Kenneth Branagh's movies like to be happy and sad. This one is the craziest movie he's made. It's obviously a novel adaptation, but it looks like a drama adaptation. The lines are too dramatic. The hall of Frankenstein's mansion and the stairs without handrails are all stage sets. The rhythm is fast, the crackling grows, the love, the college, the peeling off the scholar's coat and becoming a mad scientist, laughing loudly, screaming, screaming, bloody scenes, and the heroine played by Halena obviously deserves it. She's a girl but she's already crazy, and generally speaking, there is always a sense of impetuousness in the first half.
Fortunately, after the birth of the eccentric, the cholera epidemic background, this crazy atmosphere is more suitable, especially the snowball-style tragic development, digging the grave, etc. In the end, Frankenstein held the bride's body and dragged a few meters of red on the ground. The run of the cape is almost like a Ken Russell movie, which I like. The appearance of the zombie bride is also very exciting, hesitating whether to sympathize with the male eccentric, it once became a freak movie. Director K is really a person who likes to challenge various types of films...
De Niro looks much more pleasing to the eye with his disfigurement makeup on, and the eccentric's mental journey is the most reasonable part of the whole film. The image of the white-headed and long-bearded professor starring Monty Python member John Cleese is amazing. It's a little surprising that the main character's father is not Derek Jacobi. This one should have absorbed American funds. It has some requirements for the cast. The old team is gone, and eventually even the wife is lost... But! It should be emphasized that in this film, Kenneth's long curly blond hair and a beard are the most beautiful appearances I have ever seen. !
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