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Nov 3, 2020 · The most glaring reference in Frankenstein is a disjointed nod to Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which itself was a huge departure from the source material. This movie didn’t need Frankenstein and the creature fighting over a girl, and it definitely didn’t need the girl in question to commit suicide as a result.
Nov 4, 1994 · “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” has all of the usual props of the Frankenstein films, brought to a fever pitch: The dark and stormy nights, the lightning bolts, the charnel houses of spare body parts, the laboratory where Victor Frankenstein stirs his steaming cauldron of life.
- The “warning” at the beginning of the film was added late in the film’s production as pro-active measures towards religious groups getting up in arms about the film’s theme of man taking control of what is believed to be God’s power.
- The “?” in the opening credits for the person playing The Monster is reminiscent of the story’s first stage production, held in 1823.
- Behlmer notes the several variations on the Frankenstein story between Mary Shelley’s original novel and the different versions, both staged and filmed, throughout the 1800s and early 1900s.
- 1823 not only saw the first production of Frankenstein performed for the stage, there were five different versions of the story being put on that year, some of them taking the story into the comedy genre.
A visually captivating tribute to Frankenstein's film legacy and a faithful adaptation of Shelley's original text, its Greek tragedy, and its character's utter invocations to the gods in turn,...
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Apr 12, 2022 · Posted in 4K UHD, Movie, Review. Kenneth Branagh's adaptation goes back to the novel for a faithful, but histrionic and anti-subtle adaptation of the horror classic.
Considered the most faithful film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, this 1994 movie was directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont, who said that it was, "the best script I ever wrote and the worst movie I've ever seen."
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Nov 15, 2014 · ‘Frankenstein’: THR’s 1931 Review. On Nov. 21, 1931, Universal unveiled the monster film in theaters, adapting a novel that was at the time an unproven commodity on the big screen.
