Frankenstein's Adaptation Anomaly: The 1931 Film vs. The Original 1818 Novel

I love the fact that the original story starts in a polar expedition. Back then those were the lasts places on earth yet to be explored, using the lastest on tech,It was the equivalent to astronauts and I love how much that fits on the science fiction theme of the time

I always viewed the story of Frankenstein as a tale of child abuse/neglect and an exploration of the cycle of violence.

Such a good analysis of two different classics. Frankenstein and the Creature are a great example of disturbed family relations, you cannot convince me otherwise.

Really interesting to see how the to me "classic" tale of frankenstein and his monster has so much differnces with the novel. I think the high intellegience of the monster would make it so much more terrifying in a movie adaptation compared to this slow and instinct driven creature most people think about. Thank you for the wonderful video and bringing this to my attention

My favorite adaptation of Frankenstein has got to be junji itos version. First because I can barely read so I like the pictures lol but also because he followed shelley's text faithfully except 1 detail that that in my opinion elevated the story, Victor Frankenstein succesfully makes his monster a bride but instead of the monsters getting along the bride is as if not more horrified by the monster than any human and attacks the monster with scissors forcing the monster to kill her. This small change was just 😙🤌 chefs kiss

It's cool how nuanced the characters are, despite how archetypal they typically are depicted.

I’ve never fully understood the books subtitle of “the modern day Prometheus”. Yes Frankenstein discovers the secret to create life, but in the book he leaves out the details about how he did it so no one else tries. Whereas if it was really a Prometheus story he would have spilled the beans on how to do it

THANK YOU for showing images from the Junji Ito Frankenstein. Might be my favorite Ito

Honestly I would recommend watching the hallmark miniseries since it’s the most accurate adaptation of Frankenstein we’ve every had.

Bride of Frankenstein is such a great sequel, I like how the creature spared Victor Frankenstein and chose death “We belong dead” with tears streaming down his face as he destroyed the lab. Knowing the creature would never know peace, love, acceptance or companionship. And when they made the bride, it showed how much worse their experiment was, they brought a woman back to life but with barely any human level function, even less than the creature when he was first brought to life. And by a doctor even more mad than victor himself.

I have a lot of faith that Guillermo del Toro can do Frankenstein justice

I always got ticked off at how pop-culture made the monster incommunicado, just grunting and groaning or speaking in simple sentences, instead of showing him as eloquent like he was in the book. And I wish there was more emphasis put on his weird biology.  Like- being made of different parts of people- would that have made him stronger? Would parts of him have succumbed to rot? Maybe he could re-sew his parts back on if they fell off, heheh. I also once read a comic- Monster and Madman- which inferred that each part of the monster caused him to possess different, fragmented memories from different dead people... I truly pity the monster. Made of the dead, shunned by his maker, not finding a place in the world to belong. Victor is the monster.

Used this to get a good understanding of frankenstein for my exams, i really thought this video would have atleast 100k views i was shoked after seing it, you have really good video kvality and delevery keep it up

Life everlasting, reanimation, a flawless new design.

This was a fantastic breakdown of the differences between the movie and the book. I rarely see discussion around Frankenstein that involves both, instead resolving to only speak about one over the other. I do, however, believe there is a book that has had an even worse time being faithfully adapted and acknowledged for the beautiful and tragic tale that it is. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde. Maybe in the future, you might give that one a look too. X3

I'm just going to say it, penny dreadful did something different and beautiful with Frankenstein, it turned the characters more 3 dimensional, compared to earlier straight forward adaptations, it feels like every time you see the characters on screen whether it's the creature or victor, you are transported into that time with them, and made to feel the same way they feel. I haven't seen many movies or shows that have done that; And that's probably why I love penny dreadful.

Excellent vid. Monstrous actions begets monsters and monsters beget monstrous actions... Ah, the Hollywood 'Mad' scientist and his creation trope really begins with Rotwang and his female robot in the 1927 Metropolis movie.

honestly william had it coming with the whole "my father will hear about this" attitude

Great video, good production quality, good topic. I like videos about adaptations, and what makes a good adaptation. Not being 100% faithful to the source material is not always a bad sign, keeping the spirit of the source material is. And I never thought Edmond Dantès had similarities with Viktor Frankestein to be honest. I still don't know if the creator is more inclined towards movies or videogames. I think it's cinema, but videogames seems to attract more attention. Either way, good luck, always glad to find good channels (yeah, I also came for the Dark Souls video). These videos are streets ahead.

I've always wanted to do a depiction of the monster from her description. The Karlof monster is its own thing. Victor built it with beautiful attributes.It was supposed to be a perfect man. I took it that when it moved and lived it, had a kind of uncanny valley look. I remember right. She describes large white teeth and flowing black hair. But it definitely would not have Looks like a stitch together zombie.