In literature, the classic story of the overreaching scientist was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). It was first filmed in 1910, for Thomas Edison's studio. The creature became "the monster," and the story had as much to do with Victorian melodrama as with Shelley's story. In the process, the complex original was turned into a simple parable about the dangers of too much knowledge—an updating of Goethe's Faust.