Sunday, 30 September 2012

Jack the Ripper - From Hell

Distinguish between facts and fictions that are portrayed in the movie @ Which aspect of the plot that is accurate to the historical fact in the JTR murders and which aspect of the plot that is based on the filmmakers' own imagination.

         
        I have seen the movie, From Hell starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham that given by Mr. Kama and read the story about Jack the Ripper in Study Guide of Critical Literacy. I notice that there have different between facts and fiction  that are portrayed in the movie and historical fact in the Jack the Ripper.

           
           In the film, Jack the Ripper is a cruel murderer and his case never solved until now and it has been more than 100 years passed and shows all the Ripper victims as being close-knit friends, but there is no evidence to support that all of the victim are friends even there came from the same area. Besides, most of the suspects are wealthy and educated men such as Prince Albert, Dr. William Whitey Gull, Walter Sickert, and other 25 men. Jack the Ripper killed five women which is all of them are prostitutes. Prince Albert has been accused as Jack the ripper because people believed that he is married to Annie Crook. However, later people found out that there are no marriage record listing Prince Albert is Annie’s husband.



 Other than that, it appears as though an "Annie Crook" did in fact exist, there is no evidence that she ever knew any of the Ripper victims, or that she had an affair with Prince Albert Victor and had his child. There is also no evidence of any lobotomy. This first appeared in Stephen Knight’s entire Jack the Ripper, and no other researcher has ever been able to corroborate his findings.


5 comments:

  1. nice explanation about JR. the film add wrong action about real JR

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  2. Me too...I thought that was the real but only the imagination of the producer of this film..

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  3. Lots of imaginations in that film and that shouldn't be done for a historical story.

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