SPRING ROLLS WITH NOTHING

happy for u

omg gorgeous it's giving J. C. Leyendecker THIS IS PHENOMENAL

I love how og jayvik are just tired middle aged men with History lmao

yup same

so true

And they're both cute as hell

Great work, reminds me of this The Last of Us AU archiveofourown.org/works/725619...

But even then, I LIKE some of Del Torro's changes. I like that he gave the most prominent female character some personality and opinions beyond being Victor's agreeable, subservient pet, the ideal Victorian woman she was in the novel.

I read and studied this novel in university. I wrote a paper on it. You cannot fit all the thematically relevant plot points into a single movie. You'd need a miniseries for it to be an accurate adaptation. And I would totally watch that.

Careful not to have thoughtful disagreement on the internet it's scary I guess

For example, one of the only redeeming parts of Arcane's writing is that it's yet another accidental Frankenstein adaptation, because the creation myth of the Modern Man (The Man Of Progress) and themes of "building technology that will destroy us" are still in our collective subconscious

Del Torro adapted the story, took creative liberties, and credited the source material. It's fan fiction, that doesn't make it worthless as art. Mary Shelley wrote a story so influential and timely that its reverberating through media 200 years later, with accidental adaptations too.

If I want to experience the story, I'll read the novel, not watch a movie about it. I don't expect a movie to convey absolutely everything important about a novel because there isn't a single movie adaptation that has ever accomplished that.

Novels are by nature always more rich and detailed than films because of the limitations of the medium. This movie is not accurate to the novel, it's its own thing. It could only have ever been its own thing. That’s why it's called an adaptation and not a replication.

Judging an adaptation purely on its accuracy to the source material is pointless imo. I love the book and I love the movie, I didn't sit there seething at every inaccuracy because it's a movie, it's a different piece of media and it will never capture the scope of the novel.