For Lacan, the mirror stage establishes the ego as fundamentally dependent upon external objects, on an other. As the so-called "individual" matures and enters into social relations through language, this "other" will be elaborated within social and linguistic frameworks that will give each subject's personality (and his or her neuroses and other psychic disturbances) its particular characteristics.

Further, by labeling Mr. Hyde as a “troglodyte”, Stevenson seems to make a comment on the theories of evolution and that he considered Hyde that is savage, uncivilized, and given to passion: poorly evolved. Edward Hyde represents a regression to an earlier, less civilized, and more violent phase of human development.

-The objective descriptions give a “scientific experiment” feel to the extract.  It also feels kind of  strange and uncomfortable. 

Dr Jekyll makes the elements of his potion boil and smoke, before drinking them. He gets nauseous and feels awful for a while before the pain passes and he suddenly starts feeling younger and lighter.

He decides to go to his bedroom and there meets his evil counterpart the potion just created.

After drinking the potion and starting the transformation Doctor Jekyll feel its effect first by feeling nauseous and his body hurting but also his “spirit”. After, he come back to his senses, he feels like a new men, younger and better in his body but also dizzy, thrilled and free. He also feels exulted by his transformation. It also seem like to feel like a stranger in his body and at the same time in his house.

2) Adaption

Comedic over the top adaptation, in the form of a romantic comedy where a woman is conflicted between her love for two men the intelligent good guy doctor Jekyll or the mysterious bad boy mister hide. Little does she know that they are actually the same person? 

The atmosphere is heavy, we picture a dim light, a lot of contrast to show the contrast between his two personalities. The story happens in the Victorian era, so the house could be kind of gothic to scare a little the spectator while situating the story in time. 

The action takes place in the doctor's cabinet. He makes a potion to separate the good from the evil within him, hesitates a lot and in an instant of bravery, drinks it. After agonizing for a moment, he ends up transforming into his evil self, Mr Hyde. He goes to see himself in the mirror, accepts this new self as him, then goes back to his cabinet to transform back. The deed is done. 

The feelings are fear, of the new personality but also of the dark side the spectator might see in himself. The point of that story is that everyone has a dark side, and we see a case of it being unleashed, so the spectator might be scared of what would happen if THEIR dark side was unleashed, which makes the whole thing unsettling. 

Adaptation: 

There would be some kind of suspense, before we see his face, tension to see if he is drinking the potion or not. It could be done with music, a subjective point of view... We could stay for a long time on the moment before he drinks the potion, with shots of the potion, his eyes, one after another as if these two were fighting, until he finally drinks it, with the music being more and more dramatic. Then there could be a moment of silence, where nothing happens, to make the spectator wonder about what is going to happen. Then he starts convulsing, and accidentally makes his lamp fall on the floor. The convulsions last for a while, until, on a close up on his face where we only see his mouth, the rest of his face being in the shadows due to the lamp dropping, an evil grin appears on his face. Then we only see him from the back, or not in the light enough to be sure about his appearance. Then he touches his face and starts walking around the house, kinda lurking in the shadows, with an almost animal way of walking, until he opens a door and find a mirror. Then we see a reaction shot of him looking at himself, until we finally see the mirror and his final appearance. First he looks startled, the he smiles and looks content with himself. He then peeks at the window, and realizes dawn is coming. He then hurries to his cabinet, makes the potion and drinks it again. We then watch him transform back into the doctor again. 

Constance will rap this 

Atmosphere 

Light and dark embraced in an expressionist look to emphases the epitome of the despair of a man. 

Action 

Dr Jekyll drink the potion that he created and begin to transform. 

Feelings 

Jekyll his suffering like a mad man and praise for thee to stop. 

Archetype 

The suffering good man that recognize his true self and accept his new formed predator nature. 

Adaptation 

(Warning, the style is pompous and pretentious on purpose) 

Dr. Jekyll was not upset, not tired, not even despaired, it was something far beyond the emotion of the common: he was deceived by his own soul. His mental torn apart like guts scorched from the inside, the pain that he felt on the instant was no more at the same level of cruelty he endures in the Victorian society those last years. At the instant he would like to hear a myriad of affronts from all those aristocrats, even his beloved than suffering like this. Suddenly the sweetness of the moral bonds of the mighty began to miss him, it was more far appealing than being crushed in every states of mind. He cursed him that he never drank this potion of his fact. After minutes the pain began to decrease, his salvation was transient, he understood when he looked at his face in the mirror. He was no more himself he was more than himself, the monster that he kept locked all those years. 

The face in the mirror spoke: 

- “I am thou, Jekyll… Thou art I... From the sea of thy soul, I come...” 

With a grinning voice he called at Jekyll: 

- "Call upon my name and release thy rage! Show the strength of thy will to ascertain all on thine own, though thou be chained to Hell itself! I am the pillager of the night, Hyde!" 

Jekyll now made Hyde sensed the instincts of crime in is true self eyes. The envy of avenge from this society whom threated him nothing more like a garbage. He took a shiny stainless blade on his desk and faded away in the night guided by a predator sense to stroke the marble skin of a maiden of some banker or a nameless countess. 

 

Atmosphere

The atmosphere in this text is very mysterious because strange events taking place , the character dr jekyll is isolated in a confined laboratory and he seems to be crazy and has a strange behaviour. He may be schizophrenic.

 

 Action

Dr jekyll is talking to a london lawyer  Gabriel Utterson , he explains his feelings and his behaviour.

The scene takes place in the dr jekyll ‘s laboratory , the character explains that he become aware of the duality of his own nature containing both good and evil . His knowledge and scientific reflections led him to try to separate these two elements . He wants to have two facets. Indeed he makes a strange concoction to apply his theory and drinks it. Then he suffers side effects of the tincture (nausea…) and after that he feels like a new man who is reborn , more younger and happier . he seems to be very proud of his new appearance when he looks him in the miror and  has succeded to prove his theory . 

 

 Feelings (archetype, complexe)

After his transformation , Dr jekyll is euphoric because he thinks that the constellations will admire his new appearence. He has the impression to be two both persons , that’s why he feels stranger in his own house . 

 

 Adaptation 

 If I have to make an adaptation , I will use a play of lights and shadows to sculpt the face of dr jekyll and the set design  in order to create a gloomy atmosphere. I will use experimental sounds as sounds of liquid, metal … 

 At the end of the movie, the woman confronts with her depression and finally let it go: she accepts it and continues to live with it; but this time, she will never let it get the upper hand anymore.
 The depression is something that can ruin a life: it can easily become horrifying, so the comparison with a monster is justified.

 She first went to see the oldest fish in the river, Tartanchon the Tuna. 

"Knock knock", she said, "it's Hortodile the Crocodile ! I need your help Mrs Tartanchon !"

Tartanchon the Tuna opened the door and let Hortodile the Crocodile in.

"What can i do for you ?", said Tartanchon the Tuna.

Hortodile started to show her Invention, and explained it to Tartanchon. But Tartanchon couldnt focus on Hortodile's story. She interrupted Hortodile to say:

"Young lady, i'd like to focus on your invention but i just can't ! Its absolutely impossible, look at you !", shouted Tartanchon the Tuna.

Hortodile was confused. She tried to find what was the problem. Did she have something stuck in her teeth ? Or a stain on her skirt ? What caused such an issue for Tartanchon the Tuna ? 

"Your miniskirt, Hortodile !", said Tartanchon the Tuna with judgemental eyes, "you can't walk around alluring people with those damn legs !"

Hortodile the Crocodile packed her Invention and left, angry. She was very disappointed in her neighbour's comment. She was wearing a miniskirt indeed, but that wasnt the point of her visit at all! As she walked away, she hear Tartanchon the Tuna shouting from afar, "Im only saying this for your own good, young lady!"

Hortodile was not willing to give up yet, and she decided to go see her other neighbour, Souriceau the sneaky Snake. 

"Knock knock", she said, "it's Hortodile the Crocodile ! I need your help Mr Soriceau !"

Soriceau the sneaky Snake opened the door and let Hortodile the Crocodile in.

"What can i do for you ?", said Soriceau the sneaky Snake.

Hortodile started to show her Invention, and explained it to Soriceau. He looked interested, but after she finished, he said: 

"Your pitch was interesting ! However, if you want to show this to people, you will have to change clothes ! You can't expect people to take you seriously, they will be too distracted by your miniskirt !"

She walked out and slammed the door, very angry this time ! 

"Damned neighbours", she thought, "can't any of them focus on what im saying and not what i look like ?"

Hortodile the Crocodile sat on the side of the road, alone and sad. All of a sudden, Kylia the Kool Kangaroo passed by on her cool motorcycle. She stopped to talk to her. 

"Hey Hortodile", she said, "that's a cool invention you got there, what is it ?"

Hortodile's eyes sparkled with joy, and she got up to explain her Invention to Kylia the Kool Kangaroo.

Kylia was very interested, and at the end of Hortodile's speech, she said: 

"That's funny, I am also working on an Invention and I just need one little thing to make it perfect ! Maybe we can work together !"

Hortodile the Crocodile was filled with joy, and jumped on Kylia's cool motorcycle, and they rode off on the rode of cool Inventions. They became the world's most famous and richest Inventors. They were invited on TV shows and all, and they never came back to see Tartanchon the Tuna and Soriceau the Sneaky Snake... But Tartanchon the Tuna and Soriceau the Sneaky Snake did see them again, on Tv, on ads and publicity everywhere in the city -always wearing what they wanted.

Moral of the story: Haters gonna hate -Taylor Swift 

a difficult movie about an ordeal/hardship

interesting fact:Brian / alien, metaphor for the denial of the rape. 
Blue colour = associated to Brian's trauma (+ alien's abduction) 
artificial colour stands out in the film = symbolizes the abnormality of the act. 
// cow's sex organs // sex act with the coach
couldn't understand/fathom nor integrate his trauma = shelter / cope mechanism (to protect his psyche) = alien's story

to enhance the violence : low angle shot + the pace (rythme)
bath = close-up on the head + blood

a trauma/rape can provoke different reactions = 
Brian's asexuality, fleeing into his dreams/introspection
on the contrary Neil = prostitution

Freud's theory about repression 

The Coach is grooming Neil to make him believe he's loved (needs attention, absent father, careless mom...) 

Soundtrack by Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie (ethereal movies), Sigur Ros = emphasizes the character's need to escape reality, it works like a transition, it enables us to dive into the boy's memories. 

Relationships with mothers : ambiguous on the one hand, overprotective on the other