Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

THE WRITER:

Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851, britanic)

She wrote the book in a perfect summer for her, when she was pregnant. He spent it in a lake in GENEVA (Switzerland) . The book was published in 1818.


PLOT:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein begins on the north pole, where polar explorer Walton's ship hits an iceberg. The crew then picks up a man travelling the icy polar regions, who reveals his name as Victor Frankenstein..There Frankenstein meets Professor Waldmann, who once performed experiments similar to those of Frankenstein. When Waldmann is killed in a hospital, Victor takes the Professor's records in order to continue his works. He begins to assemble his creature using the body of Waldmann's murderer. Victor intends to preserve the brain and spirit of the brilliant scientist. In a giant laboratory of his house he puts the creature into an aquarium filled with amniotic fluid and animates it with electricity produced by eels. When the creature finally comes to life, Victor saw that he wasn’t brilliant. Victor immediately abandons the work. In his journal he writes, "Massive birth defects. Greatly enhanced physical strength but the resulting re-animant is malfunctional and pitiful, and dead." He secretly supports a family by bringing in potatoes from their fields and learns reading by watching the mother teaching her daughter. The people of the town, accused Justine and she dead. At this moment neither knows that the Monster is still alive, and he killed his brotherVictor Frankenstein first meets his creature after the lynching of Justine. The Monster only says, "I will meet you there, on the sea of ice." and disappears. Later the Monster demands a female companion and Victor initially agrees to build a new creature. He immediately begins to work but suddenly he changes his ideas. The Monster then kills Elizabeth by ripping out her heart. Now Victor likes to make a female with the body of Justine and Elizabeth's head and brings her to life. This female creature, as ugly and deformed as Frankenstein's first creation, and she fires his own.


Characters:

Victor Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh
Elizabeth
Helena Bonham Carter
Henry Clerval
Tom Hulce
The Creature
Robert De Niro
Robert Walton
Aidan Quinn
Professor Waldmann
John Cleese
Baron Frankenstein
Ian Holm