WRONG! guys he's a doctor of law. he knows full well what he's doing. sure he's messed up and pathetic but he spends like half of the book just lying and manipulating everyone. you're falling into his trap.....and you're falling into mansfields trap.....

edit i will someday make an adaptation in which henry jekylls character is explored thoroughly in a way that examines both his implied depression and really bad mental state while simultaneously condemning his actions and forcing him to face consequences. i will make a good adaptation it is my life goal

[an-theduckin]

I hate HATE jekyll&Hyde adaptations that turn hyde into Jack The Ripper 2.0 even tho he has nothing to do w prostitutes in the novel!! I get that they want hyde to be the worst scumbag n all and yes that's right, but he only killed 1 person (2 if you count lanyon but that was manslaughter) and dropkicked a child in the novel!! He's not some murderer that goes around killing everyone on sight- much less prostitutes. Where do ppl even get that idea from :////

[faithful-grigori]

”#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, #<- every single time”

"Modern retelling" and it's a blatant misinterpretation of the original text

[kusnechik]

So I distinctly remember this being a question somewhere on this site already, but I'm not exactly sure:

What does Jekyll/Hyde sound like in y'alls interpretations?

To me Hyde has always been an unattainable, perfect balance between Will Wood, Murdoc Niccals and Hyde's voiceactor from the soviet audiobook adaptation (which you should check out btw, it's absolutely gorgeous). He has a pretty wide vocal range, going from a low whispy rumble when he speaks, to jumping up a few octaves when becoming hysterical for example. A habit of his is to sometimes slip up into almost feral sounds too. He growls, hisses, roars etc etc. Also thick scottish accent because yes please.

As for Jekyll ...I haven't found any proper examples on the webs yet that would fit the voice I imagine for him, but perhaps I'm too picky lol. All I can say that it's all low and smooth and so so gentle like, this man can read the manual for a bunsenburner aloud and it'll still draw you in. He sounds like the friendly substitute teacher that everyone likes and will gladly explain that one pesky math problem to you. I hope it makes sense.

Anyway, I'm very curious to hear about y'alls personal headcanons, cheers

[origami-butterfly]

Hate it when j&h adaptations give Jekyll a female love interest, like bitch, he HAS a love interest who is introduced on the first page, and his name is MR UTTERSON THE LAWYER.

[bananaeatstape]

I find it very interesting how designs and casting for classic literature characters have evolved from the earlier adaptations to the modern ones we see today.

A lot of that is definitely the target audience and how media has influenced how we see the characters.

However looking at actors and designs from 20th century retellings and comparing them to 2010’s tv shows, it just.

idk i feel like its kinda silly and fascinating to see how distanced we’ve come from the original text but not necessarily in a bad way

I mean just look:

A Christmas Carol's Ebenezer Scrooge (2009, 2022)

Edward Hyde (1931, 2015)

Sherlock Holmes (1939, 2022)

like idek dude

I guess we decided they needed to drink the yassification juice after a couple of decades and i kinda love it yet at the same time question mark ???

edit: also someone mentioned that TGS isn't a show and i sincerely apologize for not putting that in here my brain was lagging bad but i meant to refer to different types of media and it ended up looking out of place ;-;

anyways i just hope yall get my point lmao

[ange331]

Hehe, I see that you really like crunchy monster men🖤👹

Have you watched other film adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde? Do you have another favorite version of Edward Hyde? Or is the 1931 version your favorite?

Well i’ve seen some JnH adaptations, movies(ofc), games and one comic

But my favorite Hyde are 1920s version and 1931 version

List of JnH in the first picture :

-Jekyll and Hyde 1913 (idk which one tho ☹️)

-Jekyll and Hyde 1920

-Jekyll and Hyde 1931

-Jekyll and Hyde Musical

-Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde

-Jekyll and Hyde (NES)

-Jekyll and Hyde - Weinfeld & Szyszko

-Mazm: Jekyll and Hyde

[sondersspite]

low effort jekyll and hyde stuff<33

[hydeposting]

I really like how Hyde’s like main argument in Confrontation is that he IS Jekyll, and that’s the reason Jekyll can never “get rid of” him. I just love it when Hyde is actually portrayed as being a part of Jekyll, because he ACTUALLY IS.

[official-night-pop-artz]

Uhhhh.... Modern Jekyll and Hyde au, but utterson and poole figure everything out much earlier on unironically because "they've never seen the two in the same room together"

[hyde-ur-monsters]

so

vampires are immortal. homonculi (like Frankenstein’s monster) could be immortal with the proper care. many other kinds of monsters, like gargoyles, ghosts, mummies, can be considered immortal too.

now, you’ve seen plenty of monster stories that go back in time. Like vampires in the victorian era, which we all know and absolutely love.

let’s jump forward in time a bit

or a lot

listen what im trying to get at here is, imagine monster high set in a cyberpunk future

Draculaura in glowing pink neon and translucent boots with see-through platforms that have tiny bat holograms flying in them

Clawdeen in the most over the top, actual cybernetic fashion she can conjure up, maybe even a clothing line with outfits that can put on a runway show no matter where you are (hidden lights, music, the works).

Frankie with interchangeable prosthetic limbs, some realistic (but still green because it may represent rot, but it’s her scaritage), others cybernetic with apps and everything, and some purely aesthetic/artistic.

you have to keep the gothic element somehow; ancient stone walls and smart vending machines that conjure up full meals; screen masks over rotted faces that can’t express emotions anymore; newly installed underground machinery and fire-breathing dragons making their homes by the engines deep, deep in the catacombs (no one sees them, but some say the installment crew never came back up, and that the weird sounds aren’t just the engines).

i just, idk, think it’d be really cool

Jackson and Holt would be these weirdly liminal creatures. Like you could only find Holt in a club of some sort, with loud music and perma headphones (they’re installed into the skin in front of your ear, or they’re muffs installed around and over your ear). His jacket is always glowing, and some say his hair is real fire

Meanwhile you could only find Jackson in backroom labs, the kind that are rarely used or that look abandoned. The yellow tips in his hair glow neon yellow, and he favors equally yellow eye contacts to make himself appear more monstrous. No one likes asking him what, exactly, he does in those labs.

Weirdly enough, he also has perma headphones…

[microwavesaferat]

I have such a soft spot for split personality characters, like yes, show me the duality of man! Show me someone with the inability to understand grey so everything must be either black or white! Show me a little guy so overwhelmed with decision that his psyche must split cleanly in two!!!!

Give me that creature who, with an inability to see themselves as flawed, must blame their actions on a fucked up evil guy in his head. Give me some guy who's just really repressed!