I guess the thing that I would have left out of our itinerary would have been The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This movie did not make any sense to me whatsoever! In last Thursday’s class, I struggled terribly to stay awake and was hoping that no one saw my head nodding….lol. I get the gist of most of the characters and I can understand their elements taken from the novels. But that is it. I was lost throughout the whole thing. I didn’t get the plot or anything. To me, it was just a movie of all these Victorian monsters thrown together haphazardly to go on some nonsense mission. Maybe I just still don’t know enough about the Victorians to “get it”.
My most favorite aspect of this class has really been the real Victorian monsters. I love a good mystery and I love to try to figure out what might have possibly gone wrong in their brain to cause their actions. Burke and Hare, Jack the Ripper, & Amelia Dyer were very easily the most intriguing. Baby killers, prostitutes, & body snatching…..we are talking about some crazy people here…and I loved it!
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