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18:50 that's sad they dropped the narrative around the shark and just inserted dodgy CGI. Weird seeing young Owen Wilson... He still looks old 😂 Edit: I think the mum abandoning them again (in their eyes) reinforces the message that they can only rely on each other.

The 2004 tv Frankenstein film is definitely the most accurate

Deniro worst monster ever!

CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN survives the test of time because it underlines the moral horror of the situation. As much as I admire the late, great Mr. Boris Karloff and Colin Clive in the Universal movie, I think Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are the better monster and doctor. Cushing's Frankenstein is blind to the horror he perpetrates, while his former mentor's reaction shots clue us in to how horrible we are supposed to feel it is -- even while Cushing's dashing performance invites us to identify with him in the evil he perpetrates. It's a much more sophisticated approach than in the 1931 FRANKENSTEIN. That doesn't necessarily make CURSE a better film, but it's no heresy to entertain the idea, unlike what some critics would have us believe.Christopher Lee...what can I say? His portrayal of the creature was stellar, as all his work is. The part where he was shot fills one with pity and sympathy, just from the expression in his eyes, and yet there's also the murder and bestial evil that one expects from a monster. All in all, however, he is a wonderful actor and did a wonderful job with the creature. Hammer Films, I salute you yet again.

I agree, Dr Frankenstein was the true monster.

OMG, I thought you said you were making a Frankenstein! 😍😍😍

Another thing that Ygor, Bela Lugosi, seems to perpetuate is being a hunchback. Unlike Fritz, his neck is broke from trying to be hanged. I love your video, this was so much fun to watch and very informative. I sent it to everyone I know. Thank you.

Thank you for this interesting and informed comparative analysis. I have seen all the movies you covered except for the TV mini-series.

I think of it not only as father - son. But deeper as creator and creation. The Monster is us , learning as we can about our world. Trying to understand who and why we are. Image if we could meet our creator( Dr. F) to ask why I was created, what's my purpose and challenge our creator. The monster gets this chance only still with no real answers. And finding anger that we might not fit in. my take at least.

I think the issue with most of these films is that they don't see what made the novel so captivating and eternal in the first place. The truth of the story is that Frankenstein is a tragic hero, while his creation is a monster. Yet at the same time, it's Frankenstein that's a monster, and his creation's life is the real tragedy. A really amazing professor of narratology once explained to me how stories remain in the public consciousness because the conversation about them never ends, for the very reason that they're actually two narratives at once. Shelley's Frankenstein was her case in point.

Andy Warhol's "Flesh for Frankenstein"!

Mega Chad's know that the best Frankenstein movie is The Spirit of the Beehive

Karloff's monster is probably still the most iconic portrayal even to this day.

My first real horror movie experience was THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN at the age of five, and I have been watching horror movies ever since. I have read the book at least a dozen times and I always find something new in it when I do. That nice lady wrote a masterpiece that is going to be relevant for centuries to come.

In _Son of Frankenstein_ Ygor isn't a hunchback. His neck is broken from when they tried to hang him for graverobbing.

I've never seen _Mary Shelley's Frankenstein._ What's the justification for putting Elizabeth's head on Justine's body? Why not just reanimate them as-is?

Luke Gross version was the most faithful and I think it's the best.

I always thought the luke goss in hallmarks Frankenstein was most faithful to the description of the monster in the book

I also really liked the monster character in Penny Dreadful. Definitely the most interesting of all portrayals.

So glad you gave the Edison film a mention.

I I thought there was a TV movie version with Randy Quaid as a monster and maybe Patrick Bergen

There is a real Castle Frankenstein ("rock of the Franks") in Germany. It's a ruin today. A 17th-century alchemist who lived there has been suggested as a possible inspiration for Shelley's eponymous character.

One of the best adaptations is the horror manga/graphic novel by Jung Ito. I'm very curious/hopefl to see the upcoming version by Guillermo Del Toro, as none of the extant fine versions really seem to quite nail it for me...

The character of Clerval was in the "True Story" played by David McCallum. You didn't include the show "Penny Dreadful" with Harry Treadaway as Victor and Rory Kinnear as The Monster/Calaban/John Clare. It's an excellent reinterpretation of the novel with a "bride" of sorts played by Billie Piper. The whole show is amazing, except for the final two episodes.

The Hallmark adaptation was very close to the sprit of the novel.

That lynch mob scene in the Branagh film is terrible. Like everything in that movie it’s so over the top it becomes unintentionally funny, like a Frankenstein parody.

Frankenstein and the monster along with the bride of Frankenstein inspiration, are in films\books about Mary Shelly, poet Shelly, Lord Byron and Dr. Polidori wrote stories during rainy, lousy weather in Geneva. Those books are excellent.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤❤❤ "FRANKENSTEIN BEYOND" IS A REALLY DIFFERENT TAKE ON IT. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

You forgot one, or never knew about it . The most modern film adaptation of Frankenstein is, THE SKIN I LIVE IN ,with Antonio Banderas . A fun film right on the cutting edge... For men it is a cutting edge triller ...

a very nice compare and contrast between many interpretations, as well as a nice summary of what it means to do adaptations. Glad this showed up on my feed. I think you were able to make this great vid because you're working on your own adaptation, so I know this isn't likely, but I'd love to watch similar videos from you about other universal monsters

I have some of Marvels Franlenstein comics and I recall that the monster and creator were shipwrecked in the north. The monster speaks quite well in this series .

the Robert Deniro one has my two favorite Shelly quotes in the film and delivered with equal amounts of contempt and restraint. “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” a monster created by society who wants nothing more than to be away from the evils that made him. a being who wants to die so he can finally know peace. a creature forced to live after his death. his one sin was wanting another like himself. i hear theDevil screaming Milton's lines when I think ov theMonster. "Solitude, is sometimes best society." Milton's shortcomings are including 'sometimes' to all you freaks and bastards. to all you unwanted cunts. don't carry the sins ov your fathers. you where not made strong enough to endure. flee you fools to the mountains. to the woods. from the furthest reaches ov man's damned hand. find a valley to pour your love in and stop seeking a fire worth dying for.

Very nice video - one of the best recent adaps is a 2015 Frankenstein from Candyman director Bernard Rose, which got surprisingly little PR - it seems less interested in genre and more in really engaging imaginatively w Shelley's novel - the whole film is from the Creature's pov, and we hear a voiceover narration of his thoughts, drawn from Shelley's erudite text, showing how advanced a being this Creature is, as his rapidly developing body struggles to catch up - Victor and Elizabeth are the scientist couple who created him Another brilliant but more indirect treatment is Carol Churchill's play A Number, which shows a scientist trying to clone his dead child, with the earlier, "flawed" clone growing viciously resentful at having been so casually cast aside by his "father", who keeps making more in an effort to "get it right" - this seems to touch on something deep at the heart of sibling rivalry, and of course of parenting in general

16:37 My own dramatic instinct here is the opposite. This is the part where Victor moral ambiguity comes into focus as moral cowardice and selfishness. He is NOT a hero, but the real villain of the piece. 25:00 Mel Brooks, in a documentary made for the Branaugh film, captured the essence of this story very succinctly. He called it a story of "womb envy."

I've taught this novel a number of times. Great analysis. I look forward to your other videos. Count me in as a new subscriber. 🙂📚

Very good overview. I enjoyed watching. The only thing I would disagree with is that, while a bit odd, the trial of Justine is a very important scene in the story. It solidifies our understanding of Victor's personality and flaws. He could save Justine. A girl he has known for years and loves like a sister, who he knows is completely innocent but he doesn't. He is at heart selfish and cowardly, and it's Justine's trial and execution which proves it.

The Frankenstein a true story has a spark of homoeroticism to me, where the young handsome man is no longer of use when he ages and is no longer beautiful. Aside, the creature was played by Canadian Michael Sarrazin.

The TNT TV movie from 1992 with Randy Quaid as the monster also includes the Captain Walton scenes.

Have you scene the series penny dreadful interpretation of Frankenstein.

Frankenstein follows under the same curse as King Kong but not as bad. And that’s a major components of every Frankenstein story is his creation. And King Kong it’s his discovery on the island and I guess the showman in the beauty. Spider-Man it’s the killing of uncle Ben. Superman... The planet exploding and him growing up and moving to the big city. Frankenstein breaks the cycle much faster than the others. Every filmmaker seems to want to do an homage to the original movie. And to a secondary degree the original novel. Most of the movies that try to market the novel. Adaptation always seem to still base things off off one of the zillion movies adaptations and hopes no one will notice. It reminds me of businesses that start off with a product Ken wants to catches on they use cheaper materials impulse nobody notices

I’ve generally sort of experience this scenario from young Frankenstein on a daily basis. I’m a tall black man. A lot of the time when I enter new Business for the first time. Coffee shop or restaurant or store. Every one in the Business... workers and customers discomfort immediately shows up on everybody’s faces body language. The moment I speak. Every one calms down and things go back to normal. I guess I don’t sound ghetto lol.

I’ve generally sort of experience this scenario from young Frankenstein on a daily basis. I’m a tall black man. A lot of the time when I enter new Business for the first time. Coffee shop or restaurant or store. Every one in the Business... workers and customers discomfort immediately shows up on everybody’s faces body language. The moment I speak. Every one calms down and things go back to normal. I guess I don’t sound ghetto lol.

I must admit that I always emphasized with the monster. Growing up with undiagnosed autism. I always wondered why every one around me could not understand me. I was either treated like a monster or a nothing. I was big for my age. I never felt I deserved love. Even growing up to be considered very attractive. Anyway seeing the bride as a kid.... when the bride rejected the monster I lost all hope of meeting any one my self. The logic being if even you soul mate dose not want you. Was a devastating example. Also with the guys of a happy ending. But not for the other. And since how we were just not in the business of happy endings for the other. That was a almost birth of a nation example of logic I never forgot. As kids people often look to movies for the answer to what life has in store for them.

Would you consider The smaller creations of Dr. Pretorius as homunculus

Given that James whales was gay. If you look at The bride of Frankenstein through a gate coded lens. It’s the story of to men who set out to create life with out women

I live in the Michael saracen made for TV movie. There is another Frankenstein movie begins with the abandonment of the monster and the monster systematically killing every one Frankenstein lives in front of him leading to the standoff at the end. I can’t remember if they blow each other up or or face-off with the monster satisfied that he’s ruined Victor’s life. I also wondered if the end of John carpenters the things ending with the two protagonist waiting for something to happen in the frozen north was inspired by the end of Frankenstein. I never read who goes there. So I don’t know if that’s part of the novel.

Would you say Colin Clive and James wheels interpretation in the movie is indicative The silent film German Expressionist carryover. An example would be Lauren Jamie’s performance in the Phantom of the opera.

There are a lot of pop culture icons that have traces of Frankenstein. That are very significant interpretations of the story. Astro boy ... The Incredible Hulk .... I robot .... Adam warlock ... looking for there place on the world. How the world relates to them. The father and abandoned son relationship. To friends and enemies made in passing. Even Pinocchio ... The golem Etc fit this

Thank you Phil, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is my favorite book. I own the the illustrated version done by the great Bernie Wrightson, it is a perfect marriage imo. I am glad to have stumbled upon your video, I found it fascinating and captivating. I have yet to see a movie adaptation that I thinks perfectly encapsulates what I feel when reading the book. I do like Young Frankenstein and the 1931 version but I see them as great films and not true adaptations. May I ask what is your favorite adaptation?

I've always enjoyed Terror of Frankenstein. It wasn't showy but was very faithful to the novel.

John William Polidori was actually among the group with Mary Shelly when they had the famous ghost story writing contest, which birthed the Frankenstein novel