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The Universal monsters (and VII): Happy Halloween

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi would say, "If you win a girl, take her to see Dracula." Little by little, things have changed. Perhaps these creatures and we do not look as scary as they were then. We may feel affection for them at all. Nostalgia, perhaps. But nobody can deny that any study as Universal was able to create some icons that will endure.

Thus we reach the end of this journey through some myths. Return to them some day there is much to tell about them, of course yes.

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I also take to announce that my blog will be part of the first blogathon based on the figure of Boris Karloff and to be held between 23 and 29 November to mark the anniversary of his birth. We'll be dedicating an entry to this great actor, to remind him and his film legacy. The blogathon is an initiative of Pierre Fournier, a great cartoonist and illustrator of Quebec (Canada), author of a blog, Frankensteinia , dedicated exclusively to the figure of Frankenstein and his impact on our culture. We have joined blogs around the world to remember the figure of one of the most charismatic actors of classic Hollywood.

And I can only wish you a

HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

-Roque.

No Comments section of Roque Madrid written October 31, 2009
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The monsters of Universal (V): how to build a story in 7 steps

The coding of the horror genre has a series of narrative elements, structural and aesthetic common in the Universal productions over the years. The production itself never renounced this homogenization, but made his cliche a powerful marketing tool to help even those less favored productions, each new monster that adds value to all previously existing characters that support the new production.
Therefore, maintaining a common elements should not be seen as a lack of creativity on the part of the study, but as an intent to create a series of distinctive, differentiating and characteristic, previously studied and tested, compared to other genres or studies. If you prefer, we could call them colloquially as the house brand.

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No Comments section of Roque Madrid written October 18, 2009
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The Universal monsters (IV): the machine in motion

The performance demonstrated by the horror genre could not miss and the study will become the reference in the following years. Having done the genre itself is encoded in a number of elements invariably present in every production: Universal had established its own cliché, which roughly can be summarized as: the monster, with his human side and Achilles heel , the girl victim forever sane scientist and distrustful, the absence of the hero, because the real star is the monster, the development of history outside the United States, Europe became a paradise of terror, when not located in remote and exotic, and the happy ending, though it involves the death of the monster, sometimes more human than the people themselves.

Granero de Frankenstein en llamas

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3 Comments section of Roque Madrid wrote the October 14, 2009
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The Universal monsters (III): Frankenstein

The following draft text began to find another horror classic Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Again, Laemmle Jr. laid his eyes on the stage adaptation of the novel, backed by the success in New York and London. Following the same pattern in the production and despite being the same year, the final product was radically different from Dracula : a script more dynamic, more fluid dialogues, a director of theatrical origin (compared with Browning, who came to silent film ) better adapted to the new demands of the talkies and ultimately a better film bill.

Boris Karloff en Frankenstein

James Whale, the director who had already reaped a success for Universal Waterloo Bridge , accepted the project concerned by the magnitude of it and not wanting to be pigeonholed as a director of war films. His experience in the trenches of the First World War, made him ideal director for a film, as described in Van Sloan warning to the film, are 'the two great mysteries of creation: life and death '.

La muerte

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No Comments section of Roque Madrid written October 11, 2009
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