About Igors??


I missed the first few minute (had to grab a cinnamon pretzel).
Why on earth are Igor's recyclable? Aren't they born? I mean, at first I thought that the evil scientists created the Igors but a little blurb on the off. website tells me that they are born. So how can they simply be destroyed in that awful recycling plant????

...have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist covered in blood.

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They are born and go to Igor school. When they recycle Igors it's for body parts for experiments.

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Seems to me that somebody better be paying royalties to British author Terry Pratchett. In his series of Discworld books, he has characters called Igors who recycle body parts, and work for mad scientists, and so on.

Haven't seen it, but if Harlan Ellison can get royalties from The Running Man, and owners of Rear Window can sue for that Shia LeBouf thing, Pratchett better get paid for this!

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more like pay a royality to Mary Shelly, author of Frakenstein, the original Igor stole body parts from the graveyard for use in Dr. Frakenstein's experiments. It's not that big of a
leap to make the connection to recycling igors from there.

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There was no Igor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the 1800s. I'm pretty sure the character was created by Universal Studios in the 1930s. Those movies are still copyrighted, and the likenesses of the monsters are trademarked. I don't know what the rule is for using Ygor (the original spelling) or a blatantly Ygor-like character, which a wide variety of authors and cartoonists do.

It is quite shocking that the horrible lack of rights for the Igors, much like the situation of most African Americans pre-1861 (with "recycling" added in to boot), is introduced but then ignored and glossed over in the movie. Maybe we are meant to come to our own conclusions, but aren't kids' movies supposed to spell out their morals so that noone can miss it?

I liked this movie alot, but maybe it was too clever and deep for its own good.

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It just occurred to me that the "recycling" of Igors is akin to the Holocaust with its Jewskin purses and lampshades. A very strange basis for a kids' movie.

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Ygor was created by Universal Studios but he wasn't in the 1931 film. He was only introduced in Son of Frankenstein. :)

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Actually this is the key literary link. Definitely a nod, if not an outright homage to Pratchett's Igors. In fact, if you don't read Diskworld books a lot of the humor of this film is going to be lost on you.

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