¿Qué le pasa, doctor?: algunas notas sobre mad doctors y demás visionarios con carrera
- Autores: Jordi Costa
- Localización: Nosferatu: Revista de cine, ISSN 1131-9372, Nº. 27, 1998 (Ejemplar dedicado a: ¿Habéis sido buenos? Malos en el cine), págs. 64-69
- Idioma: español
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- What´s up doc? A few notes on mad doctors and other visionaries
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Resumen
Literary godchild of the 20th century, hen science substituted superstition in terms of creatin anxiety, the mad doctor was born in the throngs of romanticism and raised in te benevolent surrondings of the incipient world of science fiction literature. Hand in hand, the film genre has serve its followers some of the most extravagant dishes -from obscure German expressionist Messiahs, with blatant nazi overtones, to the diminishing importance of evolutionary certainties in films like Island of Lost Souls (1932)-, and later becoming the grey archetype in the plots of B-series films or of unmerciful parodies. Nowdays, with the figure of the mad doctor having earned a certain socially acceptable reputation -take Bill Gates for example- it´s up to a filmmaker the likes of David Cronenberg to transcend the clichés.