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Hey, Task Force, this is Jillian. Please

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enjoy this preview of our movie

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club episode on The Invisible Man

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from 1933. A task force member

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suggested this, so it's really cool

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watching something and discussing something that

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none of us had seen before.

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If you want to hear the

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full episode, please go to redwoodpod.com.

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Otherwise, enjoy this preview. Back with

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Dr. Canley, he and another scientist,

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Dr. Kemp, are looking in Griffin's

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office for clues about his whereabouts,

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his activities, and they found a

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note. mentioning a strange

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ingredient called monocane so

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apparently experiments with this

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were for like laundry

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detergent and like erasing stains

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maybe they were so yeah like

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bleach bleach yeah because it sucks

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all the color out of things

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insane like back value it's like

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whoa now they're like come on

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the science of sound see

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but in some like German

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experiments super obscure things wrong

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and the patience went mad

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crazy so they're like uh-oh

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we need to find him and let him

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know no he's already mad I do

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love a descent into madness but he's

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already there at the start of the

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film but he does get worse it's

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so cool like how subtle it is

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at first like yes he's very abrasive

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and so you're just like okay

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maybe it's just a rude man

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and there's a lot of suspense

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and tension building and whatnot but

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I think it's really like Eventually

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they do start to portray the madness

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more and more, but I feel like

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it is still subdued compared to today's

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movies that are so big. And so

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it can be, we're maybe desensitized to

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it, but I think for this time

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period it is so exaggerated that

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he comes off as a monster and

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maybe that's how he fits in that

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monster verse a little bit. It's like

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a human that's been manipulated by science

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in some way and then there's evil

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is kind of their formula. That's

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a great point. Well, this evil human finds his

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way to Kemp's house and sneaks in. He

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demands to stay there with Kemp, threatening him, and

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claims that he's his partner in crime, essentially.

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It's kind of unclear what Griffin wants, but he

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basically wants to rule the world with his

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invisibility and do a few murders as he says.

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Just a couple murders. Just a couple murders. Just

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a get us to the powerful part. It

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was interesting that he said that, you know, he's

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like, yeah, we'll rule the world. But then

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he's also talking about working on the antidote for

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himself at the same time. And so I

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didn't know how much of that was the madness

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affecting him and he's having the struggle and maybe

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they just kind of missed the mark on

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delivering that. Or he just for some reason had

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that goal and was like, yeah, well, rule

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the world, then I'll go visible, and it'll be

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the perfect crime. They'll never know it was

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me. It was me. It was me. It was

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me. It was me. It was me. It was

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me. It was me. It was me. It

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was me. It was me. It was me. It

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was me. It was me. It was me.

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It was me. He is mad. He is mad.

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I agree. I think he tries to explain

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it in the sense of like there are inconveniences

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where like if you go down the stairs, you

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normally you're used to seeing your feet. And

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I think he doesn't want to be invisible. But

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then later on he talks about the thousands,

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nay, millions that he could make, you know, curse

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for the, but not for me. I'll monetize it.

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But you, you know. You can fall prey to

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the badness because you'll use this army can be

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my puppets or something. It's kind of like,

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I don't want to get overly like artistic or

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call it an allegory here, but it is

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interesting where he's like, yeah, I want to cure

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myself, this thing sucks, but I could really

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use it, you know. No, that's fair. By putting

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it on others. But I see what you're saying,

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like, I kind of felt that along the

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way. the results of his experiments, possibly how to

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become not invisible, unclear. He makes Kemp drive

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him back to the inn and they find the

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town's people to decide what

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to do about about the

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man, if he's real. real.

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Because some people don't,

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it's kind of kind of like a

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situation. They're like, you

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guys saw all these

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things these things happen and like a

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bicycle moved on its

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own and somebody got pushed

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in the water you

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guys were you that up.

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making that up. Yeah, of goofy.

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of goofy. The bicycle just of of.

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off on its own

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and then he's just just where

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you just where he just like hat

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and with the water. I'm

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like, and stuff throwing in the water and

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like it was funny, this

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they man's a menace. Oh yeah this

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monstrous were they were oh,

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he's terrorizing the he's And monstrous

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he did, he oh he's

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a bike, like town feet.

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all He threw a man's

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hat in the water.

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he threw a man's hat in the water like

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playground bully stuff. That's one of

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those things where were then,

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you know, that's like like

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you know you you freak out.

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out you know think about the

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the times that's rude. that's that's

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rude yeah how How unbecoming of

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him. him