Friday, April 6, 2012

"The Great Mutato?"

What does the X-Files Prometheus or Great Mutato episode address regarding the Frankenstein Complex?  What do you realize about supposed monsters?  Judgement?  Assumptions?  Created elements?  Please comment using episode references.  This is due during class today.

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  1. The Frankenstein complex is definitely present during this X-Files episode. There is also a bit of xenophobic attitude during some of the episode regarding "monsters" and how they should act but don't. Regarding stereotypes, the Great Mutato is supposed to be this horrid creature who is mean and nasty. What the towns people don't realize is that he is a human, created by a human. Although he has deformities, one might argue that his morals or way of living is better than those of the people in the town.

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  2. The monster in the great mutato is similar to Frankenstein. I realized that the great mutato is a very nice, lonely man, and not a killer, compared to Frankenstein who is. All the towns people thought the great mutato was the killer just because he is a monster.

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  3. The monster in this movie is judged by his outer appearance, as a beast or crazy monster when really all he is doing is looking for love, not trying to harm anyone. The people don't believe him because they don't think that something that looks like him could be harmless. People are extremely judgmental about things if they are unfamiliar or foreign to us. I assume the monster was very hurt by this because not many of the people were really understanding.

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  4. The X-Files episode shows up that unknown/supposed monsters are judged based on the repulsive looks. People assume that with the horror comes evil and terrible actions. This is the Frankenstein Complex. How human creation, no matter how good or bad, is judged, even if emotion is tied into it.

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  5. The creator of the monster was afraid of what the monster could do. Everyone in the town didn't know what to think about the supposedly evil monster until they actually met it. He turned out not as bad as he was seen in the town. Assumptions may seem believable in every aspect, but you will never know what is true until see it with your own eyes. The town was very judgemental before they knew anything. Once they met the real monster, they liked him and understood why he was acting the way he was.

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  6. In the movie, the monster is hated by everybody during the beginning. The people think that he only means bad. They judge him based on the way he looks and the stories about him. I think that people are afraid of him even though they don't know anything about him. Later in the movie, the town people want to kill the monster, but the federal agents are protecting him. I think that the people in the town don't want to believe that the monster isn't actually a monster. They're too afraid to think that he can be human too.

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  7. "whats not to love?" At the end of the episode the baby is like great mutato and they answer the question is it hard to love them by whats not to love. It shows that no matter what, how people look or act they should not be treated different. In today's society it would be hard to live in if you looked different or had special needs and i just think about all the people that judge them when you see people like this.

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  8. The X-files Prometheus or Great Mutato episode addresses that if you are ugly or different, you are seen as a monster and therefore treated like one. These supposed monsters are treated with some xenophobia and are feared and questioned when most of them aren't even monsters at all but are judged. This is where the judgment and assumptions come in because many people don't take the time to get to know a person before judging them and shunning them. The monster in this episode is an example because he is judged to be someone scary and evil, when he is actually the most kindhearted and worthy of friends then any of the other people.

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  9. The X-Files Prometheus shows that the collectivism of a community is able to sway and overcome any decision. In regards to the monster, the community originally is swayed by one decision, and when refusing to listen to reason, they set the barn on fire. However, when the townsfolk simmer down and listen to the "monster's" story, they all achieve a caring and refuse to listen to the scientist and his negative speeches. The real definition of a monster derives from the decision that the community decides on, for if nobody actually interfered with this monster, would he still be a monster?

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  10. I believe that this X-Files episode addresses the fact that Frankenstein is miserable and unhappy, I realize that supposed monsters aren't always bad, many of them have feeling and positive energy as well. My judgment of the monster in the X-Files episode is that he does intend no harm and that he truly does have some feelings and has grown up living a hard life. I also can relate this back to xenophobia because everyone was sorta scared of the monster.

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  11. The X-Files episode The Great Mutato directly addressed the Frankenstein Complex. The plot of the movie nearly mirrored the plot of the novel Frankenstein. The exception is at the end when the town is about to rip the monster into shreds, they give him a chance to speak and preach his case. Usually an angry mob only cares about completing their goal no matter how rational it is. The town was just the weight that Dr. Frankenstein uses to sway the people and get momentum on his side. They were mindless ponds. During the ending section of Mutato's monologue, the town shift attitude towards him once they hear him out.

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  12. The monster or "Great Mutato" is perceived as a freak of nature, nothing more than a pestilence. The citizens never take any time to analyze the beings purpose or intentions. Instead, they jump straight to conclusions of monstrosity based solely on it's horrid appearance. It's only when the monster reveals a human element: speech, that the people see a civilized side to the Mutato.

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  13. This addresses the Frankenstein Complex by essentially creating Frankenstein. The monster is a horrible creation, and even though he doesn’t kill his creator, he finds himself alone in the world and searching for a mate, similar to the Frankenstein monster. We learn that supposed monsters feel all the same emotions as humans, which is another aspect of the Frankenstein complex. And usually, supposed monsters are just misunderstood, like the monster in X-Files. He wasn’t trying to be vicious, he was just searching for love, companionship, and understanding like most humans. Judgment was the downfall in this episode and created mass hysteria and mob mentality. Judgment and assumptions caused the townsfolk to search out the “monstrosity” and destroy part of his home. When the town people looked beyond their assumptions, they could come to love the monster and his creations. One mother even stated “What's not to love?”. Overall this episode shows how quick humans are to judge things that are different from us or that are created by us.

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  14. The episode addresses the experiment gone "wrong" that we saw in Frankenstein. The monster wasn't wanted by his creator and so it found another place to call home. A lot of judgments were made about the monster and was assumed to kill. These judgments and assumptions were based on the townspeople not knowing who else could have haunted them like a monster. They needed someone or something to blame. Just as in Maple Street, the town people go after the monster in a mob-like manner. Frankenstein Complex is about what we create being destructive and in this X-Files, this is turned around a little bit since the monster didn't do a whole lot but hide and want to be loved.

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  15. The X-files episode made me realize that supposed monsters can be human. They have feelings and a background just like most of us do. The Great Mutato needed friends and he went out in search of them. I have been realizing since the first day of Science Fiction that we humans are very judgmental. If we don't like what we see it bothers us and we act out in different ways. In this episode the people of the town acted with violence. They wanted to see the monster hanged/dead. This addresses the Frankenstein Complex by showing that the scientist was afraid that people would find out that he created this monster.

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  16. The X-Files Prometheus addressed the Frankenstein Complex in a way that the audience was able to connect more with the monster and "pity" the monster oppose to the Dr,where as the novel Frankenstein allowed us to pity the Dr. more so than the monster. When most people hear the word monster, they think of a horrible creature that is not only physically deformed, but mentally deformed as well. But in watching the X-Files, we witness the "monster" watching the movie Mask and we are able to tell how the monster is able to connect with the sorrow filled film. With this, we are able to see how words such as "monster" or "alien", both of which have negative connotations, seem to put images in our minds of what they are supposed to be but in reality we don't truly know.

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  17. The Great Mutato episode addressed quite a bit in terms of Frankenstein Complex. The great mutato, or the fly guy was a product of human genetic manipulation, which went horribly wrong, and resulted in a type of deformed man being created. The towns people assumed that this creation was causing various pregnancies throughout the town, which instilled much fear in them. In the end, their pre-determined judgments are turned to a more positive light. They realized that the "monster" was just a victim of circumstance, nothing more, and nothing less. The episode also seems to address several Xenophobic stereotypes that you would typically see in Sci-fi stories, like the towns people coming after the great mutato towards the end of the movie. The people also seemed to be stereotypes within themselves. So overall, this X-Files episode effectively addressed The Frankenstein Complex,and Xenophobia.

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  18. In this episode of X-files that we watch we see how a monster who is looked at with disgust and fear turns out to be a very kind and loving man. The judgment that he was given was very xenophobic which is the fear of the unknown. The monster thought out to be a scary, murdering, home invader is actually a Cher loving misunderstood creation that the doctor rejected and threw it away. In the end the people who were accusing the monster were more of monsters than the actual mutated man.

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  19. This episode of the X-Files goes hand in hand with the Frankenstein Complex because the townspeople fear the so-called "monster" that is rumored to lurk around the town. After a series of impregnations and weird break-ins, fear is heightened and the FBI gets involved. This "monster" turns out to be a genetic mutation created by a mad scientist in the town. Eventually the townspeople realize the genetic mutation is not actually a monster, and just a very lonely young man with deformities unappealing to the human eye.This makes me think about xenophobic and fearful natures of humans and how we treat people who look different or how we handle the things we create. Unlike the other stories, this episode shows us that we don't always need to be afraid of our creations.

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  20. I think the X-Files episode really supported the thoughts of the Frankenstein complex because everyone in the town is showing fear of the "mechanical man" and they attacked it out of the fear of something that was "ugly" and different. At times people did not even want to believe that some sort of different race or alien existed and that is probably an example of the ultimate fear they did feel, by denying the very existence of the monster. I think this is most shown when the people are prepared to attack the monster and when he speaks, everyone is stunned but by seeing the monster hold such a human quality calms the people and they actually do listen to him. So I think the Frankenstein complex was very prominent in the film but in the end the human qualities diffused a lot of the fear and hate towards the creation.

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  21. The Great Mutato talked about the creation of a creature who was very disliked just because of his looks until they finally meet him and the emotions he had developed. The creature talked to the people and besides his looks the people began to relate to him or feel some compassion and sympathy for him and his losses. The monster had the people feeling bad because unlike them he was handed a bad set of cards that he has had to deal with but never abused.

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  22. In the great mutato i noticed that the movie had to do with the Frakenstein complex a lot because it was basically the same story. Even the doctor's name was Doctor Frakenstein. I also noticed that most of the actual humans in the movie were not perfect either. The writer seemed like she was a chicken. The big fat son looked like a pig. Supposed monsters are not always bad guys, just because they may look ugly or scary that doesn't mean they are bad or evil. Most people just assume that they are.

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  23. This episode of the X-Files shows how we have a fear of our own creations. We assume that they will be bad and may harm those around us and we judge them because of their appearance or behavior. The "monster" in this episode was assumed to harm and kill people, but he was actually alone and peaceful.

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  24. this shows that our judgment of the Monsters all throughout are slightly skewed, we see them as terrible people and that they are truly things of pure evil. The doctor saw Mutato as a monster and evil because mutato what the doctors mistake. So when we see a monster we see them as evil because we find mistakes as evil. as for the clip itself I found the ending to be the most horrendous thing ever, the two FBI agents actually letting the "monster" go after he raped two different women?! In my opinion him doing those taboo acts does make him a monster, sure he was a monster created through the ways of societal exclusion but none the less that fact that he did that with no penalty or punishment is the most horrendous thing ever.

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  25. In the X-Files, the Great Mutato is seen as as dreadful monster who causes murders and distress. The Mutato is related to Frankenstein because both were created from man who afterward feared them. Mutato wanted to find friends just like Frankenstein but couldn't because of his looks and appearing characteristics. Many of the towns people wrongly judged the Great Mutato, and unlike the people, the Mutato was dis formed on the outside and had better feelings on the inside than many of the towns people

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  26. Judgement, fear and suspicion played huge roles in this episode of the X-Files. Everyone in the town in quick to make assumptions about things they do not understand. For instance, when the FBI agents first arrive, Agent Scully is quick to assume that the monster is a hoax and a publicity stunt. The townspeople assume that, because the "monster" is horridly deformed he must therefore be a monster and be extremely dangerous. And in a very xenophobic mindset the people of the town set about finding the "monster" and destroying it.

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  27. In this episode of the X Files the Frankenstein complex is addressed in the fact that its almost the same story just altered in minor ways. In the X Files, the creator makes a mistake and it is horrid. He doesn't want it at all so the creator's father takes him in as a son. But when the father dies the mistake takes up a view of monster when he tries entering town and the the riot heats up after monster. The differences in this are the monster doesn't kill at all and one person dies. The Frankenstein complex is very apparent.

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  28. This episode brings to light a different aspect of the Frankenstein complex; it makes us think about how little we have changed since the time of the Frankenstein monster. Have we actually changed at all, or have we simply progressed to different methods?

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