The Metamorphosis of the Mad Scientist

Image caption: Wilder, with Peter Boyle on the slab, in Young Frankenstein. 20th Century Fox / Archive Photos / Getty Images. Article by Pat Cassels. Atlas Obscura – August 14, 2024.

Back at the 2024 Oscars, the true winner wasn’t an actor or actress or director. It wasn’t even (just) Ken. It was an archetype. The two films that took home the most Academy Awards were the atomic-bomb drama Oppenheimer and the comedy Poor Things, and both pictures rode to that ceremony on the backs of one of cinema’s most enduring characters: the mad scientist. […]

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