It is the imperfections that made her beautiful. The upturned nose, the gap in her teeth, chipmunk cheeks, and her dimpled chin. Jennifer Gray was attractive in the same way, but she had her nose "fixed". Afterward she looked like every other actress and was forgotten about. BTW, you might enjoy this music video montage that I found of Elsa Lanchester. kzitem.info/news/bejne/k3ybzXaQmnmlnag
@MisterG2323
3 жыл бұрын
The gap in her teeth is a condition known as diastema.
@tadimaggio
3 жыл бұрын
I love the notion of a medieval stone tower that has an elegant Regency interior.
@RonRicho
2 жыл бұрын
That prologue is the shortest movie ever made and should have gotten an Oscar.
@nicholaswong9932
6 жыл бұрын
It's important to remember that in this movie's universe, the plot of the novel was that of the 1931 film rather than the actual one written by Shelley. So Byron's correct in describing the novel's scenes, because in this world, this is exactly what she wrote.
@austintrousdale2397
4 жыл бұрын
What a meta movie... Whale was a director out of his time.
@RThyrring
4 ай бұрын
I’ve always just seen it as an example of Frankenstein being not only a classic example of gothic litterature but also an early example of science fiction
@bobbest418
Жыл бұрын
I Love this film! A masterpiece and a work of Art! Shelley was born in my local village...
@unclealand
7 жыл бұрын
I never noticed til now that the characters at 3:18 are set up exactly like the two doctors and the bride after they unwrap her. Check it out.
@castironchaos
6 жыл бұрын
The mirror between the two scenes is so ironic, it's impossible they are merely coincidence. Frankenstein and Pretorious hold the Bride, and Pretorious, the one defying God, stands in the same place as Lord Byron, "England's greatest sinner." Dr. Frankenstein, creator of the Bride, stands in the same place as Percy Shelly, to whom Mary Shelly is the Bride...
@RonRicho
6 жыл бұрын
unclealand. I reposted your comment to the facebook pageThe Golden Age of Monster Movies as I never noticed the connection. Great find. Just wanted to give you credit.
@cedk144
3 жыл бұрын
The monster's Communal meal with the hermit- bread and wine (and also a smoke) is also paralleled in his underground meeting with Dr. Pretorius.
@Magnetron33
3 жыл бұрын
I just noticed that for the first time and I have probably watched it a dozen times
@firetopman
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, well done! James Whale was brilliant to do that, and thank you for pointing it out.
@ttanza4004
9 жыл бұрын
Elsa Lanchester looked Beautiful in this scene! I think that she was only 32 years old when she did this movie.
@44excalibur
7 жыл бұрын
Yep. Doctor Frankenstein obviously didn't have to do much work with those breasts. lol
@bumperu
3 жыл бұрын
She looks like Wynona Ryder
@MrSeahawk113
Жыл бұрын
The woman who played mary Shelley is beautiful
@snakes3425
2 ай бұрын
Elsa Lancaster, who was also the Bride
@MAMoreno
13 жыл бұрын
Do you rrrememberrr these scenes that neverrr appearrred in yourrr novel?
@cedk144
3 жыл бұрын
If he rrrrolled those Rs any harder, his tongue would have rrrolled out of his mouth.
@banjoist123
3 жыл бұрын
England's greatest sinner and champion R roller.
@RonRicho
2 жыл бұрын
Don't bring reality into our perfect dream world.
@banjoist123
3 жыл бұрын
Based loosely on actual events. The Shelley's and Byron were summering in Switzerland following the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia which caused about 3 years of darkness throughout Europe. Stuck inside in a stately old villa on Lake Geneva, raining almost constantly and in constant twilight, thoughts turned morbid. Byron challenged them to write a ghost story. Mary complied...
@44excalibur
2 жыл бұрын
Both Mary and Polidori complied. Mary wrote Frankenstein, and Polidori adapted Byron's own Fragment of a Novel into The Vampyre, which would inspire Bram Stoker to write Dracula.
@snakes3425
2 жыл бұрын
Byron still owed Mary 20 pounds for winning the bet
@chrisrenegar7347
2 жыл бұрын
Love watching this. They've been gone for so long and here we are watching them in their prime. That will be each and every one of us one day.
@raslipmugfrud2040
2 жыл бұрын
"Last Time on 'Frankenstein'..."
@RThyrring
4 ай бұрын
Back then, you could only see movies in theatres as neither televised movies or the internet was a thing - so it’s a brilliant way of keeping up with continuity
@TheRexmoon
4 жыл бұрын
elsa is so adorable in this scene...
@SingleAngel101
7 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite scene from this movie please keep it on
@chickasaw981
7 жыл бұрын
My favorite movie! Elsa Lanchester looks so gorgeous in this scene! Stunning! As a bisexual woman, this film pleases me with both her and Colin Clive in it. I don't know which one I want more lol
@katherinesage
6 жыл бұрын
Mary Shelley is my Idol
@shannonc.5837
3 жыл бұрын
same here!
@CazTails
9 жыл бұрын
*facepalm* Byron literally NONE of that happens in the novel
@SkyeID
8 жыл бұрын
+Caz Tails I thought, "What was HE reading?!"
@CazTails
8 жыл бұрын
Skye ID Probably the screenplay of the film tbh
@snakes3425
7 жыл бұрын
Uh the movie is biased on a play that was biased on the novel, it's not a direct adaptation of the novel. But Frankenstein does go through with creating a bride for the monster in the book, but destroys her before completing the task. This whole prologue is a tribute to the old story about Mary Shelly writing Frankenstein as part of a bet with Lord Byron and her husband while they were on holiday and were hold up due to bad weather. Still I would have to say in the end Mary won the bet
@CazTails
7 жыл бұрын
Darn right she won that bet!!
@snakes3425
7 жыл бұрын
the rest of the story goes that her husband actually encouraged and helped her edit Frankenstein, and Percy Shelly was instrumental in having it published since he was a popular poet and thus had connections and influence with publishers. Also the real Mary Shelly wasn't like how she's portrayed in this film, in many ways she was the exact opposite of the "perfect Victorian era lady" shown in the prologue
@JaceDanielFilms
2 жыл бұрын
2:06 Elsa has such a distinct nose.
@beatricesanfilippo6925
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad that they put Mary Shelley and her husband Percy at the beginning of this movie :D
@Bongwater66
Жыл бұрын
...here are some of the best films about this incident: 1. 'Gothic' - Kenn Russell 1985 (with Gabriel Byrne as Byron / “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”) 2. 'Haunted Summer' - Ivan Passer 1987 (with Julian Sands as Shelley, fantastic!). 3. 'Rowing with the Wind' - Gonzalo Suárez 1988 (not a good choice in terms of actors, Hugh Grant as Byron??)... but the topic keeps fueling my mind... especially since I was personally present at the events of these places... 4. 'Mary Shelley' 2017 - Haifaa Al Mansour / (great fresh actors). cheers, Gregxxx........🦇
@maximosimancas5166
3 жыл бұрын
They left poor Polidori out. :(
@MisterG2323
3 жыл бұрын
He was down in the kitchen making sandwiches. 😄
@shannonc.5837
3 жыл бұрын
and Claire! :(
@44excalibur
2 жыл бұрын
If they included Polidori, then they'd end up falling down the rabbit hole of Byron's Fragment of a Novel, which Polidori adapted into The Vamypre, which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula... and, well... that's just too much.
@Gargess
10 жыл бұрын
It was designed to emulate the shroud that "The Bride" wears later on.
@PocketBonster
8 жыл бұрын
Elsa Lanchester
@daffyphack
4 жыл бұрын
You can tell this is a fictionalized account because Lord Byron isn't fucking someone.
@Southtacomamook
5 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite scenes ever. She'd beutiful.
@jmars309
10 жыл бұрын
Love this old movie . Karloff as the monster' was great , and uncanny!
@b5904
14 жыл бұрын
Great film.
@hwh1946
7 жыл бұрын
Ironic the story was written as a direct result of a volcanic eruption that created a year without a summer.
@bethrogers5553
Жыл бұрын
Percy Shelly died in 1822, Byron in 1824 and Mary Shelly in 1851. There is a scene with a grave from 1899.
@Michaelneiss
Жыл бұрын
These are pretty accurate period costumes for a movie made back in 1932 ...
3 жыл бұрын
What a proper and beautiful English, compared to Hollywood's now...
@theplebe6342
2 жыл бұрын
Mary Shelley: wrote Frankenstein in 1818, around the time this scene takes place. The movies Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein: clearly set in the mid to late 1800s. What could she tell the future, too?
@jefferysteen1041
5 жыл бұрын
Classic gothic horror
@gaycatlover3030
8 жыл бұрын
Better than the original.
@CriptoonLagoonAMV
3 жыл бұрын
No.
@i.v.neutegem
Жыл бұрын
No. but great too.
@44excalibur
9 жыл бұрын
*Mary: "Ohhh! You made me prick myself, Lord Byron!"* Yeah, I'll bet that's not all he'd like to prick. ;)
@44excalibur
8 жыл бұрын
***** LOL Thanks! :)
@castironchaos
6 жыл бұрын
'Tis a long-lived tradition of symbolism in storytelling, including film: the hero or heroine cuts herself near the beginning, and with a drop of blood she loses her virginity; i.e. her innocence. Note that in this scene, she did not want to be reminded of the horror -- yet, after she had 'pricked' herself, she felt like telling it, and proceeding further into the tale. (Think also of the scene in "The Silence of the Lambs," where Clarisse crawls under the stuck door of the storage unit, and cuts herself as she does so.)
@snakes3425
6 жыл бұрын
This is Lord Byron we're talking about the man maybe regarded as a great writer but he was just as infamous for being a drunk, a debater and womanizer, who treated men and women with utter contempt, like they say Like Uncle like Nephew (his Great Uncle was nicknamed "The Wicked Lord," and was a thug and borderline psycho)
@heartlandqueen82
5 жыл бұрын
44excalibur Ironically, Mary Shelley was the only woman he did not have sex with. I've been reading about these three poets and none of the books say that Lord Bryon had sex with Mary and that she was possibly the only woman he treated with kindness and respect. But he did have sex with her stepsister, Claire and had- who knows who she'd have been had she not died at age five?- Allegra. What a complex trio they were.
@44excalibur
2 жыл бұрын
@@heartlandqueen82 Oh, yes, I'm aware that Byron did not have sex with Mary Shelley. You're right about Mary's stepsister, Claire, however Mary and Percy were also living in a polyamorous threesome with Claire, and she dumped them for Lord Byron.
@rodimusrider8798
4 жыл бұрын
... Lord Byron what was in that cigarette?
@francesco57159
4 жыл бұрын
He really looks like Byron
@peteralexvaudelaire4127
4 жыл бұрын
One thing guys elsa lanchaster played 2 roles in this movie? Mary Shelley and the Bride of the Monster is a Masterpiece i Love Frankenstein movies and I Hope Universal and Blumhouse revives this epic films as they did with Invisible Man Already
@gingeropera7491
3 жыл бұрын
Christ! If Drama were a delicatessen that chump playing Byron would be the Virginia Ham in the window.
@KeithDec25
8 жыл бұрын
James Whale and Universal deserve some points for trying to bring some literacy to the masses although they do take some creative license...I would give Whale some more points by having the female monster resemble/be Mary Shelley since the monster seems to be rejected by the both of "them"...
@BAS1630
11 жыл бұрын
Best. Comment. Ever.
@playgirlc
8 жыл бұрын
i prefer her look after the makeover
@johndonaldson3619
Жыл бұрын
So, Elusa Lanchester. played Mary and the Bride?
@TobysGotANewerFace
9 жыл бұрын
the film is fantastic but this prologue is so wildly inaccurate. at the very least, i doubt the two of them would have condescended Mary like this.
@snakes3425
6 жыл бұрын
It's meant to be an homage to the old story about the writing of Frankenstein, when Mary, Percy Shelly, John Polidori, and Lord Byron were on holiday and were hold up in a villa in Switzerland due to bad weather and spent the night amusing themselves with German ghost stories and they made a bet that each would write a ghost story of their own, and only Mary and Polidori ever finished their stories: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus and the Vampyre, the story that would one day spawn Dracula
@jedpumblechook2170
4 жыл бұрын
@@snakes3425 Byron actually wrote The Vampyre, but thought little of it, didn't finish it and gave it to Polidori without a thought. Back in London it was initially published by Polidori with Byrons name on the title page.
@jameretief8327
3 жыл бұрын
Is that a young Graham Chapman playing Shelly?
@tadimaggio
4 жыл бұрын
Several of the episodes in the 1931 "Frankenstein" film, and in this one, are bastardized versions of scenes in the novel. The monster in the novel kills ten year-old William Frankenstein (Victor's brother), not a little girl. The killing of the doctor in the first film is probably a distorted version of the killing of Henry Clerval, Victor's best friend. (WHY they felt that they had to rename the protagonist is beyond me). And a "bride" for the creature nearly IS created in the novel; but Victor destroys it right before animating it, when he realizes that, when the creatures mate, they may end up producing a new race that will be in perpetual conflict with humans. (Angered at being denied his mate, the monster kills Victor's wife Elizabeth on their wedding night). But the monster in the book is EXTREMELY articulate, not a grunter. Almost Byronic, one might say.
@banjoist123
3 жыл бұрын
He taught himself to read in the woodcutter's hut, and became quite literate and articulate.
@Setebos
11 жыл бұрын
Check out Frances Drake in The Invisible Ray (1936).
@bumperu
3 жыл бұрын
She looks like Wynona Ryder.
@alc4117
4 жыл бұрын
Mmmmmm those rolling Rs
@mickeymooseize
Жыл бұрын
the bride of frankenstein..................
@micaylab1
6 жыл бұрын
This tribute scene is So Cute compared to the real thing😄😐
@BrianChido2
10 жыл бұрын
check the write up on wiki. they deleted portions of this scene because too much breast was shown.
@shannonc.5837
3 жыл бұрын
Lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd Byrrrrrrrrrron
@premalair5372
4 жыл бұрын
Looking for earlier Frankenstein it’s got b Spanish/French/colonial not sure Would so appreciate the name of it Got my name from the bride though she long hair gets her head cut off And the dr puts it back on long story really like to c it again need name thanks so much for any thoughts😇
@cedk144
3 жыл бұрын
The 1973 TV Frankenstein: The True Story
@catqueen2031
4 жыл бұрын
She reminds me of Lily Allen
@jnichols3
4 жыл бұрын
She reminds me of Olivia Colman. kzitem.info/news/bejne/t6p_3K2FmqqcamU
@austintrousdale2397
4 жыл бұрын
Kind of reminds me of 1990s era Shirley Manson.
@Mike-zh1ew
5 жыл бұрын
Why does Byron speak so... oddly rrrrrough
@jedpumblechook2170
4 жыл бұрын
he was bought up in Scotland and retained some of the rolling RRRRRsssssssss
@premalair5372
4 жыл бұрын
There’s not no talking
@premalair5372
4 жыл бұрын
In that one
@targetedindividual7931
5 жыл бұрын
She giggles. Mary Shelley must have been witness to some satanic rituals...
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