#one of the reasons the original child's play script was rewritten is because it didn't have the 'frankenstein moment'
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listen to me. tiffany relating to bride of frankenstein (1935) is a subversion of the title of the film bride of chucky because even though she is the titular bride of chucky, it's not the bride who she related to in the movie, it's the original frankenstein monster. she goes to all this trouble to put chucky back together and bring him back to life (like the creature demands to have someone made for him that he can spend his life with) and then she finds out that he never intended to propose to her and laughs at her for assuming that after finding the ring on the mantel the night he died (like the creature is rejected immediately by the bride who is afraid of him), and the shot of her crying while watching the movie is a direct response to the creature's tears in the movie. then at the very end it's the creature's words that she uses when she says "we belong dead." so the assumption that she is moved by the movie because she feels kindred to the bride (just because "bride" is in both titles of the film and they're both women) is incorrect, she's actually aligned with the creature in both scenes that reference bride of frankenstein. and this makes way more sense for her character throughout the film, since as the writers have said she has "more conventional" motivations (such as the desire for love and companionship and understanding, just like the creature) than chucky, who is more "straightforwardly bloodthirsty." hey did you hear me. i said
#......... anyway#sorry if this is redundant/obvious i've just seen people say that tiffany relates to the bride while watching the movie#which is just clearly untrue. anyway........#one of the reasons the original child's play script was rewritten is because it didn't have the 'frankenstein moment'#where the monster is comes to life (literally and to the audience)#which was the story element that became the opening scene of the movie#so the series has always had a little bit of this frankenstein idea to it#imo it's just a lucky series of events that the series got picked up by universal and they could bring that connection into focus more#imo it's the best motif that's carried through this movie it just works really well#but i'm biased lol i love bride of frankenstein#also i think it's better that using that scene brings into focus the tensions of chucky and tiffany's relationship#(similar to jesse and jade's relationship being a foil for theirs as well)#instead of being so literal that like bride of chucky = bride of frankenstein in some heavy handed pseudo-remake#anyway !!#can you tell i'm procrastinating actual shit i have to work on rn#chucky
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