OLD FRONKENSTIEN

            Well my favorite movie finally came up in the list.  I have loved this movie ever since I was little.  Gene Wilder is brilliant in his role as the scientist and grandson of the infamous Victor Von Frankenstein.  His early denial of his heritage actually is comical by the way that he even goes so far to pronounce his name “FRONKENSTIEN”.  As the movie progresses and he slowly starts learning of his grandfather’s work in reanimation, there is a turning point in the movie as he accepts his family name and believes he too can continue his grandfather’s work and he yells out “It’s pronounced FRANKENSTIEN!!”  To continue his wiry hair and loud facial expressions are perfect for playing the part of a crazy scientist. 

            The movie is in my opinion, both plot and character driven.  It is character in the sense that it takes characters to accept who they are and then begin a task and then the movie turns into a plot driven film as many scenes become more oriented on achieving the reanimation and creation of the Monster.  Many aspects of the movie are parodies of the original 1931 Frankenstein movie.  This can also explain why in 1974, Mel Gibson decided to film it in black and white to give the classic horror film feeling.  The film also has a cameo of Gene Hackman who was the mute who just wanted a friend.  All of these additions to the movie helped bring publicity to the movie and no doubt more people went to see it because of them. 

            One of the major themes of the movie that really stood out to me was just the sense of sexuality between all the characters.  Even the grotesque character of Igor gets frisky in many of the scenes when the women arrive into the scene.  Or just jokes such as the fact that Igor states the Monster is going to be very popular due to having an “enormous schwanstucker."  The number of sexual jokes is truly uncountable.  I could go on and on. 

            The type of humor in the film although may be crude in many occasions, is in my opinion the type that you have to be thinking about or at least have subtitles on in order to read and truly understand what is being said and laugh.