Normally I don't laugh at things,like this. I think it must he how it was shot, it was just so quick like the monster thought without a second thought thst the little girl could float like a boat. Obviously that's what happened but for some reason it made me laugh. I guess watching this at 2 In the morning would do that to you.
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I think what's funny is that the monster got upset there were no more flowers to throw in the water so he decided to throw the girl in the water. It probably wasn't considered funny back then but it's the sort of thing people find funny today. I'm sure Mad TV or Saturday Night Live did a parody of it before.
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I think it might be the parody of the scene in "Young Frankenstein". I saw it on the big screen a few years ago and some people in the audience were giggling throughout the movie including the drowning scene. I think some viewers may be kind of jaded by the more explicit horror movies of today and this movie now looks quaint by comparison.
As to The Monster thinking Maria, the girl, would float: remember, he had a defective brain that had only been reanimated from the dead not too long ago. It's not going to be as if a genius with a normal brain can reason through things. The Monster reasoned that if pretty flowers floated, so should pretty little girls.
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I feel your explanation for 'laughing at the drowning scene' is spot-on, Tresix. The believe the original scene was quickly excised from the film and left that way a long time, due to outcry from a perception of child abuse (or worse). It was later reinstated, as sensibilities changed over time. The Frankenstein's monster could have very likely acted as he did, for the reasoning you've stated.
Another "I shouldn't laugh, but will with gusto, anyway' moment was the hilarious scene from "Young Frankenstein" that involved the very old and very very lonely hermit, played by an uncredited Gene Hackman. In both films, the character is sooooo pathetic, but what happens to the monster in YF was sooooo 'painfully funny', in more ways than one! Director Mel Brooks at his very best, here.
My grandma (who is one year older than this movie) sat and watched parts of this with me earlier today and she even laughed at that scene.
shareThe funny thing is that they made a few takes of that scene and at first because of a dress she wore, the girl actually floated.
shareHaving seen this movie many times as a kid and gotten used to the "cut" version, in which the scene ends just as the Monster shrieks and lunges at Little
Maria, the restored version almost looks a little absurd. When the US censors
decided that the scene was too graphic, they cut out the segment in which the Monster picks her up and throws her into the lake, then panics when he can't find
her and runs off. In attempting to protect sensitive viewers, the censors only succeeded in making the scene even more disturbing. Instead of the Monster acting
like a clueless goofball who doesn't know right from wrong, he ended up looking like a murderer bent on attacking the little girl.
Viewing the restored scene now, it immediately makes me think of the little girl
in Young Frankenstein who throws all her flowers into the lake and then asks, "What else can we throw in?" as Peter Boyle's Monster ponders the question laboriously.
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I chuckled a bit when she hit the water... and yes, I felt bad about it. That being said, the scene is quite startling.
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I must say that I thought the little girl played her part as a dead limp corpse in her fathers arms very well.
She certainly looked the part.
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