Essay Frankenstein Movie Log

List 5 facts about this famous movie, its director, or the actors. Search the Internet.
1. The director, Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein.
2. The budget for the film was $45 million.
3. The release date was November 4th, 1994.
4. The film was nominated for Best Makeup in the Academy Awards and nominated for Best Production design for the British Academy Film Awards.
5. There is a game based on this film on Super Nintendo.
Plot Differences:
1. Clerval is not a close childhood friend of Victor’s, but meets Victor while in Ingolstatd.
2. Elizabeth comes to Ingolstadt to visit Victor during the process of the monster’s creation instead of Victor visiting her and his family in Geneva after the death of William.
3. Justine was tried and hanged right away after being captured for being suspected of murduring William, while in the novel she was hanged after being placed in Prison.
4. Elizabeth’s heart is literally ripped out of her body by the monster on her’s and Victor’s wedding night, although in the novel, she is strangled by him.
5. Henry Clerval does not die in the film, while in the novel he is strangled to death by the monster.
6. In the film Victor refuses to animate a female companion for the monster when he brings him Justine’s dead body as material for him to use on his ride, while in the novel he refuses to when thinking about all the horrible consequences all this may cause and destroys what is already built of the female monster.
7. Walton re-creates Elizabeth and brings her back to life but she then destroys herself.
8. Caroline Beaufort dies of giving birth to her son William, not because of Scarlet Fever.
9. At the end of the movie, the monster burns himself along with Victor’s body at Frankenstein’s funeral, he doesn’t climb out of Walton’s ship and jump into the waves of the arctic sea as demonstrated in the novel.
Character Changes: Book/Play Film
•Ernest and Safie were not presented in the film, but were characters in the novel.
•A young boy and girl also lived in the cottage with Felix and Agatha and the Old Man in the film, but were not told about in the book. They are the son and daughter of the married couple, Felix and Agatha.
Name(s): Elizabeth Lavenza Elizabeth
Age(s): N/A N/A
Appearances: Book/Play: Blue eyes, astonishing, angel-like glow around her body and beautiful blonde hair Movie: Light, pale complexion, brown eyes, and brown, curly hair
Relationships: Book/Play: Adopted from a poor family and Victor’s “cousin” Movie: Does not mention her adoption and Victor is married of to his “sister”
Book/Play Setting (Time/Location): Late 1790’s - Early 1800’s in Europe - i.e. New England, Geneva, Ingolstadt, Germany, Switzerland, Russia
Film Setting (Time/Location): Late 1790’s in Europe - i.e. Geneva, ngolstadt, Germany, Switzerland, Russia
Music: Use the four words, scary, action, romantic, and humorous, to explain the apprpriate use of music in the film. Not all will apply.*
Scary: The music is made fearful in the way that is unexpected. During some parts of the movie, the melody of the

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