Several people were drinking and chatting in a villa, taking turns telling ghost stories to relieve boredom. Among them are the talented Lord Byron, the romantic poet Shelley, and his little lover Mary. Several people became more and more interested, so they decided to write a horror novel each. As a result, neither of the two great wits made an article, but Mary and Byron’s doctor Polly each wrote an excellent article. Polly's "Vampire" is the predecessor of Dracula, who will sweep the world in the future; Mary's work also created the only horror image that can be compared with a vampire-"Frankenstein" (Frankenstein).
Many people think that Frankenstein is the name of this monster. In fact, this is the name of the scientific maniac who created the monster. The monster itself has no official name, only a nickname Adam.
This monster pieced together from a corpse made a sensation in the entire European literary world as soon as it was born, and naturally it could not escape the keen tentacles of Hollywood. In 1931, Universal Pictures, one of the eight major Hollywood studios, handed over the adapted screenplay to a budding director. James Whale..
Will only retained the backbone and iconic elements of Mary’s novels. The film really became his personal work, and after a great success, he filmed the sequel "Frankenstein's Bride".
This sequel is a sublimation prop in "Gods and Beasts".
The monster in the sequel fled to the country, and the frightened villagers kept chasing him until he met a kind, blind old man. Because he was blind and unable to see the terrifying faces of the monster, the old man and the monster became good friends, but an evil doctor appeared, driving the monster’s mind into madness, and conspired with him to kill Frankenstein’s wife, using the heart of the corpse Created a woman and a human in the laboratory. But the woman created human beings indifferent to monsters, and the desperate monsters destroyed everything in the laboratory with their own hands...In this sequel, the monster is no longer just a screaming monster, he has emotions, desires to love and be loved, but also The same will be heartbroken.
It is almost a perfect correspondence:
——Monsters driven away; Whale forced to retire.
They are all monsters that the world fears and hates because of ignorance
— The care given by the blind old man is the only warmth that the monster gets;
Whale once had a lover in the war, a young, beautiful boy
who admired him, and trusted him. They were all deprived of such a little power of happiness
—monsters were lonely, longing to be loved, and
Whale tried hard to get close in his lonely and bleak old age. That handsome heterosexual gardener
-monster lost the courage to continue to live in disappointment,
but Whale had the courage to die with dignity because of the gardener's friendship.
I believe anyone who has watched the film will never forget what a beautiful and lonely solo dance with Whale's body floating in the blue water, accompanied by the sad tune of the violin.
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