Frankenstein Movie Review

By Julia Killeen

Summary

   A young doctor named Victor Frankenstein leaves his hometown of Geneva to attend Medical School.  While there he studies to become better acquainted with human Anatomy and the world of Chemistry.  Victor has always had a great obsession with death, which leads him to take on the task of creating life.  He composes a "monster" with the body parts of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist.  The monster comes to life and is thrust right into society.  He then realizes that he will never be accepted by others and he then seeks revenge on all of those that Victor loves.  Towards the end of the movie Victor is alone, all of his family members are dead and he once has to create a life, but is forced.  Victor has to create a partner for the monster to love, but with all the pain he is feeling he decides to use Elizabeth and bring her back to life for himself. Elizabeth ends up killing herself because Victor and the monster are fighting over her.  Victor ends up dying while telling his story on the ship. The monster is found weeping over his dead body, and those on the ship decide that Victor deserves a funeral.  While the funeral is in session  

Personal Opinion

    I loved the novel, but the movie was even better.   I spent one of my Saturday afternoons watching this 1994 version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.  Director Branagh does an excellent job at keeping the original ideas from Mary Shelley's text. I would definitely watch this movie again just for pleasure. All of the scenes were done really well and does justice to the novel. I would recommend that everyone who reads the novel watch this version of the story its done with great directing and acting.  There were definitely some gruesome scenes in the movie, but its a horror film.  Another thing that made this movie easily watchable was that it was really realistic and it seemed like it could really happen in real life.  I am rating this movie at ten brains out of ten brains.

Book Vs. Movie

    There weren't only a few differences between the movie and the book, but the directors did a great job keeping the underlining scenes.  There only differences were really in how characters acted and how they presented ideas...

Factoids

 

     

Elizabeth ( Helena Carter)        Monster ( Robert DeNiro)            Henry ( Tom Hulce)