Incredibly controversial in its day, the film is a haunting piece of work about a mad
scientist type character who is trying to graft a new face onto his disfigured daughter.
Not exact matches
«I think it's true depending on the particular
type of behavior you're interested in,» said Kartuni, the
character of panelist Nicolas Ducheneaut, a computer
scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California.
There's no point naming any of the other major
characters, as there really are no other
characters, only
types: the arrogant fat - cat drug dealer (Choi Min - Sik) who thinks he can control the short blond drug mule and learns the hard way that he can't; the brilliant, deep - voiced
scientist (Morgan Freeman, who else?)
His looks, body
type, and demeanor don't seem to match up with the sensitive, nebbish, and feckless
character of the lonely
scientist that he portrays.
It feels like an assemblage of parts from other, better sci - fi stories, and while the strong roster of
character actors gives it their all, they're mostly stuck playing familiar
types (the stressed - out lead
scientist, the shifty Russian, etc.).
Tired of seeing the typical heroes relegated to genius
scientists or the athletic
type, Bong Joon - ho intentionally centered his story on an average, middle class
character with a not so impressive level of intelligence.
The title
character is a robot
scientist, designed by Nikola Tesla, who is one of a team of Action
Scientists who work for Tesladyne Industries as sort of a rapid - response team for various
types of emergencies.
From there you will meet up with a «mage -
type» ally who is able to cast spells, a more advanced mage who loves to say «Kay», a Robocop - style
scientist who lost his body and had it all reconstructed out of metal which makes him incredibly strong, a cat - girl who may or may not have landed at an area 51 style location, and others who are a bit of a mix - match of the previous
characters.
The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like
scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum
character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural
types (Mark Wahlberg's
character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.