Frankenstein Version by Kenneth Branagh Essay -- Frankenstein Movies F

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...