I loved this one. No big special effects, but a plot and a lot of heart, and a female character who is great, I loved her. Really, her dying scene is one of the most remarkable I’ve seen; not for how it happened but for her last moments, the heart of it. David and Elaina were in med school together, and they’re very close and adorable.
“Within each of us ofttimes, there dwells a mighty and raging fury”. The movie starts with lots of images of David and the woman he loves, their life together, but one day there was a car accident, he was thrown out of the car, she got trapped inside. He tried to lift the car, break the window, open the door, nothing, he couldn’t do it, he could not save her.
David now wakes up in a empty bed, always having nightmares about it.
It’s been eleven months. He’s a scientist, and with Elaina they do research on human strength. They do interviews with people who showed great strength, like a woman: she had an accident while driving, “the tire had blown out”, everything was like it had happened to him, only she could do it, she lifted the car and saved her son. He can’t see why she could do it and he couldn’t, he’s obsessed about it.
David’s mom used to say, “getting angry doesn’t help”. They keep at it, many interviews, many cases of people displaying incredible strength and saving their loved ones or themselves. David can see the emotional way that connects all those people, of course, but he’s looking for a physical explanation on how they could do it.
They find that the cases all share the same dna deviation, but David has it too, so there must be more; Elaine thinks there must be some external factor, so David looks into gamma ray interferences. He finds that during each time there was high gamma interference, but during David’s accident it was at its lowest.
He walks into the radiation area, sets gamma at 300.000 not bothering to check, even if there is some tape over the number, and experiments on himself.
Still, he’s no stronger than before, but when later he tries to change a tire under the rain and hurts himself, he transformed into the Hulk.
He destroyed the car and walked around, saw a little girl fishing but she started screaming as soon as she saw him. She ran into the lake, and Hulk became worried she might drown, so he threw her a tree…
The little girl kept calling for her dad, and when the man saw the hulk with the tree, he shot him, because that’s what men do. Apparently. At least in America.
Hulk breaks his rifle and runs away.
When David comes to himself, he’s shocked, with a torn shirt on and a hole in his shoulder… that is quickly healing.
He goes to Elaine’s house and tells her everything, also that he went all the way to 300.000, when he took the gamma radiation.
He goes on, but doesn’t remember much about what happened, only that he was strong, his eyes were white…
They go back to the institute and they find out the radiology unit had been modified, like their microscope that they used already.
There was nothing written over the 300.000 because the guy didn’t know yet how high it could go, and David didn’t tell anyone before using it.
It went almost at 2 million units, that’s the dose he took.
They argue, she just wants to try and reverse it, he wants to study it, he is quite obsessed with this strength thing.
So she yields and he tries to recreate the conditions of the night before, including water and electricity… and it doesn’t work.
She monitors his brain movements while he sleeps, and at the worst of his nightmare Hulk comes out, she sees him and records his movements on her voice recorder.
Hulk manages to escape the cage and once he’s out, she talks to Hulk to calm him down. She takes a blood sample, makes him sit on a couch, and David comes back.
Talking together, David understands now that it is extreme anger.
David is worried that he can’t control it, and could have killed her, but she says no.
—“David Banner is not a killer”
—“we’re not talking about David Banner”
—“yes we are. Now, it’s the same thing as if someone is under hypnosis. Unless they’re a potential killer, you cannot hypnotise them and make them kill. Now this… this creature is an outgrowth of David Banner. Its his… it’s his primitive emotions run wild. It may be undisciplined, it may tear the hell out of a pressure chamber, but it won’t kill because David Banner won’t kill”
He’s afraid when the police arrive, but nobody was hurt. They found his car, that Hulk destroyed, and a journalist made a plaster cast of Hulk’s footprint. It’sJack McGee, the journalist that wants to write about their research and keeps pressuring them for an interview.
Afraid of what might happen, David wants to get rid of the hulk. McGee spies on them and sees the broken pressure chamber but they catch him inside.
Startled, McGee causes stuff to fall, never a good or safe thing to do in a lab.
McGee insists on them spilling the truth, on Banner knowing something that he hasn’t reported to the police… David tries to calm down and says “Mr McGee, don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”
Unfortunately, some substance spilled in the lab (McGee’s fault) and there’s a huge explosion. He turns and Hulk jumps in by breaking a window, frees Elaine from the rubble that fell on her, picks her up and carries her upstairs and out. McGee sees them, but doesn’t see Banner getting out. He heard them talking about “their friend” so he doesn’t know they’re one and the same.
When she comes to and sees the hulk, which means the cure they tried didn’t work, she strokes his face and says “my poor David, who will take care of you now?”
She tells him she will always love him and then she dies.
Ending scene: Elaina Harding Marks’ grave is next to David Bruce Banner’s.
McGee printed that “Incredible Hulk kills 2” on his newspaper, The National Register.
When David visits the graves, he says “I love you Elaina, I think you loved me too, although you never said it”, which means he still remembers nothing of when he is the Hulk.
And so he leaves, and like Elaina said, he’ll keep researching a way to reverse it.
Her dying scene was brilliant. No useless explanations, but the heart of a woman.
David - Bill Bixby
Elaina - Susan Sullivan
McGee - Jack Colvin
Hulk - Lou Ferrigno
ITA L’incredibile Hulk
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