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. 

No comments:
Post a Comment