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Watching Frankenstein
I've this so many times, but this viewing is making me snarkier than usual:
Victor Henry Frankenstein: (points at gallows): Climb up and get it.
Fritz: Aargh!
Henry Frankenstein: What? It can't hurt you!
Well, yeah, but he's a tiny hunchbacked guy with a cane and you're a big strapping mad scientist. Why can't you do the climbing? Nonetheless, Fritz cuts the body down.
Henry Frankenstein: Damn it, the neck's broken!
Really?! Hanged criminal and you're surprised by this?
Elizabeth: (with a letter from Victor) I've tried reading it over and over but it's just *words*.
What is this, State-the-Obvious Theatre?
ETA: And again!
Pounding on the front door.
Fritz: There's somebody there!
Henry Frankenstein: (To Elizabeth, Fritz, Frankenstein's ex-teacher, and the random other guy Elizabeth brought along) Quite a scene, isn't it?! One man CAH-RAZY; three VERY SANE spectators.
Wait, so is Fritz neutral in this?
The Monster's just entered though. That will never not be a beautiful make-up job and performance.
I'd forgotten that when the Monster kills Fritz, (though it's arguably self-defense) he does so by *hanging* him. Some sort of leftover memory in his brain of having been executed by the same method?
Fritz: Aargh!
Henry Frankenstein: What? It can't hurt you!
Well, yeah, but he's a tiny hunchbacked guy with a cane and you're a big strapping mad scientist. Why can't you do the climbing? Nonetheless, Fritz cuts the body down.
Henry Frankenstein: Damn it, the neck's broken!
Really?! Hanged criminal and you're surprised by this?
Elizabeth: (with a letter from Victor) I've tried reading it over and over but it's just *words*.
What is this, State-the-Obvious Theatre?
ETA: And again!
Pounding on the front door.
Fritz: There's somebody there!
Henry Frankenstein: (To Elizabeth, Fritz, Frankenstein's ex-teacher, and the random other guy Elizabeth brought along) Quite a scene, isn't it?! One man CAH-RAZY; three VERY SANE spectators.
Wait, so is Fritz neutral in this?
The Monster's just entered though. That will never not be a beautiful make-up job and performance.
I'd forgotten that when the Monster kills Fritz, (though it's arguably self-defense) he does so by *hanging* him. Some sort of leftover memory in his brain of having been executed by the same method?