Sunday, November 18, 2018

Wrong Person for the Job Maddie Fenton

For the Western Civilization Board October Art Theme: Universal Monsters Jam. October: Universal Monsters - For Halloween month we have to make use of the Universal Monsters. Maybe Dracula has bound a would-be bride or someone kidnapped the Bride of Frankenstein? Lot's of things to imagine. Well it seems that Maddie Fenton of Danny Phantom has run afoul of another victim of Duocaine.  No the invisible woman is trying to make her escape in Maddie Fenton's outfit.  This is what happens when you send a ghost hunter against a non ghost opponent.  It was a fun epirement with doing this empty clothes effect.
Madeline "Maddie" Fenton is the very beautiful wife of Jack Fenton and the mother of Jazz and Danny Fenton. She is a scientist and ghost hunter just like Jack, only that she is way more capable than him. She is considered to be one of the few humans who can actually give some trouble to Danny if she decides to hunt him.
Maddie is an accomplished martial artist (ninth degree black belt) as well as marksman and technical whiz. Maddie, despite her obsession with ghosts, absolutely loves her family and will do anything to defend them.
Maddie has known both Jack and Vlad since college, and during that time had been unaware of Vlad's feelings for her. Even in the present, she views Vlad as just a friend, despite Vlad's attempt to amend that opinion. In "Maternal Instinct" Vlad declares his feelings to Maddie, feelings which Maddie does not return nor appreciate- especially when he speaks poorly about Jack. After this, Vlad falls into Maddie's ill-graces. In "Reign Storm," when Vlad claims to have saved Danny's life, Maddie's opinion of Vlad improves out of gratitude, but she continues to harbor a mixed opinion towards him. It has since been consistently shown that she still doesn't trust him.
Maddie has always stayed true to her family and she always defends Jack against Vlad whenever Vlad has spoken ill of him. Danny used to be really close with Maddie when he was little and despite not being as close to her now, still loves and looks up to her.
Danny's mother is a firm believer in what can be strongly evidenced or scientifically "proven" (in the Danny Phantom universe, that includes ghosts) and is more rational than her husband. Like Jack, she's none too friendly towards ghosts, though she's not quite as fond of destroying them outright. In her own words, "Well, we can't completely vaporize it. Don't you want to at least examine the remains?"

In the original Claude Raines plays Jack Griffith who is experimenting with Duocaine, a bleaching agent that causes madness.  Griffith slowly descends into madness, he is at first short tempered and prone to violence.  Then he starts doing crimes like causing trains to crash, killing  search parties, and taking revenge on people he believes that crossed him.  Claude Rains performance is wonderful and frightful.
A nice little story while in England, Claude Rains and his daughter went to see the Invisible Man and went to buy the tickets.  It was cold and he bundle tightly against the cold.  The ticket seller recognized his voice and they let him in for free.

The next film was the Invisible Man Returns where Vincent Price is a wrongly convicted man for murder.  he is giving Duocaine to escape from prison and prove his innocence.  Though the specail effects are from the thirties and forties, yet they are still effective.

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