Script, Video Clips, Questions, Graphic Organizers Frankenstein Word Web
Use this word web to list all the Hollywood depictions of Frankenstein. How has the movies and the media portray Frankenstein?
Created by Danielle Knight, 2013 Frankenstein 1931 full length film (the trailer). Many literary critics feel this is the closest Hollywood ever got to the original novel. There are parts that are different. All in all, Frankenstein is a monster! Bringing the greatest Horror!
The Munsters By the time this show aired in 1964, we'd seen so many stylized Frankenstein monsters at the movies, Herman Munster is poking fun at an image that had become ridiculously familiar to audiences.
Young Frankenstein So iconic, it actually became a disastrous Broadway musical. By this point, many people probably think bits of Young Frankenstein are actually part of the original Frankenstein legend!
Firelight 2009, Saturday Night Live Digital Short Film. This is a hysterical parody of Twilight and Frankenstein. Watch Taylor Swift depict a Bella-like character and fall in love with a “Frank”
Created by Danielle Knight, 2013 Script from SNL’s, “The Curse of Frankenstein,” and The SNL Short Film, “Fire Light”
Created by Danielle Knight, 2013 Created by Danielle Knight, 2013 Compare and contrast the "Hollywood" creature to Mary Shelley's creature. Physical appearance, abilities, actions, etc.
What are the correct depictions in the script from SNL’s “The Curse of Frankenstein?” What are the mess ups?
In the SNL digital short film, “Firelight,” were there any accuracies?
Which one would you want to see again?
Head Villager..... Frankenstein's Monster..... Villager #1..... Villager #2..... Villager #3..... Dracula.....
Announcer: [ over title graphic ] We now return to The Late Night Movie: "The Curse of Frankenstein." They still do these late night movie things, right?
[ dissolve to exterior, Frankenstein's castle ]
[ dissolve to stock footage, villagers running through the night with torches ablaze ]
[ cut to exterior, main door of Frankenstein's castle, as the villagers scream with a collective force ]
Head Villager: Hold it, everyone! He's right in there! Dr. Frankenstein! Give us your answer!
[ the villagers begin screaming again, as Frankenstein's Monster steps through the door ]
Villager !: There he is! The Monster!
Frankenstein's Monster: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, oh!! You guys looking for Frankenstein?
Crowd: YES!!!!
Frankenstein's Monster: [ holds up his stitched hands ] You guys got the wrong house?
Head Villager: What do you mean, we got the wrong house?
Villager #1: YEAH?!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!!
Frankenstein's Monster: SHUT UP!! [ they silence ] You got the wrong house! Frankenstein lives, uh -- [ points behind the villagers ] Yeah, he lives over there. Across the moor.
Head Villager: Across the moor?
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Frankenstein's Monster: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! It's, uh - a big castle.. uh, it's got those, uh -- [ snaps fingers ] oh, what do you call it, those white trees out front, uh --
Head Villager: You mean birch trees?
Frankenstein's Monster: Yeah. Whatever.
Head Villager: [ embarrassed ] Well. Sorry about that.
[ Frankenstein's Monster shrugs vacantly ]
Head Villager: WRONG HOUSE!! ACROSS THE MOOR!!
[ the villagers run back in the opposite direction from which they came ]
[ stock footage of villagers running through the night ]
[ cut to villagers standing at Dracula's door ]
Dracula: He said what?! I'm Frankenstein?! [ chuckles, as he files his fingernails ] I'm sorry, guys - I think someone's messin' with ya'. I'm Dracula! See? [ shows off his outfit ] Cape. Fangs. Widow's peak. Frankenstein's, uh.. way back that way. [ points back in the direction the villagers just came from ] Across the moor.
Head Villager: Back that way? We just came from there. He said Frankenstein lives here!
Villager #1: Yeah!
Villager #2: Yeah, he said Frankenstein lives HERE!!
[ all the villagers join in the chorus ]
Dracula: Hold on, hold on, hold on - what did this guy look like?
Villager #1: He was TALL!
Dracula: Right, right, okay - what else?
Villager #2: He had BOLTS in his neck!
Dracula: Uh-huh. What else?
Villager #3: He was gree-ee-ee-eennnn!
Dracula: Okay. Tall guy, green, bolts in his neck - yeah, I hate to break it to you, butthat's Frankenstein!
Head Villager: Okay.. well, alright. I believe we've made a bit of a mistake. Sorry to trouble you! [ to the villagers ] Across the moor!!
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Crowd: ACROSS THE MOOR!!
[ the villagers run back in the opposite direction from which they came ]
[ stock footage of villagers running through the night ]
[ cut to villagers standing at Frankenstein's door ]
Frankenstein's Monster: Well, uh.. he's a li-ar! That's what!
Head Villager: Well.. what about the bolts in your neck?
Frankenstein's Monster: Oh, great, thanks a lot! I almost forgot about that spinal injury I had when I was four- years old! Thanks for bringing back those rosy memories! Hey - my dog died last year, why don't you make a few jokes about that?!
Villager #1: He's a mon-sterrrr!!
[ all the villagers join in the chorus ]
Frankenstein's Monster: Hey, now we're name-calling! What am I, in the 7th grade, all of a sudden! Well, you know what? You're all a bunch of dopes! How do you like that?
Head Villager: Well, how do we know you're not Frankenstein's Monster?
Frankenstein's Monster: How do I know you're not Frankenstein's Monster, you freakin' genius?! I mean -- [ glances at villager stepping too close with a lit torch ] Hey, dude - get that fire away from me. Alright? [ to ?? ] I mean, you could be a monster, you know? You got the weird hat, the patchy beard - you know? I mean, you look like a monster to me!
Villager #1: [ to Head Villager ] Well, maybe you're the monster!
[ all the villagers join in the chorus ]
Head Villager: [ shakes his head ] I'm not the monster! [ points to Frankenstein's Monster ] Look at 'im! He's got a square head and green skin!
Frankenstein's Monster: Oh, great - now it's a racial thing! You know what? You guys are a bunch of fascists! [ villager with a lit torch again step too close ] Seriously, du-ude! Get that fire away from me! [ to the crowd ] Here's the deal: I'm a cobbler. I make shoes, and I hang out with my kids. You want to lynch me for that - be my guest!
Head Villager: Well, I'm sorry. We - we shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. We'll leave you alone.
Frankenstein's Monster: Uh - how about, apology not accepted, Weird Beard! I mean, let a guy live his life, would you? You know what I mean? I mean, it -- [ his arm suddenly falls off and hits the stone steps ] Uhhhhhh
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Crowd: KILL HIM!!!
[ the villagers storm forward ]
[ cut to title graphic ]
Announcer: We'll be back with more of The Late Night Movie. I swear they haven't done these things in, like, twenty years..
[ fade ]
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