Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Parallels
- Purpose
- Shelley
- Warns people of the consequences
- Going too far with science
- Superseding God
- Scott
- Reveals the consequences
- When science takes over
- 'Playing God'
- Ultimate destruction of humanity
and nature
- Roy and Creature
- BR draws an undercurrent
- in the Frnk myth
- sympathy for creature
- successfully maps how
- film similarily elicits our sympathy
for replicants
- posses a compelling eloquence
- ironically more 'human' than human
- Passion for life
- Frnk: nature
- Br: Roy saves Deckard
- Possess more vision
- Scenes
- Mountain metaphor
- Confrontation of gigantic
pyramid-like structure
- parallel with Mont Blanc
- Meeting place between creation and creator
- Frnk: Creature and Victor
- Victor ascends to meet
- BR: Roy and Eldon
- Roy ascends to meet
- Frnk: "sublime and magnificent"
- aritculated through Romantic language
- BR: doesn't exhibit illusive, indefinable
beauty of sublime nature
- Embodies synthetic artificiality
- Mathematically and mechanically defined
- Rejection
- Not accepted in society due to 'appearance'
- Both reveal enmity during confrontation
- Frankenstein
- Spiteful nature caused by
- humanities unwillingness to accept
- "unearthly ugliness"
- Bladerunner
- malignity caused by
- fear from humanity
- treated as mere objects. Killing
euphemised to "retirement"
- Feared by creators
- Humanity
- In the end, audience feels
more sympathy towards the
'monsters'
- Both feel more passion than humans
- More human than human