Human hybrids have been portrayed in a lot of films and have
also appeared on some TV shows. Most Hybrids in films are a result of a genetic
experiment, like in Splice a 2009 Canadian-French science fiction horror film
in which shows experiments in genetic engineering being done by a young
scientific couple, who attempt to introduce human DNA into their work of
splicing animal genes. In the beginning of the film the early stages of Dren is
created digitally but she is also seen as a child and an adult. To create most
of the features they digitally enhanced them but for the child version they
used a bald cap. They are used a lot in film to create different characters as
they can change the way a person looks so rapidly.
http://www.movieinsider.com/photos/19465/
Another film in which hybrids appear is Pirates of the
Caribbean, dead man’s chest. It shows Davy Jones, the captain of the ship and a
human/ octopus type creature. Has features like human eyes and from what we can
see the body shape of a human but in an octopus type form; with tentacles
coming out of his face. All of the
characters that appear on the Flying Dutchman (the ship) are hybrids from the
sea, as often hybrids are ‘freaks’ of nature. In the story, his original
purpose was to carry souls of those who died at sea from this world to the next
on his vessel. He was charged with this noble and just duty by his one true
love, the sea goddess Calypso. For every ten years at sea he could spend one
day on land to be with her. Ten years after first being charged with the duty,
Jones prepared to be reunited with his true love, but was heartbroken when she didn’t
show. Unable to deal with the sadness of Calypso's betrayal, Jones, through
some unknown supernatural means, ripped out his heart and locked it in a chest,
burying it on the plague island Isla Cruces. This chest became known as the
"Dead Man's Chest", the primary object being sought after in the
second film. Jones then abandoned his past duties, and instead returned to rule
the seas as a tyrant with a damned crew bound by oath to serve aboard the
Dutchman for one hundred years each. Because Jones and his crew broke their
oath on the Dutchman to ferry lost souls, a curse slowly transformed them into
sea monsters as their physical appearances matched the darkness inside of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean)
Another hybrid character in film is Lord Voldemort from the
Harry Potter series. Sci-fi/fantasy is packed with hybrids and half-breeds in
Harry Potter, some of the strongest wizards are half-bloods, including Harry,
Voldemort, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Tonks, Minerva McGonagall, and Albus
Dumbledore. Often Super Hybrids are used to show that prejudice against hybrids
or concerns about blood purity are unfounded. Voldemort is an exercise in
irony, ranting and raving about the inferiority of Muggle blood and the danger
of miscegenation while being the most powerful wizard ever and a half-blood.
Voldemort subconsciously recognizes the capability of half-bloods in his
fictional universe by claiming the half-blood Harry Potter as his equal.
Voldemort’s appearance in the book is "tall and skeletally thin",
with a face "whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose
that was as flat as a snake’s with slits for nostrils" This resemblance to
a snake is where the hybrid comes in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Voldemort
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-09-11/who-said-it-lord-voldemort-or-the-master
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