I don’t remember, in the book- How did Victor happen to be on the glacier (?) where he encountered the wretch and had the long convo with him? Was it just good old fashioned coincidence that they met?
It’s been a long time since I read it, too, but I do recall thing guy tracking creator guy through the mountains.
(Or was it vice versa? I still have the book, perhaps it’s time to read it again.)
I have not seen it yet, but I read that the director first read the book at the age of eleven (edited to add, and saw the 1931 film version at the age of seven) and has been thinking about it ever since then. So it should not be a surprise that the movie is (perhaps) somewhat faithful to the book.
To get it out of the way, especially for those who haven’t read the book: the famous 1931 movie adaption had almost nothing to do with the book other than that an artificial man/daemon/monster was created. The only other adaption I saw was the Kenneth Branagh one, which was closer to the source, but also deviated a lot from it, especially the sub plot about the monster’s “bride”. In the book, Victor Frankenstein begins to create a female creature as a companion for the male creature he had made, but destroys it before it is completed.
Clearly Mary Shelley was aware of the marketability of a sequel novel.
So that’s exactly how it is in the new film too.
I liked it, I was glad to get to see a 35mm print in an actual theater with an audience. I did think some of the cgi effects were not that good but I liked he went full into the gory charnel house aspect of it.
If the wretch learned how to speak by eavesdropping on the people in the cabin, who taught him how to read? IIRC, Victor left his diary in the overcoat that the wretch took when he awakened, and that’s how he figured it all out. Don’t make me read the book again.
IIRC, he taught himself to read from a Bible he found. Yeah, doesn’t make much sense. But don’t forget that the creature isn’t only exceptionally strong physically in the book, but also very intelligent. He’s very eloquent in his dialogues with Victor.
At this point in the thread I’d suggest that those who haven’t read the original novel should consider doing so. For a book that’s over 200 years old it reads and holds up rather well.