http://www.moviezeal.com/review-frankenstein/ The official podcast of MovieZeal.com, where film is always best discussed under the gentle influence of fine wine (as fine as $10 will get you). Each week Evan, Heather, and Luke pick a theme, discuss a theatrical release based on that theme, pop the cork and drink a wine that fits said theme, and finally subject one another to The Gauntlet, where forcing others to watch painful films nets you fabulous prizes. There is not anything else on the internets like it (literally). Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:02:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.moviezeal.com/review-frankenstein/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Luke Harrington Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:00:25 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/2008/02/23/review-frankenstein/#comment-79 I didn't say there weren't differences. I think you could say that the theme of the book is simply "Man should not play God", whereas the theme of the film is "Man will fail when he tries to play God." In either case, I think, the experiment failed because of its nature--whether by divine condemnation or simply the imperfection of mankind (embodied both in Fritz's bumbling and in Frankenstein's failure to care for his creation). Either way, it seems to me that the point is that God makes perfect life and man does not. I didn’t say there weren’t differences. I think you could say that the theme of the book is simply “Man should not play God”, whereas the theme of the film is “Man will fail when he tries to play God.” In either case, I think, the experiment failed because of its nature–whether by divine condemnation or simply the imperfection of mankind (embodied both in Fritz’s bumbling and in Frankenstein’s failure to care for his creation). Either way, it seems to me that the point is that God makes perfect life and man does not.

]]> http://www.moviezeal.com/review-frankenstein/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Thadd Harrington Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:13:02 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/2008/02/23/review-frankenstein/#comment-73 You claim that thematically the movie and the play are similar, but I disagree. In the movie Frankenstein's monster goes made because he gets an irregular brain. The assistant was supposed to get a normal brain, but he drops that one, so not knowing any better he grabs the brain labeled "abnormal" and sets off back to the lab. The end feeling is that if the monster had received a normal brain he would have been fine. In the book the monster becomes a monster simply because what Frankenstein did was an abomination against nature. There's a difference between an experiment gone wrong and an experiment that was wrong to begin with. You claim that thematically the movie and the play are similar, but I disagree. In the movie Frankenstein’s monster goes made because he gets an irregular brain. The assistant was supposed to get a normal brain, but he drops that one, so not knowing any better he grabs the brain labeled “abnormal” and sets off back to the lab. The end feeling is that if the monster had received a normal brain he would have been fine. In the book the monster becomes a monster simply because what Frankenstein did was an abomination against nature. There’s a difference between an experiment gone wrong and an experiment that was wrong to begin with.

]]>