We’ve done it! We’ve come to the end of our series “Be Like the Cor-Man”! They all laughed at us, laughed at us, I tell you! They said we were mad! Mad!! Well, now who’s mad?! Ahahahahahaha! We’ve made it through Roger Corman’s final directorial opus “Frankenstein Unbound”! They told us only lunatics would even attempt such an abomination! Fools! Credulous, hidebound fools! Who’s laughing now, eh, you fools?! WHO’S! LAUGHING! NOW! It’s us, that’s who, in case you’re all too credulous and hidebound and foolish to figure it out! Yes, this whole experiment has left us all shattered and ruined, mere shells of the men and ponies we were when we started but it was worth it, worth it I tell you! For science!!! Yes!! Because somehow all this ties back into science! It does! Stop giggling and being credulous and hidebound! Oh, and fools! Don’t forget fools! Because this whole experience has taught us . . . it’s taught us . . . well, listen and find out.
P.S. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Poll question: By some counts, Frankenstein is the 3rd most adapted literary character after Dracula and Sherlock Holmes; who is your favorite literary character adapted to film or tv or both?
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Sherlock Holmes has always been a fave and i think overall has been treated the best by his appearances in both movies and Tv. Though some examples are not good, the character manages to shine through which i can’t for characters like Dracula and Frankenstein who i both love in book form but often stray too far from the literary versions. I have a huge place in heart for Captain Nemo in the Disney version of 20 000 Leagues under the Sea. James Mason captured him for me even though his appearance strayed from the book. Other interpretations I really haven’t cared for.
I loved “20,000 Leagues” when I was a kid. Haven’t seen it since then. Keep forgetting the cast; Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre, James Mason. I should watch it again. Sherlock Holmes has proven so amazingly flexible, it has been interesting seeing how people can make something old and stodgy new again. Thanks, King of all Northern Coldness!