attention movie buffs Frankenstein question inside

[Mr. MacDougall]

There's a movie novelization to a movie called "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein"?

I weep for the pain of the world.

[brandycr]

Frieeeennnnddddd!

[Dreadbelly]

There's a movie novelization to a movie called "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein" ?

Cheers

Jamie

Actually, it wasn't a bad read. Read the book, watch the movie, and then read the official novelisation of the movie.

All good, all different, all have a place. I don't recall everything, but the novelisation fills in some gaps in the movie, mostly what certain characters are thinking. You can't see what somebody is thinking in a movie, which is why books tend to be better.

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Call me a snob...actually, don't call me a snob...I'm too sensitive to stand that...but it was bad enough that they made the movie, and then to do a novelization!? When there was already a perfectly good novel to start with?! What's the world coming to? READ A BOOK!!!!!!! GEEZ!

Be well,

[SnakeEyes]

I actually read the novelization before I saw the movie, which ended up being about 10 years after it came out. I've now also read the original Frankenstein and I gotta say it's pretty dry. If I hadn't read the movie novelization first I probably would have given up on the original 10 pages in.

[Zardoz]

Ok, getting a little but I have a fun story,
One reason you see book versions of movies is that all the movie studios are owned by huge congomerates now. If they own a property, they will sell it in every format they can, if they have a publishing wing, they hire a writer to 'novelize' the script, (sometimes the novelization is better than the movie) and so on, if they own a comics publisher, tv outlet, etc...

the well regarded Sci-Fi writer Allen Dean Foster has done a few novelizations, including the original Star Wars. He tells a story about being hired to novelize this crappy Korean jungle girl movie in the 70's. They showed him a rough cut of the movie, all in Korean, but he said it was a train wreck in any language, he couldn't figure out what it was about. They also showed him the poster art, which was a exciting scene of the "jungle girl" fighting a lion with a stone knife etc. nothing like the movie, but very cool looking.. So he novelized the poster!

A few years later, the Walt Disney company bought the publisher that put out Foster's jungle girl novelization, they called his agent to try and aquire the 'movie rights' to the novelization!

[Panache]

... I've now also read the original Frankenstein and I gotta say it's pretty dry. If I hadn't read the movie novelization first I probably would have given up on the original 10 pages in.

No less a personage than Stephen King has written "Mary Shelley is- let us bite the bullet and tell the truth- not a particularly strong writer of emotional prose (which is why students who come to the book with the expectations of a fast, gory read-expectations formed by the movies-usually come away feeling puzzled and let down)..."

I too realize that Shelley's novel is a bit dry. I prefer Bram Stoker's "Dracula" or perhaps a good Lovecraft tale.

Cheers

Jamie

[Warhoover]

READ A BOOK!!!!!!! GEEZ!

You have got to be kidding!! READ!! Sheesh most of the people I see on the campus of the Community College I work at are too busy trying to find a way to use their cell phones to do anything but what they are supposed to be doing in class, including cheating on exams! Several years ago when I was taking English Comp I and II, and we had to read a couple of novels and do a comparison/contrast paper on them, a couple people, including myself read the novels, some read the cliff notes, most rented movies! I guess you can see where I am going with this! The results were obvious, and you should have heard the whining when the papers were returned!! I agree with your message F-H.C.A.G, people need to crack a binding now and then and rediscover their IMAGINATIONS!!! Kipling, Bradbury, Dickins will definately excersize the grey matter.

[Warlock]

No less a personage than Stephen King has written "Mary Shelley is- let us bite the bullet and tell the truth- not a particularly strong writer of emotional prose (which is why students who come to the book with the expectations of a fast, gory read-expectations formed by the movies-usually come away feeling puzzled and let down)..."

I too realize that Shelley's novel is a bit dry. I prefer Bram Stoker's "Dracula" or perhaps a good Lovecraft tale.

Cheers

Jamie

LOVECRAFT RULES!
Last year my wife bought me a T-shirt tha says:
W W C D = What Would Cthulhu Do? Now I'll have to post a pic. Kilted of course.

[turpin]

Call me a snob...actually, don't call me a snob...I'm too sensitive to stand that...but it was bad enough that they made the movie, and then to do a novelization!? When there was already a perfectly good novel to start with?! What's the world coming to? READ A BOOK!!!!!!! GEEZ!

Be well,

Not an issue for my daughter. Imagination? She's 14, has been reading voraciously since she was a baby, when she insisted we read to her (which we were glad to do). She sucked up Harry Potter, which turned into the Tolkein Trilogy and Narnia. Now she is never not carrying a book around on the off-chance of a bit of reading time. We sometimes have to make her leave it at home on school days so she will interact more with her classmates. She's constantly online at a site called "Fan Fiction" where people craft their own, on-going take on Harry Potter sequels. She and two friends have been serially writing a book for 4 years, not to publish, just as a fellowship exercise.