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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Movie Adaptations

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It is very common that we will read a book then go to the theater to see its movie parallel just to find they are totally different. Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein has been made into three movies which all have their similarities and differences than the book. Although the topic of creating new life is represented in all of the movies other major points of the book are left out or changed. Even though all the movies differ from the book I have noticed that the movies grow closer and closer to the book as the years go by in which they were made. The 1935 movie The Man Who Made a Monster by James Whale had the same main idea with Frankenstein creating like, but besides that it was different in many ways. In the movie Frankenstein did not have much of a story as to why he wanted to create life, where as in the book we know he was upset about his mother’s death. A character named Fritz was Frankenstein’s assistant and only the creature’s first victim even though his character was not in the book at all. In this movie the creature does not have much of a character besides the monster killing people and crashing weddings. There was not a De’Lacey family in the movie to help teach the creature how to speak. Personally this displeased me because I enjoyed the books representation of the creature as a loving being that was only changed by the hate of others toward him. This movie was all together a bad representative of the book. The second Frankenstein movie was in

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