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DroolingIguana t1_j2c07fg wrote

Reply to comment by Alternative_Effort in TIL Frankenstein did not have a hunchback assistant called Igor in either Mary Shelley's novel or the original Universal and Hammer films. The character is a pastiche of multiple characters across several movies. by BringsHomeBones

For the entire book he's talking to Robert Walton.

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Alternative_Effort t1_j2c4kd0 wrote

A 1931 audience didn't yet have the cinematic language to understand the "voice over flashback narration". That didn't happen until 1939's Wuthering Heights.

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