![]() But unlike in the original comic book, the defining battle here isn’t waged between a pencil-neck scientist and his rampaging twin (or Soviet spies and good guys in lab coats), but between Stan Lee and Sigmund Freud. Like all Jekyll-Hyde stories, “Hulk” is essentially about the defining dualities that make us human - nature versus nurture, freewill versus repression, child versus parent, paper versus plastic - and that sometimes bring out the monster in us. Directed by Ang Lee, the film stars Eric Bana as the Hulk’s human alter ego and Nick Nolte as an Oedipal figure by way of Hubert Selby Jr., which helps explain its ambitions as well as the eccentric fact that the scariest thing in this likable if tame monster movie is Nolte’s hair. ![]() ![]() A story about a nice guy who turns as big, bad and green as King Kong on a bender, “Hulk” is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who launched their monster around the time that Kennedy and Khrushchev were set to launch their missiles. ![]()
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