Big fan of director James Whale being asked by censors to provide a "moral lesson" to the end of 1935's Bride of Frankenstein and responding that 2/3s of the main cast getting blown up in the end should give "sufficient warning to anybody, I should think." - ThreadSky

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dandock.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Big fan of director James Whale being asked by censors to provide a "moral lesson" to the end of 1935's Bride of Frankenstein and responding that 2/3s of the main cast getting blown up in the end should give "sufficient warning to anybody, I should think."

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grumpy0ldman84.bsky.social•8 days ago

😂

burlydub1.bsky.social•7 days ago

Bride was better than the original, even if the original had a bigger impact.

kincheloe.bsky.social•7 days ago

what might the lesson have been, tho- “it’s never a good idea to build your reanimated collage of dead parts a mate?”

mongolianbbq.bsky.social•8 days ago

chindaswind.bsky.social•7 days ago

James Whale understood something fundamental: if a lesson must be taught, let it be written in lightning. The grandeur of destruction as punctuation—Shakespearean, operatic, and deeply, darkly funny.

landofobscusion.bsky.social•8 days ago

Then, years later, director Mervyn LeRoy & writer John Lee Mahin essentially went "Oh, you want a 'moral lesson'? We'll give the movie a 'moral lesson' at the end, for sure..." with The Bad Seed.