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Post by The-Savage-Nymph on Dec 30, 2011 14:15:12 GMT -6
Some stories do not work wh any other pairing than those which are already IN the story... and you cannot really pair the creature with anyone (exept HIS woman, but Viktor goes all I-rip-you-apart-before-I-am-done-with-you with her...) It's worse than with Erik... poor creature, doesn't even have a name... maybe... Frank? Frank N. Stein (<-stupid joke from some movie I saw once) At least in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein, he does get a bride... It is worse than Erik...poor thing. No redemptive kiss for the poor creature... But he gets his revenge on Viktor. That's something. |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Dec 30, 2011 14:58:14 GMT -6
At least in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein, he does get a bride... It is worse than Erik...poor thing. No redemptive kiss for the poor creature... But he gets his revenge on Viktor. That's something. He does SORT of get some redemption/acceptance when Walton says "wait!" |
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Post by The-Savage-Nymph on Jan 2, 2012 13:37:38 GMT -6
No redemptive kiss for the poor creature... But he gets his revenge on Viktor. That's something. He does SORT of get some redemption/acceptance when Walton says "wait!" But no kiss... ever. Damn you, Viktor! Damn you for not caring! |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Jan 4, 2012 0:02:14 GMT -6
He does SORT of get some redemption/acceptance when Walton says "wait!" But no kiss... ever. Damn you, Viktor! Damn you for not caring! Yeah... Victor's a jerk. |
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Post by The-Savage-Nymph on Jan 4, 2012 4:19:55 GMT -6
But no kiss... ever. Damn you, Viktor! Damn you for not caring! Yeah... Victor's a jerk. Sometimes I really wonder, what Mary Shelley was trying to say. "Man shouldn't do something, just because he can." or more something like "Man shouldn't do anything at all, because he's a coward and won't take responsibility for anything, therfore he's seeking to destroy what he created every time." Okay, I'd be freaked out too, if I hade a corpse moving all of a sudden, but the Creature wasn't moving all of a sudden. Viktor MADE HIM MOVE. He wanted him to move! He wanted him to live. And then... ARGH! I could go on ranting like that for ages, sorry. |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Jan 4, 2012 15:36:55 GMT -6
Sometimes I really wonder, what Mary Shelley was trying to say. "Man shouldn't do something, just because he can." or more something like "Man shouldn't do anything at all, because he's a coward and won't take responsibility for anything, therfore he's seeking to destroy what he created every time." Okay, I'd be freaked out too, if I hade a corpse moving all of a sudden, but the Creature wasn't moving all of a sudden. Viktor MADE HIM MOVE. He wanted him to move! He wanted him to live. And then... ARGH! I could go on ranting like that for ages, sorry. Yeah... Victor was like: Tralalalala, let's reanimate the dead! Oh damn, maybe that wasn't such a good idea. I shall now spurn my own creation and not worry about the consequences, and everything will be just peachy! Sounds like a wonderful idea! |
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Post by amyablenature on Nov 16, 2012 12:01:56 GMT -6
Has anyone seen Nick Dear's Frankenstein? The National Theatre version? It rocked my world. I have only previously seen the original film from the 30's and then Kenneth Branagh's version (both of which didn't really stay true to the novel). From what I can gather, it seems this play was as faithful to the book as it could be. I still haven't read it, I intend to once I get time to read anything that isn't for school. But watching the play, I just wanted to give the poor Creature a bath, some soup and tuck him into bed. He didn't ask to be created and in one scene, he's disgusted to learn of the process of taking dead tissue, stitching it together and bringing it to life. And yet everywhere he goes, he's punished and beaten for being the walking abomination when it's not his fault that Victor made him. Poor baby.  I'm hesitant to really discuss the characters without reading the novel first, but you do get a pretty good appreciation and understanding of the characters from the play itself. Frankenstein, to me, is about bad parenting and isolation. Shelley's birth killed her mother and her father always treated her like a monster because he blamed her for his wife's death. She's sent away to live with another family because her father has a new wife and a new family to look after. So right away, you can gleam a lot from all that. It's depressing. So while the Creature is frightening, he's very sympathetic. The horrific circumstances surrounding his "birth" make Victor reject his own creation, even though he had a hand in it and you get the concept of a motherless birth, which seems to come from Shelley's experience. Her parents were well known intellectuals, scientific thinkers and writers and I think Shelley wanted to live up to that reputation. But her story here is a very emotional metaphor for her own experience and I just can't wait to dive in and finally read it... |
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