"Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is
currently undertaking his latest imaginative venture in
Toronto, where he's filming his highly-anticipated Frankenstein
movie with an all-star cast."

https://www.blogto.com/film/2024/03/director-guillermo-del- toro-toronto-store/


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Re: Guillermo del Toro, in Toronto, Frankenstein
By: Ogg to All on Sun Mar 24 2024 11:11 am

"Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is
currently undertaking his latest imaginative venture in
Toronto, where he's filming his highly-anticipated Frankenstein
movie with an all-star cast."

https://www.blogto.com/film/2024/03/director-guillermo-del- toro-toronto-store/

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I watched the first movie with Boris Karlof. He was brilliant, the guy who played Frankenstein was fucking awesome, and even the guy who played his little twisted assistant did good.

I am willing to bet they are not topping that film with a modern remake.

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Hello Arelor!

I watched the first movie with Boris Karlof. He was
brilliant, the guy who played Frankenstein was fucking
awesome, and even the guy who played his little twisted
assistant did good.

I am willing to bet they are not topping that film with a
modern remake.

I just learned that there was a 1994 adaptation with Kenneth
Branagh and Robert de Niro.


Might be worth a comparison watch.

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Re: Guillermo del Toro, in Toronto, Frankenstein
By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Apr 01 2024 06:55 pm

I just learned that there was a 1994 adaptation with Kenneth
Branagh and Robert de Niro.

Maybe. There was a reimagination of the story with Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter. It was quite ok and managed to stand on its own precisely because it didn't try to be the original. I think movies that try to beat the original at their own game are more likely to fail than succeed.
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I watched the first movie with Boris Karlof. He was brilliant, the guy

I am willing to bet they are not topping that film with a modern
remake.

I 100% agree. The Karlof version has never been surpassed. Sort of like
the original Nosferatu or the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, they will likely
never be topped.



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Re: Guillermo del Toro, in Toronto, Frankenstein
By: Blue White to Arelor on Tue Apr 02 2024 07:59 am

I 100% agree. The Karlof version has never been surpassed. Sort of like the original Nosferatu or the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, they will likely never be topped.

I really liked the Nosferatu movie. If you have seen a picture of the actor who protrayed the vampire, you know the guy was born for the role. He looked like a vampire in real life hahaha.

I still have to watch the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I have it in my todo list but it is in a state of perpetual pending.
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Hello Arelor!

Maybe. There was a reimagination of the story with Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter. It was quite ok and managed to stand on its own precisely because it didn't try to be the original. I think movies that try to beat
the original at their own game are more likely to fail than succeed. --

Never heard of that one either. Just checked out a trailer;
seems to be rife with tongue-in-cheek jokes here and there. But
looks good.

When you say "original".. are you refering to the 1931 film?
..or the 1818 novel?


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Re: Re: Guillermo del Toro, in Toronto, Frankenstein
By: Ogg to Arelor on Tue Apr 02 2024 10:30 pm

Never heard of that one either. Just checked out a trailer;
seems to be rife with tongue-in-cheek jokes here and there. But
looks good.

When you say "original".. are you refering to the 1931 film?

I am talking about the original *movie* of 1931. I have yet to read the novel :-)

I don't remember the 2015 movie having any jokeish moments. McAvoy played Frankenstein a bit on the funny/eccentric side and that was about it.
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I really liked the Nosferatu movie. If you have seen a picture of the
actor who protrayed the vampire, you know the guy was born for the
role. He looked like a vampire in real life hahaha.

Indeed. IIRC, back in the day some speculated that he really was a
vampire. :o

I still have to watch the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I have it in my
todo list but it is in a state of perpetual pending.

It is another good German silent movie with a twist ending that I did not
see coming the first time I saw it. The actor who plays the sonambulist
is none other than a young Conrad Veidt, who would go onto fame as Major Strausser in Casablanca.



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On 03 Apr 24 03:24:07 Arelor wrote...

Re: Re: Guillermo del Toro, in Toronto, Frankenstein By: Ogg to
Arelor on Tue Apr 02 2024 10:30 pm

Never heard of that one either. Just checked out a trailer; seems
to be rife with tongue-in-cheek jokes here and there. But looks
good.

When you say "original".. are you refering to the 1931 film?

I am talking about the original *movie* of 1931. I have yet to read
the novel :-)

I don't remember the 2015 movie having any jokeish moments. McAvoy
played Frankenstein a bit on the funny/eccentric side and that was
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To which Bf2K+ replies...

I ahve read the novel and seen all of the movies. A really good movie to
watch is the one about Mary Shelley which takes place around the time she
wrote Frankenstein. It is about all of the 'stuff' she went thru trying
to get Frankenstein written and published... the naem of the movie
escapes me however... maybe it is called Mary Shelley?


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Hello Arelor!

When you say "original".. are you refering to the 1931 film?

I am talking about the original *movie* of 1931. I have yet to read the novel :-)

Movie vs film.. what's the difference? :|


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