Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ doesn’t look half bad, but… can we maybe get it in black and white? Or – hear me out – black, white… and green? That’d look good, right? That scene in a stark B&W, except for the unholy emerald glow of the Mad Science apparatuses. I think that would pop, visually.
Anyway. Pretty cool.
When I saw they had made a romantic comedy called YOUNG WERTHER, I naturally laughed. Why wouldn’t I? It was such an entertaining accident.
It’s pretty solid: Oscar Isaac, Andrew Garfield, Christoph Waltz, and Mia Goth were mentioned as the principals. I have no idea if one of them is going to be the Monster, though. None of them seem quite right for that particular part, although I suspect Isaac will get to be Dr. Frankenstein. I like Waltz a lot as an actor, but he’s too old for that role, too.
This is definitely of interest to me:
https://twitter.com/john_overholt/status/1064181147331149824
Yup, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been a while since I read it, and it’s time that I rectified that. It’s got such an interesting place in the horror canon, after all; so many people kind of shrug and spread their hands on its literary merit, and yet it shaped so much of what came after…
At any rate: adieu to Son of the Black Sword.
I’m not terrified of them, I’m not alarmed by them, I’m not worried about them. I do not see them through the lens of sci-fi / horror B-movies. I do not panic at the thought of people deliberately manipulating my food, because we’ve been doing that ever since the dawn of civilization. And I certainly think that ‘Frankenfood’ is a silly neologism that demonstrates that the user has neither a good understanding of genetics, or any real sense for the plot and/or message of Frankenstein*.
That is all.
Moe Lane
*The movies – many of which I love; don’t get me wrong – are probably to blame for that. The book was trying to make a different kind of point. Not to English literature geek out too much, but in my opinion the primary difference here is that the movies generally took the position that Victor Frankenstein’s mistake was in thinking that he could create a new man from dead parts, while the book’s position is that his mistake lay in thinking that he should do it. Because, please note: Frankenstein in the book did create a thinking, reasoning entity with the capacity to learn; he just also created one that did not have, for lack of another term, a soul. Which suggests, amusingly, that Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein does an excellent job at bridging the cap between the conventional movies, and the book.
…otherwise known as Promethean: The Created: The Movie was going to be good.
According to Howard Tayler, no such luck. The best he can manage is a prediction that it won’t quite sink below his Threshold of Disappointment, which is pretty darn bad there. And, worse: Tayler is good at liking movies that I end up liking, too. Ach, well…
I’m pulling the music-video-that-I-couldn’t-load-anyway and putting up this trailer that Constant Reader BG5 just sent me:
I, Frankenstein. Otherwise known as Promethean: The Created: The Movie. How the heck do these people manage to keep ripping off White Wolf and not get sued?
I know nothing about the race for New Orleans Coroner (except that yes, it is an elected position): I don’t know the participants, the issues, the truthfulness of this ad, or even whether I’m helping a Republican or a Democrat by reproducing it.
AND I DON’T CARE.
Via TPM, who couldn’t believe that that an ad where the coroner of New Orleans is being accused of selling organs actually got commercial airtime, either. But they got confirmation.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
