IMDb plot summary: When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, and Helena Bonham Carter.
I really love Kenneth Branagh as a film director because he turns every film, no matter the original genre, into a grandiose Greek tragedy and I love it. There is noooooo subltety in this film, which apparently really angered the screenwriter, but I found it captivating, especially as someone already very familiar with the original story. Characters scream and collapse and shake their fists at the heavens and RIP OUT OTHER CHARACTERS' HEARTS and SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE, and I love every minute of it. I really have to lean away from realism and into the aesthetic of a Branagh film to get the most out of it, but when I do, oh goodness is it a reward. This film is most definitely NOT for everybody, but it is very much for somebody, and that somebody is me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > Queen of Katwe
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein < Leap of Faith
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein < The Muppets
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein < A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > Blackbeard's Ghost
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > Hidden Figures
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > The Fault in Our Stars
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein > Kwaidan
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein < The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Final spot: #710 out of 3231, or 78%.
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