Frankenstein 1931

Frankenstein is always a classic. When you think of classic horror movie monsters the top three you think of might be Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. It was such a pleasure being able to watch this movie, and reading more in depth into it. Frankenstein is the stereotypical scientist movie. It's the movie or story line that all others derived from. You have your crazy scientist who invents something that ends up reeking havoc on the city or town, and then the rest of the story is them trying to kill it or stop it. Like I said it's a classic.

While watching I observed many things. The first being, that Frankenstein, the scientist, has a God complex. It wasn't a recurring theme or anything but Frankenstein even mentions it when his creation came to life. He stated that he was god because he could create life. He had had this idea of creating life, or more like reanimating it, since he was a professor at the university. This ties in to the overall theme that I believe stems from religion. In the beginning of the movie it starts off by warning the viewer of the horrors that are about to be shown. Now back in that time period they were certainly more conservative about a lot of things and more religious than many today. When the story of a man who practically became god came up it may have threw a few people off. Not only that, but Frankenstein rejects his creation and gives it to Dr. Waldman to be disposed of. If we are relating Frankenstein to God does that mean that God has left us to destroy ourselves? That was a pretty big concept I was thinking about. Secondly if we are comparing religion, Christianity to be exact, to the movie the idea of our total downfall and termination is touched on. Frankenstein’s monster was burned on the windmill at the end of the movie. Many people believe that the world will end in flames since God promised he wouldn't do that with water again.

The characters themselves were pretty entertaining in my opinion. The first character I’m going to speak of is Frankenstein’s monster. He wasn't the best Frankenstein I have seen but he essentially encompasses what I thought he would be. He was naive and new to the world. It didn't matter if he had the body parts of preexisting people. For him the world was brand new. He found pleasure in the little things such as throwing flowers into the lake. He also realized that throwing the little girl into the river wasn't such a good idea, and that's why he ran. I believe the only reason he became violent was because of this giant mob that was chasing him. Think about it if someone was trying to kill you wouldn't you do everything in your power to live? Frankenstein was by far my favorite, mostly due to the fact that I love the idea of mad scientists. They bring such an amazing story line to any plot. Frankenstein though was different and refreshing. He wasn't the stereotypical scientist trying to end the world or anything. He was on the pursuit of one goal. Which was to create life. Why he couldn't grow a plant is beyond me. He had two sides to him. Whenever he was addressing his fiancé Elizabeth he was always kind and gentle, always asking nicely. Whenever he addressed anyone else he was always curt and rude. Elizabeth brought out the good in him. Now Elizabeth I think was the ‘good’ of the story. She was the innocent victim and the beauty of the film. That's all I really got from it. She kept Frankenstein sane.

In conclusion Frankenstein is probably a new favorite of mine. I would recommend it to others. Also if you’re looking for a more philosophical meaning to a classic horror film I think this might be the right movie for that kind of thing.