Something To Do With Black And White.

     This movie was a different pace than the last couple of movies i've seen in this class, the style was also very interesting. Young Frankenstein was a movie that mostly used folklore as a vehicle to comment on and explore the idea of identity. In the beginning of this film, doctor frederic corrects one of his students on the pronunciation of his name and is very upset about being related to his grandfather and his work. Even eyegor pronounces his name differently to distinguish himself from his father. As the movie goes on, these characters add their own flair onto the classic tale of Frankenstein.

     Each character undergoes a change or crisis of identity in their own way, and they also battle with the idea of destiny and what they feel they have to do in their lives. Even though he was very opposed and loudly rejected his grandfather and his work, Frederic lapses into his grandfather's work fairly easily, seemingly after his nightmare in the beginning of the film. as others have stated, The black and white style of the film added its own characteristic that gave insight to the characters within the film. In a way, it simplified the characters into extremes which the characters did fall into a lot of the time.

     Frederic wore his emotions on his sleeve and lost control of himself quite easily, he was either calm or completely off the wall, he was never in between. This style also presented identity in a similar way, at least from the perspective of children following in their families footsteps; they either follow or they don't, they're successful or they're failures. with frederic denying his grandfather's work, and eyegor wanting distinction from his dad. Identity is the major theme that this movie revolves around, and is basically what it's really about, showing people's true colors.