In the book Frankenstein, the creature wasn’t green, he wasn’t mean to start, and he was able to learn how to speak. Why in all the movies is he made out to be this terrible thing that is pretty much incompetent and only wants to kill people?  In the films, Victor was never painted to be the villain, but through my reading of the book, he was to blame for all of it, even his own death. Victor created this creature who looked like everyone else just taller and actually more good looking, but the moment the beast came alive, Victor pretty much ran away. The creature felt unloved from that point on, since his creator, god, and or father abandoned him. He lived his life in the woods since no one would look past his looks and understand he didn’t want to hurt. He watched his family in the woods for some time, when they needed help he would do whatever he could to help and just left it on their front door. The creature got chased away by the cottagers and shot at by a man on the river when he was actually helping and they assumed the big tall thing was the one causing the commotion. In the movies none of that is shown, they show him hurting people, but the reason he hurts people is never snown. If in the movies the audience were to have the back story of the beast no one would be afraid of him. Instead, they would hate Victor as much as the audience does when they read the book. My last thought has to do with what made every director want to make the creature green, where does he get that pigment in his skin. Since he was built from the dead, it would make more sense if he lost most of the pigmentation in his skin. I understand taking creative liberties when creating a film based on a book but they took three pages from the book and wrote a story from there. In the end, most of the movies have nothing to do with the book at all.