In popular culture Ygor is always the stereotypical hunchbacked assistant but in this film his only physical handicap was his broken neck am i correct? he did not actually have a hump on his back did he? I wonder how he came to be passed into pop culture as a hunchback then.
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Yeah I kind of wonder that too. He wasn't a hunchback or Frankenstein's assistant. The hunchback from the first movie was Fritz and Ygor was a strait up villain.
shareYgor is always referenced as the original assistant to Dr. Frankenstein, though that was actually Fritz played by Dwight Frye. Lugosi made the name of Ygor more popular, and the character become associated as the assistant to any mad scientist. Most Ygor interpretations now use the physical attributes of Fritz, and the personality of Lugosi's Ygor.
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Eye-gor: "What hump?"
shareI am watching right now on TCM and Ygor most definetly has a hump on his right shoulder. It could be the result of his hanging gone bad and might even have migrated down his shoulder to his back as he aged.
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It might have something also to do with the mainstream relativity of it. Telling old stories of Frankenstein to children or through media probably made it easier on people to believe he was simply a hunchback and not some poor assistant who's neck was broken in a hanging incident.
shareI think perhaps he shrugged a lot and got stuck that way.
shareLugosi's Ygor personality is actually nothing like the stereotypical Igor.
The stereotypical Igor is servant to his master and obeys.
Lugosi's Ygor served no master and in fact was a bit of a mastermind himself. He was a schemer.
The personality of Fritz is the more stereotypical personality of the Igor.
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That's a good point, though wombstar has a good point too. In all honesty it seems that most interpretations are a combination if Fritz, Ygor, Daniel, and as already stated, Peter Lorre.
shareIn house of Frankenstein, Karloff plays a scientist and his assistant Daniel is a hunchback and uses the praise 'Yes master'
For some reason the image kept but the name Igor was associated with him, and now they all speak with the voice of Peter Lorrie LOL
Is 'Young Frankenstein' the first instance of Frankenstein's hunchback assistant being named Igor? If so, perhaps Mel Brooks was inspired to name the character as an homage to Bela Lugosi's character - despite actually being the Fritz character.
shareNo, evil assistants were being called Ygor for years before Young Frankenstein.
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