An important question?
The movie is named Frankenstein meets the Wolfman. I dont see Victor Frankstein in the cast list... Why is it named like that?
I believe the name 'Frankenstein' is referring to the monster in this movie.
shareSince when is the monster's name Frankenstein?
I never said it was his name, I said that the name 'Frankenstein' in the title was probably referring to the monster.
shareI think the original poster is trying to be somewhat of a smart-ass.
If you just generally surveyed a group of people, with or without mixed ages, the MAJORITY will think of the monster when hearing the name Frankenstein, and since these are the people the movies are made for (ie the general populace), the title "Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man" is both more appealing and less confusing for some people than "Dr. Frankenstein's Monster Meets The Wolf Man".
Since Fankenstein is the creature's father, wouldn't it follow that the creature could take the father's name as his own?
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Good point, lupinemadness.
Perhaps this creature is a Frankenstein,
after all...
He gave it life, so why not his name as well?
And it seems darkly ironic that the name
Frankenstein would be remembered for the monster
and not the man, a kind of misguided immortality if you
will. Not to the fact that He succeeded in overturning death, but rather
that It was an unatural monster.
And just as children continue a family blood-line, so this
creature seems to continue to keep the name Frankenstein alive,
at least until such a time as when the studios determine
the name to be unprofitable.
Ilona Massey played the daughter of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in this movie.
That's where the title came from, Larry Talbot (The Wolf Man) meets
Baroness Frankenstein...hence Frankenstien meets the Wolf Man.
She plays Elsa, daughter of Dr Ludwig Frankenstein, second son of Henry Frankenstein who created The Monster. Evelyn Ankers played Elsa in the previous entry GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN.
There is no Victor Frankenstein in Universal continuity, although that is indeed the name of the Monster's hapless creator in Shelley's novel.
While it is technically true that [a] Frankenstein [family member] does meet the Wolf Man here, it is also correct that calling the Monster 'Frankenstein' in both real-life and fictional cultural contexts was established by the time of the third film SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (Basil Rathbone's title character even references it as a plot point, just a few minutes in). Arguably it even exists with the second film, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. In BRIDE, Ernest Thesiger's character announces newly-animated Elsa Lanchester as "The Bride Of Frankenstein!". This is ambiguous; she is the intended Bride of the Frankenstein Monster and she is the Bride of (as in a product of/made by) Dr Frankenstein. Plus, Dr Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth is an important character in the story. So there are three ways to interpret the title.
I don't doubt that Universal played up all these ambiguities in its stories on purpose.
Excellent point about the Bride of Frankenstein. I always took the announcement "Behold, the Bride of Frankenstein" to mean that the monster was at that point being called Frankenstein, but the Bride being a creation of Dr. Frankenstein is also valid. Of course, I think a grammar teacher would say that she (The Bride) is the bride of Frankenstein (the monster), since she is intended to be the mate of the creature.
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