Why add a love interest?
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Doghouse-6 — 15 years ago(March 04, 2011 10:41 PM)
It was uncommon, and primarily about marketing; an appeal to the broadest demographic. Higher ticket sales went to films that pulled in both genders, and the studios' "market research" (or whatever passed for it then) told them that female viewers wanted "love interest."
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Doghouse-6 — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 03:37 PM)
I'd also add that the scene in which Flora comes to visit Jack at Kemp's house - where he explains his "madness" from his own point of view ("The chemicals seemed to light up my brain") and the invincibility he possesses ("Power, to make the world grovel at my feet") - is one of the best in the film.
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wallacesawyer — 10 years ago(January 15, 2016 04:16 PM)
Never read the book, but in the movie Flora was really just someone to keep Jack's mind balanced. He was loosing it. Murder, talking about world domination. But he was gentler with her, almost as if all he really wanted was to be visible and return to her.
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practicepiano — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 09:06 PM)
This film is unusual, I think, because it hits the ground running, with the scientist already altered by his experiment.
We never get to see him as he was before he became invisible and maddened by the "bleach that will drive you nuts" substance in his formula (I forget the name of it).
So we don't get the sequences that are often in mad scientist films, showing the gradual build up of mania set against the breakdown of normal relationships the character has.
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Cult_of_Kibner — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 12:20 PM)
She definitely wasn't necessary to the plot but I think her presence allowed for a couple of nice touches. We got see that Griffin still had a gentle side and I think his death scene would have been diminished without a loved one present for him to interact with.
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pepperdog61 — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 02:39 PM)
Yes, I think it enabled them to illustrate that Griffin had been a good man before the monocaine drove him murderously insane, and that in fact some traces of kindness were still there (though being rapidly snuffed out by his derangement).
Plus as has been mentioned, "love interest" was considered key to box office at that time.