Body Horror 2: Electric Boogaloo
Right, we're half way through our wild rush to finish these blogs cause I love making life for myself far harder than it needs to be. Especially in schoolwork.
So, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Everyone's seen enough movies that reference Frankenstein to know that some scientist creates life out of mashed together body parts, nothing crazy or outlandish nowadays. But after reading Frankenstein, what always strikes me is how wrong the depictions of the monster are now. Henceforth I'll be referring to the monster as Adam because he felt the name suited him and I think it does as well.
So Victor and his rich self strolls into university trying to do alchemy and his professors wisely tell him that science is the new wave and he would be great if he applied himself. And Victor, thinking he's hot shit tells his professors he knows what he's doing and proceeds to start grave robbing and accidentally brings life into this world like an irresponsible teenage parent, which he is. And like the monster he is, he abandons his son to the harsh cruel world and leaves.
Adam, his precious self, just wants to be loved and wanted so he travels through Europe before settling down in secret with a French family and learning language and the true meaning of love from them. This leads to his own realization that he's been abandoned and after being run out of the house, he begins to search for Victor to make him at minimum a companion.
Anyways, Victor doesn't and thus Adam starts his rampage but honestly, Adam was completely justified in wanting someone. He has massive amounts of intelligence, learning languages and concepts better than most. He's acutely aware that he's the only one of his kind and his "father" who should be all accounts be there for him, tries to kill him at every turn. Just, Adam is so intelligent and kills me that such a smart creature has been reduced to a grunting fool with seemingly no drive or purpose. He's been reduced to a one dimensional solitary personality trait that was barely there to begin with. Like at least keep your adaption accurate, especially if it's such a recognizable novel.
So, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Everyone's seen enough movies that reference Frankenstein to know that some scientist creates life out of mashed together body parts, nothing crazy or outlandish nowadays. But after reading Frankenstein, what always strikes me is how wrong the depictions of the monster are now. Henceforth I'll be referring to the monster as Adam because he felt the name suited him and I think it does as well.
So Victor and his rich self strolls into university trying to do alchemy and his professors wisely tell him that science is the new wave and he would be great if he applied himself. And Victor, thinking he's hot shit tells his professors he knows what he's doing and proceeds to start grave robbing and accidentally brings life into this world like an irresponsible teenage parent, which he is. And like the monster he is, he abandons his son to the harsh cruel world and leaves.
Adam, his precious self, just wants to be loved and wanted so he travels through Europe before settling down in secret with a French family and learning language and the true meaning of love from them. This leads to his own realization that he's been abandoned and after being run out of the house, he begins to search for Victor to make him at minimum a companion.
Anyways, Victor doesn't and thus Adam starts his rampage but honestly, Adam was completely justified in wanting someone. He has massive amounts of intelligence, learning languages and concepts better than most. He's acutely aware that he's the only one of his kind and his "father" who should be all accounts be there for him, tries to kill him at every turn. Just, Adam is so intelligent and kills me that such a smart creature has been reduced to a grunting fool with seemingly no drive or purpose. He's been reduced to a one dimensional solitary personality trait that was barely there to begin with. Like at least keep your adaption accurate, especially if it's such a recognizable novel.
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