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The monster has always been the true subject of the Frankenstein story, and Kenneth Branagh's new retelling understands that. "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. But the center of the film, quieter and more thoughtful, contains the real story.

The Creature ( Robert De Niro ) has escaped his captivity and wandered into a pastoral setting where a little family lives peacefully. It is cold, and he creeps into the barn, feeding from the same trough as the pigs, and looking longingly through the window to the peaceful scene around the hearth. In the night he prepares firewood for his unwitting hosts. The family gradually becomes aware that some sort of forest spirit is befriending him - and the old grandfather, who is blind, actually invites the Creature in to sit by the fire.

This Creature, more than those in any of the earlier films, is acutely aware that in appearance he is a hideous monster. He also knows more about his origins. He reads Frankenstein's original journal, and learns how he was constructed from parts of dead bodies.

And he is thoughtful: "Yes, I speak, and read, and think, and know the ways of man," he says, with an echo of Caliban. And he asks, "What of my soul? Do I have one? What of these people of which I am composed?" The whole issue of the Branagh film is concentrated here: Has Frankenstein created a monster, or a man? De Niro brings a real pathos to the role, and there is agony when he asks the scientist, "Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions?" And his loneliness is palpable: "For the sympathy of one living being I would make peace with all." But the film surrounding these scenes is less satisfactory.

Branagh has always been a director cheerfully willing to shoot for the moon, to pump up his scenes with melodrama and hyperbole, and usually I enjoy that (as in " Dead Again " and " Henry V "). Here, however, faced with material that begins as lurid melodrama, he goes over the top.

The movie is bracketed with an unnecessary prologue and epilogue, taken from the original nov el, during which an Arctic expedition encounters Frankenstein and his monster wandering far from home on the frozen wastes. Presumably this material is there to allow the headstrong explorer ( Aidan Quinn ) to learn from Frankenstein the hazards of indulging one's will. But that's a point the movie has already made.

The story leading up to Frankenstein's desire to create life involves his love affair with Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), his sister by adoption. Carter continues to blossom as a passionate English rose, and Branagh, as Frankenstein, is convincingly obsessed with her (they kiss as the camera whirls around them like an homage to " Vertigo "). But as a blood-soaked Caesarean birth is accompanied by lightning bolts pulverizing trees, we begin to wish Branagh would turn the volume down. (One sequence I did like involved the harnessing of lightning to give the Creature life; it's inspired by the 1935 " Bride of Frankenstein ").

I admired the scenes with De Niro so much I'm tempted to give "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" a favorable verdict. But it's a near miss. The Creature is on target, but the rest of the film is so frantic, so manic, it doesn't pause to be sure its effects are registered.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

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Helena Bonham-Carter as Elizabeth

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: 1994 Movie Analysis Essay

Introduction.

Frankenstein (also referred to as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) is a horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh in 1994 and adopted from a book by Mary Shelly bearing a similar title. In the movie, a young doctor named Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) departs from his native land of Geneva to be admitted to a medical school (IMDB, para. 2).

At the college, he studies and becomes knowledgeable in human anatomy and in chemistry. The young student has always been fascinated with death, and this leads him to initiate a project to create life. Victor designs a creature with the body parts of convicts and with the brain of a bright scientist. The ‘monster’ (Robert De Niro) comes to life and is thrown into society.

The monster then grasps that society will never accept him and seeks revenge on all persons that Victor loves. As the movie ends, Victor is all by himself as all his family members have been killed. Victor then creates a partner for the creature to love; however, due to the pain he is feeling, he opts to use Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) and resurrects her for his benefit. Eventually, Elizabeth kills herself because Victor and the monster are fighting over her.

As the film comes to an end, Victor dies on a ship while the monster he created is found crying over his dead body. Victor’s funeral ceremony is interrupted when the ice surrounding the ship starts to crack. The creature takes a burning torch and sets himself and his dead creator, alight.

Critical Analysis of the Film

Despite having a fine start, Frankenstein fails to quite come off and does not make a good film for a variety of reasons. First is the films’ duration. In slightly more than two hours, the movie feels a little extended. It is wordy, and the speed drops in some scenes. Part of the problem stems from the film’s familiarity. Preparations for Frankenstein’s journey to Vienna, his encounter with Clerval, his disobedience to the medical staff at the school, and his initial experimentations have all been undertaken before.

The audience knows where Victor is headed to, and Branagh offers no compelling spins to the storyline. This familiarity stems from the fact that several editions of the movie have been produced before. However, the film becomes more interesting in the second half. Here, Branagh uses elements from the book that have not been included in previous versions of the movie.

For instance, the Arctic scenery, the subtle fact that the creature can converse in the human voice and is smart and able to experience pain, the series of events related to William’s death and the creature’s set-up of Justine are all exclusive to the movie, making for an exciting watch. However, for someone who has not watched previous versions of the film nor read Shelley’s book, the movie makes for an interesting watch as a whole.

Another unfortunate aspect of the movie is the rapid succession of scenes, considering that the film runs for more than two hours. Just fifteen minutes into the movie, three years have already elapsed. An audience may find it hard to keep up with the story and might lose concentration midway to the end. Again, the author needs to recognize that tragedy in the film is most effective when it is allowed to develop slowly.

The scenes in Branagh’s version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein move so fast that some of the subtleties disappear along the way. This gives the movie an exciting and occasionally chaotic (particularly in the first half-hour) piece of work that, while irrefutably entertaining, is short of the depth that a work of this magnitude requires.

However, the movie can be praised in several aspects, especially that of the gorgeous scenery, superior acting of some characters, especially Elizabeth and Robert de Niro, and creativity. From one scene to another, the producer does nice finishing touches and fascinating variations that are easily noticeable.

It is exciting, for instance, to watch Frankenstein play Ben Franklin and hold hands with his family members while lying down! And in another scene, when Dr. Frankenstein pays a midwife to collect amniotic fluid and fill what resembles a cylinder, our interest is held as much as possible.

There are also some important scenes, such as the one where the doctor slips into the court to cut down a hanged man to use him as ‘raw material.’ As Frankenstein cuts the rope and the lifeless body falls to the ground, there is a swift cut to a table in the inn where a wine bottle is banged on to the table. A clever finishing touches the points that make a huge difference.

The producer also does some quality work in actor selection. Although Branagh’s performance as Dr. Frankenstein is nothing to write home about, De Niro and Elizabeth do an amazing job of making for inadequacies elsewhere (Ebert, 2). The scene where the creature becomes friends with a family and supplies them with food while watching and learning through a crack on the wall is fabulously moving and is probably the best scene in the movie.

Although his role was the most challenging, De Niro acts it out with finesse and melodrama and significantly improves the rating of the film. Similarly, Helena gives a thoroughly captivating performance. She becomes much more than Frankenstein’s secret lover and also plays a vital role in exposing the bad and good sides of Frankenstein and the creature.

Camera techniques are essential to the development of scenes, and Branagh does not fail at this. Often, the camera swerves to Victor’s laboratory, where he is upset as he faces a choice between devoting all his time to science and marrying his adopted sister, Elizabeth. The camera is also valuable in showing the audience a panoramic view of Geneva and the Swiss Alps. And as the creature lays on the snow, the camera reveals the rage, anger, and bitterness in its eyes. He will have revenge for his creation by Victor.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a very intriguing movie to watch. While the film has its weaknesses, it also has several strengths that result in a fascinating watch. Aspects that make Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein a bad film include wordiness and speed drops in some scenes, audience familiarity with the storyline, and rapid succession of scenes. However, Branagh makes up for these insufficiencies by using gorgeous sceneries, excellent acting skills by the actors, and the use of camera techniques to develop scenes.

Works Cited

Ebert, Roger. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The Sun Times, November 4, 1994. Web. < https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-1994 >

IMDB. Frankenstein (1994). 1994. Web. < https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109836/ >

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When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

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  • Trivia Sir Kenneth Branagh apparently banned the term "monster" from the set. He insisted that everyone refer to Robert De Niro 's character the way he was identified in the credits, as "The Sharp-Featured Man".
  • Goofs The opening crawl states that Captain Robert Walton set sail in the early 19th century. Then the next caption states that it is 1794, which is still in the 18th century.

The Creature : I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

  • Alternate versions There is a work-print circulating which contains gore which was cut to earn an "R" rating, as well as other scenes, including the Fay Ripley scene and the re-animated dog scene.
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The year 1818 saw the publication of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus,” a gothic tale of generating monstrous life and pushing science past its limits. The book is now regarded as the first true work of science fiction. Shelley had recently lost a premature, 2-week-old child; the idea of creating and losing life was surely top of mind and easily transferable to her antihero, the dangerously ambitious Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The movies, of course, wouldn’t arrive for decades, so Shelley, who died in 1851, would never know the impact her Creation would make on the screen.

The Frankenstein myth has left a trail of thrills, cautionary tales and variations, including “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ deliriously imaginative take that scooped up 11 Oscar nominations, including for Emma Stone’s turn as a sexually liberated Frankenstein’s Monster teaching herself about life and upending conventional gender politics in 1880s Europe. Bella Baxter starts off as the creation of Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), a fairly benevolent mad scientist who, confronted with a woman who had jumped off a building, took the brain of that woman’s unborn child and placed it in its mother’s head. With the body of an adult and the brain of an infant, Bella is an intriguing oddity. She’s also a very, very quick learner.

A man leans down to embrace a seated woman, who does not look happy, in "Poor Things."

Bella follows in the footsteps of not just Frankenstein’s Monster, immortalized in James Whale’s 1931 “Frankenstein,” but also such characters as the robot Maria in Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927), the creations of the 1985 gore classic “Re-Animator,” and Tim Burton’s melancholy “Edward Scissorhands” (1990). It’s a durable myth that encompasses some juicy themes: science run amok; the consequences of transgression; the irresponsible parent; the societal outcast; the essential loneliness of the human condition.

But “Poor Things,” based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, also boomerangs back to the trailblazing Shelley by applying a decidedly feminist touch. Whereas the title character of James Whale’s “Bride of Frankenstein“ (1935) gets only a few minutes of screen time and is created merely to give Boris Karloff’s Monster a mate, Bella increasingly takes charge of her life, inside the bedroom, where she learns to set the ground rules, and out.

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Tony McNamara, one of the movie’s Oscar nominees for his adapted screenplay, had some fun with the men who want to claim ownership over Bella, including Dr. Baxter and the rakish Duncan Wedderburn (Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo), and with Bella’s burgeoning refusal to let them do so.

“There is that real male desire for control,” McNamara said in a phone interview. “They keep objectifying her. They keep telling a story about her that they think is her story. We wanted to get that idea of these guys that just want her to be what they want her to be. It’s important that she’s a woman, because that dynamic is more true of the female experience, I suspect, that there’s this constant level of men telling women what they should be.”

If “Poor Things” is the story of a Frankenstein’s Monster gaining agency (as Shelley’s Monster did, to some extent, as reflected in the underrated 1994 Kenneth Branagh/Robert De Niro “Frankenstein”), there are also tales that reshape the role of the mad scientist. Some of these, especially in recent literature, mirror the “Poor Things” imperative to tell the story from a woman’s perspective.

Among the best of these tales is “Our Hideous Progeny,” C.E. McGill’s 2023 novel about a female descendant of Victor Frankenstein who commits her own scientific transgressions.

Frankenstein kneels down to sit with a little girl in the black and white 1931 "Frankenstein."

In it, Mary is Victor’s great-niece, trying to make headway in the male-dominated world of paleontology in Victorian London. The famous Crystal Palace dinosaur exhibit is all the rage. But Mary, a queer woman married to a male scientist (and degenerate gambler), wants to leave her own mark in the field away from the pomp and circumstance of the big show. Then she stumbles upon her great-uncle’s old notes, describing his tragic experiments and offering clues as to how they might be repeated.

What follows is a sort of Victorian “Jurassic Park,” in which Mary, like her disgraced ancestor, figures out how to bring the inanimate to life. In the process, she far surpasses the tentative progress made by her male peers and even shows a bit of a maternal touch.

McGill, who came up with the idea for “Our Hideous Progeny” as a graduate student at North Carolina State University, wanted to veer away from the original “Frankenstein” conception that knowledge is inherently bad. Her choice had everything to do with her hero’s gender.

“From the moment I realized that I wanted the main character to be a woman, I didn’t think that someone who’s been systemically denied knowledge and education in the 1800s and has to fight for every scrap of education that she gets would agree with the idea that ignorance is better,” they said in a video interview from their home in Scotland. “For Mary, knowledge is very clearly power. So I tried to go in the direction of saying it’s not the inherent knowledge that is evil, but it’s what you do with it and it’s how you apply it in the world.”

The Frankenstein myth hasn’t yet reached a saturation point with these latest offerings. Guillermo del Toro will soon deliver his dream project, a “Frankenstein” starring Jacob Elordi as the Monster and Oscar Isaac as Victor. And this year, we’ve already gotten yet another female twist: the just-released “Lisa Frankenstein,” directed by Zelda Williams (daughter of Robin Williams), written by Diablo Cody and starring Kathryn Newton as the title character, a teenager who falls in love with a reanimated corpse.

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