So it was after seven on Lame Post Friday when I posted. Now it is after eight on Slacker Saturday, and here I am. Of course, it was not Slacker Saturday earlier today. I was not exactly slacking then. That happened later. Now I am at the sitting on my couch enjoying the Watching Halloween Movies portion of the day. We just finished watching Frankenstein and Steven is putting in Bride of Frankenstein as I type. The James Wale version of these tales, of course.
A publicity still from the Frankenstein movie I referred to above.
One thing I loved about Bride of Frankenstein is the prologue, with Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley. I adore Elsa Lanchester, and this is an excellent introduction to the tale. I have always been a little sorry the movie did not return to the scene of the introduction, making it a real book-end of a framing device. However, I personally cannot figure out a way to do that without it being an anticlimax. Perhaps James Whale, the director, could have come up with something suitable, but I cannot blame him for not having bothered. Then again, perhaps he did bother, and the studio rejected his ideas. Studios tend to do that, you know.
“My Mary is an angel,” says Percy Shelley.
Here is the delightful Elsa Lanchester. What a fun scene this must have been to film. She sits there, embroidering sweetly, with the tale of a monster in her head.
This was my Facebook profile picture for a while.
I’ve shared this picture here before, but I thought it appropriate to include a picture of Lanchester as the Bride.
Anyways, this is my Saturday post. Full disclosure: I thought I was going to just go to bed and make this post at five or so tomorrow morning. I’m going to count that as a “Yay, me,” deserved or not. I hope to see you all on Wrist to Forehead Sunday.
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