Tuesday, April 8, 2008
response
This movie is true to Shelly's vision in some ways- and not in others. F or example the personality of Waldman is the same as in the book, in the beginning of the movie, but the personality of cathrine is not. In the movie Cathrine is much more demanding than in the book. There are also some discrepancies in the movie as to how things happen, deaths of charecters for example. In the movie Henry Clerval lives through the whole thing, but in the book he dies. there are also other thing they added to the movie that never happened, like professer waldmans involvement in the experiments, and the reanimation of catherine. I think however dispite the discrepancies it does capture the mood and tone , and the plot.
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You have to take into account that if they did follow the whole reason why Victor created a sentient being and not have Waldman get him interested, the movie would spend too much time on his childhood and the rest of the movie wouldn't get the attention it needs.
I agree with you Jasmine that there was a lot of unneccesary character change that didn't neccesarily change the mood and tone of the movie but did change major plot points and undermine some of the major themes found in the book.
I am guessing that when you are writng Catherine, you are meaning Elizabeth. So, assuming I am right, I believe that you are correct in the seeming that Elizabeth is more aggressive in the book, yet you have to take into account the extra material in the book that is left out in the movie. And also it is not to say that if the movie had more time Elizabeth would not be more aggressive.
I agree with you completely. Waldman was brought into the movie a lot more than he was in the book. They added a lot of detail about him, such as the hand in his laboratory. Not everyone is perfect though and it's hard to match a movie to a book exactly.
I agree the mood and tone was great you were able to see some good acting of the characters from the book. But over all book held more meaning to that th movie did.
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