Nothing Last Forever: Links and Displays

To explain why there is a  trailer below for Die Hard is that Die Hard is the film adaption of the book Nothing Last Forever and , and the books precursor The Detective was also made into a movie, but had nothing to do with Die Hard in any way at all so they are separate series, in my eyes. There are also posters for the covers of each and I like the movie version better poster wise because it tells just enough without a lot of detail. Here is an article by the New York Daily News that talks about how the book was just rereleased and that the movie and book have a lot of differences, so click this to view this article. Article 1. The Picture of the man is a picture of the books author Roderick Thorp who stated that his inspiration for the book was that he fell asleep watching The Towering Inferno, and then imagined a guy being chased by terrorist through building. The Second article is from Hollywood Reporter talking about how the book is getting reprinted after 20 years, and that there are also some similarities between the 2. Article 2

Frankenstein: I Frankenstein trailer reaction

First off the trailer is below if you want to see it for yourself and make your own opinion. The first thing I want to say is that it looks almost like a semi sequel to the book, like if the monster decided not to kill itself and it's a what if situation. The monster looks more close to how it is described in the book and it seems they are building on the mythology of the Frankenstein universe, and they seem to have an army of Frankenstein's. It also seems they are adding different types of monsters into the story for the monster to fight. This version also takes place in modern day so you have that aspect to add to it that could be kind of cool, with car's and modern weapons for the characters to use. One complaint I can point out right away though is that and this is nitpicky but they are calling the monster Frankenstein, and that isn't the monsters name, it is just the monster nothing else. Also I think they might have humanized the monster a little too much for my taste, and it makes him less scary in my opinion. So I think the trailer looks interesting and I will definitely go and see the movie if not for the fact that it is the unofficial sequel to the book, I also question how they are going to explain how the monster didn't freeze to death on an ice raft. So yeah the trailer is below and no the movie isn't fake like I thought it was when I first saw this trailer because I think it kind of looks like it is in the same vain of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, were it takes itself a little to serious, when at the end of the day  it is Frankenstein in modern days that's also an unofficial sequel to the book, so yeah that's my opinion on the trailer now let's hear your in the comments below.

Frankenstein: Theme and Summary

The theme of the story Frankenstein is that the pursuit of new knowledge isn't always he best idea all the time. This is prevalent through the story because at the beginning he waste half his life trying to find a way to bring a corpse back to life and he regrets that later on when he realizes he is alone and should go and find a wife. Then when he finally creates the monster he is excited at first but then grows scared of it when it starts destroying his lab, so he regrets making the monster then when his friend shows up he thinks that he is ill when he sees him, and this is when he starts to think that making this thing was a bad idea. This theme is really shown when the monster escapes and kills his the doctors brother, and he then wants to kill the monster, but at the same time protect his wife. Everything then comes to a boiling point when the monster kills his wife and the doctor wishes he could have killed the monster when had the chance but didn't. This changes him because he goes from being the guy that has hope and is always seeing the good in things to a dark former shadow of himself regretting ever even bringing this thing to life, as his only goal in life now live or die is to kill the thing, and exact revenge against the monster for killing all the people, but then kind of realizes that if he dies then the monster has no reason to carry on either as he wants revenge too, so he decides that it is his time and dies in his sleep causing the monster to commit suicide. So in the end the pursuit of knowledge ended in tragedy on all ends as everyone dies at the end, and there is no happy ending, to this story just it ended. A summary of the story is that Dr. Victor Frankenstein from a young age was fascinated with science and after a series of sad events happens he ends up becoming a scientific doctor and reads books and does research on the science of corpse reanimation. Then he is able to bring the monster to life, but he afraid of what the thing can do so he locks it up in a room were the monster eventually escapes. Fast forward a bit and the doctor has found his brother was murdered by some unknown being and he knows it's the monster so he kind of goes on the hunt till the monster confronts him and ask him to make a bride for him but after the doctor realizes that he could have whole army, he stops and destroys causing the monster to kill all the people he cares for. Then this leads him to tracking down the monster in the north pole and dyeing before he could stop it , and the monster floats a way on an ice raft killing him self.
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Frankenstein: Book Vs. Movie Setting

The setting of the book and movie are both in Europe and that is were the similarities pretty much end because everything else is changed. The setting for the movie is in the eastern European country village full of villagers that seem completely oblivious to what is going on with the murders till the end with their angry mob tactic of burning the monster in a windmill. Then there is the location of the lab, in the movie the lab is located in a castle that evokes a real eerie gothic horror setting, that makes the doctor look like he has more rescores then a normal person. Also it make s the reanimation of the monster more animated with lightning and screaming along with all of the chains and coils, that add a science fiction element to the story. Along with the setting of the ending changing from the north pole to a windmill, were the monster is destroyed at the end, but in the movie the doctor lives. Then we have the book witch ditches the village for  city like setting, were the villagers don't ever acknowledge the monster even existing. Also the lab is moved from the gothic castle to the apartment that the doctor is living in, and the reanimation sequence is barley described as he doesn't have all the electrical stuff he had in the movie. Also the prologue and epilogue witch aren't in the movie so there is no North Pole is included, and it makes the monster's death more powerful if it is a direct result of the doctors death were as in the movie the doctor is thrown from the windmill and lives though. The setting I prefer is the movie's because I think the whole gothic horror thing they do in the movie is a lot more scarier, and when the monster is getting reanimated, I think it was done better with the more animated feeling with all the technology and lightning going off as the doctor is screaming and laughing, and the wind mill scene makes you more sympathetic as the monster is chased up the mountain to the windmill were he makes his final stand throwing the doctor off, as the monster burns to death.

Frankenstein: Tone and Mood



The tone of the book Frankenstein is mostly a tragic tone because through out the book our main characters have sad experiences.  For an example we have our main protagonist Dr. Frankenstein, who has a lot of people he cares for die because he let his monster escape. My evidence to back this up is when the doctors bride is murdered on the night of their wedding, here is the quote to back it up. "I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy". (Shelly 242) This shows that he feels a sadness for the death of his wife, and that the one person he tries to protect is killed leaving him no will to live. The mood of the book Frankenstein is a dark mood, because it has a gothic horror feeling. To add to that there a lot of scares and death here, with the fact that just about all the main characters die and the monster goes on a killing spree before he dies. Here is quote to support this," My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine. " (Shelly 256).  This shows the doctors anguish over what he has done and what he has created with the monster that he created when all his loved ones end up dead or severely injured. So overall the tone and mood come together and form the gothic horror tragedy that the book comes out to be in the end, but to tell the truth this books scares don't age well at all so don't look to be running out of the room screaming when you read this book, but it is scary enough that I wouldn't read it to some little kid who is like 5, maybe just the movie for him or Groovy Goolies the cartoon.

 

Frankenstein: Analysis

What the book Frankenstein says is that who should be more powerful the creation or the creator, and that is the message of the story and that is the main conflict too. The reason being that the doctor is deciding weather or not he wants to allow his creation to live, but as a murderer, and an outcast from society, or kill his creation, that has tried to kill him and killed alot of other people that he cares about. The decision is eventually made for the doctor when everyone he really cares for is killed by the monster leading him to beleive that he needs to put the monster down and no one else can do it but him, becuase he knows what it is cappable of. But in the end this message is shown to be true when the doctor dies of a sickness in the North Pole, and when the monster finds the body he cries then floats out on an ice raft to kill himself. In the end I would say in regards to the message that in the case of just this book, I would infer the creator is more powerful because he creates the monster, and is the main cause of the monsters murderous rampage, and the cause of the monsters sadness that leads to the monsters death. My evidence here is that at the end these line can prove my point, “I am malicious because I am miserable. You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?  (Shelley 173) This how s the monster is starting to question why he should care for human when they don't care for him.  The next quote will prove that the monster is more powerful by telling the doctor if I can't have love I will have to cause fear, here is the quote, "The human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." (Shelley 173). So in the end all of these quotes were said by the monster, and these words are what drive the doctor to hunt the monster down.

Book vs. Movie # 3 the endings, SPOILERS!

The endings I am going to compare are the books ending and the Universal movies endings because they are quite different, with different messages and meanings and even different. The ending I will first touch on is the books witch and again SPOILER, Dr. Victor Frankenstein's wife is murdered, and then the doctor tracks him down, and he ends up at the north pole were our story began as a prologue. When he gets there he tells the sailors that find him the whole story and that is how the book is presented, and then afterwards the monster shows up on the boat but the doctor is dead so the monster gets really sad and then goes off on an ice raft and it is presumed that the monster dies. The message and meaning here to me is that when you get what you want in life it could lead to consequences, your not really wanting and that maybe your better off with what you had before. The movie ends with the Doctor Frankenstein getting captured by the monster and chased by peasants to a wind mill and the doctor is thrown off the wind mill and survives the fall but the windmill is burned down  by the angry mob of villagers, and then the doctor is recovering in his castle as his pregnant wife lay by his side as her father toast to the child. This ending seems to be more happy and gives the story more potential for a sequel and has the message that the monster should be accepted not destroyed based on his looks by the villagers, were as the doctor wanting revenge for the death of his friends and also there are more characters that survive the movie then the book by the end. So for witch one I like better, I would have to say the movie because on the screen I find things more powerful then when it is read on the page in my opinion, but I also do like the books ending with it being more realistic and ending on the sadder note with the more tragic characters.
                                                                                    

Frankenstein, Charecters

The characters of this book are developed in a tragic manner with our two main characters being the misunderstood monster and the semi insane doctor. The way the monster is characterized is through the description of his look, being made up of a lot of different people's body parts and then being reanimated and treated as a scary mindless being with no feelings. But then later on they use the monsters emotions to characterize him when he develops a voice after he escapes and picks it up from the people he crosses paths with. He then goes down an angry path of rage, that leads to him hiding in the north pole and later killing himself after the death of his creator.Then we have Dr. Victor Frankenstein a who is characterized as the guy that got what he worked his whole life for but when he gets it, he ends up not liking it, and in fact comes back to haunt you. Also almost everything in this guy's life goes wrong with the death of his mother at an early age to when his own creation the monster kills his brother and then he goes into a rage state were he doesn't care if he lives or dies as long as he put's a stop to the monster from harming anyone else but in the end the person he was protecting the most his wife is murdered by the monster. This leads to him feeling a loss for any meaning in life, and he almost becomes emotionless in his pursuit of the monster as he tracks it down to the north pole, and is never able to kill his creation but instead is killed and it ends the book on the monster drifting along on an ice raft ready to die, and the book ends with the two main characters being dead along with all their friends and that leaves it on a tragic note, and it  brings up the question of who's more powerful the creator or the creation.