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Frakenstein would always be a difficult story to dramatise - but a big problem with the Branagh filming was a sometimes over-focussing on the melodramatic. Somehow there seemed a sense of trying to over-glorify elements of the story for mass appeal.
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I think you may be right. But there was also some serious mis-casting going on. De Niro just did not hack it as the monster (and neither did Branagh as Frankenstein - he should stick to what he's good at).
Despite Whale's interpretation being very different in many ways from the book, it is still the best Frankenstein on film as far as I'm concerned
