#diablo cody

[lisafrankenstan]

As much as I love the relationship between Lisa and the creature, I wanted to think about what it looked like to interpret this movie less literally, and instead, through a lens of someone dissociating and reclaiming their agency through action after severe trauma and alienation.

It’s on the long side, but I’m having fun using my brain again for the first time in ages, so let me know what you think! Totally open to different interpretations; the beauty of art is that it isn’t finished until we witness it and it can mean different things to everyone.

Spoilers under the cut (I’m learning how to use this site, slowly!)

Lisa is introduced to us as quiet, unsure, awkward. Her initial movements while getting ready for the party are even stilted, and in the car she’s very quiet and dreamy-sounding. This is not a person who moves through the world fully in her body. When she talks about not wanting anyone to be forgotten, she’s clearly talking about herself and her mother, because the current familial situation was rushed, even when described by Taffy, its most avid proponent.

Her interactions at the party are negative - Tamara embarrasses her in front of Michael and then drugs her, Doug acts protective but then assaults her *as she talks about her dead mother,* sending her into a horrific trip.

Directly after she stumbles through the graveyard to the headstone and said she wishes she was with Creature, the lightning strike happens — right as she breaks the mirror, fracturing her consciousness.

The dream sequence shows gum, sticking dream!Lisa in her silent film form (selective mutism) to a stone shaped like a person - impenetrable and impossible to kill because he’s already dead.

When the Creature appears, he’s been buried, he’s rotted and falling apart. The song from the dream (Strange by Galaxie 500) plays as she speaks with him against her better judgment. She’s externalized everything about herself that feels damaged and unlovable -the literal scars and decay, the silence, and the violence. He hands her mom’s rosary back to her - indicating his connection to her trauma.

She remarks on how she hasn’t spoken this much in ages, and immediately starts nurturing him in the way no one nurtures her. The dress-up montage is, albeit a silly send up, an addressing of her loss of identity. She stores him in a closet decorated with a famous silent film still from Trip to the Moon (1902) done in glow-in-the-dark, signifying things she hasn’t explored yet but stays aware of, and she’s still trying to maintain that barrier.

The outfit he chooses for her is dark, powerful, and commanding, unlike her other articles.

Janet’s outburst and threat signify a paradigm shift from her perceiving herself as alienated to seeing herself as predated.

She appears shocked at Janet’s death, but embraces it fully after being soothed for a moment. Each death opens her up more - expressively AND emotionally. She dances with the creature made whole, and that’s the first time we hear her laugh open-throated. She’s fully chosen to stop hating herself and place the blame externally, shown when she justifies the events to Creature and the talk after the ‘massage.’

Her attitude shifts, adopting a braggadocio and her hair becomes more and more uncontrolled with her ego, and flowier, darker fabrics are used until the marriage/love scene with Creature - as they are made one, she is in a white shift and made pure by her imminent death.

#lisa frankenstein #cole sprouse #kathryn newton #diablo cody #liza soberano #zelda williams #creature

[ayoedebiris]

LISA FRANKENSTEIN 2024, dir. Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #lisafrankensteinedit #filmedit #horroredit #kathryn newton #diablo cody #filmgifs #moviegifs #horrorgifs #dailyhorrorgifs #userbru #tuserrobin #* #i see u creature <3

[texaschainsawmascara]

#jennifer’s body #jennifer check #horror #megan fox #jennifer's body #kyle gallner #diablo cody #amanda seyfried #needy lesnicki #adam brody #johnny simmons #amy sedaris #jk simmons #j.k. simmons

[bazberkker]

Learning that general audiences didn’t enjoy Lisa Frankenstein is wild, and I’m so glad the freaks of tumblr Get It. This movie was made for us.

#lisa frankenstein #jennifer’s body #diablo cody #cole sprouse

[yung-sriracha]

Lisa Frankenstein dir. Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #the creature #kathryn newton #cole sprouse #diablo cody #zelda williams #filmedit #filmgifs #filmtvcentral #filmandtv #lisafrankensteinedit #horroredit #moviegifs #userbbelcher #userstream #dailyflicks #knewtonedit

[horrorwomensource]

Thank you for being nice to me when no one else was. I did notice. It's just that your mom was so heinous that I'd already decided you were, too. You're the type of person who usually bullies me or looks right through me. But you didn't. You actually went out of your way to try to tell people I was part of your family. You really actually wanted me to be your sister. You are, you know? You are my sister. You're a great person, Taff. And I'm sorry I hurt you. I love you.

KATHRYN NEWTON and LIZA SOBERANO as LISA and TAFFY in LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024) dir. Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #kathryn newton #liza soberano #filmedit #horroredit #filmgifs #femalegifsource #moviegifs #horrorgifs #dailyhorrorgifs #userbru #tuserrobin #blood tw #ours* #by dee #films #gif #lisa frankenstein (2024) #zelda williams #diablo cody #lisa swallows #taffy (lisa frankenstein)

[graphicgraphix]

Lisa Frankenstein (2024), dir. Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #zelda williams #diablo cody #kathryn newton #cole sprouse #trailer gifs #film gifs #women film directors #long post

[slut4procrastination]

lisa frankenstein by diablo cody

prints will be available soon!

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#cole sprouse #lisa frankenstein #kathryn newton #artists on tumblr #graphic design #graphic poster #movie poster #frankensteins monster #diablo cody

[skystarsdrawing]

Thank you Diablo Cody for giving us two of the best horror girlies ⚡️🖤🩷

#lisa frankenstein #lisa frankenstein movie #jennifer’s body #lisa swallows #Jennifer check #Diablo Cody

[corey-wh0re]

You're a dead man...not a Chrysler LeBaron. Kathryn Newton as Lisa Swallows in Lisa Frankenstein (2024) | written by Diablo Cody & directed by Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #kathryn newton #diablo cody #zelda williams #filmgifs #moviegifs #horroredit #mygifs #just a quick thing i whipped up #after leaving the theater #so i could profess my love for this #in my own way #diablo cody's done it again i fear!

[michaelinprogress]

Thinking about how this must have felt...

Being able to freely move his body again, to feel some semblance of life after over a century of lying in that grave rotting. Up to this point, he's been so stiff, lumbering around arduously. But this is where he becomes more man than corpse.

And the first thing he does with his newfound life?

He dances with Lisa.

He knows there is a piano inside. He could go in and play it for her, he could finally play music after nearly 200 years without it. But he dances with Lisa.

With his new life, all he wants to do is be with Lisa. To touch her, love her, make her happy. He has all this energy and he gives it all to her. Everything is for her.

#I'm going to write this scene from his pov #I've been thinking about them nonstop for days #also sidenote I love the aesthetics of this movie #the neon is so good #romance is undead #lisa frankenstein #lisa frankenstein 2024 #kathryn newton #zelda williams #cole sprouse #the creature #lisa x creature #lisa x the creature #lisa swallows #diablo cody #horror comedy #slasher films #slashers #horror movies #horror #horror films #trans creature #the creature is trans #lisa swallows x creature #lisa frankenstein movie

[ayoedebiris]

Death is temporary. I’ll love you forever. LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024) dir. Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #lisafrankensteinedit #filmedit #horroredit #kathryn newton #diablo cody #filmgifs #moviegifs #horrorgifs #dailyhorrorgifs #userbru #tuserrobin #* #DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE!!!!

[fishmirrors]

hey. we saw you across the bar and we fucking hate your vibe. we’re gonna kill you now

#siccing her pet zombie on em #my art #lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #the creature #fanart #diablo cody #zelda williams

[creaturedefender]

lisa frankenstein BTS (posted by cole)

#lisa frankenstein #cole sprouse #kathryn newton #henry eikenberry #liza soberano #the creature #lisa swallows #zelda williams #diablo cody #taffy swallows #cole never disappoints

[brideormonster]

Sorry for romanticizing Necrophilia. It will happen again. I blame Diablo Cody and Zelda Williams for bringing to life this masterpiece of campy cinema:

#lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #the creature #kathryn newton #cole sprouse #diablo cody #zelda williams

[yung-sriracha]

Lisa Frankenstein dir. Zelda Williams

#lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #the creature #kathryn newton #cole sprouse #diablo cody #zelda williams #filmedit #filmgifs #filmtvcentral #filmandtv #lisafrankensteinedit #horroredit #moviegifs #userbbelcher #userstream #knewtonedit #dailyflicks #bwedit