Man with the Screaming Brain story
Man with the Screaming Brain is a 2005 science fiction/slapstick film co- written, produced, directed, and starring Bruce Campbell. Synopsis: A brash pharmaceutical company CEO is transplanted with a piece of his cab driver's brain while on a business trip to Bulgaria.
14 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brain transplant | choice | William getting transplanted with a piece of his cab driver's brain and Jackie having her brain transplanted into a mannequin-like robot constitutes the film's primary novelty. |
| humanoid robot | major | Jackie's brain was transferred from her dying body into a mannequin-like robot, after which she went about trying to kill the woman who killed her. |
| husband and wife | major | The story explores William and Jackie's troubled marriage. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | The caricature mad scientist Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, assisted by his idiotic assistant Pavel, transplanted a piece of Yegor's brain into William, and transferred Jackie's brain from her dying body into a mannequin-like robot. |
| romantic love | major | William and Jackie overcame various challenges to their marriage and rekindled their love for one another in the end. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | William together with Yegor, who existed as a voice in William's head, resolved to make Tatoya pay for having been responsible for putting them into their strange predicament. Jackie had William's life support plug pulled out of revenge for his philandering. Jackie's brain in the body of a robot took revenge on Tatoya for having tried to kill Jackie. |
| what if I was combined with another person | major | Antics ensued when William had to share his body with the cab driver Yegor, after being transplanted with a piece of Yegor's brain. |
| capitalism | minor | The brash CEO William Cole complained to his unsympathetic cab driver about the lack of capitalist features in the former communist country William was visiting on a business trip. |
| coping with getting dumped | minor | The hotel maid Tatoya was in the habit of killing the men who dumped her. |
| coping with romantic rejection | minor | The hotel maid Tatoya was in the habit of killing the men who dumped her. |