Key point 1: The way the story begins is
in the icy and icy North Pole. The story begins with Victor's narration of his painful memories (the novel begins with the reply of the captain and his wife).
This way of starting the story is not very common for many movies. Painful memories in such a cold world have paved the way for this to be a sad story.
Key point 2: The pursuit of knowledge
In 1793, Victor came to a German university to study medicine. He questioned the views of every professor and quarreled with them. The professor of physics is a perfect materialist. He believes in everything based on science and denies all philosophy. Victor has both, and he hopes that the two can be combined into one. His desire for knowledge is crazy, in fact, it was because his mother died of dystocia, which inspired him to desire for life. He hugged his mother and wailed in extreme pain: Please, Bring her back! So he is exploring the mystery of life. Before leaving home to study, he came to his mother’s grave and said: "Oh, Mother. You should never have died. No one need ever die. I will stop this. I promise! No one needs to die, I want to stop all this. I swear!)". When the medical professor said to him: I warn you, Victor, that life is life, and death is death, which is the truth of nature. He was like a mad bull, roaring frantically at the professor. And all this is from Victor's inner appeal, he needs a miracle and does not believe in reality.
Key point 3: Thinking about the good and evil of
human nature The watershed between good and evil of human nature
He was born as a group of animals, and weird people are also humans. Although he doesn’t know why he was born, where he came from, and where he wants to go, he is kind at first, just like he wants to eat when he is hungry and cold. To wear clothes is an instinct. After trying to get in touch with people and longing for the so-called failure of friendship, he was frustrated and sat in the snow like a child and cried. He knew at this moment that with his ugly appearance, he could not be Are normal people destined to be alone for a lifetime when they make friends? No, his anger reached its peak, and the anger of vengeance began to burn: "It's all because of Frankenstein, I want you to enter the abyss of pain." Since then, he has no kindness in his heart, leaving only empty sins.
Key point 4: The standard of aesthetics.
Our clothes are bright, our skin is smooth, we behave appropriately, we vomit decently, all kinds of parties and activities, all kinds of sports excitement... In any case, weird people are absolutely ugly, even horrible and disgusting in our eyes. . After the bride was reborn, she was as ugly as the weirdo, and Victor looked at the reborn bride without any fear. Elizabeth was still so beautiful in his heart. No matter how ugly on the outside, he would always remain an irreplaceable wife in his heart. And when the weirdo said beautiful to the bride, my friends and I were shocked, beatuiful? ? ? The weirdo looked at Elizabeth tenderly. The only lover in this world who can be with him, can make herself no longer lonely and helpless, and who can make herself happy and happy, gently stroked her face. When the two men began to violently compete for Elizabeth, who was still "beautiful", she recognized her ugly appearance and was shocked by this irreversible face of terror. Beauty is beauty and ugliness is ugly. This is what happened. What a terrifying nightmare she herself, she can neither be the wife of VCTOR, nor can she live with monsters with the same scary face, she screamed that she wanted to end this nightmare, ignited her whole body with an oil lamp, and jumped off Steps...
The standards of beauty and ugliness have achieved the most liberating results with the sensitive nerves of women at this moment.
Key point five: family affection
The weird man found Victor and asked to make himself a woman like him, so that they could be together because of the same, and stay away from this world and live a secluded life in the North Pole. This is the kindness he wants. He reproached and said: "You gave me life, but you let me fend for myself. I want you to give me a female companion. I have love you can't imagine and your unbelievable anger in my heart. I can only choose one of them. "
After Victor told the entire story at the last Arctic Circle, he fell into a drowsy sleep and left the world. The weird man sat beside Victor and sobbed sadly. The captain asked him why he was crying. He replied, "He was my father". At this moment, my tears couldn't stop, and his only relative in this world also left. He was sad for his life and also sad for his unrelated father: the ugly appearance was not what you abandoned me. The reason, if you don’t love me, why let me come into this world? If you don’t get the love, I will destroy you. Now we all got our wish. He stood on an isolated island holding a torch, and destroyed with Frankenstein...
Key point six:
Before watching a movie, "Frankenstein", I always thought that "Frankenstein" was the name of a weird person, but I have seen it Later, I learned that the full name of the protagonist was Victor Frankenstein. The freak was created by him. He never had a name. The name of the story is like saying that the two of them are connected. It was made by him. Child, he is his father, if it is named XX Frankenstein. An indescribable name.
In addition, Victor is actually a very selfish person. To put it more seriously, he has a character problem: he desperately created a weird person but was ugly and abandoned him. He rejected the request to blame the artificial female partner. Knowing that a stranger would come to retaliate, he still married Elizabeth and went to flee, causing his wife to be killed by the stranger. In the end, he resurrected Elizabeth extremely selfishly, and her ugly appearance caused her to set herself on fire. All this is caused by Victor's selfishness.
Key point seven: background
background style: typical British style, aristocratic castle, cascading candles, round dance skirt, waltz, symphony, like an opera. The environment has short vegetation-covered mountains, which turn into extremely cold snow-capped mountains in winter.
Background music: all kinds of symphonies, can be heard everywhere, different plots with different rhythms, quite perfect
background event: the occurrence of cholera, is also a major event in European history, similar to the Black Death, has had multiple outbreaks, causing the population A large number of
background crowds are reduced : this is a crazy crowd. At the scene of the murderer who killed the doctor, and at the scene of the execution of the wronged Justin, the crowd swarmed, chanting and exhilarating. This is a group of people who need stimulation to dispel boredom. The protagonist’s home is a nobleman. They lead an elegant and noble life, while ordinary people live a warm life. They are numb, and only need stimulation to make them live in order to survive. The days to live.
Background law: Regarding Justin’s death, it’s not clear in the movie, and the introduction stated that she was sentenced to hanging because she could not prove her innocence. I checked relevant information. This kind of law is called "presumption of guilt" in the 21st century. "If you define it in very simple terms, it means that if you cannot prove your innocence, then you are guilty. On the contrary, the "presumption of innocence" means that if you cannot be proven guilty, then you are not guilty. Nowadays, most European and American legal systems use the “presumption of innocence” (at least in the United States and Hong Kong), and don’t ask me which kind of celestial dynasty is, because of the laws of the celestial dynasty, you know...
Surprise point eight: the originator of science fiction is
because of the climate Abnormal, the rain continued, Shelley, Byron, Mary, and Byron’s personal doctor Polydoli were often forced to stay in the house. When the four of them were chatting, they decided to start a competition and each created a horror story, but in the end it was only Mary who turned in the paper. Encouraged by Shelley, Mary created "Frankenstein". This work is not only influenced by famous works such as "The Tempest", "Paradise Lost", and "The Song of the Old Sailor", it also contains Mary's own experience. For example, Kleval in the book is like Shelley's incarnation, and the monsters created by Frankenstein are also vegetarians, just like Mary and Shelley. At that time, Dr. Polydori only wrote the beginning of the story, and it was completed a few years later. It was called "Vampire". The work "Dracula" (1897) by British horror novelist Stoke (1847～1912) Zeng Shen Affected by it. (The above is an excerpt)
It is quite commendable that they predicted the possibility of organ transplantation such as the heart in this novel nearly 200 years ago (see the conversation between Victor, Henry and the old professor at a meal), and even created life to make them beyond us. People will not get sick and old, and are stronger, smarter, wiser and more civilized than we are. Organ transplantation has already been realized, but some day it will really realize the creation of superhumans and so on. Today, I think that 3D printers are gradually being applied to organ replacement, but it is quite difficult to spread it to every patient, because interest groups will not give up monopolizing any profitable business opportunity. It’s a bit of a bias.
Finally, "Vampire" is also an incomparable classic in history. I have also read a vampire novel called "Hot Night Dream". The main reason is that the translation of the version I read is quite beautiful. After reading several versions, it was boring, and I found that the appreciation of foreign works depends on translation.
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