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The moral seems to be the same as the 50s The Thing

posted 10 years ago by Mithrandir-Olorin33
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The educated curious scientists are naive for wanting to reason with The Monster.

Maybe using the Found Footage format for a another Thing remake would work well. But in the case of Frankenstein seeing the intelligent (and by the end very repentant of his crimes) Creature of the Novel constantly turned into something mindless and stupid is my greatest complaint about most adaptations.

So this case, getting all this talk from Jonathan Venkenhein about him being intelligent and capable of reason, only for that theory to be quite blatantly debunked just felt like an intentional slap to my face.

What I do think was an interesting ideas was connecting Frankenstein to the Illuminati via The University of Ingolstadt. That is the school Victor was a student at in the Novel, and that is where The Bavarian Illuminati was originally founded. As a fan of the French Wold newton Universe ideas at CoolFrenchComics and the books published by BlackCoatPress, which revolve largely around using Conspiracy Theories to link together the fictional history of the world. I find that a very good idea.

"When the chips are down... these Civilized people... will Eat each Other"

[–] DarleneHamilton 8 years ago

Well he didn't disprove that it was intelligent and reasonable. It just didn't want anyone getting in the way of a future wife. It was intelligent and reasonable enough to figure out it could have the girl if all the others were dead. It was also intelligent enough to make a lovely outfit

[–] the lioness 8 years ago

I agree with you about the Thing. Remember in the original, the doctor wanted to reason with the creature as opposed to it being destroyed. Even towards the end, it approached the monster and try to warn it the others were trying to kill it. It didn't care and just knocked him to the side.

One thing I disagree on it was being mindless. This creature, like the one in Thing From another world, have intelligence but in a different way. These two creatures are all about survival and use their wits to survive.

I do wish this film could have discussed the Illuminati a little more and what, if anything, they could have to do with the Creature. Is that why the Creature prefers to live in the Canadian wilds? Maybe it thinks no one would travel such a distance in cold weather to hunt it, regardless of the reason.

Hmmmm