Frankenstein - Movie Review

 Frankenstein - Movie Review

Hello Readers! This blog is response to the Thinking Activity. Which is inspired by Yesha ma'am, Department of English, MKBU. In this blog I am going to discuss about movie review on Frankenstein.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is an Novel written by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley started writing the story when she was only 18 years old. Frankenstein novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who creates a creature. Here is a list of various Movie Adaptation of Novel Frankenstein.

• Frankenstein ( 1931 )

Director:- James Whale 

Cast :- Boris Karloff

Major changes were made to the Novel's plot for this classic horror movie, most significantly, karloff's Monster is neither intelligent nor articulate.

• The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 )

Director:- Terence Fisher 

Cast :- Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing

The Curse of Frankenstein is more a horror movie than it is an adaptation of Shelley's novel. Frankenstein is a murderer, when monster is violent and dengerous from the moment of his creation.

• Flesh for Frankenstein ( 1973 )

Director :- Paul Morrissey

Cast:- Udo Kier , Joe Dallesandro

Frankenstein dreams of restoring Serbia to glory , so he builds male and female monsters whose children will become the new master race. Determined that they be fruitful, he aims to equip the male body with the brain of someone possessing powerful libido. 

• Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 )

Director:- James Whale

Cast:- Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester

Frankenstein decides to leave his evil experiments. But, Dr Pretorius kidnaps his wife, forcing the scientist to help create a new creature to rescue his spouse.

• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 )

Director:- Kenneth Branagh 

Cast:- Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham - Carter, lan Holm 

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 science fiction horror film. It is directed by Kenneth Branagh who also stars as Victor Frankenstein, with Robert De Niro portraying Frankenstein's monster. It is a considered as most faithful film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, despite several differences and additions in plot from the Novel, the film follows a medical student named Victor Frankenstein who creates new life in the form of a monster composed of various corpses' body parts.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein premiered at the London Film festival, and was released theatrically on November 4, 1994,by TriStar Pictures. 

Victor Frankenstein is a protagonist of the film. He want to do something different and that is why he preserved different body parts and was making one creature. Victor was doing all kinds of experiments. Elizabeth comes to see him. After creating a creature, Victor felt very bad and guilty that what he had made because the creature's appearance was very ugly and he himself become horrified on his own creation & become ill. After all this things happened monster thought about taking revenge. He killed Elizabeth and Victor's brother. At the end of movie monster want Elizabeth but Victor replies him, she was mine not your. They both died in the last scene of movie.

There are some similarities between movie and novel. In novel and movie the entire story revolves around two main character, Victor Frankenstein and Monster or creature. The monster kills people without any morality. In both the novel and movie victor Frankenstein wants to destroy the Creature. Creature also wants to dear ones of Frankenstein. And Victor Frankenstein's health getting worse after creating the creature.

Thus, we can say that there are many differences and similarities between movie and Novel. And also say that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that it illustrates both the good and evil qualities in each of its characters.

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