Bride of Frankenstein
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as the "sit down" tutorial from the first
film is inverted, with Henry as pupil.

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In Hurlbut's script,
Elizabeth is stolen off-screen.

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Valerie and Boris were to appear together
for only one shot in the cave.

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Whale realised he had omitted
the beauty-and-the-beast ritual,

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and seized this opportunity to make,
not a parody, but a reprise,

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of Elizabeth's symbolic rape
in the first film.

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The setting is again the bedroom, but with
Frau Frankenstein no longer a Fräulein,

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the bed is less functional furniture
than associative backdrop

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to Elizabeth's abduction
by her robber bridegroom.


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