Paola Massara

Frederick Frankenstein, a young American surgeon, has inherited a castle in Transylvania from his grandfather Victor, the famous scientist who had given life to inanimate tissues, creating a monster.
 Together with a humpback, an attractive assistant and the old housekeeper, the grandson successfully repeats the experiment, after finding his grandfather’s books and notes.
 However, something goes wrong and the creature turns out to be a dangerous monster. The final dramatic turns of events are surprising and funny.
 From Mel Brooks’ exhilarating film masterpiece, a comical parody of the gothic and horror genre. 
 
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 Il giovane Dottor Frederick Frankenstein si reca in Transilvania dove ha ereditato il castello di suo nonno Victor, il famoso scienziato che aveva dato vita a tessuti inanimati, creando un mostro. Il nipote ripete con successo il famoso esperimento, dopo avere trovato gli appunti del nonno. Tuttavia, qualcosa va storto e la creatura si rileva essere un pericoloso mostro. Il finale è ricco di sorprendenti colpi di scena. Dall'esilarante capolavoro cinematografico di Mel Brooks, parodia del genere gotico e horror.

Mel Brooks

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E X T E N S I O N FRANKENSTEIN, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT One of the themes we find in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein is the duality of science, which involves1 dangers if uncontrolled. Victor creates the monster by using a combination of electricity, biology and chemistry but his desire to create life turns into2 a disaster. He plays God and goes beyond the The Matrix. limits of nature and, eventually3, is punished. Isn t Victor s desire4 a metaphor for today s desire to generate machines which can imitate the human mind? The creation of Artificial Intelligence can produce monsters similar to Victor s. The idea of Artificial Intelligence began as a simple philosophical idea. The first computers were invented in the 1940 s. Today scientists are creating systems which can imitate human thought5, understand speech and even learn. Nowadays we would not be able to live without  intelligent machines  such as P.C.s or mobile phones. They make our lives easier but are we sure we will always be able to control them? In 1968 Stanley Kubrick s film 2001: A Space Odyssey was about a space trip completely controlled by Hal 9000, a computer endowed with6 superior intelligence, which in the end rebelled and killed the astronauts. The trilogy saga7 Matrix centres on this potential horror. In the film, Artificial Intelligence has acquired8 such an unlimited power that it takes over9 the humans and turns them into batteries to fuel10 its existence. If A.I. machines can learn like children, then we have the responsibility to teach them to be kind. This is what Victor Frankenstein did not do with his creature. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. involves: includes. turns into: becomes. eventually: in the end. desire: wish. thought: act of thinking. endowed with: which has. 7. trilogy saga: series in three episodes. 8. acquired: gained, obtained. 9. takes over: controls. 10. fuel: feed. 24 

4  Young Frankenstein Scene BEFORE READING 1 Make predictions. a. Where will Igor and Frankenstein find a corpse?   In a cemetery.   In a hospital. b. When will they look for it?   At night.   During the day. c. Where will they find a brain?   In a first-aid station.   In a museum laboratory. d. What power will they use for the experiment?   Solar power.   Electricity. e. Will the experiment be   successful? Referring to the Extension on p. 24, express your personal opinions.             Are you in favour of or against  producing artificial intelligence machines? cloning animals? producing trans-genetic food? freezing embryos? Do you think science should have limits? © 1974 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. 2   a failure? 25 

Narrativa inglese, livello A2 elementare. Il giovane Dr. Frankenstein eredita il castello del nonno e crea un mostro in un'esilarante parodia.

Young Frankenstein - Collana RAINBOWS

Level A2 • Elementary - Collana RAINBOWS

Young Frankenstein

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