Alright the other day I was on netflix browsing through movies, and I came across a movie called Aaah! Zombies!! and even though the movie was a zombie movie, it was shot from the zombie's point-of-view. I never really thought about it, but for some reason I started to think about Frankenstein, shockingly, and was like "Wow!" Frankenstein was also told from the monster's point-of-view. Also, when we got done reading the book way at the beginning of the semester, my group was assigned to do the impact of Frankenstein and we could have added another movie to the presentation. So who knew a low budget film with horrible actors and a seemingly semi-great idea of shooting a movie from the zombie's point-of-view would be related to a literature class???
So, the morale of this blog, Frankenstein did it first...
[Hahahaha! JustKidding!]
Haha. Probably the reason why you saw a similarity between Aaah! Zombies!! and Frankenstein is that the success of Frankenstein has lead many to try and reference it, employ some its elements, or parody it. I remember a Tree House of Horror Simpsons episode where Professor Frink reanimates his father who was killed by a shark. He pieces his father's body parts together but once the procedure is complete Frink's father is unsatisfied with how he looks so he goes around killing people for their body parts. This just goes to show that no matter how old something is it can still influence things well into the future.
ReplyDeleteThat's actually a very good idea. I never would've thought of that. Who could actually think zombies can think? And surprisingly, the creature in Frankenstein could think and feel. It's a bit weird to think an author back then thought dead people can think....
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