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ah, so they finally made a halfway faithful adaptation of the book?
This gives me hope that I will like this version.
The Monster’s speech is, by far, the most compelling part of that story.
Warning, story spoilers for a story over two hundred years old that we all know
Oh my God, it’s from The Independent! I thought it was some Murican pastor married to three of his cousins but no.
And when you read OP you probably figure that it was out of context, and yes, he does actually know that this is perhaps more faithful to the novel (his argument seems to be that since the schlocky versions exist you must continue them).
Immediately, he goes off the rails again with this nonsense:
Isaac’s performance is mannered and uneven. The film quotes Byron, and you half expect the actor to portray Victor as a dashing and poetic figure. Instead, in the scenes when Victor is the rebel scientist, scandalising Edinburgh’s medical establishment with his “galvanic” experiments, he is strangely sinister. As he rolls his eyeballs, fidgets and jumps around, it’s very hard to muster much sympathy for him.
Frankenstein is raising the dead! He is a foul necromancer defying God and Nature. Bit like Byron really.
Then he continues with this bit
Isaac registers much more strongly after he is brought low, when he is playing Victor as a broken and despairing man with a prosthetic leg, on his grim Arctic quest to destroy his own creation.
All my homies HATE character development. In the beginning of the movie he was this way but at the end, after going through a ton stuff and it’s years later, he’s some other way!? I’m sorry, this really breaks my immersion.
“Also, he wasnt green and his head wasn’t flat on top. No bolts on the neck. WTF? I feel like my Halloween decorations, designed in the 1960s and never changing since, are being mocked.”
Think it’ll be a candidate for a new #2 best Frankenstein movie after the obvious top spot?
Also, here's a version with 1500% less artifacting.
The Bride looks like a lot of fun.
Put zie candle back!
You want to roll in ze hay?
what knockers!
In the book, Frankenstein’s monster is a tragic character but also kills several people without real justification or remorse. He shouldn’t be romanticized either. Both he and his creator are villains.
Then again, the movie doesn’t sound like it’s going for a faithful adaptation, so maybe this version is strictly a victim.
I haven’t read the book, but do you blame the monster for killing, anymore than a rabid dog?
But is he a rabid dog? A rabid dig is without hope; a once innocent creature killed by disease but left horrifically animated with no other purpose than to spread harm. A vampire is a rabid dog.
Frankenstein’s monster hasn’t learned to be human yet. He’s been tragically thrust into existence with all the tools to cause harm and is expected to have the tools for self control but has been given none. He’s a chimp with a handgun. People scream “stop that chimp with a handgun”, and some point out the man that captured, transported, armed, and let loose the chimp, but to equate the two as equally liable is wildly absurd.
“tHe cHiMp sHouLd kNoW bEtTeR…” smh
The same could be said for American politics…
The part about the monster is that he may have been able to be more than a chimp with a hand gun. Maybe not much more; a Bonobo with a bazooka maybe, or Hans Delbruck (I hope you get this reference). I don’t think there’s more to it that Shelly was getting at with the monster (though again I haven’t read it), but the implications and thoughts after the fact are interesting
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Yes. He is able to reason as a man does, and so he is held to a similar standard.
All I have to say about this one is that there’s a pornstar who goes by the name James Dean. I just remembered that pornstar was in a normal movie once and the movie got bad reviews siting his acting
I don’t really know anything about the actor or character called James Dean
I don’t really know anything about the actor or character called James Dean
Actor, youth icon of rebellion in the early fifties; he lived, and died, following the motto live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse (well, probably not the last part).
Most famously starred in East of Eden (for which he received a posthumous academy nomination), Rebel Without a Cause (released posthumously), and Giant (also released posthumously; he was a very posthumous person).
Died (not posthumously) in 1955 aged 24 in a car accident while racing a Porsche 550 on U.S. Route 466 (currently SR 46) near Cholame, California, after having already been ticketed for going over the speed limit.
Given his injuries, he probably didn’t leave a particularly beautiful corpse.
To be fair, I think he goes by James Deen.
I didn’t know he was in a movie though.
he goes by James Deen
And is a rapist (alleged)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Deen#Rape_and_sexual_misconduct_allegations
Yeah, that’s kind of amazing to me. Not that rape is ever okay - it’s not, consent is important and enthusiastic consent is the only consent that matters - but you’d think he’d be satisfied with what his career granted him.
Should have been James Peen
There’s also a prepared meats brand Jimmy Dean
Sounds amazing. I’ll have to watch it when it comes to home release!
It’s a Netflix production, it’ll be there after the theatrical run.
It’ll also be on my jellyfin server
I like those words better, although I don’t fully understand them! Don’t have Netflix so. Yeah.
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