Frankenstein - Green?

"It became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived." p. 57

Wait a second, Doc, you're saying it wrong. You're supposed to yell "It's aliiiive!" and then thunder crashes and the monster rampages around your laboratory, breaking lots of delicate instruments. And oh yeah, don't you live in a castle?

This book is not really close to the general perception that people have towards Frankenstein('s monster). I must admit that I was actually disappointed when there was no classic shout of victory upon the animation of The Creature. Every Frankenstein movie ever made has that line, heck, even the pseudo-movie-poster that is hanging in The Deuce has those two words scrawled across the paper. Furthermore, it's a little odd to see that Frankenstein is in fact a college student living alone in an apartment, rather than an old mad scientist living in a castle with his hunch-backed croney Igor. Even the events concerning the reanimation are different. I always imagined lightning, I don't know why, I don't think I've ever actually seen a Frankenstein movie, but lightning really ought to play a prominent role, I've decided, but really there's just a bit of a light drizzle. It's just sort of weird to see that the common perception of Frankenstein('s monster) is so radically different from the actually story itself. So why is that? Here's a theory:

Lots of people like horror movies. And I'll give you a good recipe for a horror movie: create a monster which is terrifying and evil and prone to indiscriminate destruction, and yells a lot of unintelligible moans and grunts, and make him really gruesome, with green skin and lots of scars and big random bolts on the side of the neck. Here's a terrible idea for a horror movie: create a monster with which the audience can sympathize. Nobody gets scared by a monster that just wants love from his metaphorical father and teaches himself how to speak and function in society through careful observance of human interaction. That's not scary at all. Thus, the details of Frankenstein are tweaked for the movie edit so that we get a big gruesome abomination that shuffles about the silver screen.