Forget Boris Karloff with a bolt through his neck. Forget even Peter Boyle as the new, improved monster singing Puttin On The Ritz in the Mel Brooks pastiche. What you get in Danny Boyles production and Nick Dears adaptation of Mary Shelleys mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire. Instead its a humane, intelligent retelling of the original story in which much of the focus is on the plight of the obsessive scientists sad creation, who becomes his alter ego and his nemesis: its rather like seeing The Tempest rewritten from Calibans point of view. ~ Michael Billington Off to see an early-Halloween-screening of this particular Frankenstein at Fact tomorrow night! Squeeeeeeeee....really excited :) :) ;)
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:44:23 +0000
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