They had this contest in the Year Without a Summer, during the Little Ice Age. They were on a summer vacation, but it was so cold and dreary outside, they were stuck indoors and got bored. So, bad weather gave us Frankenstein. Life is weird.
And they say the little ice age was caused by a volcanic eruption (I think it was Tangaroa?) and weirdly enough also led to the founding of Mormonism and affected a bunch of other world events. Life is very weird.
And if I remember correctly, the Vampire story was actually the story of Dracula that was created the same night, NOT by Lord Byron, but another writer who was present there. They didn't take it very seriously back then, but he worked on the story until he published it.
@@Fulphilment kind of lord Byron did start a story about vampires he dropped it in the end but his physician John polidori borrowed aspects of lord Byrons story on to his own and published it Dracula isn’t in it either that’s another vampire story the vampire created by polidori is a British lord
Maybe he was smart enough to go to college super early. They aren't specifying more of a timeline than student here, so... wasn't it easier to end up in college early back then
I would want that chick on look out duty, shes only one who reacted in time to the rabbit, if that was the rabbit from the holy grail"monty pithon" they all be done lol
Seth Rogen. Elijah Wood. Jack McBrayer. Evan Rachel Wood. And starring as the corpse... Will Ferrell. I haven't seen an ensemble this big since... Rat Trap. And Drunk History got 'em.
Frankenstein was heavily influenced by her childhood where her mom and dad neglected her and she never felt like she belonged. Her feelings of isolation are what inspired Frankenstein's personality and story of isolation.
i like how the creator of the show (or whoever the guy is that listens to these people talk) is actually enjoying himself now. I feel like the earlier episodes of drunk history he always seemed pissed off or something.
Shelley and Byron got bored with the competition. Mary Shelley and Polidori created two of the most famous characters in literary history over the course of that summer.
There's actually no mention of how Frankenstein's monster was brought to life in Mary Shelley's original story, no electricity, no galvanism, no specific method, the electricity and lightning thing only showed up when the book was made into movies. Neither was Victor Frankenstein an alchemist, merely a student of the "Natural Sciences".
How is this so high quality and low quality at the same time? They have like a drunk guy telling a story with simple camera work then make it super theatric and dramatic...
Actually, in Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein *(a college dropout)* never exclaimed "it's alive!" Or laughed *(he laughed upon relief of his creation leaving his home before collapsing into illness from extreme lack of self care in which his friend nurses him).* In fact, I'm not sure if he exclaimed anything aloud as there are no quotations. *(Though possibly he exclaimed, "Beautiful!-Great God!")* After the creature awoke- *(who was **_gorgeous_**-Victor made him to be proportionately perfect, with purposefully beautiful features, and having long "lustrous black, and flowing" hair)* - Victor freaks out over messing up on _the eyes_ of his creature, becomes horrified, and leaves the room to take a nap. He wakes up to the creature by his bed, freaks out again and runs away leaving the creature to figure out life on his own *(who becomes very intelligent).* Of course, later on this bites Victor in the ass- not his creature being very intelligent, but the fact that *_Victor abanDONED THE EQUIVALENT TO A BABY IN A HARSH WORLD THAT ONLY TREATED HIM WITH ABUse!_*
I hated Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, not bc it wasn’t a good story, but bc it hurt my heart. It’s so freaking sad. It’s basically about a child whose parent doesn’t love him. More then that, a parent who finds his offspring to be an abomination. Super heartbreaking. Fcked me up for awhile after reading it.
I’m usually utterly indifferent regarding Evan Rachel Wood but her performances in Drunk History are always great. Also, does anyone know who that English lady is? I don’t recognise her from English television.
Ya know I never quite got why Frankenstein created his monster by stitching together multiple human body parts from different people. Like that seems like a lot of unnecessary steps if you could just use a single body that's already together.
