<!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:”"; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:”Table Normal”;
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:”";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
A Frightening Remediated Success
Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote her story in hopes of her novel being worthy enough for her reader. When Shelley dreamt of her horror story and when she awoke the next morning, she was filled with automatic fear and intense emotions. Her response from her nightmare was exactly what she wanted her reader to feel from her novel. With Shelley’s success from her novel, Hollywood remediated her novel into a well-known and legendary film. Hollywood’s Frankenstein film revived the novel while keeping Shelley’s hopes in mind, but with a few technical enhancements. To make sure the viewer would be in automatic fear and experience a rollercoaster of emotions, Hollywood in 1994 primarily interpreted the strong bond between Victor Frankenstein and his sister Elizabeth. Throughout the film, Victor’s and Elizabeth’s bond develops with each new and terrifying life challenge. From the viewer watching this bond, they feel intense emotions from the powerful sounds of music playing in the background, the emotion or fear from the actor’s voices, and the significance of color shown in every scene. The film’s remediation of Frankenstein in 1994 and Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, complement each other because they are both worthy and famous pieces of technology that make their audience feel terror and automatic emotions.
The remediation of the Frankenstein story concentrates on the strong love bond shared between Victor Frankenstein and his sister, Elizabeth. Their bond began when Victor’s father brought home his new sister Elizabeth, who had just lost both her parents. Victor’s caring and loving parents made him into someone like them, so his dad told him to take care of his sister forever and to always love her. Victor and Elizabeth sealed their bond with a hand shake for a lifetime of acceptance. As their hand shake of meaning stayed strong, their relationship re birthed into an intimate love. By Victor’s graduation, they both realized that this love they shared should be more than a hand shake, but more of a lifelong title of husband and wife. On their wedding night after the two lovers finally got married, Victor made a promise he couldn’t keep. Victor promised to create a love partner for the monster he created, which he never accomplished before his wedding night. This broken promise angered the monster who kept his promise of killing Victor’s only love, Elizabeth. Victor’s last resort of never seeing the monster again was to create a she monster, pieced from cut off body parts of Victor’s deceased wife, and Justine, another close related victim. When the monster’s she monster came to life, Victor realized that he was in love with her and that the she monster reminded him of Elizabeth. This re birth of their relationship separated them because she was more attracted to the monster. The creation of the she monster brought great fear and aroused intense emotions in the viewer because the she monster was sewed from different body parts making it fearful to look at and brought sorrowful emotions for Victor because the she monster left him. The viewer could not feel these emotions from of the intense bond between Victor and Elizabeth without the sight of color or the lack of it, the roller coaster sounds of background music, and the intense pitches in the actor’s voices.
In order to comprehend or judge a film, you must use your senses of hearing and sight. With one sense, you are able to hear the tone of voice from the actor and you are able to judge if they are happy, sad, or scared. While Elizabeth was writing a love letter to Victor, she spoke aloud as she wrote her letter. Her voice was pleasant because she was writing a love letter to her missed loved one, which made her miss him and love him even more. This scene was short in time, because it wasn’t that important. When you are reading a novel, this short scene may take up several pages because the author has to explain in words where she is at, what she is saying, and the emotions of character. Another reason why hearing is important for a film is because when a scene is playing back ground music, the music makes the viewer comprehend that a scary or a happy part in the movie is coming, which will automatically change the viewer’s reactions and feelings. At Victor’s graduation party, everyone is dancing to the joyful piano music and Victor and Elizabeth finally kiss, when suddenly it sourly stops and chaos erupts. The piano music made the viewer happy that everything was going well; when the music changed for the worse, the viewer automatically went into panic mode. Background music foretells what is going to happen in the next scene within seconds, but with a novel a scene changes sometimes without notice in the next paragraph or is clearly shown by making a new chapter.
Having the other sense of sight, the viewer must be able to see the film, but they must be able to understand why certain hues or colors are used. Dark colors shown, make you think of a bad and scary scene; light and pretty colors that are shown create a happy and peaceful scene. From a scene shown in the film Frankenstein, Elizabeth is running away from Victor because he won’t leave his studies that are far away from their home to marry her. While she is running there is a crowd of people exterminating out of the town due to disease. The town’s people, the road and all of the buildings are in a gray scale, while Elizabeth, who is feeling passionately betrayed, wears a scarlet red cloak. She is meant to stand out so the viewer knows that she is not like everyone else in the scurrying crowd. She is not running away from disease but someone she strongly loves. Elizabeth’s emotion for scurry, of heart break is completely different than the rest of the town’s fear of death. Her passionate love for Victor resembles why her cloak is scarlet red. This example of strong and dull color use shows that instead of describing printed words onto paper to get the message across, a film has to use color to catch the viewer’s eye quickly and obviously for the meaning of the scene to be valuable. Because of hearing and sight, the remediation of Frankenstein successfully resembles the novel’s purpose of communicating fear and strong emotions.
In Hollywood, the director has to create a film for the public who are interested to view such entertainment and who are willing to spend their money. When a director decides to re create a novel into a film, they have struggles to make enough money off of the public, and if they should reference the novel word for word or to resemble the purpose of the novel. With the remediation of Frankenstein in 1994, Shelley’s hopes for her book were perfectly portrayed in this film, with the addition of a love story to interest more viewers. Printed in ink at the beginning of her story, Shelley expressed her hopes for her terrifying novel to remain worthy of its name and hoped that her audience would feel similar emotions that she felt when she awoke from her nightmare. Shown in the remediated film from 1994, Frankenstein first begins rolling the tape with Shelley’s hopes projected in print on the screen, while the narrator is reinforcing the novel’s same purpose into ear catching audio. The film succeeded at her printed purpose because her story is still being remediated into films today, which makes the film and novel worthy of their name because every age knows what Frankenstein is. The monster is a famous icon; which every little kid whines to be him for Halloween or has colored his face from a page in a coloring book that his parents got him for his birthday. The great fright that she wanted to be interpreted is enhanced even more precisely. With film, the viewer can see and hear the fright and emotion of her idea. With Shelley’s printed novel, her audience is forced to perceive her text by making up visions of her ideas in their minds. This success that Shelley hoped for has evolved from a dream, into a novel, remediated into multiple films and into a famous name.
What I Need To Work On: Making sure my examples are fit for the topic, using grammar properly, and better structure of sentences.
What I Thought I Did Well On: I thought I had enough to write about; I liked my topic because I thought it was a different way to view the paper.
