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holy fucking idiots

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[–] your_moms_account@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It looks so much more like Frankenstein's monster than the pop culture thing does.

Information about its appearance in the book: a bigger-than-average human sewn together from large bits of corpses.

That looks like it.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

True, much more accurate than Mr Bolt Through The Neck, but in my mind the stitching was always more apparent, and the parts less perfect in their symmetry.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

The part that always is funny to me is that somebody just decided to make him a mint green color like something you'd see in a 1950s furniture store and everyone just rolled with it

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's mixed reaction to the 1994 film, but what I liked is that initially the stitching is very obvious as well as as the asymmetry of the various body parts. But as the film goes on the stitches have fallen out or rotted away and the join areas have scarred and then faded, everything sort of settling into place. So he looks like a very scarred man rather than a sewn together creation, which highlights that he is more of a living being not a zombie or undead.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mmm, I should watch that.

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

I could be remembering wrongly, but wasn't the creature described as being uncannily attractive? Like maybe not conventionally so, but in some indescribable and uncomfortable way?