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Maybe I have deplorable tastes, but I liked Branagh’s version of “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” In fact, I watched it twice in a row just to make sure. Yep, despite the generally negative critical reviews of this film, I like this version of Shelley’s immortal classic a lot.
What sold me on “Frankenstein” was the relative faithfulness to the spirit of the book. (I say relative, because bringing a novel to the screen involves some necessary alteration. The two media are different.)
Shelley’s hastily-written tale pits Man and Science against God and Nature. Surprise, surprise, Man loses. Branagh is believable as the obsessed and arrogant Frankenstein who stops at nothing, risks everything to beat Death. Robert DiNiro is absolutely the most true Frankenstein’s monster ever depicted on screen.
The scene where Frankenstein brings the monster to life is thrilling. The set looks right, the scheme of reanimation is brilliant. It’s my favorite scene in the film.
There is a lot that is excessive and frankly over the top in the film, but to me that added to the Nineteenth Century feel and pacing. Romantic literature can be huge–because Romanticism exaggerates and dramatizes the heroic and tragic. This film captures that sensibility.
If you look at any of the other attempts to film Shelley’s novel, you might agree with me that they don’t come close to doing justice to the novel (for example, the old black and white film, which is not one of my favorites, and the more recent flop “The Bride”.) This version comes very close, perhaps as close as a film can come to Shelley’s masterpiece.
Both one of the most horror-oriented and one of the most thought-provoking versions of the often-filmed tale, “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” brings together a great cast - spearheaded by Robert DeNiro as the Monster and Kenneth Brannagh as Victor Von Frankenstein - for a big, epic production. It features stunning visual imagery and grand atmosphere, and some truly haunting quotes from the Monster. The Monster is perhaps the best developed here of all his screen appearances, a brilliant and sensitive soul being consumed by the rage and darkness inside his artificial being. Rarely has the picture of a monster’s brutality being shaped by the world it’s found itself thrust into been handled so brilliantly, and the overall attributes of the creature this brutality grows in - superhuman strength, a slowly emerging genius intellect, powerful emotions the creature has never had the chance to learn to control (having been ‘born’ fully grown), unnatural resistance to injury and heightened endurance, etc. - makes for a frightening force. Victor Von Frankenstein’s portrayal is not one of a man who conciously chose to ignore the moral considerations and responsibilities of what he’s doing, but a man upon whom such concerns simply never dawned for a second, until he’s face to face with the consequences of his actions and it’s too late for second thoughts. This has been said of the Frankenstein tale time and time again, but it continues to hold up: this story gets more eerily relevant to the modern world with each passing year.
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It’s among the career highlights for everyone involved, and with not only heavyweights DeNiro and Brannagh onboard but also such excellent talent as Helena Bonham Carter, John Cleese (in a rare non-comedic role), Francis Ford Coppola and Frank Darabont (director of “The Green Mile” and “Buried Alive”, among others), that’s saying a lot. Excellnt movie; one of 1994’s best
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