Frankenstein Version by Kenneth Branagh

Frankenstein Version by Kenneth Branagh

In 1931 Hollywood made a simplified version of Frankenstein and

stereotyped the monster to be evil with bolts in his neck and a big,

green square head. In the 1960s an English company called Hammer

Horror revitalised Frankenstein movies and Christopher Lee made the

monster look more like a man. All of the Frankenstein movies before

Kenneth Branagh's version had made the monster evil. In Kenneth

Branagh's version of the story he filmed the entire book and tried to

stick closely to the original novel by Mary Shelley. Kenneth Branagh

directed and played the part of Victor Frankenstein, Robert de Niro

played the monster and Helena Bonham Carter played the part of

Elizabeth, Victor's orphan sister, girlfriend and wife.

The story of Frankenstein starts at the end where Victor Frankenstein

is on a ship telling the captain the story of his life. It then shows

Victor as a child, meeting his new orphan sister Elizabeth. The story

then goes to Victor as an adult and his mother dies giving birth to

his brother. This gives Victor the ide...