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Lisa Frankenstein + room details

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the Development

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The Creature's Thoughts

I think you're so beyoootiful. I wish I had a tongue.

Do you wish I had a tongue too, Lisa?

[-Respectful silence to allow the master seamstress to work.-]

You're not thinking about my tongue at all are you? I'll have to do something about that.

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Lisa Frankenstein Gag Reel Animated GIFs

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That car scene in Titanic makes me go insane specifically because Rose is the one holding Jack when they’re done having sex.

We’ve established in recent years that one of Titanic’s amazing qualities is that Jack is a manic pixie dream boy teaching Rose how to live. It’s not the other way around.

In Rose’s relationship with Cal, he is the sexual aggressor, and she’s clearly not into it. With Jack, Rose is the aggressor, and Jack is very into it. He likes a girl who takes charge, and in some way he taught her to be confident, but in other ways she found it in herself. So with her newfound confidence and sense of agency, it makes sense that she’s the more assertive one during sex.

And in that scene, they’re naked, as vulnerable as they can possibly be, and this is the closest Rose has ever been to anyone before. And for just a few seconds, we see Jack vulnerable for the first time. He’s trembling and it’s definitely implied that this is his first time, not hers (It’s been implied in the film that she and Cal have slept together but it isn’t good.) So she holds her lover and strokes his head. She’s the strong one, the protector, the experienced one.

You very rarely see that in sex scenes, with the woman holding the man, but this movie chose to do it that way. And it’s such a good choice. Rose’s strength helps her fight, but it also helps her love.

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TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron

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Me, being tired of people trying to explain that Rose didn't really love Jack, that she only loved an idea of ​​him, that it was all superficial and hormonal...

Like, I'm the first to not believe in love at first sight in reality, but in fiction it's different.

Rose and Jack are symbolically coded as soulmates by the story, even before they meet.

That's why they fall so quickly in love with each other when they finally meet.

Rose and Jack notably share a love for the art world. Something that Rose is the only one around her and that no one understands. Jack is a literal artist. They even like the same artists !

Rose is someone who is locked away and yearns for freedom. Jack is literally a free spirit.

Rose rejects the inherently misogynist and patriarchal society, just like Jack.

Rose has a fire burning inside her and immense strength, just like Jack, but he is the only one who allows her to finally express all of that.

There is also the simple fact that they are able to understand each other very quickly. For example, Jack understanding that Rose would never jump. Or, the fact that Rose already knew that Jack was innocent for stealing the necklace, as she told him when she went to find him. For what ? Because as Jack told her as he was being taken away, she knows him. The fact that Jack trusts her completely, even when things seem very bad ? (hello the ax ?!) And so does she ?

Or also, the rather funny fact that they talk at the same time when they are annoyed with the guy who is lecturing them about a door when the boat is sinking.

All this to say that I'm tired of people trying to rationalize fictional romances. Especially when they are as well constructed as Rose & Jack.

I'm already tearing my hair out at those who say that we shouldn't see Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights as romances...

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just watched lisa frankenstein and omg they knocked it out of the park!! mark my words this is gonna become a cult classic in years to come. it was so absurdist campy 80s john-waters-esque rocky horror heathers vibes, just perfect

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His expressions in this scene are fucking tops. He wants to tell her how much he loves her so bad and he can't so he just tries to show it in his face and it drives me insane

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Been thinking about the vibrator scene in Lisa Frankenstein under the context of medical hysteria in women in the Victorian era. Since the vibrator was literally invented for doctors around 1870 to not get finger cramps when treating hysteria. (A cure for hysteria was orgasm). While the creature had died before 1870, i wonder how this framed that interaction considering Lisa mentions she needs this bc of stress anxiety and tension. So instead of a strictly sexual situation, the creature probably had thoughts like "Wow medical science has gone so far this is so easy to treat now."

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I loved lisa frankenstein but more importantly I love how all the fanart for it looks like it came straight out of a sweeney todd 80s highschool AU

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The way he fucking stands is killing me

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No because all the body parts Lisa sews onto the Creature are those that give earthly pleasure, aka things he couldn’t have while dead. He first gets an ear so he can hear Lisa talk, hear music, sounds of the world outside of the abandoned cemetery. Then a hand to play music with, he can do the thing he loved in life and then also better care for Lisa. The scene of him playing music and Lisa singing and dancing along is one a joy and communication beyond words. It’s them falling love. Then obviously he gets his final body part which duh pleasure, but also to love and intimately connect between two human bodies. It’s a final step for him and Lisa, love they both wanted and sought. Lisa to be understood and listened to in her grief. The Creature to care for someone else and be appreciated for his music and dedication (like say killing her enemies and “back massages”)

Just them and their love that lasts beyond death and yet is rooted in being bodily but not as desire but the bodiliness of love. It’s such a thing that is felt in the body and they embrace that

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Lisa + giving her mom's rosary beads to the people she loves

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LISA SWALLOWS YUCKY GIRL™ MOMENT #27: not showering or changing clothes after creature vomited on her until the day after. she went to bed like that

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Just realized that Lisa’s school mascot is a POSSUM. Yknow, the animals that famously play dead??? Like Lisa ended up playing dead at the end of the movie????? THIS MOVIE HAS LAYERS. LAYERS. I TELL YOU!!!

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one detail that i love is that lisa is less doctor frankenstein but more mary shelley despite the movie's title. lisa's introduction is her stone rubbing the creature's headstone while mary learned to write using her mother's gravestone. lisa isn't a scientist she's a seamstress which is closer to mary's profession as a writer. they're women who lost their mothers at a young age and were outcasts in their respective societies. both having an odd relationship with death, finding love and comfort in it. mary connects with her mother through her grave like how lisa does with the creature's. at it's core it's a movie about grief and the non-finality of death.

it's also a campy movie about a devoted zombie romantic who would chop dicks off for their goth wife which i think stays true to the spirit of mary shelley.