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	The Island of Dr. Moreau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		JLA: The Island of Dr. Moreau was an Elseworlds comic produced in 2002 by DC Comics portraying the Justice League as various human/animal hybrids.
		Apart from the Law, Moreau had infected the creature's dwarfed brains with a kind of deification of himself.
		According to Moreau, the Law is ever repeated and ever broken as it battles in the creatures' minds against the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Island_of_Dr._Moreau (1246 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau
		In H.G. Wells's, The Island of Dr. Moreau, we find a scientist devoted "to the study of the plasticity of living forms" and from this he has created animal aberrations, aberrations seen as monsters.
		Moreau's role on the island more of a tyrant or a god?
		Moreau may not be commenting only on the souls of those he has created, but also of the souls of all humankind.
	las.alfred.edu /~egl/grove/1998/egl281/moreau.html (2657 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Island of Dr. Moreau at Epinions.com
		Moreau in the movie, on the other hand, works from the standpoint of a man with a ‘cause’.
		The point of Moreau (and opinions may differ) is to deliver a commentary opposed to the necessity of a moral evil to incite us.
		Moreau in the book held no such beliefs, and was only dimly aware that the creatures had such ideas, though he did use the ‘law’ to serve his purposes when necessary.
	www.epinions.com /content_75079126660 (2657 words)

	THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
		Moreau states that he's trying to create the perfect "being" with the intelligence of man and the strength of animals that "is incapable of malice." Thus his island is filled with many variations of his experiments and he controls all of them via electrical implants under their skin.
		Moreau has placed electrical implants into all of his creatures and often shocks them with a remote control to keep them in line.
		Moreau is altering nature, so in that sense he's disrespectful of it.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1996/the_island_of_doctor_moreau.html (1552 words)

	DVD Times - The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1977)
		However, Lancaster is ideal as Moreau, as he perfectly balances a benevolent calm with a chilling lack of remorse, as if his quest for scientific advancement has detached himself from the issues of morality and humanity.
		However, as soon as Braddock has settled in to Moreau's island, he soon realises that Moreau's experiments are along far more sinister lines, and that Moreau is actually experimenting with a plan to transform beasts into humans.
		Despite actor Michael York being miscast in the excellent futuristic tale Logan’s Run that was made a year before, the Englishman proves himself to be tremendous as Andrew Braddock.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4201 (1145 words)

	THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU review
		The original ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU movie was made in 1977 and bombed largely due to the popularity of STAR WARS which was released the same summer.
		Moreau has been here for 17 years, driven into seclusion by those pesky animal rights activists.
		When the ship arrives at Montgomery’s destination, an isolated tropical island, Edward accepts an invitation to stay a few days until a better ride to the mainland is available.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/GHI/island_drmore.html (1090 words)

	Images - The Island of Dr. Moreau
		As the third screen version of H.G. Wells' classic tale of horror, The Island of Dr. Moreau tells the story of Edward Douglas (David Thewlis), shipwrecked at sea, who is picked up by a ship from Dr. Moreau's island, helmed by Moreau's right hand man, Montgomery (Val Kilmer).
		Douglas quickly learns what Moreau is up to, but he finds himself trapped on the island--with the forest surrounding Moreau's home teeming with Moreau's hybrid experiments, twisted masses of flesh, half-man, half-animal.
		Located somewhere in the Java Sea, Moreau's island is his own paradise, apart from intruding eyes, who might be alarmed at the hideous experiments he conducts on animals.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue01/reviews/moreau.htm (699 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau
		Moreau was very careful to make sure that his animals showed no signs of regressing to their bestial nature.
		Moreau's amulet is so well designed that he induces pain only in the animals near Douglas with just one touch of a button.
		But Moreau says "I have seen the devil in my microscope, and I have chained him." He also says he has "cut him to pieces" and "is no more." He says his animals "represent a stage in the process of the eradication of the destructive elements of the human psyche."
	www.jabootu.com /islandmoreau.htm (11465 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau
		n the film, a brilliant geneticist, Dr. Moreau (Brando) and his assistant Montgomery (Kilmer) are on the brink of revolutionizing science when Edward Douglas (Thewlis) becomes stranded on their remote island.
		The Island of Dr. Moreau will be released nationwide by New Line Cinema on August 23rd.
		Moreau and Montgomery have been performing gene-splicing research on animals to create a superior breed of human being, and that experiment has gone terribly wrong.
	extratv.warnerbros.com /cmp/presentations/96_08_01 (438 words)

	The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1977)
		Braddock wants off the island and Moreau tells him that it won't be a problem because once the supply ship shows up in two years, he can be the first one standing at the dock.
		Moreau tells him that he's working on something involving cells and stuff, but since I had signed up to watch animal-men go crazy and not for a class called "The Biology of 1905: How To Play God With Morphine, Gauze, and Hired Thugs", I zoned out, especially when I heard him use the word "eugenics".
		About this time all of Moreau's animal-men decide to go nuts because they find out that Moreau has killed his mercenary buddy (because he objected to injecting Braddock with the serum) and this breaks one of the laws that Moreau preached to them.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Island_Of_Dr_Moreau.html (1289 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal The Island of Dr. Moreau
		Hunky Val Kilmer seems to be wondering why he agreed to star in the ridiculous Island of Dr. Moreau
		Moreau's island also doubles as a Third World country being exploited by the First World — with the inevitable revolt by those who are sick of being so used.
		At the center of this fragile kingdom is Brando as Moreau, a waddling behemoth who spends most of his time dressing in ornate, flowing caftans and matching do-rags and playing piano duets with a sort of homunculus figure who wears identical outfits.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /17/09a_island.html (836 words)

	Dr. Moreau, I Presume
		The animals instinctively killed their evolved counterparts, and as the small boat drifted away from the burning island, Braddock reverted completely back to human, the last trace of the Moreau experiments gone, as Braddock and Maria are rescued by a passing ship.
		Moreau, referred to as "The Father" by all his creatures (and looking rather bizarre himself under powder-white make-up to protect his skin’s sensitivity to sunlight), asserted his control over his "children" by means of a high-frequency sound device worn on a chain around his neck.
		Again, though, a fatal miscalculation, as Moreau instructed one of his creations to murder would-be-rescuer Captain Donahue, setting in motion the inevitable chain of events leading to Moreau’s grisly death by improvised vivisection at the hands of his creations in the house of pain, itself.
	www.horror-wood.com /moreau.htm (1224 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Douglas is brought ashore on Moreau's island -- against his better judgment -- by the doctor's insane, drug-addled assistant, Montgomery (Val Kilmer), and eventually becomes a prisoner.
		Horrified by the doctor's monstrous experiments and afraid for his own life, Douglas seeks the aid of Moreau's lovely daughter, Aissa (Fairuza Balk), in escaping the island, but is foiled at every turn by Montgomery and his armed man-beast lackeys.
		The products of his misguided attempt to create a more "pure" human species, the man-beasts worship Moreau as their god and "father" and live by his code of law -- a code rigidly enforced by radio-operated implants in their bodies capable of inflicting pain and death.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/46/13746/features.php (297 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
		On why Dr. Moreau left the U.S. Montgomery: Animal rights activists drove him out of the States.
		Tagline: Through DNA experimentation Dr. Moreau has upset the balance of nature.
		Plot Outline: After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0116654 (637 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Island of Dr. Moreau : Plot
		This story was also filmed in 1933 as The Island of Lost Souls, starring Charles Laughton as the monomaniacal Dr. Moreau and was remade yet again in 1996 with Marlon Brando in the title role.
		He feels that he is in danger from the animal/men and from Dr. Moreau himself and does not know where to turn.
		At first an "honored guest" (prisoner) on that island, he is finds his contacts with the natives increasingly disturbing, for they are not like any men he has ever seen.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/17693/plot.jhtml (223 words)

	Island of Dr. Moreau
		Although this year's Island of Dr. Moreau doesn't reverentially follow the novel, it is much closer than the prior two films, particularly than the 1977 Burt Lancaster fiasco.
		The Island of Dr. Moreau is Hollywood's third attempt at framing H. Wells' novel, and they have yet to get it right.
		Douglas is stranded on Moreau's island, but Montgomery assures him that his stay will be brief...the communications gear will be operational shortly, and help can be summoned.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?moreau (479 words)

	Island of Dr. Moreau
		After breaking into one of the island’s armories, armed conflicts was enjoined between the beasts and Moreau and his staff.
		Moreau, a Nobel Prize winning genetic engineer, inhabited The Island for the purpose of conducting experiments in “genetic combination”.
		One of the man-beasts, more human than animal, made his way off the island and was rescued by a passing navy vessel.
	www.cpegllc.com /VA_Irreg/Island/island.html (474 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977)
		Montgomery, a man seemingly familiar with violence; Dr. Paul Moreau, a cultured and eminent scientist conducting experiments on the island; and young Maria, a breathtakingly beautiful young woman who is Dr. Moreau's ward.
		The Law is that of Dr. Moreau, brilliant scientist, self-proclaimed God and madman.
		In that chilling tale, Dr. Moreau was portrayed by Charles Laughton as a corrupt and almost viscerally evil man. However, Wells story was remade in the 1970s with noted actor Burt Lancaster playing against type as Moreau.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/islanddrmoreau.html (1167 words)

	The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		Moreau uses a process called vivisection (a sort of cross between disection and plastic surgery) to create the mutated inhabitants of his island.
		His rescuer is an assistant of the infamous Dr. Moreau, a scientist who fled his homeland due to charges of unethical treatment of animals.
		I think Moreau plays the part of a god on his island and wether this mirrors the furtherment of society question but whas certaily right at the time.
	www.online-literature.com /wellshg/doctormoreau (1207 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau -- Chapter 1
		The Island of Dr. Moreau -- Chapter 1
		The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited.
		The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.
	www.litrix.com /moreau/morea001.htm (280 words)

	Discussion: The Island Of Dr. Moreau
		The island is the home of secret experiments being performed by a mysterious Dr. Moreau.
		It's Moreau’s masterpiece, Kate, the “daughter” he created from a puma, who leads the island creatures back to their true nature and brings Moreau to his eventual downfall.
		As Prendick learns more about the experiments, he questions the morality of Moreau’s experiments and longs to go home to London.
	www.globalstage.net /goback/iodm_discuss.html (1049 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
		To be fair to Frankenheimer, the original director of The Island of Dr. Moreau was fired and Frankenheimer was brought in after shooting began.
		For anyone who cares, The Island of Dr. Moreau DVD is the unrated director's cut, and adds some four minutes excised from the theatrical release.
		A plane crash survivor is stranded on an island controlled by a mad scientist who conducts gruesome experiments, splicing the genes of humans and animals to create monstrous creatures.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=12420&buy=closed&PID=10044636&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (1888 words)

	RON PERLMAN IN "THE ISLAND OF Dr MOREAU"
		The chosen location for "The Island of Dr Moreau" was Australia, in the steamy, tropical rainforests of North Queensland, but just three days into filming, New Line fired Stanley, and brought in veteran film director, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz).
		According to an article by Benjamin Bond entitled "Putting 'The Island of Dr Moreau' on the Map," (which can be found in the official magazine for the movie, produced by Starlog Press), several roles were expanded as a result of the rewrite, including Ron Perlman's.
		Dr Moreau is a brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution.
	www.theperlmanpages.i12.com /bsmovies/drmoreau.htm (1450 words)

	The Island Of Dr. Moreau
		When York threatens to expose the Dr. to the world, he himself is turned into one of the animal men.
		Lancaster plays a cool Dr., even in temperment most of the time and although totally mad, completely convinced of his genetically altering experiments purpose.
		Story-York is shipwrecked on a mystrious island which is run by Dr. Moreau.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/drmoreau.html (391 words)

	The Island of Dr. Moreau
		Rating: "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned).
		This Dr. Moreau rides grandly through his dominion while surveying monstrous mutants, to the accompaniment of bestial howls and screeches on the soundtrack.
		Moreau's experiments are meant to raise questions about morality, government and the very nature of human life.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/island.html (548 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Island of Dr.Moreau (Everyman S.): Books
		When they arrive at their destination, Prendick finds that the whole island is filled with unnatural seeming people, and the least unnatural, but the most frightening is the lord and master of the island Dr. Moreau.
		Amazon.co.uk: The Island of Dr.Moreau (Everyman S.): Books
		Edward Prendick is stranded on an island with a mad scientist, Dr. Moreau, and his assistant, Montgomery, who are performing horrendous and terrible experiments that lead to beast-like creatures that talk and behave like men.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0460872583 (1119 words)

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		Moreau starts spouting off about how he wants to create the perfect human and Douglas tells him he's evil for doing so...blah blah blah (and for some reason Moreau and Majai have changed from the white muu-muu's they were wearing five minutes earlier to green ones).
		Moreau forgives him but a trigger-happy Azezzello shoots Lo-Mai dead (and we get to hear Sayer of the Law blather on some more about not killing even though Azezzello kills Lo-Mai and no one does a damn thing about it).
		Moreau even teaches some of them how to read.
	www.angelfire.com /film/severen/moreau.html (1445 words)

	Review: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
		Similarly, in The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells explored the differences between man and beast by taking a battle that normally occurs deep in the heart (the civilized aspect of one's nature versus the bestial one) and realizing it in a concrete manner.
		As originally envisioned by Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau is a tale of great substance; as re-invented by director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), it's disappointingly shallow and pointless.
		And, while it might have been possible to argue the merits of this version of The Island of Dr. Moreau if it had offered something more than the others, the sad truth is that it offers much less.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/i/island.html (831 words)

	Action Vault - Vivisector: Creatures of Dr. Moreau Island Gallery
		The Ukrainian studio has drawn inspiration from H.G. Wells' classic novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau.
		It's just a small island somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a point of solidified volcanic magma poking above the water with sand, rock and some scattered greenery.
		Vivisector: Creatures of Dr. Moreau is Action Forms' upcoming action game that takes place in this setting.
	actionvault.ign.com /features/media/vivisectorisle.shtml (330 words)

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