Posted on 06/21/2009 10:20:24 AM PDT by Perdogg
The NY Post suggests that insiders believe that producer Brian Glazer is eyeing either Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway to reprise the role of Frankensteins Bride, first portrayed by the beautiful Elsa Lanchester in 1935.
Shell be young. Theyre looking for a person with great power and sex appeal say insiders, according to The Post.
I could perhaps see Scarlett Jo as The Bride, but Im not sure about Anne. To be honest, I have a hard time visualizing anyone but Elsa in the role, so I wouldnt be shocked if they are probably quite some time from announcing just who will get the role. It could well end up going to an unknown.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecinemapost.com ...
I think Hollywood has long missed the point of the novel. It is less a monster story than it is a treatise on ethics. This is why the monster doesn’t even need a name—because it is just an outgrowth of the ethical, moral and spiritual failure of Dr. Frankenstein.
In the modern world, the irony of this is staggering. This is because the scientist and physician who is ethical, moral and spiritual is today the outcast, the renegade. The amorality of Dr. Frankenstein is the norm. His research would be sponsored by the US government and several biomedical corporations.
Today, scientists and medical researchers actively seek out ethical barriers to violate. What in his day would have properly made Frankenstein an outcast would today earn him a Nobel prize, numerous patents for “reanimation of cadavers into soulless humanoids”, and the arguments would be cast in whether the monster itself should be patentable, and could it be freely used in experiments like a lab animal.
His peers would be deeply offended at anyone who objected to the grotesqueness, the unnatural inhumanity of his creations, as “anti-scientific”. Legislation would be proposed that after death, people should no longer have legal possession of their own bodies, as they are too valuable for scientific research into reanimation.
I think she looks better as a reanimated corpse.
I agree. The novel was aboutthe consequences of playing God.
Red Dawn ?
Do Obama brown shirts replace the Cubans?
sorry about the triple post, my computer got stuck.
I tried to avoid using the phrase “playing God”, because it’s not just about that. Most of the offenses are against people, and are not so lofty.
In recent history, we have some truly appalling examples of moral and ethical failings, that in no way reflect upon God. Eugenics, the Tuskegee experiment, radioactive isotopes being given to unwitting people, Mengele’s experiments, etc. The utter abandonment of morality, ethics and spiritual reservations.
I understand that Anne Hathaway will be starring in a biopic of Judy Garland!
Mine gets stuck on stupid too
Knowing Hollywood, they’ll take the title “Red Dawn” and turn it into political bio-pic of Obama.
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