#The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FUN/LXG FACT: PETA WILSON'S BREASTS WERE ENHANCED ON THE PROMOTIONAL POSTERS.

^NOTE: Not gonna lie, I was extremely disappointed upon finding this out, but with cleavage this perfect-looking, should it really come as a surprise to anyone?

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on promotional materials (in English and German languages) of Peta Wilson as Mina Harker in the sci-fi/action/fantasy film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003), directed by Stephen Norrington, and written by James Dale Robinson. 20th Century Fox.

MINA HARKER: "My husband was Jonathan Harker. Together, with a professor named Van Helsing, we fought a dangerous evil. It had a name: Dracula. He was Transylvanian."

Rodney Skinner (The Invisible Man): "European? One of those radicals the newspapers love to report on?"

MINA: "I don't know, Mr. Skinner. [pulls her scarf aside to reveal two small punctures]. Is the vampiric sucking of people's blood radical behavior?"

Source: www.imdb.com/title/tt0311429/characters/nm0933959.

#The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 #The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 Movie #The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie #Mina Harker #Peta Wilson #The Vampire #Action Movies #Action/Adventure Movies #Scifi/fantasy/Action/Adventure #LXG #Sci-fi/fantasy/Action #Sci-fi/Action Movies #Steampunk #Vampire #Mina Murray #The League 2003 #Dieselpunk #LXG 2003 #2003

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

I was toying with the idea of ranking adaptations based on how book accurate they are.

But honestly, more than half the entries would come down to "this is not trying to be the book" because a lot of the media that is based on the book is loosely based on it. Especially things that just want to have a vampire and Van Helsing.

A remarkable amount of Dracula media simply isn't about Dracula the book.

#Van Helsing (the movie not the character)? Very loosely based #Nosferatu? Sort of Bram Stoker's concept #Dracula (2013)? Dracula 2000? Totally different time frames #League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has Mina in it I guess.... #Dracula Dead and Loving It? Comedic genius beyond reproach

[canadian-pug-cartel]

The rest of the gang freaking out over Dorian gray:

Skinner who fucked off half the movie ago:

#pug cartel talks #league of extraordinary gentlemen #Rodney skinner #dorian gray #like where did he go??? #we should have gotten a scene where he’s just running around acting insane #that would have been hilarious #love that movie tho

[sagegreenlila]

My roman empire was reading the league of extraordinary gentleman as a gothic lit fan.....

#gothic literature #insane mischaracterization #Mina?!?!? #don't even get me started on Hyde #at least the movie was a fraction better #jekyll and hyde #the league of extraordinary gentlemen

[zippocreed501]

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kev O'Neill

#the league of extraordinary gentlemen #alan moore #kev o'neill #from the b-movie badlands #occult #horror #gothic #comics

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑)

𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧

(OC)

#The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #movie blog #movie frames #aesthetic #vampire #mina harker #stephen norrington #alan moore #kevin o'neill #film #movie blogger #cinema #movie screenshots #aesthetic blog #art blog #victorian era #gothic #gothic aesthetic #victorian #1800s #cinematic #vampires #dracula #victorian fashion #ocean #sea #picturesque #longing

[the-all-seeing-salmon]

What films do you unironically enjoy that are renowned as bad?

Every time I watch Wild Wild West (1999) or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) I have a good time and I will not apologise for this.

#bad films #wild wild west #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #films #movies #bad movies #16% and 17% respectively on RT... #...yeah that seems fair

[waddlesworth]

Watched half of LXG with a friend tonight! I was so excited to introduce him to the movie that I’ve been kinda hyperfixating on again (even showed him my little Jekyll plushie and all his little details).

We’re gonna finish it another night when we get the chance. :3

#the league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg #movies

[vampsstan]

dorian honey i'm so sorry 😔 WTF IS THIS

#saving screenshots of movies #ugly bitch how this white man can look so bad even BLOND and yet they let him play LESTAT AND DORIAN GRAY WTF #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #fvck stu4rt towns3nd

[vivislittleteacorner]

"I don't watch bad movies" Wrong, everyone has that one really shitty movie they love with their whole fucking soul and think about every single day

#movies #For me it's League of extraordinary gentlemen #that movie is shitty as hell but I love it #bad movies #also honorable mention #The third Halloween movie #my post

[imfullofworms]

There is a dark truth in me. One that I cannot bear any longer. Some secret scratched deep on these bones since the day I was born:

We don't need another Gladiator movie, because the first said everything it needed to.

Please, Universal, let dead Maximus's lie, and how about a new IP? I'm still waiting on Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde...

#poetry #pretty good movie ngl #film #please universal #the only modern Jekyll and Hyde we have is from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #its time #pretty pls

[tenebris-lux]

When I first read Dracula as a teenager, it set off an extreme vampire obsession in me. I started researching folklore, looked up stuff vaguely connected to vampires, read a ton of vampire fiction, made lists of everything I hadn’t gotten to as kind of a to-look-at list (naturally I didn’t get to most of it), watched a few movies and tv shows, etc.

One of the folklore things I learned about was that after staking a vampire, you leave the stake in. Otherwise it could get up again.

The person who would be my future S.O. told me about the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And they convinced me to see it because it had a vampire in it. Easy hook. And yeah, I enjoyed it at the time. A lot, actually. There was also one detail late in the film that had me all excited too.

The vampire gets into a fight with another character. Swords and knives flashing and slashing. Two people with extreme healing factors. The other character stabbed the vampire. At the time, I wasn’t sure if it was the heart, but it seemed serious from the way she was reacting, and she went down.

Then the scene cuts away to some other stuff. When it cuts back, the other character took his sword out of her body, and my attention sharpened. Nowadays, even without the vampire research, it would be easy to tell from the whole setup that she was still alive. But at the time, I was so freakin’ excited that she only started moving again AFTER the sword was taken out of her body. Just like unstaking a vampire. I was convinced back then that that was the fatal goof the other character made. “He should never have taken it out!” I kept saying.

I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but it’s still a thing that makes me smile in that so goofy movie. I haven’t seen it in years, but I used to watch it a lot. I was crazy about it.

#lxg #league of extraordinary gentlemen #2003 movie #vampires

[shinehalley]

I'm weak for movies that are a little confusing, a little messy and clearly of questionable quality, but with characters so likable that I find myself watching them again and again and again just because of them.

#the story makes no sense but i like to see these bastards existing #that's basically it #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #light up the new world #do revenge #wednesday fits here except it's a series #the addams family 2019 #a bit of scooby doo animated movies #this list is long these were just the first ones I remembered

[bookwyrminspiration]

it’s been days and I can’t stop thinking about dorian gray but specifically from the 2003 movie the league of extraordinary gentlemen. who let that man be so flamboyantly melodramatic and where can I get one I want to study him as he says funny little quips at me

#the league of extraordinary gentlemen #he was my favorite part of the entire movie #‘im an /immortal/ not a /gazelle/‘ #‘grOwl’ #‘im complicated’ #‘bomb voyage’ #‘*in the middle of a fight to the death * *rolls eyes* we’ll be at this all day’ #what a queer man #i know he made out with and fucked Mina but #to me he’s queer #because i want him to be #im sure this doesn’t match the real Dorian from the actual book but I haven’t read it yet #Im just going to savor his silly demeanor

[strangestcase]

btw i know they couldnt have conveyed this properly in the movie proper but i love how in the lxg movie novelization hyde is just so gross.

every time he's onscreen he's described with nauseating detail like his huge malformed frame his misshapen head his rotten sharp teeth his thick neck and broad back and enormous hands and feet and his black claw-like nails and GOD, all his hair (everywhere! on his hands his chest his face his ears) and his bloodshot eyes- his bulging muscles and pulsating veins and stretched skin- and horrible rank breath- and how ugly and hard to look at he is

and for the love of god, how revolting it is when he's sweating or drooling or god forbid he when he straight up spits phlegm and nobody wants to go near it as if it was toxic and it might as well be.

i know all that detail is to make the point of how horrible hyde could have looked in the movie before they could translate his design into live action, plus to add some extra flavor -watching the movie, you can look at lxg hyde but can't touch him, smell him, get close to him and be aware of his presence and his monstrous body-

but it gets to a point it's like the narrator can't get their eyes off him, like they're fixated on every single grody detail whenever he moves talks or breathes, like he's more concrete and tangible than a regular human

idk, that feels like it's an almost deliberate contrast with the original book in which all we know about hyde are a few random details, never concrete enough- his complexion, his shape, the color of his hair, and nothing much more. the most detailed image we get is that of his hand, like a singular snapshot.

however, the hyde from the lxg filmverse (like his comics counterpart) is an advanced form of the hyde from the book- time has passed and he's grown in size and become a hulking mass of flesh and rage.

who knows, maybe the passage of time also changed something else. maybe each evil deed eroded this aura of confusion, this unexpressed sense of deformity, that separates hyde from a full person. and maybe the end result is the opposite of it- now not only he's repugnant, but you are all too aware of it, and know what it is way, way too deeply, and when he's around you can't help but see. smell. feel all the little things that make him disgusting and no one can ignore it. not even the narrator.

of course this is a watsonian explanation- the doylist explanation is that the guy in charge of translating the movie script + concept art + scrapped ideas/scenes + details from the OG comics into a novelization most likely just really liked writing monsters and took the opportunity and ran with it

#doc talks #jekyll and hyde #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #lxg #loeg #edward hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde #also worth noting: #in the movie jekyll and hyde have ginger hair (like the actor playing them) #but in the novelization hyde is described as having black hair... just like in the original book

[im-the-chesire-cat]

One of My favorite things in media is when there’s an ensemble of characters from around the world, and there’s one American who is just so American. They’re loud, they don’t know Celsius or the metric system, they may or may not be from a small farm town in the Deep South. Even if they aren’t southern, they’re always from small towns and they always know how to use a gun. They’re a little stupid usually, and their accent sticks out like a sore thumb. They’re either a fiercely loyal friend to the protagonist or an uncaring capitalist antagonist. The phrase “howdy y’all” is used unironically.

#this was made SPECIFICALLY thinking about that one’s guys accent in League of Extrodinary Gentlemen #I have a love hate relationship with the way American accents sound in a cast full of Europeans #or literally anyone who isn’t American #league of extraordinary gentlemen #Cheshire rambles #this is SO stupid but do y’all know what I mean???? #as an American myself I do all of these things but seeing them in a movie is just so funny #because it’s so ridiculous but it’s not wrong!!!!! #this is also about #cod graves #the one American militia commander surrounded by British and Mexican military men???? oh come on. no one saw that coming????