i be a high school english teacher who be in the process of teach frankenstein to my class . when i rent the movie mary shelley frakenstein and i expect it to be consistent with the novel while hence and the reference to mary shelley in the actual title . this movie make me internally conflict between anger and laughter . the actual novel be butcher . there be countless scene that be just absolutely fabricate . the movie have consistent scene which just do not make sense . if youre go to refer to the author in the title and how about actually honor the poor woman . make a movie that respect her story and instead of butcher it . unfortunately and this woman isn not alive to defend herself and disassociate herself from this film . victor mother die of scarlet fever and not during childbirth . henry clerval be a childhood friend while not someone victor meet at ingolstadt ( university ) . during the whole novel victor refuse to tell anybody how he create the creature and while in the novel we have all this detail . why the hell be branaugh put up a lightening rod in the middle of a field where he and elizabeth be the tall object in the area . how be he able to count down perfectly to when the lightening will strike . where do that scene come from anyway . they play up the pseudo incestuous nature of elizabeth and victor way too much . the monster cut firewood for the cottager while he doesn not pick fricking radish for them . this be only the very beginning of the movie and i haven not include nearly all the stupidity . if you read the novel and you should be disappoint in this sorry excuse for a film .