Frankenstein Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-07-23 13:00:06 +0000 UTCTHIS WAS GREAT!!! It buffered on my end around 35 minutes in, then again around 51 minutes in. I always count us back in! I AM SO SORRY EVERYONE!! I went through a month of VERY BAD INTERNET!!!
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Kat now that you have done this, you really need to do the Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde from 1931 with Frederic March in the lead. An amazing piece of horror cinema.
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2024-08-10 12:04:00 +0000 UTCI LOVE your reaction to these older classics! It's like I get to watch them again for the first time too! So Boris Karloff is a total legend. He starred in so many movies, worked right up to the end of his life. His final notable performance being in "Targets" for Peter Bogdanovich (playing an old horror movie star) in the late 1960's. Apparently he was just the kindest, gentlest man who loved children and would go to a children's hospital every Xmas dressed as Santa Claus to read to them. You cannot tell from this movie, but he has the most soothing voice. The "dark" scene where Frankenstein drowns the girl was censored for 50 years! That whole scene was cut and it goes straight to the father going through the town with her in his arms. The scene was thought lost for decades and was only restored in the 1980's. Funnily enough it's much worse without that scene. It looks like the monster murdered the little girl and threw her in the lake after. As for the movie subtext, there's a good case to be made that this is a Queer Classic. Director James Whale was a closeted gay man (obviously because it was unlawful in the 30's) who queer-coded both in this and in the more whimsical Bride of Frankenstein. The monster being rejected by its creator is a little like a "monstrous" gay son being rejected by the father. That's the theory. If you want more on this please watch the biographical drama "Gods & Monsters" which stars Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf himself) as James Whale and Brendan Fraser as Whale's gardener. History nerd alert: Yes, these films are set in Germany, but Germany didn't actually exist as a country when these movies are set. So I couldn't tell you what that flag is - it'll be Saxony or Bavaria or Prussia or something like that. These states didn't unify together as the Germany we know until 1871. I'm curious to know if watching these old acting styles is affecting how you approach acting? Especially if you were to do a period piece like Oscar Wilde or something? Would you do it in Received Pronunciation? Apologies for going on at length. This was so FUN.
Symon O'Hagan
2024-07-28 00:11:18 +0000 UTC
