Young Frankenstein Comparative Essay

Classical movies/films are those everyone loves throughout the generations, sending a universal message. One being the film Young Frankenstein, a comedy based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Dr. Frankenstein. In this film a scientist named Frankenstein refuses to take on his families name and inventions, but later on become obsessed with the information he found in one of his grandfather’s scientific experiments which he mimics and brings life into a human body using an abnormal brain. The 1974 story was written by Gene Wilder, Mary Shelley and directed by Mel brooks and produced by Michael Gruskoff, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp, its main purpose was to show that one should be careful of how they use science, and that they should

One of the most impeccable moments was at the beginning when Frankenstein, played by Gene Wilder, was teaching, and a student called him by his last name as pronounced by the past family members, but he immediately corrected his pronunciation. Frankenstein didn’t want to take on the family name of his grandfather and his inventions, which he views as irrational and described his grandfather’s thinking as a “lunatic mind”. Although Frankenstein viewed himself as a “Frankensteen”, later on throughout the film, when Igor and Frankenstein met, their introduction was a comedic scene where Frankenstein, once again, corrects the pronunciation of his name. Igor, played by Marty Feldman, and then mockingly corrects him on the pronunciation of his own name by saying its “eye-gor”; this could represent Igor’s view of Frankenstein as crazy. But yet towards the end of the film, when he created what his grandfather had invented he took pride in his name and screamed “FRANKEINSTEIN” at the top of his lungs. He now views as himself as part of the family and their history, he accepts his grandfather’s theories and puts them in action where he created the “monster”. The change in point of views on the film represents his true identity and the one he tried to hide from and that one should not be ashamed of their history, but take pride in it. Although his point of views might change throughout the story as the science experiment is taken too far and complications begin to