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Have you ever read a good book and then the movie was totally different or even slightly different? When a book is made into a movie it will alway be different. The directors have to pick what they find the most important because a movie can only be so long, while a book can be as long as it wants. While picking the parts they want they miss minor details or even huge parts of the plot or they even change things and make them their own. That’s exactly what happened when Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was recreated multiple times. Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein and the 2004 Hallmark Frankenstein movie were very similar but widely different in many places such as plot, characters, and endings.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written in 1817,

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