Rowland V. Lee
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V for Vendetta (2006)
Directed by James McTeigue
influenced by The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Plot
It's a combination of "1984," "Zorro," "The Phantom of the Opera," "Beauty and the Beast," and "The Count of Monte Cristo," with only Doug Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, or Robert Donat missing from the title role.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Directed by Mel Brooks
influenced by Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Themes Plot
James Whale's "Frankenstein" (1931) and "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and the follow-up, "Son of Frankenstein" (1939), were the primary targets, but "Dracula" (1931), "The Wolf Man" (1941) and "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) also provide ample fodder.
Director/co-writer Brooks and star/co-writer Gene Wilder brilliantly spoof the Universal Frankenstein films (lovingly skewering Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein) while creating their own emotional, comedic take on Mary Shelley's classic tale.
I can't make that claim entirely divorced of hedging: it would be another half-decade until he appeared in The Fly , the first film in the almost uninterrupted run of horror movies he'd appear in throughout the second half of his career (we could maybe stretch a point and call the starting point of this run his 1957 appearance as a non-threatening Satan in the horror-free The Story of Mankind ), and he'd already appeared in three horror-ish films in 1939 and '40, Tower of London , The Invisible Man Returns , and The House of the Seven Gables .
"Of course, he screwed up the sequel by being himself, but that does little to dilute the ideological righteousness of the first," our own Alex Jackson wrote of Burton's more prototypical Batman Returns, and while I actually prefer that film to this one, the switch from Batman's Art Deco to Batman Returns' Edward Gorey-cum-German Expressionism recalls the jarring transition from the gothica of The Bride of Frankenstein to the Caligari backdrops of Son of Frankenstein.
Also, Bloquet’s character, Frenchie, feels like he could have been plucked right off the set of Son of Frankenstein, and that was something else I truly admired about this project.
Son of Frankenstein (2 ¾ stars, 1939, directed by Rowland V. Lee)…