Honestly I've never had a bigger want to become a movie director than when thinking about making a Frankenstein adaptation THAT ACTUALLY KEEPS EVERYTHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE SOURCE MATERIAL

I daydream about this

I NEED an adaptation that actually goes into it. Show the fucked up family stuff while Victor narrates it aa idyllic, SHOW VICTOR BEING 19-21 WHILE MAKING THE CREATURE, show the Creature learning to speak from the Delaceys, show his worldview being entirely shaped by paradise lost and the ONE romantic relationship he saw giving him the bride idea, show Victor being ill, disabled, traumatized, go into his internal conflict, show the fucked up nature of Justine's trial, how Victor becomes more aware that he'll be perceived as crazy if he speaks up every second of it, how the law is corrupt and sentences by a judge can have been coerced and say nothing about the moral standing of the victim, especially when also bringing religion into the mix, how the law continues to be fucked when Victor is jailed after Henry's death, a shell of a man he used to be, and taken out by his father because he has influence, show Victor's bond with Henry, with Elizabeth, explore the messy and disturbing relationship of Victor and Elizabeth where they always saw each other as siblings but were also promised to one another by Caroline ever since Elizabeth arrived, how Caroline manipulated Elizabeth to basically relive her own trauma, how her dying wish left them tied into something that neither of them expresses real want for in the whole book

THERE'S SO FUCKING MUCH

EXACTLY, I've been thinking about this!

Seriously, how come everyone's focusing on the "daddy issues" aspect of it? SOMEONE GIVE ME CHRONICALLY ILL VICTOR NOW.

Also, (at least how I processed it while reading) Victor actually has and expresses emotions, pretty strongly, actually. I need a creation montage that not only includes the surgical and scientific bit, but also Victor pacing the floor, banging his head into a wall, screaming into a pillow, rocking back and forth in fetal position, any or all combination of the above please. I need to see at least one (1) clip of this man full-on sobbing with his knees to his chest in the snow with his back against a dead tree.

ALSO, where is Henry? Like, actually?

Another problem I have with "daddy issues" frankenstein is Alphonse. Where is the scene where he's visiting his eldest son in a prison cell, once a promising genius, now delirious, ill, and depressed? Actually, I would take an entire retelling from his POV. Genuinely.

I'm sure the movies are great but like.

GIVE ME MORE EMOTIONS FROM ANYONE BUT THE MONSTER AND ELIZABETH PLEASE????

Thank you.