
Before break, we watched a segment of Kenneth Branaugh's Frankenstein with Robert De Niro as the Creature. How did this film handle one of the themes we are discussing? You may want to discuss differences from the novel as well as what effect those differences make for the film (i.e. creating audience sympathy for Victor or dehumanizing the Creature).
I don't know about you guys, but De Niro as the Creature, to me, is a baffling production choice. He's much better as Jack Byrnes in Meet the Parents and for that matter, in one of his all-time best films, Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.
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This film handles the theme of a monster. In the movie it shows the creature getting chased out of town and getting attacked by a village full of rioting peasents. He ends up having to find a place to hide. He finds an alley that is someplace where a homeless person would live. Because of his looks, he is immediately downgraded to the lowest social class. It also shows how this creature has made Victor completely mad. It creates sympathy for both Victor and the creature
although we only saw only a small portion of the movie, like josh says, the movie holds the theme of a monster. the monster devotes his time and energy toward the delacy's. He ends up doing good deed for them. But he is shooed away y them,just by his appearance. Also while he is in the small town he is attacked and cursed at for his looks, not y what he has done or said.
although we only saw only a small portion of the movie, like josh says, the movie holds the theme of a monster. the monster devotes his time and energy toward the delacy's. He ends up doing good deed for them. But he is shooed away y them,just by his appearance. Also while he is in the small town he is attacked and cursed at for his looks, not y what he has done or said.
This film handles the theme of monster. In the film, the creature is percieved as a horrid monster and is despised by all people who come in contact with him due to his repulsive appearance. For example,when he is caught for stealing food in the marketplace he is not accepted due to his physical deformities and is chased by the peasants into an alley.The peasants only based their opinions of the creature on his physical appearance and did not consider whether he was truly evil. This dehumanized the creature because he is not viewed by the peasants as a normal person who should be treated with respect and dignity due to his appearance and is considered an outcast in society. This creates audience sympathy for Victor because he went mad when he began to comprehend the severity of his actions once he brought the creature to life.
This film handles the theme of monster because people are afraid of the creature. They judge the creature solely based on how he looks before observing how he acts with others. They show that many humans share the fear of creatures because they have deformed figures, and society has made others believe that all creatures are evil and not good. In addition, a difference between the movie and the book is that the peasants find the creature stealing food from a market and chase him into an alley in the movie. In the book, not many people knew about the creature's existence or saw him except for Victor and the De Lacey family. In the movie, the peasants are trying to fight against the creature and kill him. The effect that this difference makes for the film is that it dehumanizes the creature because no one cares about his feelings or shows any compassion him. They show that they won't treat him respect like another human just because of his appearance. Lastly, the movie created audience sympathy for Victor because it showed that he went crazy after creating the creature and that he had realized the terrible consequences of what he had done.
This film I think handles the theme of a monster but in a different way. I feel that in the movie Victor Creates more of a human than a creature. To me Robert De Niro was a great choice it was just the Costuming and Make up that made it wrong
i think that this film definitely shows the gothic novel theme. This is defenately shown when we see the laboratory, instead of being metal and scientistic, it was more relating to the time period. I also think that in the novel the creature is portrayed as the criminal and that he is terrible, but sad and lonely. in the movie he is portrayed a misunderstood but still sad and lonely as well. the difference is we can see how he acting in the movie, where we can only read about it in the book.
I think the film shwos the theme of a monster. It showed how he was chased out of town by the people and judged based upon his appearance. In the book he devoted his time to the DeLacey's but when trying to communicate with them he was pushed away and treated liek a monster. They didnt give him a chance to explain himself.
I think the movie uses the theme of a monster. It was really stereotypical because when the creature was seen in the streets, he was constintly followed and beaten. Everybody around him in town wanted him dead, causing him to have to hide out in an alley so no one would find him and continue this abuse towards him. This is all due to the way he looks with all the scars all over his face and his abnormality, everyone asumes he is a monster and a bad person so they react as they should kill him. It makes victor realize he shouldn't have created a creature.
This film handles the theme of the monster because people have 1st impressions/ judgments based on the creature's appearance, and not who he is as a person. Since the creature appears different from everyone else, people take that as a bad thing and think that the creature is a horrible creature. If people would treat the others from their personality and not appearance, I believe that the world would be a nicer place to live
After watching a short portion of the film I feel that one of the themes that the movie handled was the theme "monster". As the creature was created the audience perceived that he was a monster based upon his inhumane like appearance. He had an ugly face with scars every where and a oddly looking body. Because of this appearance when he strolled through a village people automatically judged De Niro as an evil person/monster, so they began attacking him. This puts Victor in a dangerous situation because as the creature he doesn't want to be perceived as this monster character who does bad to society.
The movie had several themes that we have discussed, one in particular is obligation. When the creature had trouble walking victor felt a sort of obligation to help him up. After 5 minutes of just rolling around in the gooey liquid victor still tries helping his creature instead of giving up and leaving him there. All though this isnt a big part it shows that victor feels obligated to help him. In the book victor runs away from the creature right away not caring about the creature or anybody else but himself. Victor (in the book) still felt obligated to the creature in some aspects, thats why he listened to his story. At least for the parts we saw of the movie, it made victor seem like a good man aiding to a helpless creature. It showed that he was caring and still devoted to his creation.
The film used the theme of a monster in order to create the creature. By having all of the villages beat him and shun him the audience gets the idea that this new creature is a kind of hated monster, but also the audience feels sympathy for the creature because you see no retaliation. Unlike the movie, in the book at first, you thinkthe creature is evil, but once his sections comes around you soon feel as much for the creature as you do for victor.
Like most everyone says, the film shows the theme of a monster. We only saw a small part of the movie, but it showed that all the townspeaople, and even dr.frankenstein saw him as a monster. In the book, they also see him as revolting, but we come to know him as a sophisticated character that has been shunned from society. In the film we are led to sympathize with victor for what he has done, because we can see his reaction- but in the book we only read it. The movie also dehumanises the creature more thatn the book, it is more of a 'creature feature', whereas the book is more a romance/mystery so far.
the film shows the theme of the monster by showing how people judge others based on appearance. When the townspeople saw that the creature looked different that them, they were instantly frightened at his hideous appearance and he had to run away and hide. He was forced into living horribly just because of the way he looks and not because of who he is.
I think that the movie shows the theme of knowledge. Even it portrays both victor and the creation as very knoweledgable, even in the small parts that we have watched. For example, when the creature leaves, and is is in the villiage he knows hjow top be mischievious, and run and hide and jump into carriages. this shows his growth in knowledge, beecause when he first was awakened, he barely could stand up, and now he's running, and hiding, and jumping into things.
I agree with josh, the film shows the theme of the monster... after also seeing young frankenstein and the movie we watched in class today, i realized that no other version made the creature so monstrous. In the film with robert dinero, they made him soooooo ugly. They covered him in slime, gave him numerous stiches all around his head and made his skin a weird color. the other versions didnt give the creature such a look. in the movie version, they had the assistant to steal the brain whereas in the book, they didnt. In the movie and the book he went into town and everybody screamed and ran. Just because of his looks, people were instantly afraid of him.
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