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John Dougill <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:49:10 +0900
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>I am looking for films that follow the pattern of Robert Wiene's ORLAC'S
>HANDS (1924) or Maurice Renard's original novel: Somebody is influenced by
>organs he got from a transplantation, e.g. haunted by the evil spirit of the
>donator.
>
Surely the template was set by mary shelley's Frankenstein,in which the
monster is puzzled and tormented by the previous lives of the various
people from whose bodies he is stitched together.  He is tormented by the
idea that his soul is not his own - the Branagh film brings this out.

JD
Kyoto

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