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John Barrymore makes transformation a performance before make-up completes it. The film gives Stevenson’s divided self a physically expressive silent form and helped establish Jekyll and Hyde as enduring screen figures.
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Jekyll and Hyde are one man, not rivals. Watch Barrymore’s posture, hands, gaze, and speed change as the experiment turns private permission into public danger.
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I find the first transformation most unsettling because the face has barely changed. Jekyll behaves as though science created the desire, while the body suggests he has simply authorised it.
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