Frankenstein is a gothic novel written by Mary Shelley. In the modern day, Frankenstein’s monster would be a creature that would be created using the highest technology available to scientists. Frankenstein’s monster would be more horrific than Mary Shelley made him to be in the novel (Mellor, 1988). Frankenstein’s monster would be a creature that would be hard to wipe out of the face of the earth and would be made of cells that are highly replicating within hours to form new monsters and therefore the monster would not need any female companion to reproduce. However, to merge the theme of romance in the novel to the film, (Shelley, 2004) Frankenstein’s monster would only stop reproducing more monsters if only a female companion is created for him.
Frankenstein’s monster would have stayed for a long time without a female companion and as a result found new ways to reproduce and decide to punish his creator for not responding to his request for a female companion. The monster would operate on the mechanism that his cells, the ones his body would be operating on, will constantly require blood and therefore his need for blood would heighten, increasing the number of victims in the film or the victims who would be at his mercy. The monster would also be staying in the forest and would occasional resurface to the city when he is thirsty for blood. The monster would have a mechanism which he only can terminate or the person who initially made him. The tricky part would be to locate Frankenstein’s monster for his senses would be highly adapted to sense humans when they are miles away (Earl, 1990).
The monster would have clear vision both day and night and his speed would be faster than the speed of lightning making it impossible to capture it. However, during the day, the monster would need an approximate of five hours to recharge its cells when the sun would be shinning and therefore during the days that the sun is not in the sky, the monster would be resting in a hideout in the forest (Earl, 1990). He would make people fear going to work for the agony of being laid by him to the extent that the government and the military would have to get involved in trapping him. Meanwhile, Victor would be in police custody for questioning on how to terminate the monster. Realization would dawn on the detectors that only victor or the monster himself would end the agony alone without the interference of detectors and the government
The number one question would be whether Victor should create a female companion for Frankenstein’s monster to stop reproducing through his cells only or whether he would manage to kill the creature and thus prolonging the time the monster has to kill more people. How then would the monster’s word be true that if a female companion is made for him than the other creatures would disappear? If victor is to terminate the creature, how would he do it given that the monster and the other creatures are mutating within hours and killing more and more people for the more the creatures become advanced, the more their need and quest for blood (Earl, 1990)?
Elizabeth’s role in the film would remain the same as in the novel. However, in the film, the role of Elizabeth would be played by a very beautiful girl. The kind of girl who would make all men desire her, she would have a good figure, beautiful face and a good character so that when the monster kills her, this would cause Frankenstein to avenge her death. In other words, her beauty and love for Frankenstein would make the revenge worthwhile (Shelley, 2004).
Henry would be a major character in the film and though a friend of Frankenstein since childhood, Henry in the film would play the role of the friend who always encouraged Frankenstein to pursue his science dreams but not to the extent of creating a monster capable of killing other people (Mellor, 1988).
The De Lacey’s family role would be played by a very loving family made up of a beautiful couple who would be very happy and therefore make the monster desire a female companion (Shelley, 2004). The kind of family the De Lacey’s display in the film would be a dream family to the monster and therefore his desire for a female companion. At the murder of William, Frankenstein’s brother, the monster would brutally strangle William after realizing that William is Frankenstein own brother. The monster would demonstrate his feelings of hatred to his creator by cutting William’s body into pieces and throwing them on the floor for Frankenstein to get the message that the monster is angry for ignoring his request for a female companion.
I would assign the role of Dr. Victor Frankenstein to a person who has a passion for technology since his childhood. The person would initially have the traits of an evil and satirical person, always wanting people to suffer and therefore comes up with the monster only to realize that the monster would revenge by killing his loved ones and therefore starts to think of ways through which Frankenstein can be terminated (Shelley, 2004).
The branch of science that I would use is nanotechnology, to show the way science would be used to create items or creatures that would perform better and have more power than ordinary ones. Viewers would be shocked through seeing how Frankenstein’s monster would reproduce within hours always becoming a bigger, stronger and more defined creature than the way he was initially created by Frankenstein.
I would start the film in a very normal tone, showing a young boy with a passion for scientific discovery but with an evil twist to use science to make people suffer. The film would then gain momentum as the boy grows to man bearing enormous scientific information and eventually uses his efforts and his know how to create the monster. The movie would utilize a lot of scientific discoveries that would be demonstrated by Victor in his quest for science inventions and the way he would create the monster.
The narrator in the case of the film would not be necessary since even the monster would talk and make noises typical of a jungle monster to make the film more horrifying. Including an outside narrator would reduce the suspense in the film for the audience would rely on the narrator to interpret the scenes for them rather than infer on their own and thus a character like Walton is not necessary.
The film would end on a different tone from the novel in that the monster would realize that he has lost the battle and that through reproducing via cells and creating other monsters similar to him has caused even the government to be aware and therefore there would be no way which Frankenstein would create a female companion for it. In a last attempt of revenge, the monster would want to self terminate itself together with its creator who caused its misery. The monster embarks on a search for Frankenstein and when it finally succeeds, but Frankenstein is rescued by detectives a few minutes before the monster blows itself up (Mellor, 1988).
References
Earl, F. (1990). Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of “Frankenstein” from Mary Shelley to the present. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mellor, A. (1988). Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York, Methuen.
Shelley, M. (2004). Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York