December 2004 Archives
I feel like “Franken-Fall” has progressed into “Franken-Freeze!”
Every time I step outside, I feel like I’m the Monster frozen in the ice under the Frankenstein Estate. Or, maybe , the Deadly Mantis frozen in the arctic ice shoals- or, just a friendly neighborhood Goolie who’s never prepared for the onslaught of cold weather…
Anyway, let me warm up to some feedback from one of you loyal Sven pals (get it? Like pen pals? Yeah, you’re right- it stinks…)Ed wrote with a valid question about “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”- he asks- “when the grave robbers awakened" Larry Talbot (Wolf Man), how was that possible? In theory, after Sir John Talbot (Larry's dad in “The Wolf Man”) whacked his unknowing son in the head with the SILVER wolf head on his cane, giving him a skull fracture, which would have killed the Wolf Man and ended the cycle, right?” Uh- right, Ed- according to our Wolf Man lore (and, no, I’m not about to recite “even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night…”), as stated in the first movie-just as Larry Talbot killed Bela the gypsy werewolf with his silver-headed cane- Larry should have been conclusively dead as well. Since dead Bela was a wolf during a full moon, had he done the same as Larry did in this movie- he should have revived after his fatal conking. However, if there’s one thing we’re learning with these films- the continuity doesn’t always make a whole heap of sense! As our correspondent Ed himself reveals with his next question regarding “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”-“why does Larry have pajamas on during his transformations, and when he's out and about hooting and howl-ering and biting and scratching, he's got on a dark shirt and pants? When did he change?” This same wardrobe malfunction happens in a couple of the movies- he goes from his pajamas, or just a t-shirt- to the dark-shirted, fully dressed model werewolf- and then is back in his previous undies, pajamas, or whatever.
As we’ve stated before, with a couple instances of our vampires, both Bela as Dracula in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” and Lon Jr. as “Son of Dracula”- with BOTH of them showing up in a mirror, after all we’ve had drummed into us about vampires NOT having a reflection- nobody in the production at the studio even noticed that it went against the very mythology that they themselves created in these films!?
Maybe we’re being over-analytic- but- hey- continuity errors abound in a lot of movies and TV shows , of all genres…like when I do part of a bit in my current shirt, and we cut to some older footage where I’m in the turtleneck…which might just happen in this upcoming weekend’s show (ahem)…
Every time I step outside, I feel like I’m the Monster frozen in the ice under the Frankenstein Estate. Or, maybe , the Deadly Mantis frozen in the arctic ice shoals- or, just a friendly neighborhood Goolie who’s never prepared for the onslaught of cold weather…
Anyway, let me warm up to some feedback from one of you loyal Sven pals (get it? Like pen pals? Yeah, you’re right- it stinks…)Ed wrote with a valid question about “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”- he asks- “when the grave robbers awakened" Larry Talbot (Wolf Man), how was that possible? In theory, after Sir John Talbot (Larry's dad in “The Wolf Man”) whacked his unknowing son in the head with the SILVER wolf head on his cane, giving him a skull fracture, which would have killed the Wolf Man and ended the cycle, right?” Uh- right, Ed- according to our Wolf Man lore (and, no, I’m not about to recite “even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night…”), as stated in the first movie-just as Larry Talbot killed Bela the gypsy werewolf with his silver-headed cane- Larry should have been conclusively dead as well. Since dead Bela was a wolf during a full moon, had he done the same as Larry did in this movie- he should have revived after his fatal conking. However, if there’s one thing we’re learning with these films- the continuity doesn’t always make a whole heap of sense! As our correspondent Ed himself reveals with his next question regarding “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”-“why does Larry have pajamas on during his transformations, and when he's out and about hooting and howl-ering and biting and scratching, he's got on a dark shirt and pants? When did he change?” This same wardrobe malfunction happens in a couple of the movies- he goes from his pajamas, or just a t-shirt- to the dark-shirted, fully dressed model werewolf- and then is back in his previous undies, pajamas, or whatever.
As we’ve stated before, with a couple instances of our vampires, both Bela as Dracula in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” and Lon Jr. as “Son of Dracula”- with BOTH of them showing up in a mirror, after all we’ve had drummed into us about vampires NOT having a reflection- nobody in the production at the studio even noticed that it went against the very mythology that they themselves created in these films!?
Maybe we’re being over-analytic- but- hey- continuity errors abound in a lot of movies and TV shows , of all genres…like when I do part of a bit in my current shirt, and we cut to some older footage where I’m in the turtleneck…which might just happen in this upcoming weekend’s show (ahem)…
