Monday, October 14, 2013

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.




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