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Asta Kask
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Sweden
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 Posted - 03/02/2009 : 04:35:53 AM
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A Frankenstein Film is a film where a) the moral is "There Are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" b) the moral is written across the screen in flaming letters ten feet high; and c) where the antagonist is ironically done in by his creation.
Useful term?
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/02/2009 : 6:42:51 PM
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Could be usefull
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 03/03/2009 : 07:51:38 AM
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| I think Sphere could fall into this definition. |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 03/07/2009 : 1:15:56 PM
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That could fit FORBIDDEN PLANET (for what happened to the Krell, moreso than Morbius). Oddly, a lot of "Frankenstein" movies (movies with the Frankenstein Monster) probably wouldn't fit in the catagory (They're just "monster movies" about someone who slaps together bodyparts -- no "lesson" just mayhem).
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/07/2009 : 5:42:20 PM
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Forbidden Planet helped create the archetype though. At least, with respect to sci-fi in film.
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 03:36:53 AM
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Bobby-G wrote: Oddly, a lot of "Frankenstein" movies (movies with the Frankenstein Monster) probably wouldn't fit in the catagory (They're just "monster movies" about someone who slaps together bodyparts -- no "lesson" just mayhem).
Ironic - but true. It was the original premise of the "Frankenstein" story that gave the creature its' pathos. Most times, it was just mere capitalization for a buck.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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dconner
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
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SFfilmfan
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2009 : 2:03:01 PM
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While that has been a theme in several Frankenstein films, it is not a theme in all of them. Witness, for example, PROTOTYPE. To me, a Frankenstein film is one where a mad scientist creates life, usually to his sorrow.
To me, what motivated Mary Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein, was that she had a morbid fear of giving birth, as many women of the type died in childbirth. She had recently had a miscarriage prior to writing the novel (which was polished by her uncredited husband Percy). |
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