io9 goes on set with Metropolis, Frankenstein

Nice collection over at io9. No Hitchcock here, but the director did visit and film a German co-production at Ufa in mid-twenties (while Fritz Lang was at work on Metropolis). The io9 article goes on to other science fiction films of note beyond Lang’s extraordinary film. Oh, and despite Universal insistence and a fair pile of Ivory-ed pigeon holers, Frankenstein, from novel to its iconic presentation of the Monster by Boris Karloff, is a science fiction story not a Gothic horror. If we must put it somewhere, let’s put it right: Frankenstein is a science fiction novel using genre elements of the then popular Gothic horror novel.

My other dollar’s worth of an opinion is that Boris Karloff as the Monster, in the make up design by Jack Pierce, may be the most important and universally recognized image from film of the 20th century.

Hitchcock and his iconic profile would be second And the Hitchcock show opener with the Man walking into the Image and becoming one has philosophical implications I could belabor in and endless blog scroll.

The last sample from the io9 blog is from the same genre, 2001.

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