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Transcript: Branagh's `Frankenstein' Not Very Interesting
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- November 4, 1994
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NOAH ADAMS, Host: When Kenneth Branagh electrifies a grotesquely sewn
together Robert DeNiro in the new movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
he becomes the latest in a long line of cinematic monster makers.
There have been more than 40 Frankenstein films over the years, from
Thomas Edison's 11-minute silent Frankenstein in 1910 to an animated
version created just three years ago. Branagh's film is faithful
to the original novel, but fidelity hasn't usually been the point
of these films, as critic Bob Mondello notes in this look at 65 years
of Frankenstein movies.
BOB MONDELLO, Critic: The archetype is Boris Karloff dead on the
slab, an electrical storm ...