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Memoirs of an Invisible Man
| Rated
R |
1992 |
Color |
99
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| Starring:
Chevy Cehase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean |
| Director:
John Carpenter |
Based
on the Novel by: H.F. Saint |
| Screen
Writer: Robert
Collector, Dana Olsen, William Goldman |
| Producers:
Bruce Bodner, Dan Kolsrud |
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| Music:
Shirley Walker |
Movie
Co.: Warner Bros. |
| SFX
Co.: Industrial Light and Magic |
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Memoirs of the
Invisible Man
by Jorge Solis,
Resident John Carpenter Expert
Solid
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Imagine waking up and you're gone. No
one knows where you are. Everyone says
that you just sort of disappeared but
you're there. It's like no one can see
you. This is John Carpenter's Memoirs
of the Invisible Man. What would you
do if you were invisible? You'd sneak
in here and walk in there. You would
also take this and that. You saw what
would happen if the gift of
invisibility fell into the wrong hands
with Paul Verhoven's Hollow Man. Now
in John Carpenter's Memoirs of the
Invisible Man, you'll see what would
happen if the gift of invisibility
fell into the right hands. |
Nick Halloway is a stock analyst who
wakes up one day invisible. His life
is turned around when he's suddenly
being chased by angry government
agent, Sam Neill. Only Chevy Chase
could have played this role with a
soft and quiet performance. Watching
Chevy Chase in this role is like
watching Mark Wahlberg in Tim Burton's
Planet of the Apes. Any big famous
star wouldn't have worked in Planet of
the Apes and Mark Wahlberg just fits
into that role. Memoirs of the
Invisible Man wouldn't have worked if
Kurt Russell, Roddy Piper, or Darwin
Joston, the regular actors Carpenter
hires, were in the lead role. The
movie works well with Chevy Chase
because he is being different and not
a sketch from Saturday Night Live. The
screenplay was written by Robert
Collector, Dana Olsen, and William
Goldman. They adapted the novel by
H.F. Saint. I believe they should also
give credit to H.G. Wells. You don't
use invisibility in a story without
thinking of H.G. Wells. And you don't
watch a movie about The Invisible Man
without thinking about the James Whale
movie. |
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It's like the director and the
screenwriters all saw James Whale's
The Invisible Man. They saw what James
Whale does and then imitated that into
this movie. In a sweet and tender
scene Daryl Hannah is putting on
make-up on Chevy Chase's invisible
face. These visual effects by Bruce
Nicholson are really incredible. There
is an entire building invisible at
night.
You will also see how an Invisible
Man eats and then vomits all his food
out afterwards. Plus there are some
camera tricks John Carpenter does with
the help of editor Marion Rothman.
Chevy Chase is there, cut, same scene
but he's not there. Memoirs of the
Invisible Man is a nice movie to have
on DVD on a rainy day. The movie is
basically John Carpenter trying to
recreate Starman. This movie though
has less violence than Starman and
concentrates more on the love story
between Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah.
The music isn't creepy because it was
done by Shirley Walker. The best part
of the movie is the suspenseful chase
between Chevy Chase and the men with
guns in the house. |
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