Movie Review - Frankenstein

Hello, I'm Emisha Ravani.here I'm presenting a movie review of 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'. Accordingly I'll go with first poster of the movie then cast , information about production of movie , briefly story , vivid concepts which are portrayed in the movie, and the video. 

The poster of the movie Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Cast :

Robert De Niro as The Creation

Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein

Tom Hulce as Henry Clerva 

Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein

Ian Holm as Baron Alphonse Frankenstein

John Cleese as Professor Waldman 

Aidan Quinn as Captain Robert Walton

Richard Briers as Grandfather ( blind man) 

Robert Hardy as Professor Krempe

Trevyn McDowell as Justine Moritz

Directed by - Kenneth Branagh

Screenplay by- Steph lady, Frank Darabont

Produced by - Francis Ford Coppola, James V. Hart

Cinematography - Roger Pratt

Edited by - Andrew Marcus

Language - English

Story in brief:

This story is happened in 1794, Captain Walton leads a troubled expedition to reach the North Pole. While their ship is trapped in the ice of the Arctic Sea,The crew discovers a man, Victor Frankenstein, traveling across the Arctic on his own. Victor proceeds to tell Walton and the crew his life story, presented as a flashback.

Victor grows up in Geneva with his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza, who will become the love of his life. Before he leaves for the university at Ingolstadt, Victor's mother dies giving birth to his brother William. Traumatized by grief afterward, Victor vows on his mother's grave that he will find a way to conquer death. However, he is shunned by his peers, who view him as a madman. Eventually, Victor and his friend Henry Clerval meet Shmael Augustus Waldman, a professor whose notes contain information on how to create life; Waldman warns Victor not to use them lest he create an "abomination."

Victor builds a creature based on the professor's notes. He is so obsessed with his work that he drives Elizabeth away when she comes to take him away as Ingolstadt is being put into quarantine. Victor finally gives his creation life, but soon regrets his decision and tries to kill it with an axe; the creature steals his coat and is driven away by the townspeople when it tries to steal food.

The creature escapes, running off into the wilderness. He spends months living in a family's barn without their knowledge, gradually learning to read and speak based on observations and memories from Waldman's brain. He attempts to earn the family's trust by anonymously helping them with their failing farm, and eventually converses with the patriarch, an elderly blind man, after murdering an abusive debt collector. However, when the blind man's family returns, they attack the creature and abandon their farm. The creature finds Victor's journal in his coat and learns of the circumstances of his creation. He burns down the farm and vows revenge on his creator.

Victor, who believes the creature to be dead from the cholera epidemic, returns to Geneva to marry Elizabeth. He finds his younger brother William has been murdered. Justine, a servant of the Frankenstein household, is inadvertently framed for the crime by the creature and hanged by a lynch mob before her trial. The creature abducts Victor and demands that he make a companion for him, promising to leave his creator in peace in return. Victor begins gathering the tools he used to create life, but when the creature insists that he use Justine's body to make the companion, Victor breaks his promise and the creature exacts his revenge, strangling Victor's father and tearing out Elizabeth's heart.

Maddened with grief, Victor races home to bring Elizabeth back to life. There, he finds Henry, who tells him he should let Elizabeth rest in peace. Victor stitches Elizabeth's head onto Justine's fully intact body, and she awakes as a re-animated creature. The two are briefly and happily reunited until the creature appears, demanding Elizabeth as his bride. Victor and the creature fight for Elizabeth's affections, but Elizabeth, horrified by what she has become, commits suicide by setting herself on fire. Both Victor and the creature escape as the mansion burns down.

The story returns to the Arctic. Victor tells Walton that he has been pursuing his creation for months to kill him. Soon after relating his story, Victor dies from pneumonia. Walton discovers the creature weeping over Victor's body, confessing that for all of his hatred, he still considers Victor to be his "father." The crew prepares a funeral pyre, but the ceremony is interrupted when the ice around the ship cracks. Walton invites the creature to stay with the ship, but the creature insists on remaining with the pyre. He takes the torch and burns himself alive with Victor's body. Walton, having seen the consequences of Victor's obsession, orders the ship to return home.

Various concepts in movie:

• The concept of deformity

• The concept of outer beauty and inner beauty

• Psychological approach

• Scientific approach

• The concept of society's thinking process

• The concept of false parametersknowledg
• Quest for knowledge

Emisha ravani

mkbu.dept. of english