Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Dr Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
This film has inspired me to look further into the depths of good and evil and how one emotion can take over the other. I want to use myself as a vehicle to explore and express the two identities within myself (good and evil) to create practical work, which can then be explored by the viewer. By exploring films that expose two identities within one person or two people with conflicting personalities I can see how film directors have explored the idea of a split personality.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is both a technically and conceptually ambitious film. It attempts to find techniques to help communicate specific ideas and complicate easy moral positions. The use of subjective point of view shots is perhaps the most effective of these devices, but others compete for prominence elsewhere in the film.
