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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I am a big Frankenstein fan. The novel foremost, but also its legacy. A few years back, I went to the Morgan Library here in NYC and got to see an exhibit there all about Frankenstein, marking its 200th-year anniversary.
I’m invested in its ideas, and where it came from, and how it ties into other legends and folklore, like the Golem of Prague or Talos of Greek mythology. And ultimately, these stories tie back into what makes us human, and what mysteries drive us. So I care about how the concept of the created man plays out in each new incarnation.
Like Guillermo del Toro’s new Frankenstein.
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Foreshadowed and Foresung 