Frankenstein is my favorite book, and I just wanted to share my fancast if they were to make a book accurate movie :)

Victor Frankenstein - Aneurin Barnard (I specifically saw him in interlude and Prague and think he would look like Victor there)

Henry Clerval - Josh Whitehouse (again, specifically saw him in the show Poldark and thought he might look like Henry)

Elizabeth Lavenza - Elle Fanning

Justine Moritz - Emily Browning

The creature - Jacob Elordi (I know he is apparently set to play him, and I honestly think he is a good fit!)

This image is from Frankenstein published by Bendon. I have no idea where the corpse headline is from. I have 3 more of these from other illustrated versions so if anyone finds this funny I will post again

I have his wife too, that it’s me, turned into a plushie, sorry about my English, it’s not my first language 😭🖐️

after decades of attempts, there has yet to be an actually good, faithful adaptation of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and frankly Craig Mazins creative style and integrity as a director would make for a perfect adaptation in my opinion

his twisted but dynamic vision along with the last of us like prosthetics for a book accurate Frankenstein would be absolutely amazing and I need it to be a reality. I feel like he would have the extra oomph that every other adaptation is missing!!! Thoughts?

Decided to try my hand at my own interpretation of Frankenstein. With my version, Victor managed to come up with an elixir culture that revitalizes dying tissue and bypasses rejection by homogenizing all animal cells to have the same protein markers the immune system recognizes.

From there he took countless fresh bodies and sewed, stapled, and otherwise grafted together fragments to create larger wholes over the course of years. Once an entire body was pieces together, he used electrical currents to jumpstart the heart and a makeshift air pump to get the lungs working. Because the creatures are truly alive in this iteration all the sewing and stapling Victor did scarred over.

The monster is roughly eight feet high or so and is disproportionately built. Like a lot of artists, Victor got too focused on particular body parts rather than looking at the bigger picture. He also tried tacking together various features that should be attractive, but having them all at once adds to the awkwardness.

The bride also is alive this time and was hastily built by Victor because the monster basically hit him with tight production deadlines. As a result she is built primarily from a single body with any damage being repaired or replaced from a few other sources. That said she’s tall for a woman at six foot even.

The two also have peculiarities to their brains and nervous systems. The monster inherited latent muscle memory and aptitudes from his donors. He’s a savant and tends to quickly pick up skills those men were good at. The bride has episodic memories, unlike him, and they’re split among her primary template and a few other women.

Both also have the limiters on their muscle strength slightly loosened and can pull off amazing feats of speed and power. The price is that muscles tend to get pulled or even torn, small bones tend to fracture, and capillaries under the skin burst into intense bruising. Luckily their sense of pain is still present so they know when to stop.

I am so excited to find this on youtube. I remember watching this when it aired in 96 and recording it in the VCR. I watched that tape until I wore it out.

Finding this is so cool.

https://youtu.be/RYibtefo4Bg?si=0r_YBLmRVkaxLGm0

Mines is "just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

So I'm a frequent haunt and commenter around these parts, and have been for a while now, but admittedly I initially joined up on reddit and here specifically, to try and find readers for my book Adam 315, by Dani Lebeaux. The main character is the creature, telling his side of the story within a narrative, inside of another narrative. It also includes Mary, Percy, Byron, etc, plus a vampire.

It's been out since 2023, and still hasn't had so much as twenty overall sales. I'm missing something on how to target my marketing.

This is far from the only fan group I belong to concerning Shelley's work.

Every week I see articles still discussing the impact of the original novel. There are multiple new film adaptations happening right now, and basically I know that the interest is strong out in the world... So honestly, I just want ideas on how to turn that interest into readers. (Also I have absolutely no budget to work with)

Thoughts?

I was writing a comment in other post, and half way through I realised it would do an interesting post of its own.

So, I think naming it/him would save us a lot of trouble: there would be less confusion between Victor and the creature, that's for sure.

In my opinion, since he was most likely the first of his "kind", something referencing the name of biblical Adam would do nicely. Of course that would minimize the theme of loneliness - without a name, the creature is even more tragic, I suppose.

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There’s a quote in the book where basically the creature is trying to reason out his existence, and at one point he says something like “maybe I was not a creature made to enjoy the comforts of pleasure.” It’s been stuck in my brain for a few days and I can’t for the life of me remember what the actual phrasing is but I know I really liked the quote, does anybody know what I’m talking about?

Like the title suggests, I am of the belief that Victor up and abandoning the Creature/Adam at birth and refusing to raise him was not the cruelest thing Victor did to the Creature, nor was his outright refusal to make a companion for his creation or his refusal to take responsibility for what he had done wrong.

Victor's greatest failing in the whole story of Frankenstein was the Creature even being alive, period.

As much as we love to envision AU's in which Victor is a responsible teen dad and raises his lab-grown son with care and love; as much as we love indulging in storylines in which the Creature is a well-adjusted individual who grew up in a relatively stable home-life with a maker who didn't detest him, all this would do very little good in the world that the story of Frankenstein takes place in.

If you recall the Creature's time with the DeLacey's, even when he was talking to the old man with the same civility and mannerisms of man at the time, it did not matter. The family still were terrified of him and drove him out, with even the old man becoming afraid of him despite his otherwise decent rapport with the Creature. Even when he saved a girl from drowning with no malice whatsoever in his behavior, he was still attacked and driven off. Hell, even as he speaks to Victor for the first time and makes it clear to him that he does not intend to harm him, Victor is still repulsed by him (not without reason, of course. It was revealed that the Creature had killed William).

The point here being that it never mattered what the Creature's character was or how benevolent he may have started out in the beginning. It never mattered how intelligent or well-meaning he was, nor how well his upbringing could have theoretically have been if things had gone better for Victor and him in the beginning. The Creature still would never have been accepted by the society of the time. His appearance was all people needed to make the excuse to label him as a "monster" with little to no nuance, and it was only after the hell he was put through that he honored that title.

It never mattered if he was a scholar, or had a love for life, or longed for companionship and purpose like every other human on the planet. He was born "ugly", and thereby deemed too monstrous for polite society. Nobody wanted to look beyond his appearance. He still would have been condemned to a life of isolation, and that to me is the most unforgivable thing Victor did. He selfishly brought in another life with little to no plan for what was going to happen should his experiment work, and have it be born disfigured and uncanny looking, not factoring in how this would affect its quality of life or how well it would fair in society.

TL;DR: The Creature merely being born is an act of cruelty by Victor in and of itself

The modern Prometheus

Im looking to do a realistic tattoo of dr Frankenstein or his creature, but im always seeing the same design.. can you recommend me other design that is less known but looks good?

2001 Saddleback audio cassette/paperback big box featuring illustration that looks too much like Tommy Wisseau as the Creature.

So I’m trying to find a 1831 version of Frankenstein and I like this cover, and I would like to know if this is an 1831 version