Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - (Kenneth Branagh 1994)

Mary Shelly's frankenstein is much more different than the previous in 1935. First of all the most noticeable thing is that it is in color as apposed to black and white. A wider range of camera shots has been used due to the advance in technology, less camera work is done by hand and more still shots with no dither. I think that the film does somewhat fit into the horror genre, due to the dark thundery nights when frankenstein sends out a search party for his little brother. Frankensteins monster is the main reason why we could argue for this film to go in the horror genre, and the fact that it is an attempt to recreate human life form. 

Peoples expectations have changed over time. In a horror film viewers expect to see blood and gore, so there is demand for this, so for this reason more gory scenes are implicated into the film. An example of this is when the monster stabs his hand into elizabeths chest and brings out her beating heart. The film is exactly as you would expect it to be, simply a man creating human life and a whole bunch of other things going wrong. This simple story line allows viewers to build up their own story line prior to viewing and then relate this back to the actual film as they watch and make comparisons. The films cultural attitude has changed in some way. In the earlier version in 1935 the monster follows a village and kills people in the village, in the later version 1994, due to the closeness of the family's to date, this is used as the monster seems to go after frankensteins family an the people dearest to him, his brother, then his father and then his wife, before going after him to bargain a deal for a wife for himself.

The content and narrative have not changed to much. The monsters killing spree in the previous film is on random villagers whereas in the latest film, the monster concentrates on getting his own back on his creator, frankenstein in this case. By killing his brother and taking part in the execution of frankensteins maid. The content may not have changed much because it doesn't need to be altered in any way. The story line is fairly strong, people have always wondered wether it is possible to recreate human life and by making a film that induces this, people will be interested in watching the film. 

As technology has advanced, although the films narrative has not changed, the style in that it is portrayed has changed. The camera work has become more fluid, as in they have used more cameras on dolly's and non dither shots. The sets are more open to the natural world in the modern version, whereas in 1935 the sets all seemed to be set up inside and artificially. The advance in technology has meant that now the film is in color, if it had been made in black 

and white again, it may not have got many viewers, due to demands of the public for modern 

features. Technology has also meant that the costumes and special effects have had to have been up to date, also due to the demand of new advances. Due to the genre restrictions in 1935, the same sets were used for different scenes, to save money. Also the costumes were more basic and effects were not as good. Nowadays due to the huge sums of money involved in producing a 

modern film, the use of modern special effects, the best costumes and natural outdoor sets, is almost unlimited to producers.