After my relative disappointment with Del Toro’s Frankenstein*, I established in my mind—and in a post on the subject—a new expectation, a new rule, that I absolutely know Hollywood would never follow because cash is king and brand recognition is everything. Even so, this would be my rule (and I’ll be disappointed every time the world doesn’t conform to it):
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With Frankenstein fresh on the brain and in a lot of online media discourse, this seems like as good a time as any to float my pet theory about the monster. The recent Guillermo del Toro film (which I wrote about here) takes the popular approach on this matter.
But I don’t think Mary Shelley intended it this way. So what’s my theory?
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Foreshadowed and Foresung 