#leauge of extraordinary gentlemen

[waddlesworth]

With a second watch of LXG, the characters hit differently on a sort of “attractive” sense now that I’m watching it on a bigger screen (my first watch was on my phone screen, now it’s the main TV).

Mina…. Oh my god. I can see why everyone in the movie is attracted to her. 😩

Mina/Jekyll writing in the future tonight, I can FEEL it. 🥺❤️

[mameeta]

"Mina Harker (The Bride of Dracula)"

??? No she's not? Not in the movie nor in the book.

League of Extraordinary Gentleman movie was never well regarded. But yeah, in that movie specifically, that character is Dr. Mina Harker and she is a vampire. *shrugs*

[forever-in-phapundao]

I dont know what to watch! I feel like a cdrama for historical period and magic system but I've been doing Thai and Korean bls all week, finished Cutie pie 2 you and roommates of poongduck

[tearyeye-private-i]

So I have a new page @nuni-ohe , it's where I'm gonna post my Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen reinterpretation. Idk exactly what I'll post. It's mainly for inspiration, aesthetic, liking and sharing other interpretations.

It's funny how with my research, I wasn't afraid to put everything out there. Even stuff I shouldn't have. Yet with this, I'm hesitating. It comes down to insecurity, my ideas won't be good or they will and my ideas will get stolen, like my posts on here. 😅😭

Either way, I'll be posting on there. So if anyone's interested in literary classics being reimagined, that's what I gonna post there.

[tgefteezer-burn]

Anti Leauge of extraordinary gentlemen

[obsessor-of-beautiful-things]

...So THIS is the ideal Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde?

I saw an image were multiple actors who've played Sherlock Holmes where put together using Morphthing in order to create the "ideal" Sherlock. And I wondered if anyone had done that for the madman himself.

Really surprised with how smooth the final images became!

Actors featured:

John Barrymoore from the 1920 silent film

Fredric March from the 1932 film

Spencer Tracy from the 1942 film

Jason Flemyng (Jekyll) from The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and Sam Witwer (Hyde) from Once Upon a Time (2006) I couldn't find any good images of LXG Hyde, and I wanted someone with similar mutton chops to be in the mix. :)

Robert Cuccioli from the musical

John Malkovich from 1996's Mary Reilly

And Tom Bateman from the 2015 ITV series!

[seanconneryforever]

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

The Leauge of extraordinary gentlemen movie does Jekyll and Hyde really faithfully in a lot of ways but mostly because Hyde looks so fucking nasty I don’t even wanna look at him. I love him a lot but he’s so ugly and it’s very Book Accurate (not the exact way he is but that fact that he is) but I can’t draw him ever

[snoringfrog]

League of Fanfiction

Ever notice that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is just a big crossover fanfic for classic literature?

[roseinivy]

So anyone who is into steampunk, avengers, or 1800's fiction should go watch "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" because it is literally avengers circa 1800's and they use fictional heroes from the time period like Captain Nemo and Jekkle & Hyde. It's really amazing go watch it now.

[tearyeye-private-i]

So, I'm getting into the "Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen,' and Mina's use in the series, baffles me. Like, Jonathan is gone, he leaves her because he was disgusted by her scars, from Dracula biting her. While she is the leader of the group, she's placed in all these confusing and fanfic scenarios to where Alan Moore just wrappd her character.

Which, it's his creative reinterpretation. She isn't the first public domain, literary character he's done that to. While I like some of his ideas of the Leauge, I don't agree with all of it.

Like, the more I'm learning about Mina, I question why he thought it was a good idea to include her, when he had to change so much of her to do it. Originally, he wanted Irene Adler (from Sherlock Holmes) in Mina's place, but reconsidered it, thinking she was too obscure.

I wished he just went with Irene. 😞

But anyway, in trying to write my own little reimagining of the leauge. I was tryna figure out how old Mina was during the events of Dracula. From what I saw on Google, she was 19, and Jonathan was 30 (possibly late 20s?). I thought it made sense, due to Mina and Lucy being so close. I heard that in the Victorian era men and women were encouraged to have romantic interactions with friends of the same sex. As a way of practicing for marriage. I'd also forgotten that Mina and Jonathan weren't married during the events of Dracula, they were engaged.

So, I'm writing this post to ask if anyone knows how long they were engaged?

And if the ages given by Google are true? There's been so many adaptions, I'm sure there's been a cross contamination in whats cannon, or whatever. 😅

Though, if true that Mina was several (or more) years younger than Jonathan, that changes my view of her for my story. I assumed she was in her mid to late 20s in Dracula, and 30s in Alan Moore's version. And although, I know it was the Victorian era, I'm still unnerved at the thought of Jonathan and Mina being engaged for longer than a a year prior to the events of Dracula. I'm a bad reader, but if I remember correctly, their engagement is recent.

Which adds to the whole Dracula being a metaphor for Jonathan's closeted desires, and Mina's romantic love for Lucy. But tryna make sense of all that for my story, based on what little the book shares and Alan Moore's confusing chocies. It's just got me like 😵‍💫

[obsessor-of-beautiful-things]

Concept: league of extraordinary gentlemen type story where the rest of the league don't know that Jekyll is Hyde, they just have him on cuz he's a really good doctor

But THEN they travel to Transylvania and due to some Dracula magic, all mirrors Jekyll pass show him as Hyde and vice versa, even to other people. Naturally Jekyll FREAKS OUT and is avoiding all mirrors he comes by

And everyone is like HmmMM there's this strange pale man whos suddenly avoiding mirrors since we entered the vampire infested land. wonder what the reason could be.

[obsessor-of-beautiful-things]

hot take: the opium den that Holmes goes to in The Man with the Twisted Lip and the one Dorian goes to in tpodg, is the EXACT same place and they were there at the EXACT same time, they just didn't see eachoter. Mr Hyde was probably there too