Yeah, I think that's why it struck me, I was all "woohoo, Mary Shelley" and then the pre-play thingy shows me two male actors and a male writer and a male director and I was just...oh, right, this is normal. Somewhat deflating.

My theater was not completely empty, but pretty close. Made it weird to have the audience noise on the soundtrack, but otherwise kind of nice.

Except that was a very male production.

You are not wrong.

I love it, but it is strikingly male, though far closer to the original than most interpretations.

It's too long since I read the original, I don't feel like I can have a worthwhile reaction to this interpretation without remembering it better.

Katie and I saw both of them back to back. We were so blown away by the performances and the interpretation, we didn't really talk about the female representation, beyond that it was, as you say, very much a male perspective. I don't recall a Strong Female Character in the original, but it has been a couple decades since I read it. I wonder if Mary Shelley was making a bit of a point, mostly leaving female influence out of her Men Ain't Gods manifesto.

Yeah, I was thinking about how Dracula is so very Other and how Victor Frankenstein very much is not. He's a young, wealthy, white man with gobs of education and opportunity. And the creature, well, he's maybe more Uncanny Valley than Other.

It's only a half-formed thought, but I feel like I'm almost on to something.

In the book, the creature is philosophical and thoughful, even with Abby Normal's brain. (Brain from a hung murderer, wasn't it?)

Hey, sorry for skipping ahead, but just sharing a review of something I watched last week.http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2018/10/bohemian-crip-watches-movies-maudie-2017.html

We finally saw Venom, and I don't know what I expected, but that was DELIGHTFUL. And fairly gay.

I have the day off tomorrow, so I'm going to see a screening of Mauvais Sang, starring a 22-year-old Juliette Binoche.