Frankenstein movie response

For all of its hype and claims of being "true to the source," I find Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is not even close to the source material. While it takes artistic liberties with a lot of things that I'll grant are necessary for movie production, it takes liberties with a lot of the motivations of Victor and his associates, and even disregards or otherwise changes other characters entirely.

Frankenstein isn't a hard book to translate to film, it only requires a few key plot points and a few key characters. Somehow, however, Kenneth Branagh managed to mess that up, even. Plot points and characters such as Henry Clerval, who have critical importance to Frankenstein's emotional state in the beginning of the book, and important roles in the endgame of the book, are redirected to minor roles, where plot points and characters who were minor, such as M. Waldman, are given far more important roles than they needed. Other plot points and characters, such as Victor's stint in prison for being framed for murdering Clerval, are completely ignored.

Victor himself is transformed from a logical, but not far-thinking, INTJ (based on my own probably inaccurate assessment) chemist into a bumbling emotional medical doctor who can't handle death. His entire motivation for creating the monster changes, and how he goes about it as well. In the book, Frankenstein gets visions of grandeur about creating a whole new race of beings, and how he will be viewed as their god. In the movie, Frankenstein tries to complete his teacher's work, and later on tries to revive his dead lover, who was killed by his attempt to complete his teacher's work.

While the movie is consistent with itself (I won't fault it for being inconsistent, that's one aspect Kenneth Branagh does well), it's completely inconsistent with the book.

Yup...

Thus, it is created. Here's the first post, and there's not much more to say than that.