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implemented this formula, but it is
requires careful thought and brisk tl:
storytelling to keep the plot from
becoming mundane and boring.
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the viewers' interest.
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continuity indecipherable. For st
example, numerous hints are hi
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being one of Moreau's successful pi
experiments in changing an M
animal into a human. At one point, be
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periments. Yet this major subplot
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never pursued any further than
lis scene.
IN ADDITION, what could have
;en a terrifying conclusion to the
1m, when Maria and Braddock
-e alone in a boat in the middle of
ie ocean, and she reverts back to
?r animal origins, is scrapped in
vor of an upbeat ending where
ey are rescued by a passing ship.
Another perplexity exists where
e are led to assiimp
lumanimals" killed Braddock's
lipmate. But how can that be,
hen the "humanimals" law,
ctated by Dr. Moreau, and
rictly adhered to by the
imanimals, states that they must
>t kill. If they do kill, Moreau
inishes them unmercifully. Yet
oreau doesn't punish them
cause no killing is suppose to
ke place even though we see the
an dragged off bloodily
reaming.
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