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Frankenstein (1931)
Continue to watch the AFI100 series of movies. This film is a 70-minute movie, not a regular-length movie.
The movie tells a series of events that a scientist creates a monster and is triggered by this monster. A genius scientist's research on chemistry and electricity goes far beyond the times, and he wants to create life. So, despite the teacher's objection, the scientist set up a laboratory in an old castle in an attempt to make life. Scientists use pieces of limbs together and the brains of criminals stolen from the teacher's laboratory to form a corpse. The scientist's fiancee was very worried about him, so she made an appointment with a friend and found the scientist's teacher, and went to the castle to find him. At this time, the scientist was about to rely on thunder and lightning to give life to the corpse, and the three of them happened to be witnesses. The scientist succeeded, and the corpse he pieced together came alive and came to life. A few days later, the monster created by the scientist became abnormal and began to attack humans. The monster first killed the scientist's assistant, and then attacked the teacher and the scientist himself. The scientist had no choice but to agree with the teacher's point of view-to kill the monster. The scientist and his fiancee who returned home began preparing for the wedding, while the teacher was preparing to kill the monster in the castle. The monster relied on its great power to subdue the teacher and kill him. The scientist and fiancée who were in the wedding ceremony received the sad news that the teacher was killed. Then, the monster came to the scientist's house again and stunned the bride. At the same time, the monster drowned the little girl in the village. The behavior of the monster angered the people in the village, and everyone went up the mountain to look for him. In the end, the scientist was thrown from a height by the monster and fell half to death, while the villagers burned the monster to death.
This is a movie that leaves me speechless. This film is the most boring movie I have seen in the last two or three years. The plot of the movie can be guessed from beginning to end, and there is no turning point. Scientists must go their own way to create monsters, monsters will definitely endanger humans, people must be killed and injured, and monsters will inevitably be eliminated in the end. Scientists who are the culprits will inevitably regret it. This kind of cliché plot can be made up by elementary school students, and even some of the children's cartoons nowadays are better than it. Although this film is a 1931 movie, it is also boring and boring to put it in that era, because there are many great movies of the same time, such as "No War on the Western Front". In addition, the title of the film also made a very serious reminder, as if the movie is so scary, it is actually to make you play.
The narrative structure of the film also makes me big. It is completely straightforward, what starts, then what, what comes next, how and how at the end, and so on. The whole story has only one main line, and only this main line runs through the whole movie. I have never watched such a simple and pale movie. If I hadn't forced myself to force myself, I would have never watched it. Why did such boring and naive movies still appear in that era? It really makes me wonder.
In addition to the above two points, the most incredible thing about this film is that apart from the beginning and end of the film, the whole film is very quiet, and there is no music at all. What kind of movie will be without music? This film is just one! I'm not mistaken, this film does not have any background music at all, it's dry. Before I watched the movie, I thought that as a horror movie, it should have a lot of horror and scary music to enhance the atmosphere, but this movie is contrary to my imagination, surprisingly quiet, except for the dialogue, there are some sound effects, such as thunder. , The sound of rain and so on. The director of this movie made me admire the five-body cast. The movie can be made like this, so different! Not ordinary!
The only reason why this film was selected for AFI100 is probably because it introduced the concept of "Frankenstein" and the problems of "life" and "death" reflected in the film. In that era, "life" and "death" may be very sacred topics, and full of taboos, as the movie title says, related to "God". But nowadays, the subject matter of movies has been quite extensive, and the issue of life and death has long been unable to attract people's attention, and people do not place much emphasis on "life" and "death", as can be seen from the popular "vampire" movies nowadays. Spotlight. As for the emergence of the concept of "Frankenstein", it provides a lot of room for filmmakers in the future. In other words, without this film, there would not be so many movies with the name "Frankenstein" or "Frankenstein", so there would be fewer scary horror movies in the history of movies. In short, the symbolic meaning of the film is more important than the value of the film itself.
Among the actors in this film, except for the beautiful heroine, no one impressed me too much. The heroine is played by Mae Clarke, a typical Hollywood classical beauty image, but there are too few roles. Other people's Chinese materials are zero, so I won't say much.
In short, a very ugly movie, it's nothing. If it doesn't have a theme about creating life, it's just a piece of rubbish.
Mae Clarke
Mae Clarke
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0581 Frankentein.Frankentein.1931.D9.MiniSD-TLF
2011-10-11
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