https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/movie-vs-script-victor-frankenstein/ Comic Book Review And Commentary Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:50:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/movie-vs-script-victor-frankenstein/#comment-10343 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:50:43 +0000 https://temp-monkeysfightingrobots-url.wpmudev.hostm/?p=29320#comment-10343 I actually enjoyed the movie, but for me the most howling problem – which is present in Landis’ original screenplay – is that Landis doesn’t understand what ‘The Modern Prometheus’ means. Dude is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. Prometheus stole fire from the gods, hence it’s Frankenstein himself that Shelley means it to refer to: he’s meddling in powers that man isn’t meant to have. That is a very simple and un-ambiguous metaphor. But original script and eventual film both have multiple instances of Frankenstein saying things like, “I will build a new Prometheus!” Landis thinks ‘The Modern Prometheus’ is the monster. Not only does that make Landis a dumbass, but it’s incredible to me that the film got all the way through development and rewrites and production with *nobody* correcting him..

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