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of the world, of Henry,
of his own existence,
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and comments on it, if only
in the irony of his perspective.
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He doesn't take existence seriously.
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So he makes comments about
his creations of these little people,
:29:24
he makes comments about himself
being like the devil or vice versa.
:29:30
He has an ironic twist to existence,
:29:35
which is, from what I can tell, something
that he shares - that character shares -
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and the actor who played him,
Ernest Thesiger, shared -
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with James Whale himself.
:29:45
Dr Pretorius is firstly
an archetypal old queen.
:29:49
I think we should fess up about that
right from the beginning.
:29:52
He is however also Mephistopheles
to Colin Clive
:29:57
as Frankenstein's... Faust, I think.
:30:00
He's the one seducing Frankenstein away
from, if I may say, the straight and narrow
:30:08
back into this very much
more twisted vision
:30:15
of what he should be doing with his life.
:30:17
I gather we not only did her hair,
:30:22
but dressed her.
:30:24
What a couple of queens we are, Colin.
:30:27
Yes, that's right.
A couple of flaming queens.
:30:30
Pretorius is a little bit in love
with Dr Frankenstein, you know.
:30:35
The gay sensibility responds to outsiders.
:30:38
Bride of Frankenstein contains several.
:30:41
Pretorius is an outsider.
:30:43
Frankenstein becomes an outsider
:30:45
by being seduced away
from marriage and the home
:30:50
to becoming the mad scientist again.
:30:53
And most obviously, most dramatically,
and most poignantly,
:30:57
the monster is an outsider.
:30:59
It's very tempting to assume