Henry Jekyll & Edward Hyde // @screenshotsofdespair

henry jekyll & edward hyde // @screenshotsofdespair​

Sooooo original idea (no)

Thinking about the birth imagery and pregnancy horror themes in Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde. How they’re going on opposite directions.

Frankenstein desiring to “birth” through unnatural ways out of spite, out of a need to prove a point. Jekyll being forced to continuously “birth” and simultaneously ”be birthed” as the aftermath of a choice which was to indeed birth the separation of good and evil.

Frankenstein creating an unnatural person, designed and expected to be perfect, through an unnatural conception with no pregnancy. Jekyll becoming an unnatural person that was never conceived, unwittingly made perfectly monstrous, through a process that is described as painful, something being ejected from his subconscious like a womb.

Frankenstein makes the perfect male body which is described as “wrong-looking”, Jekyll gives himself a “wrong”-looking male body which comes with a “wrong” mind to pair.

Creation = pregnancy and birth. Mad scientists are often characterized as fathers, being mostly men- but they’re still being the mother or taking such a role since the creation on itself is their doing- as life, or a distortion of it, or a perversión of its laws, an impossible thing is what they make.

And what more perverted an impossible -in the eyes of cishet society- than a male pregnancy?

One man wants pregnancy, dreams of it- wishes to attain it even though he knows it is impossible and suffers the consequence when a “pregnancy” with no woman ends badly, because he just wishes so; the other fears becoming pregnant, comparing the distress he suffers as he transforms as the “horror of childbirth”, as if he knew, as if he knew what it is like or felt it could be possible after all. Bodies. “Perfect” bodies, “wrong” bodies, pregnancies that end badly, men being metaphorically pregnant. I don’t know what it all could mean, frankly.

I don’t know.

In an alternate universe where the classic barbie movies were based off gothic/horror public domain works instead of fairytales

there is something so magical about dr jekyll and mr hyde (1920), john barrymore's hyde being the most accurate i have ever seen (in my opinion) and his doctor jekyll seeming to be in his late 20s (i kind of like the idea of henry being portrayed as a very young doctor, sometimes) with his entire career ahead of him, and his two best friends, who are for once included in an adaptation and they actually have an important role and they're very present in the film which makes it even more special, i truly don't like how most adaptations simply ignore their existence. if i could choose an actor to play henry jekyll in a truly accurate adaptation it would certainly be john barrymore, and i would like the actors who played lanyon and utterson to be in it too cause i really like them. god i love this film so much

Jekyll: Utterson, I have to tell you something... I am Hyde. I made a potion in my laborator-

Utterson: Henry, you can tell me if you're gay, don't make things up