Frankenstein__The_Monster_And_The_Movies

Frankenstein: The Monster And The Movies Frankenstein, the Monster, and the Movies Frankenstein’s monster has been portrayed over 50 times in as many films. The most memorable of the monsters is Boris Karloff, who was the first to bring the monster to life in the talkies, or talking films. Boris’s monster was so horrific that during the December 1931 premier in Santa Barbara, California, audience members went screaming down the isles and suffered from fainting spells. Although audiences no longer look at Frankenstein’s monster with such horror, the monster of the most recent film still forces the audience members to look at life and death. The monsters from the 1931film, titled Frankenstein and the 1994 film, titled Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, are very different. When we think of Frankenstein’s monster, we often think of Boris Karloff. Boris created the monster with the help of make-up artist, Jack Pierce. The costume and make-up took an astonishing five hours to put on and two to remove. Boris wore thirty-pound boots and braces on his legs that forced his now-famous lurking walk. In great contrast to Karloff’s monster of 1931, is Robert De Niro’s 1994 portrayal of the same character. The appearance of monster, de, karloff’s, niro’s, karloff, frankenstein, very, life, elizabeth, victor, kills, film, boris, two, shows, niro, maria, love, frankenstein’s, different, audience, appearance, think, simply, look, longing, humanistic, help, fritz, forced, first, characters, brings, 1994, 1931