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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9342736" data-attributes="member: 23751">Influenced by isn't the same as mostly copied, used the same name, and tried to pass off as the same thing. Ovid didn't create Frankenstein as far as I'm aware.  And I suspect that Ovid would be rather surprised to hear anything at this point.  Dead people generally have difficulty hearing things. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />You seem to be confusing concepts with specific identities.  Mary Shelly created Frankenstein with processes, traits, name, etc. that generate the Frankenstein identity.  If you decided that a curse hurled at a town by a dying witch caused parts from several dead people at the local graveyard to come together and create a new living being that is set on wiping out the town, and you call it Chupacornonthecobra who has super strength, speed and grows claws, you have not made Frankenstein.  You have instead created a different being composed of dead parts of different people and given life.The above creation is equally valid with Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, because they are two different identities, despite similarities.  Some people might accuse you of ripping her off.  Others might not.  Arguments on the internet would ensue.However, if you decide to name your creation Frankenstein, you have lost validity.  The above idea is NOT how Frankenstein was created, has different powers, and so on. As a Frankenstein, your idea would be less valid(not invalid) than Mary Shelly's in a way that hers can never be.  Some might like it more than hers.  Some less. And some can and will say that it isn't Frankesntein at all.  That last can't rationally happen with hers, because hers has the greater validity.As for which Frankensteins I watch. Depending on how far it deviates from hers, I might not watch it.  If it doesn't deviate by much, I will probably watch and enjoy it.  If they give me a story about a dying witch's curse with some fast, clawed Frankenstein, I'll watch something else.  I didn't like the fast zombies from World War Z for instance.  Zombies are slow.  Other people loved it. To me those were not zombies.</blockquote>

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