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jerod26	1930 Florey/Lugosi Frankenstein	Lead	[-]
Dec 9 12 11:51 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uncle Bingo's post inspired me to make this collage of the famous (but premature) Lugosi Frankenstein poster : jerod blayney
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countplastica		#1	[-]
Dec 9 12 6:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I like it, but do you ever get the feeling that if that production had gone through, we probably wouldn't be typing here today?
jamesenstein31		#2	[-]
Dec 9 12 10:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Lugosi is looking mighty creepy in that shade!
Shadow Chaser		#3	[-]
Dec 11 12 1:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	countplastica wrote: I like it, but do you ever get the feeling that if that production had gone through, we probably wouldn't be typing here today? No
countplastica		#4	[-]
Dec 11 12 5:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Shadow Chaser wrote: countplastica wrote: I like it, but do you ever get the feeling that if that production had gone through, we probably wouldn't be typing here today? No Well, we wouldn't be.
HerbertFlay		#5	[-]
Dec 11 12 6:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Why wouldn't we be?
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The Batman of Gotham		#6	[-]
Dec 11 12 6:57 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Countplastica wouldn't be. - GJS
jamesenstein31		#7	[-]
Dec 11 12 3:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I see what the Count means. FRANKENSTEIN was kind of what really got the ball rolling and if one judges the script by Florey and the knowledge we have of the Monster design, it may not have been as iconic and who knows if monsters would have taken off as much. I think we sometimes underestimate the importance of the film and it's impact.
dinost		#8	[-]
Dec 11 12 3:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	countplastica wrote: I like it, but do you ever get the feeling that if that production had gone through, we probably wouldn't be typing here today? Yes, definitely.
countplastica		#9	[-]
Dec 11 12 5:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	jamesenstein31 wrote: I see what the Count means. FRANKENSTEIN was kind of what really got the ball rolling and if one judges the script by Florey and the knowledge we have of the Monster design, it may not have been as iconic and who knows if monsters would have taken off as much. I think we sometimes underestimate the importance of the film and it's impact. Thanks, that is exactly and all that I meant. Of course there's no way to know but it's entirely possible that the horror genre as we know it - and all that we enjoyed as monster kids as a result of it - would never have existed if not for Whale, Pierce and Karloff. Just imagine an alternate reality where, through no fault of his or anyone's, really, Lugosi's Frankenstein was produced but did not capture audiences imaginations and spark a craving for more. The '30s-'40s monster craze never happened. '50s atom-based sci-fi? Maybe that would have still happened. But westerns, musicals, dramas, fantasies would have been the usual (they were anyway) with only an isolated horror piece here or there as no big deal and largely forgettable and forgotten. Perhaps in that reality they still tried...by imitating again and again the formulas of the few established films - Nosferatu, Hunchback and Phantom, then the '31 Dracula - growing more and more derivative until eventually horror died out as a viable genre that bored the public to tears. Or perhaps they'd have gone in a whole other direction we haven't needed to consider (Ted and others here could come up with a pretty realistic and fascinating alternate timeline). Anyway, it's weird to contemplate a world without Karloff's Monster, such has been his impact. And yeah, the handle "countplastica" would be utterly meaningless to anyone in that reality.
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