Saturday, 17 September 2022

Frankenstein - Movie Review

        "Frankenstein - Movie Review"

    Welcome readers! This blog is inspired by Yesha ma'am - Department of English, Bhavnagar university, Mkbu. In this particular blog I am going to discuss about a movie review on Frankenstein which is a part of our thinking activity. 


    " Frankenstein " Or " The modern Prometheus "  is an 1818 novel written by English Author -  ' Mary shelley. ' Frankenstein tells the story of  Victor Frankenstein, - a young scientists who creates a sapient creature. (sapient means - " Wise or attempting to  appear wise.) "

 He had done Scientific experiment. Mary shelley started writing the story when she was only 18 years. The first edition was published anonymously in London on 1st January, 1818. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in the year of 1821.

    In the year 1816, Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see that who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Mary shelley was inspired to write ' Frankenstein' after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by his own creation. 


 " Various Film Adaptations on Mary shelley 's Frankenstein ":-

  In an Age of Adaptations, we can say that there are so many film adaptations available on Mary shelley's classic genre Novel. Her gothic novel - " Frankenstein" is a story that constantly being retold. There are so many adaptations based on this novel in various languages. I am putting a small list of movies which are based on Mary shelley's novel. So that you can easily understand. 

 1.' Frankenstein'( 1931) 

2. 'Bride of Frankenstein' ( 1935)

3.' The curse of Frankenstein' ( 1957) 

4.' Flesh for Frankenstein' ( 1973)

5. 'Mary shelley's Frankenstein' ( 1994) 



     " Mary shelley 's Frankenstein " is a 1994 science fiction horror film directed by ' Kenneth Branagh. ' It is considered as the most faithful film adaptations of 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 a new life in the form of a monster composed of various corpses' body parts. 


    Cast in these Film :-

  • 'Robert De Niro as The creation'
  • 'Kenneth Branagh as victor Frankenstein'
  • 'Rory Jennings as young victor Frankenstein'
  • ' Tom Hulce as Henry clerval' - Best friend of Frankenstein
  • ' Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Lavenza ' - Frankenstein's adoptive sister and fiancee
  • ' Hannah Taylor Gordon as young Elizabeth. '
  • ' Ian holm as Baron Alphonse Frankenstein' - Victor's elderly father. 
  • 'John cleese as professor waldman.'
' Trevyn McDowell as Justine Moritz'. 

  The film had its World premiere on November 3, 1994 at the London film festival. 

  
                   " Movie  Screening "
   
     On 1st August - Monday we had a movie Screening on Mary Shelley' s Frankenstein arranged by yesha Ma'am at Department of English. Here I am discussing about some important points which I have note down while watching the movie. 


    In the movie we can see that our Hero Or we can say protagonist - Victor Frankenstein was from geneva. As the movie goes on we came to know about his concept that - " No one should ever die. "
He developed that concept after the death of his mother. He wanted 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 in the lab. 


    Elizabeth ( Victor Frankenstein' s adoptive sister & fiancee) comes to see him. After creating a creature, Victor felt very bad and guilty that what he had made because the creature's look was very much ugly and he himself became horrified on his own creation & became ill. 


     Elizabeth visited for second time to see Frankenstein. As Creature's look was ugly and awful Victor abandoned him very badly. So, he went to one old man's house. That old man was blind and that is why he cannot see the creature's appearance. But, when his grandchild came and he saw the creature's look he started to beat him very badly. The creature cried & felt bad upon this that he tried to help that family & still they were beating me. 

   After all this thing happened, Monster thought about taking revenge. First he killed william ( Victor's younger brother) and after that on the wedding night of Elizabeth & Victor Frankenstein he came and killed Elizabeth also. He told to Victor that; " She was very beautiful. " But Victor became angry and replied him that ; 
  
   " She was mine; not yours. '

   In Victor's Journal his last lines were -"My experiments are dead now. " When he died monster was crying sitting behind next to him. Because after all he was the creator. They both died in the last. 

   " Similarities between the novel & Movie :-"

  There are some similarities which we can observed in the novel and movie. They are given as below:-

  - In novel and movie, the entire story revolves around two main lives :- 1.Victor Frankenstein 2. Creature 

  - The monster kills innocent people without any concern of morality. 

   - In both the versions means Novel & film Victor Frankenstein wants to destroy the creature. 

   - In the same way Creature also wants to take revenge to dear ones of Frankenstein. 

   - Victor Frankenstein's health getting worse after creating the creature. 

   Particular scene Which I liked the most:-
            A scene which I liked the most from the entire movie is that when Victor Frankenstein died, Monster was crying sitting behind next to him. The reason for my liking that scene is because monster felt bad that his creator is dead now. Whatever happened but if we tried to look apart from that, we can understand that the creator of his life has gone now and there was no any reason for him to live. Victor Frankenstein abandoned him because of his ugly look, because of the fear of society. But still monster felt bad upon the death of his creator and he cried. They both died in the last. 



  So, we can conclude by saying that there are so many similarities as well as Differences between the novel & the movie. But Everyone should watch this movie at least once so that they can understand about so many aspects. 


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