Literally most fun I’ve had in a while on a project 😭😭😭😭 I can’t wait for y’all to see it!!

Yeah but I think the 1931 version plays it off as a naivety and blinded rage/fear (almost animalistic) that causes the creature’s violence and danger. While in the book all the danger and violence he causes (to Victor) is very deliberate and purposeful.

Personally both adaptations didn’t really grasp the powerful effect of grief. GDT did a little, but it didn’t focus enough on it or make it as powerful as the generational trauma themes.

I def wasn’t a huge fan of the open narrative of the film being “Victor is the monster” like duh but I think the book was more nuanced and allowed the creature to do bad things in retaliation to his existence and creation. But I understand GDT wanted to tell a story about cyclical abuse.

Personally I like how GDT’s version at least treats the monster as a human being and as intelligent instead of how the 1931 version decided to adapt and portray the monster.

The GDT movie is great on its own and love that it takes a lot of best parts of the monster itself from the book, but it’s definitely a different perspective on the tragedy of the creature than the original text

Mary Shelley was followed by death and seemed to understand the unraveling grief can have upon a person, to even do drastic things. Her mother died, her sister in law died, her own children died, and after the first version of Frankenstein and before the second, her husband died

Which is definitely written as such to be a mirror of Victor’s own father and their relationship. GDT is writing about fatherhood, about the toxic cycle of abuse and neglect and narcissism, but Mary Shelley wasn’t and I think that’s okay.

In GDT’s version, it’s def more about the act of creating. His pursuit for eliminating death is a long scholarly journey, he is brazen enough to let everyone know his experiments, he is not ashamed or regretting until he is disappointed by his creation

He immediately regrets the monster when he becomes alive and immediately puts it out of his mind because he finally realizes what his grief and madness had lead him to do.

Like in the book it’s technically a letter sent from the captain to his sister retelling victor’s story and then Victor retells the creature’s tale in his story lol