Frankenstein
(1931)
((Best
scene ever!))
A little girl with a kitten cradled in
the crook of her left arm walks toward the edge of a serene lake
where she kneels to pick daisies. The camera pans left to reveal
befuddled Frankie emerging from the bushes kinderapist-style. He
looks to his left and spots the precious tender who cradles her cat
as she collects her bouquet. The camera cuts to a medium closeup of
the little girl who turns around to find flat-head Frankie staring at
her as if she were an outer space specimen.
Her mouth slowly opens in a blooming
flower of mounting horror/surprise as she simultaneously brings the
bouquet to her face as if it were an unconscious defensive measure.
The camera jumps back to Frankenstein
who abandons his lurk-perch in the foliage via five stiff steps where
he stops to awkwardly gawk at his potential victim. The camera
briefly returns to the wee one's frightened face leading us to
anticipate the worst for her and the kitten she clutches, then
returns to a full shot of the two of them staring at each other.
Due to a lack of
itty-bitty-kitty-continuity, her feline friend magically manifests
it's furry self several feet away before feeling the scene. Ignoring
the phenomena completely, the little lass immediately rises to her
feet then marches fearlessly towards the towering monster as if he
were the friendly neighborhood ice cream man on Free Fudge Friday.
She comes to a halt at his feet, then
looks up at his pallid face.“Who are you?” she demands as the
camera switches to a closeup of the innocent little girl's smiling
face. “I'm Maria!” she reveals beaming with excitement. The
camera quickly jumps to an extreme closeup of Frankenstein's vapid
face. He continues to stare at her with a short-bus expression*,
his
gaping maw offering nothing
but three seconds of silence before the
camera returns to Maria. Instead of waiting for the crickets to
cease, she quickly blurts, “Will you play with me?”
*This “special-person”
expression
unexpected and randomly hilarious,
it
made me laugh hard enough to
narrowly avoid having
to replace
my
tattered thong
for fresh'ns!
Anyway...
If my colorful words
failed to paint the scene in your little mind's eye,
Besides,
I know you are dying to know how their little encounter ends!
I don't want to give the rest away, but I promise the ending alone has the power to force a ferocious frenzy of chuckles out of anyone's face!
- It's a real rib-tickler!
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