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Mary Shelley
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A 2017 dramatization (although not by much) about the family life of Mary Shelley.It begins with her as a girl who enjoys books, the daughter of an author who falls in love with another writer, Percy Bysshe Shelley. They enter a whirlwind romance, which gets deconstructed as a bit less than ideal through various personal problems as the path to her writing the novel Frankenstein grows nearer, while she works through her family relationships.The story contains elements of gothic romance, and drama.Stars Elle Fanning as Mary, Douglas Booth as Percy, Tom Sturridge as Lord Byron, Bel Powley as Claire Clairmont, Stephen Dillane as William Godwin, and Ben Hardy as John William Polidori. | |
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The Mistress | |
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The Mistress: Technically Mary for most of the film considering that Shelley is still married to Harriet for a while. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Mary's father sending her to Scotland to make new life experiences leads to her meeting and falling for Shelley, the last thing he wanted. | |
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Byronic Hero | |
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Byronic Hero: Shelley has shades of this. | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child! | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Mary's mother died from complications from her birth, although no one seems to hold it against her except Mary herself. | |
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Porn Stache | |
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Porn Stache: Lord Byron's mustache comes across like this and he's a bit of a creepy figure. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Mary, when she has her inspiration for Frankenstein. | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating: Shelley suspects Mary of having an affair with Polidori, and shows himself less calm about the idea of open marriage than he'd claimed. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: Lord Byron gets a bit of this, as per real-life. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Mary's older maternal half-sister, a real-life member of her household, is neither seen nor mentioned. | |
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Deadly Distant Finale | |
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Deadly Distant Finale: The film's epilogue describes the (in many cases premature) deaths of the various core characters. | |
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The Insomniac | |
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The Insomniac: Byron says that Dr. Polidori is treating him for a sleep disorder. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: While most accounts do suggest that Percy Shelley was a very difficult man to live with, Mary was in reality just as on-board with an open marriage as he was and had a number of lovers, and wasn't the victimized wife waiting at home as portrayed in the film. Lord Byron in reality wasn’t nearly the callous douche to his friends that the movie makes him out to be and by multiple accounts he was a genuinely good friend and host to Percy, Mary and Polidori. While it is true that he treated Claire poorly, he did conversely really care about the upbringing of their illegitimate child whereas the film writes it off as an afterthought from him. While looking at The Nightmare by painter Henry Fuseli, Mary comments that her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was once in love with Fuseli and attempted suicide when he left her for another woman. In reality, Fuseli was already married when Wollstonecraft met him, with his wife persuading him to break off his relationship with Wollstonecraft (Wollstonecraft later stated they never had a physical relationship, but she did have intense feelings for him). It was actually being rejected and abandoned by Gilbert Imlay, the father of her eldest daughter, that contributed to Wollstonecraft's suicide attempt (she later made a second attempt the same year). The situation was also a bit more complex than her just taking the break-up badly.note Imlay had left Wollstonecraft and their baby daughter living in poverty in France, in the middle of the French Revolution (during which several of Wollstonecraft's friends were imprisoned and executed, and she herself was a potential target of the revolutionaries) and it's probable she was suffering from depression on top of this, not to mention being an unwed mother was considered scandalous at best for the time period; Wollstonecraft faced a lot of criticism and humiliation when she had to admit she and Imlay were never married after he deserted her. | |
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Write What You Know | |
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Write What You Know: Mary conveys a lot of death and betrayal that she and Claire have felt into the characters of her book. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Shelley seems horrified and upset upon hearing that his ex-wife committed suicide. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: When Mary's father applauds the author of Frankenstein and its themes while she's present in a way that implies he recognizes her authorship and is apologizing to her. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: Claire falls in love with Lord Byron and gets pregnant by him, but finds out that he just sees her as a dalliance and doesn't like the idea of love. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mary has nothing kind to say to the publisher who patronizes her work and insinuates that Percy was the one who really wrote it. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Zigzagged, and subjected to viewer interpretation but Shelley does seem to have strong feelings for Mary but is married with a child when they meet, yet claims he and his wife have been separated and irreconcilable for a long time, something which is implied to be true (albeit quite possibly his fault). | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Most of the character relationships are true to life. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: The Shelley's first daughter dies in infancy. | |
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Polyamory | |
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Polyamory: Mary is chagrined to find out that her husband is a believer in open marriage. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: Shelley giving Mary the credit for the book, publicly at a time when she was there, listening but he was unaware of that. | |
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Wicked Stepmother | |
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Wicked Stepmother: While sometimes making good points Mary's stepmother is a stern, jealous person who is resented by both Mary and her own daughter. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Polidori writes The Vampyre, perhaps the first ever Vampire Fiction, as an insulting allegory towards Byron, something he openly admits. | |
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Understanding Boyfriend | |
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Understanding Boyfriend: Percy is supportive of Mary's writings and helps her get them published, although he does initially feel that they're too dark. While Mary suspects that he might steal the credit for it, he does ensure that she gets it after the story is published anonymously. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: When Mary announces her intention to leave with Shelley her father brings this up (later he is shown to still have love for her but they remain distant). | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Lord Byron's physician, Polidori, who gives Mary encouraging and realistic words about her work and rebukes her husband for his treatment of her. | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
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Slut-Shaming: Byron throws this out in response to Mary calling him out for his treatment of Claire. | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Shelley wrote a paper promoting atheism and Mary's father approves, describe it as something to stir the world out of its "delusion." | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Percy, for the most part. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: One of Shelley's friends makes a somewhat forceful, unwelcome pass on Mary while visiting. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Mary, to her stepsister Claire and half-brother William, reading them stories with playful expressions, showing them concern and attention and later letting Claire live with her and Shelley. | |
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Riches to Rags | |
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Riches to Rags: The Shelleys and Claire, after Percy's father cuts him off. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Byron does approve of Mary's intellectualism, calling her different from other women in a platonic sense and saying he looks forward to reading her work someday. He also futilely attempts to give Polidori the credit for his novel after Byron's publisher publishes it as Byron's, although that is more because he sees it as a mediocre work that he doesn't want the credit for. | |
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