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Post by ramseycampbell on May 11, 2020 12:53:54 GMT
I'm inclined to agree. First, the author (Ramsey Campbell?) added the fact that one of the tiny artificially grown people was a clone of Dr. Waldman from the first movie, who, we learn, was the principal force behind driving Pretorius out of his position at the college. Pretorius never got the chance to get his vengeance against Waldman, so created this tiny clone of him, giving him a great intellect but leaving him imprisoned in the bottle with nothing but a book with blank pages. So all the miniature Waldman can do day after day is sulk over this useless book. He alone among the little people was created by Pretorius explicitly to suffer. These additions, to me, rescued the scene from utter ridiculousness. I never bothered with the novelization, but this sounds more interesting than most of the rest of the story. It is an interesting idea that the movie was supposed to be camp. I guess in hindsight you are right. Bride has a lot of conscious self-parody and comic relief cranked-up to eleven. Maybe Whale didn't see another way, after his first movie became so iconic. How often got it parodied in cartoons like Bugs Bunny alone? I wish I could be sure of helping! I doubt I would have introduced the Waldman clone (when I was trying to stay close to the film) unless it was in the original screenplay. The copy I worked from is in my Liverpool University archive.
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