Planet 51

While I was trying to find another Frankenstein-like figure, I came upon this hilarious children's movie. "Planet 51" is about a U.S. astronaut named Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on a random planet, thinking it was deserted, trying to collect data peacefully. He quickly learns that the plant is filled with green people, with two antennas on their head, living a peaceful life in a “50's style” town. While he is there, he is the alien; not them. They immediately search for this “alien” because their media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters. This species of people believe that Captain Charles is dangerous and has come to take over there world and destroy them, so they set out to find and kill him. Charles quest is to make it back to his ship so he can safely go back home.
This can relate to Frankenstein, because immediately after he is created he is unwanted and labeled dangerous, just like Captain Charles. Although nobody knows anything about Frankenstein, he is marked as ugly and treacherous, and therefore is forced into isolation. He doesn’t know anything about the world around him, and when he tries to learn he is pushed away deeper into despair. This proves that when people are faced with the unknown, we isolate and slowly destroy it rather then peacefully understand it.

JOANNA ROJAS