Fantasy Quote of the Week
The word "monster" is monstrously misused and misunderstood. In the popular imagination it conjures up lurid penny dreadful fantasies of mass murderers, slasher movies, bug-eyed aliens from distant galaxies. But these horrors have little to do with genuine monstrosity. Things from outer space are not monsters. King Kong was not a monster. Neither was Dracula. The Creature from the Black Lagoon might just possibly been a monster, but the creature in Frankenstein most definitely was not. Quasimodo, on the other hand, almost certainly was.
--Geoff Nicholson, "Making Monsters"
The word "monster" is monstrously misused and misunderstood. In the popular imagination it conjures up lurid penny dreadful fantasies of mass murderers, slasher movies, bug-eyed aliens from distant galaxies. But these horrors have little to do with genuine monstrosity. Things from outer space are not monsters. King Kong was not a monster. Neither was Dracula. The Creature from the Black Lagoon might just possibly been a monster, but the creature in Frankenstein most definitely was not. Quasimodo, on the other hand, almost certainly was.
--Geoff Nicholson, "Making Monsters"
Labels: Citas de FantasÃa de la Semana II, Geoff Nicholson, Monstruos
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