Victor Frankenstein Film Analysis

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The creation of life is said to be something only God has the power to do, but what if man could create life as well. James McAvoy 's character Victor Frankenstein and his assistant, Daniel Radcliffe 's character Igor, discover the way to create life in the movie Victor Frankenstein. The movie Victor Frankenstein was produced by John Davis in 2015. Victor Frankenstein is one of many movie or screen adaptations of the book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, in 1818. In recent generations, Frankenstein has been a modern day cult classic with multiple variations of movies, television, and cartoons being produced. When Frankenstein successfully creates an undead monster, he raises questions about creation by God and man made creation. For the …show more content…

Science fiction enthusiasts like the movie because of the different ideas brought forth in the movie. These concepts range from the machine Frankenstein builds, to the idea of building a man made monster, and bringing the monster to life with lightning. Scientists, whose fields of study are anatomy and biology, use movies like this one to gather ideas and inspiration. Whoever read the original story of Frankenstein, he or she would probably watch this movie because it puts a twist on the original without changing too much of the storyline. The audience shapes this movie 's point by what the ratings were, how much money was spent watching the movie in theaters, and people 's personal comments about the movie. Most people who saw the movie gave an average rating of 6 out of 10, and the movie made a little over thirty-four million in the box office (IMDB). The critique of the movie was half and half; half of the people liked this movie, while the other half disagreed with the changes to the original …show more content…

Those who are avid fans of Frankenstein will watch the movie to see what has been changed to the original story; these people are the hardest critics because they are fans. Anyone, who knows the story, will go to the movie for the sake of watching a science fiction movie. Another assumption is that people will already have a mindset of what the movie should be before they see it. If they know something at one part of the movie should happen, but it does not, they will wonder

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