| Director |
James Ormeron |
| Cast |
Robert Powell, David Warner, Sir John
Gielgud, |
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Carrie
Fisher |
| Plot |
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| Locked away in the
laboratory of his castle, doctor Victor Frankenstein tries to put his
theory into practice: resurrect a dead body with massive electrical
charges. But the experiment goes wrong and the result is a hideously
creature, which, in terrible pain and panic, escapes into the
surrounding countryside. But soon he'll feel alone and lack of
sympathy, so he'll find his creator to make him create a friend for him.
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| Comments |
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Frankenstein is my
favourite book, and I was so glad to know that
Robert Powell took part in a version of this excellent story. This
adaptation takes characters and situations from the book, but it
doesn't follow the complete story (such a pity because Robert is good
as Victor Frankenstein!). The most beautiful part is when the creature
encounters the blind man, who plays a flute instead of a violin, as in
the book. Kenneth Branagh copied the idea of the flute for his film!
Anyway,
it's well performed, David Warner plays a very sympathetic creature and
Robert Powell, as usual, is great. But in my opinion I think this film
is too short and there are wonderful parts that could have been
developed, like when Victor is faced to the creature who asks if his
creator is God, "because God is the creator", and almost immediately
the creature talks about the boy he killed. We would have loved to hear
Robert say something more than "I am not God!". Also it wasn't
necessary to torture the tv viewer with that scene in which Carrie
Fisher sings! |
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