A creative re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s life… Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses.
Making Mary's horror story "Frankenstein" into a film with De Niro playing the "monster" and Branagh playing Victor Frankenstein, the mad scientist is a stroke of genius. The monster has always been the true subject of the Frankenstein story, and Kenneth Branagh's new retelling understands that.
He succeeds in his quest to create a man, but his creature (Robert De Niro) is both revolting and tragically aware of the effect he has on others. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2013.
In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. With Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. What film adaptation of Frankenstein is the closest to Mary Shelley's book? “And you know, Mary Shelley also invented science-fiction as a genre and really never got credit for it like until pretty recently so it was really important for us to put her literally on stage.” Manual Cinema has also made a few other tweaks to Frankenstein besides stitching in Shelley’s story.
Even though the movie is clearly based on real people, including of course Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and many others, the end titles include the ridiculous disclaimer that "The characters depicted in this motion picture are fictitious, and any similarity to the history of any person is entirely coincidental." 123 minutes Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. Audie Award Finalist, Solo Narration - Male, 2013. Or is there another film … The film also starred Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce and Helena Bonham Carter… In 1994, Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in a film adaptation of Shelley's novel. With nary a bolt or piece of green skin in sight, Mary Shelley's classic tale of anti-science terror … When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN has the reputation for following its infamous source material closely – Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.The fact that it follows the book only barely, and the fact that people yet put on airs when lauding the movie as authentic shows how much people actually read. British actress Elsa Lanchester adopts a dual role, bookending the film by playing both author Mary Shelley in the prologue … All the elements for a brilliant film were in place: a perfect cast (especially De Niro as the monster), breathtaking locations, and for once, complete faithfulness to the real story.
“Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation.” So reads the poster tagline of the 2018 film Mary Shelley, starring Elle Fanning. Frankenstein’s Mobster. Is it Calvin Floyd's TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN or is it the tv movie FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY or the more recent MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN with Robert DeNiro?
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