[Movie] Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

This should be a perfect match, really looking forward to it.....

 

Finally a new movie idea from Hollywood

 

Doubt I'll watch it, but on a side note, until recently I never knew Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley were married. Talk about a literary power couple.

 

Really?

Who wrote it though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Unbound_(Shelley)

 

I read her wiki and it turns out she wrote more novels. Among them was a 21st century dystopian novel called The Last Man that fits decently well with today's Doomed genre.

It was culturally suppressed and didn't resurface until back in the 60s.

 

I'm not much into literature (I suppose I should change that), but Ozymandias is still the one piece of literature that has stuck with me over the years after I got out of jr. high/high school. I can't think of another literary work we read in high school that resonates quite like it did/does to me. Mostly because it's a lesson for everyone and is the lesson of everyone whereas most other works we read were works of literature that focused inward on the work itself. I still remember reading that as a kid and thinking "damn - that's wild ... and it'll be true today and forever".

 

Imagine having to put up with that sense of humor on a long boat ride to who-knows-where. Just turbul.

 

Kind of ironic, and getting this back to something somewhat "Frankenstein" (ok, maybe not this movie), but I recently contacted a Boris Karloff (the master of horror and actor from Frankenstein movies almost 100 years ago) website trying to determine the authenticity of a photograph some of us had been discussing on another forum. He passed away in the late 60's, so I wasn't sure who I'd get a response from. I got a response back from .... his daughter, Sara. She must be in her 80s by now. I was like "well, if anybody should know the answer to this question, she would be the one." I asked her if the girl in the picture was her. lol. I knew it couldn't be but we were trying to figure out who the girl he was holding in the pic was. Thought that was kind of unexpected and neat.

 

Isaac is rocking the Tears for Fears hair.

 

Trailer is out.....

 

Holly **** - great screen play idea, someone should adapt it into a book.

 

I am somewhat looking forward to this, but what I really want to see is: Frankenstein in Romania by Radu Jude. I watched Aferim! by him and enjoyed it a lot. Radu Jude is similar in aesthetic to Sean Baker. In the ridiculous story lines and character study aspect.

 

Sadly, this comment wouldn't be out of place amongst some of our youth.

 

You mean Gizmo...