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Don't you just love being famous?
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The figure of the bride is so iconic
that she crops up in all kinds of films.
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There's this absolutely wonderful Bride of
Frankenstein parody in Small Soldiers.
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The Bride of Frankenstein shows up in
the Bride of Chucky in a very clever way.
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She's alive/ Alive/
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We belong dead.
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You can do a little drawing of the bride
and people will say "I know what that is."
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I remember building little Aurora kits
of the Bride of Frankenstein
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when I was a little kid,
way before I could see the movies,
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and being totally enchanted by these
creatures lumbering across my desk
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when I went to sleep at night. It felt safe.
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Some of these youngsters -
seven, eight, nine years old -
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they know the script
backwards and forwards.
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Of course, with the advent of video, it
brought it into everybody's living room,
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and now on DVD.
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It perpetuates the availability,
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and the appeal is long-lasting
and multi-generational.
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It's a brilliant film, it's a work of genius.
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I think it's a picture in which the acting,
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particularly the performances of Karloff
and Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger,
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transcend anything you saw being done
in Hollywood at that time.
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Brilliant, almost operatic performances.
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And if ever somebody
needs to study a film
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to see how a director injects
his own personality into a picture,
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Bride of Frankenstein
is the perfect example.
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You can almost watch it and feel like
you spent an evening with James Whale,