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Naked Invisible Man

posted 20 years ago by Jef2187
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The Invisible Man can only be completely invisible when he's not wearing clothes. Therefore he is naked when he is invisible and he is invisible for much of the movie, especially when he is evading the police. If he's naked then this begs the question, why doesnt he get sick? He's running around in the dead of winter and we know this because it snows in the end of the movie. Would'nt he catch cold, hypothermia or pnemonia? He's running around naked for heavens sake. In the beginning of the movie he is wearing a heavy coat and at the end he seems invulnerable to the weather.

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[–] bbwibb02 17 years ago

If I remember correctly, he sneezes when he gets to the barn at the end. So it seems he is coming down with something.

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[–] mspatera 13 years ago

He sneezed because of the hay.

It's a comedy, guys!

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[–] AssetsonFire 16 years ago

It's just a matter of opinion, but it's not as though the script ignores this point. He's mentioned as moving around a lot so maybe the village at the beginning is in a colder part of the country than the rest of the film. Plus, when he goes to sleep in the barn he sneezes. Although I initially attributed this to hayfever, it could've been due to the cold weather.

What causes pip in poultry?

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[–] TheMajorNL 15 years ago

A common cold is caused by a rhinovirus and the chance of 'catching' it is not related to temperature.
A scientist like Griffin will should know this, although I am not sure if this was known in 1933.

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[–] Knoxvicious 15 years ago

Griffin made a potion that could make him INVISIBLE. It's not unlikely that he also already made something that could cure the common cold...

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[–] andrewwjohnson 14 years ago

.......I was recently watching the first episode of BBC "Invisible Man" (1958-60) TV series on Internet Archives. The issue of nudity was explained by having the invisibility causing gas not only making the title character invisible but also making his lab clothes, made of animal products like wool and leather, invisible. That sort of makes sense.........In the other versions from Claude Rains to "The Hollow Man" the invisible character is supposedly naked. Maybe that is why he's always antisocial. LOL
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[–] 3rdrowleft 14 years ago

I was, and am,of the opinion that Peter Brady's clothes were invisible because of a censorship problem. That tv, even (or maybe in 1958 especially) British tv couldn't have a naked man, even an invisible one in the same room as a woman and a little girl.

But throughout it all, my motto was "Dignity! Always dignity!".

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[–] PillowRock 14 years ago

It may be worth noting that in some of the later entries of the Universal movie series the "invisible person is naked" concept is played specifically for sexual tension. In fact, it is sometimes used pretty much as a dodge around the Production Code ..... for titillation value. This was especially true in The Invisible Woman, which was played generally more for comedy than for horror. I mean when the man who ends up as the love interest first meets the invisible woman he comments that a woman must have quite an unattractive figure to want to make herself invisible; she disproves that by putting on a pair of silk stockings (*only* a pair of silk stockings). Having only the form fitting stockings (visible all the way to the top of the stockings) on her legs really just calls more attention to the fact that she is standing there with the guy wearing no skirt or slacks or anything else.

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[–] midev 14 years ago

I think he should have waited until summer to become invisible, then it would have been much easier for him.

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[–] bradford-1 13 years ago

In the "Fantastic Four" comic books, when the Invisible Girl disappears, so do her costume or any other clothes she may be wearing. Of course, it may be that she can control her invisibility to the point that she can project it onto other objects.
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[–] mlink-04835 9 years ago

One scene that really gets me is when he kills Kemp - he destroys the car needlessly. Then he has to walk back? He could have killed Kemp & used the car to get around. Also the police idea to evade the Invisible Man lacked clarity. They needed to keep him there. By leaving him at his house the police idea was foolish and cost him his life.

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[–] TongueFu 8 years ago

You must be daft to think that exposure to cold weather causes illness.
It does not. It's being exposed to bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens that causes illness. Even the common cold, for example is caused by a virus, not by cold temperatures. Your elementary school must not have taught basic science.

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[–] liscarkat (18897) 5 years ago

"Begs the question" does not mean "raises the question". Begging the question is a type of logical fallacy in which an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it. This should be taught to every school child, along with the meaning of "irony". Unfortunately, it isn't.

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