Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) - full transcript
In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself and Victor Frankenstein and he tells to the captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a brilliant student and in love with his stepsister Elizabeth, an orphan that was raised by his father Baron Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to study at the university and he promises to get married to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to Professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advises him that he should not try this experiment since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries to create life. He succeeds and gives life to a strong Creature, composed of parts of deceased persons. However he realizes that his experiment is a mistake and he abandons the Creature expecting that it will die alone. However the Creature survives and learns how to read and write, but he is a monster rejected by society and his own creator. The Creature decides to seek revenge from Victor by killing everyone he loves.
[III]
NARRATOR: I busied myself to think of a story
which would speak
to the mysterious fears of our nature
and awaken thrilling horror.
One to make the reader
dread to look around.
To curdle the blood, and quicken
the beatings of the heart.
[III]
[GRUNTING]
SAILOR 1: Tell the captain, we've
got to take in the topsail.
She's going to rip!
Please, captain! We
have to drop the sails!
All hands to the mast!
Take the wheel!
Come on!
SAILOR 1: Captain, we've hit the ice!
We've hit the ice!
Iceberg ahead!
Hard to starboard!
SAILOR 2:
Go back!
[SCREAMING]
Help! Help!
Help!
Hold on, Vernon!
Hold on!
WALTON:
Put your backs into it, men!
Let's go!
Captain, this is useless.
The ice stretches for miles.
What do you suggest we do?
Lay down and die?
The men are exhausted, sir.
They can't go on, man.
I tell you, I have not come
this far to give up now.
They knew the risk
when they signed on.
And we are gonna chop our way to
the North Pole if we have to.
Then you run the risk
of mutiny, captain.
Did you say mutiny?
Yes I did, sir.
We proceed north as planned.
At the cost of
how many more lives?
As many as it takes!
[CREATURE HOWLS]
[BARKING]
There's something out there.
MAN:
What is it?
What the hell is that?
Who is your captain?
I am.
Who the devil are you?
I've no time to talk.
You bring your men and your
weapons and follow me.
Now!
Stay where you are.
I give the orders here.
[CREATURE HOWLS]
Get the dogs! Get them!
Leave them.
They're already dead.
[GROWLING THEN WHIMPERING]
[CREATURE ROARS]
Get back to the ship now!
Everybody back to the ship!
[III]
Bears don't kill like that,
nothing does.
MAN: Maybe it wants the
man with the captain.
Or it wants the captain.
It's the devil come
for the captain.
For the last time, I made my way from St.
Petersburg to Archangel on foot.
From there I took
a whaling ship north.
When we hit the ice,
I used the dogs.
[CREATURE HOWLS]
What's out there?
[CREATURE PANTING]
Listen to me. I have spent six years
planning this, my entire fortune.
I will not be stopped by you
or some phantom.
Do you share my madness?
What, then? No. not madness.
There's a passage to the North
Pole, and I will find it.
At the cost of your own life?
The lives of your crew?
Lives come and go.
If we succeed, our names
will live on forever.
I will be hailed as the
benefactor of our species.
You're wrong.
L, of all men, know that.
Who are you?
My name...
is Victor...
Frankenstein.
[HARPSICHORD PLAYING]
Mother!
Oh, my wonderful son Victor!
You are the handsomest,
kindest, cleverest,
most wonderfulest boy
in the whole world!
[WHOOPS THEN LAUGHS]
MRS. MORITZ: Madam! You
will spoil the boy, really.
FATHER: Would you and your daughter
leave us, please, Mrs. Moritz?
Doctor.
Come along, Justine.
Victor, this is Elizabeth.
She's coming to live with us.
She's lost both her mother and
father to the scarlet fever, Victor.
She's an orphan now.
You must think of her
as your own sister.
You must look after her,
and be kind to her.
Always.
[III]
Mother, oh. How is the
imminent arrival?
Oh, a little frisky today.
Yes.
When you were a little boy, you used
to chase fireflies in the field.
Yes, and when I trapped
them in my jar, they died.
Yes. And do you
remember how you cried?
Yes.
Because you wanted to keep them
glowing by your bedside
to light you as you read.
You were so hungry for knowledge.
Such a serious little boy.
You've become
such an earnest young man.
All these strange
and ancient books.
You'll be an even greater doctor
than your father.
But you know, Victor,
life shouldn't be all study.
There's such fun to be had.
Oh.
Give me that back.
No.
Give me that back,
Mother.
[HARPSICHORD PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
MRS. MORITZ:
Change partners. And twirl!
Now, Caroline.
You're right.
You mustn't exert yourself. Please.
I know.
MRS. MORITZ: Don't worry, madam. Your
new baby will be a natural dancer.
Excellent.
You'll be the envy of all the
young ladies and gentlemen.
[HARPSICHORD CLANKS]
Justine.
Justine, may I have
this dance?
[LAUGHS]
[GRUNTS]
MRS. MORITZ: Madam!
Hurry!
[GRUNTING]
Sir. You must
make a decision!
FATHER: How can I? The baby's
in the wrong position.
I can't proceed...
I can't...
[MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Cut me. Save the baby.
[CAROLINE SCREAMS]
[III]
She'll be all right.
Your father's the finest
doctor in Geneva.
[FATHER SOBBING]
Father?
Father?
Father,
how is she?
I did everything I could...
Everything I could...
VICTOR:
Mother? Mother!
Bring her back.
Please, bring her back.
No!
Please, bring her back.
[VICTOR SOBBING AND
MURMURING INDISTINCTLY]
Oh, Mother.
You should never have died.
No one need ever die.
I will stop this.
I will stop this.
I promise.
ELIZABETH: Victor, you're completely
obsessed. Please explain what that is.
VICTOR: It's energy. It never
disappears, it merely changes form.
It's possible to convert
this candle wax
into the convulsions
of a mechanical dog.
But the applications of
this are limitless. Really.
Oh, please come outside, Victor.
It's such a beautiful day.
Go away, I'm busy.
What's this?
It's for spraying down
the electric eels.
[LAUGHING]
Now, put it down. Put it down.
It's not for playing with.
It's not for playing with. Put it
down, put it down-- Don't do that.
I warned you. Don’t-- Don't--
Give me that, you little...
VICTOR:
Come on!
[ELIZABETH & VICTOR
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Yes! Come on!
After all, we should
be grateful to Victor
for abandoning his experiments
for one afternoon.
Well, who says I have?
What do you mean?
[THUNDER CRASHES]
Look!
ELIZABETH: We're all going to die.
You knew this was going to happen.
No, not for certain.
But I had hoped the
conditions would be right.
They're quite common here
at this time of year.
I've never seen one quite as
large as that, though. Look.
Isn't it wonderful?
Victor, you shouldn't have done this.
It's all right,
it's all right.
We must take cover.
A tree!
No, no, no. That's exactly
the wrong thing to do.
It's potentially a much
larger conductor than we are.
Victor, what about Willie?
Um...
What are we to do?
Come on.
VICTOR: Now, everyone, spread out.
Elizabeth, take this. Now, quickly.
Come on, quickly!
ELIZABETH: What is that?
VICTOR: Dig it right into the ground.
Go ahead.
ELIZABETH: Now what?
VICTOR: Justine, take this. Come on.
JUSTINE: Willie!
VICTOR: Everyone down.
[LAUGHING]
VICTOR: Give me your hands. It'll be fine.
Now take him. Now, that's good.
ELIZABETH: Victor, I hope
you know what you're doing.
VICTOR:
Willie? Willie, don't look up!
Willie.
Victor--
Wait!
One, two, three...
[III]
Now.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
VICTOR:
So how do you feel, Elizabeth?
ELIZABETH:
Alive.
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends.
Gather round and listen.
As you probably know,
tomorrow my dear son Victor
leaves me to pursue,
what I'm sure
will be an illustrious
career in a profession
I, myself, am not altogether
unassociated with.
Ha, ha.
Oh, modesty.
[LAUGHING]
No. My- My-- My one
regret is that his mother
my late wife,
is not here
to share the pride
which our son fills me with tonight.
Yes.
She wanted you to have this,
Victor.
On your graduation.
And in it she has written:
"This is the journal
of Victor Frankenstein."
The rest of the leaves are blank,
to be filled with the deeds
of a noble life.
[GUESTS CLAPPING]
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
We'd, uh, better go in,
before they miss us.
Just a little while longer.
Please.
I don't know when we'll
be alone together again.
[LAUGHING]
Oh, dear Victor.
I shall miss you
laughing at me.
I'll miss you
making me laugh.
So...
how do brothers and sisters
say goodbye?
Perhaps they never have to.
I won't, if you won't.
[III]
Are you my sister?
Sister...
friend...
lover.
Wife?
Yes.
Then come with me to lngolstadt.
Marry me now.
Victor, no.
Well, then I'll stay.
Oh.
I want more than anything else
in the world to be your wife.
But as long as you're
away, I belong here.
I want to make
this house live again.
I want to make this a great
home for our children.
And now you must go, and do the
great things you need to do.
I want you so much.
I'll be here
when you return.
Each holiday.
Every visit.
Then on our wedding night.
Until our wedding night.
[III]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
WOMAN:
Lots of stairs, I'm afraid.
How was your journey?
It was very good, thank you.
I made very good progress
over the mountains. Clear run.
Good. I am pleased.
Well, as I said,
we've only got attic space.
VICTOR:
It's exactly what I'm looking for.
But Frau Brach,
there will be a great deal
of scientific equipment
and rigging to be delivered.
Every day, I'm afraid, for the next week.
I trust you have no objections.
I'm sure you appreciate the need
for a proper laboratory, madam.
Oh, Putzi likes you.
[III]
This will be perfect.
MAN: "The foolish and vain
force their views by the rod.
But knowledge is power
only through God."
Our motto. Easily forgotten
by you young men in a hurry.
[LAUGHING]
But perhaps the greatest
mistake that all students make
during their time here,
is to suppose
that they can ever have
an original or creative thought.
We have all imagined that
in our time.
But gentlemen, you have not come here
in order to think for yourselves.
You are here to learn
how to think for your patients.
You must learn, therefore,
in the first place
to submit yourselves
to the established laws
of physical reality.
But surely, professor,
you don't intend we disregard
more philosophical approaches?
Philosophical?
Those which stir the imagination
as well as the intellect,
as in Paracelsus,
for example.
Ah, Paracelsus.
An arrogant and foolish Swiss.
Albertus Magnus?
His nonsense was exploded
500 years ago.
Cornelius Agrippa?
A sorcerer. An occultist.
What is your name?
Victor Frankenstein, sir.
Of Geneva.
[STUDENTS CHUCKLE]
Oh-ho. Another Swiss.
Mr. Frankenstein, here at the
University of lngolstadt, we teach--
And indeed, hope to advance.
--the science of medicine.
Chemistry, biology, physics.
We study hard science.
Yeah, but surely, professor, the greatest
possible advances lie in combining these things.
We do not study the ravings
of lunatics and alchemists
hundreds of years
in their graves
because their kind of amateur,
fanatical, fantastical speculation
does not heal bodies
or save lives.
Only science can do that.
[STUDENTS MURMUR
AND APPLAUD]
Now, have we your permission
to continue?
[CHATTERING]
Nice coat.
Why, thank you.
Don't take it too hard.
It's just that Krempe doesn't
approve of public humiliation.
I am not mad!
My dear fellow,
of course you're not.
In fact, that's just the sort of thing
I'd expect a perfectly rational person
to say to a
complete stranger.
Henry Clerval, by the way,
and I'm completely crazy.
Victor Frankenstein.
Of Geneva.
Of Geneva.
Yes, I noti-
Why don't you look
where I'm going?
That's Schiller. Ornement
of the playmg field.
Really.
He's new as well.
You can tell because he goes around
looking at things with his mouth open.
What are you here for?
Research.
Very grand.
I'm here to become
a mere doctor.
I'm told it has something to
do with healing the sick.
Which is a pity, really, because I
find sick people rather revolting.
Still, I'll have a good time,
get my degree--
If I can stop failing
Anatomy.
--And settle down to relieve rich old
ladies of their imaginary ailments
and then relieve their very
real and beautiful daughters.
Who was that?
He was at the lecture.
Ah. That's Waldman.
Ah, that's Waldman.
Yes.
Interesting case.
They say in his youth
he could break into heaven
and lecture God on science.
Ran into trouble with the authorities
a few years back.
Something to do
with illegal experiments.
But what kind of
experiments, I wonder?
So what was it
you were saying? Uh...
Rich old ladies
and their daughters?
Yes, it's a life of sacrifice, I
know, but someone's got to do it.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[III]
WALDMAN: And that is why
the central nervous system
and its crowning
achievement, the brain,
are as complicated and
mysterious a set of organs
as you are ever
likely to encounter.
Mr. Frankenstein,
the incision is yours.
Excellent.
Mr. Clerval, you may
remove the cranial lid.
"Henry, now fully recovered, and
continues his struggle to pass Anatomy."
I was always terrible
at anatomy.
"Professor Waldman is very
tolerant of him, and of myself.
I'm learning a great deal."
Professor Waldman is remarkable.
And so is Henry.
"God bless you, all my love, Victor."
That's very nice.
"P.S. I've fallen in love."
I beg your pardon?
"She's dark, sleek,
and beautiful,
and always wags her tail
whenever she sees me.
Her name is Putzi, and she's the friendliest
sheepdog that I've ever known."
[LAUGHING]
"P.S. Elizabeth, I dream of
how your hair shines..."
VICTOR: "Of how your lips taste.
I dream of your arms and breasts
and of the time on our wedding night
when we will be atone together at last."
WILLIE:
What else does it say?
It says, "I'm working very hard
to make lots of new friends."
More coffee, anyone?
Once and for all, Frankenstein!
Life is life, death is death.
These things are real.
They are absolute.
That is rubbish and you know it!
That premise has been repeatedly
challenged by members on your own staff!
Yes, you, sir! We don't know
where life ends or death begins.
Hair continues to grow after what we
choose to call death. So do fingernails.
We know that
a man's brain may die
but his heart and lungs may
continue to pump and breathe.
Now, you know that.
Mr. Frankenstein
of Geneva, I warn you
what you are suggesting is not
only illegal, it is immoral.
Rubbish!
"Dear diary, why does
no one understand me?
P.S. I am not mad."
WALDMAN:
You.
Explain yourself.
Professor, I'm sorry.
Listen, I came here to learn
all about the new science.
About galvanism,
Franklin's experiments.
The combination of modern
disciplines with ancient knowledge
in an attempt to protect and create--
To create what?
Sir, we can change things. We can
make things better. You know that.
We are on the verge of
undreamed-of discoveries
if we only have the courage to ask the right
questions. Now, you must help me. Please
Come on.
Victor...
VICTOR: Come on.
[III]
Henry-
Lock the door.
Now, for thousands of years
the Chinese have based their
medical science on the belief
that the human body is a chemical
engine run by energy streams.
VICTOR: That's fascinating.
Then how do they explain--?
Don't touch that!
Their doctors treat patients
by inserting needles
like these into the flesh
at various key points, to
manipulate these electric streams.
I see.
So electricity is the key.
Now, look at this.
[III]
[BOTH GASP]
Go on, touch it.
It feels warm.
It is.
Yes. How do you do?
Aah! Turn it off!
I can't, it's not working.
Try to stay calm, Henry.
It's simply a matter of reducing the
polarity in your body 0r in the arm.
A monkey's arm is basically
the same as a human being.
No arm is this strong!
Now, this must work.
[ELECTRICTY BUZZES]
Let me help you, professor.
You shall, of course, tell no one.
They wouldn't believe you
anyway.
Dearest Victor.
Nothing much changes here.
Mrs. Moritz continues to love and
torment Justine, in equal measure.
Willie grows more
precocious every day,
and Father almost
expires with pride
at the very thought of you
and your work.
And I...
Well, I just miss you, very much.
Please write soon, Victor.
VICTOR: 'No, I'm serious. You
take vaccine, for instance.
Thirty years ago the entire
concept of vaccine was unheard of
and now we save lives
every day.
But that isn't the whole answer.
What do you mean?
That sooner or later the best way to
cheat death will be to create life.
HEN RY:
Now you've gone too far.
There's only one God, Victor.
No, leave God out of this.
Listen, if you loved someone,
they had a sick heart,
wouldn't you give them
a healthy one?
Impossible.
VICTOR: No, ifs not impossible.
We can do it,
we're steps away.
And if we can do that-- If we can replace one
part of a human being, we can replace every part.
And if we do that,
we can design a life.
We can create a being
that will not grow old or sicken.
One that will be stronger than us,
better than us.
One that will be more intelligent
than us, more civilized than us.
In our lifetime?
No.
[III]
How close did you get, professor'?
Too close.
Professor, I beg you,
let me see these notes.
No. My work now,
and its application,
lies exclusively
in the preservation of life.
I abandoned my other
researches many years ago.
Why?
Because they resulted
in abomination.
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY]
You're not sticking that in me.
It's got a pox in it, I hear.
Pox? They've given us pox?
That's right. Pox.
It's not pox, it's a vaccine that
will prevent a plague in this city.
What's that?
It's a tiny, harmless amount
of anti-smallpox serum.
You just said pox!
WALDMAN:
I said it was harmless.
It's a necessary precaution, without
which this godforsaken city
would be immediately
put under quarantine.
You doctors kill people. I don't care what
you say. You're not sticking that in me.
Yes, I am. It's the law!
Sit him down, someone.
Come on.
You're not sticking that
in me!
[GRUNTS]
Sir?
Professor? Sir?
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY
AND WOMEN SCREAMING]
Find him!
Come on! Come on! Come on!
It's no use, Victor,
he's gone.
No! No, Henry!
Let him go!
No! No, this shouldn't happen!
Let him go! Victor, stop!
VICTOR: It shouldn't happen!
HEN RY: Stop! Victor.
It need not happen!
[CROWD JEERING]
MAN:
The hell with you!
Whatever you say, whatever you
call it, you doctors are killers.
You murder people!
Evil! You're evil!
Evil!
You're the ones that deserve to die.
God will punish you. He'll punish you!
God will punish you!
[CHEERING]
My God, you were so close!
Of course, the power!
The materials were wrong.
You needed auxiliary sources.
"The experiment a failure.
Resulting reanimant malformed
and hideous to behold.
This factor dependant on the
appropriate raw materials."
Raw materials...
[III]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
VICTOR: Come on, Henry.
HEN RY: I can't, Victor.
I can't help you.
You won't help me.
What are you frightened of?
Everything! What do you think?
And what if
the authorities--?
We'll do this in secret. I've got the raw
materials, I've got Waldman's journals.
Together we know more
than Krempe's whole staff.
You stole
Waldman's journals?
We owe it to him
to complete this work.
He was one step away.
He never wanted this.
Couldn't face it,
there's a difference.
Even if it were possible,
and even if you had the right--
Which you don't.
--to make this decision for us,
can you imagine for one second that there
wouldn't be a terrible price to pay?
I think for the chance
to defeat death and disease,
to let everyone on this Earth
have the chance at life,
sustained, healthy life,
to allow people who love each
other to be together forever...
For all of that,
I think it's a risk worth taking.
[III]
ELIZABETH: Please, Justine,
just leave me alone.
I won't talk about it.
But all these letters, you read
them to us yourself every week.
I wrote them.
I wrote the letters.
He hasn't written to me
in months.
Elizabeth...
Something horrific is happening to him.
I can feel it.
At first I wasn't sure, but I knew
I had to hide it from Father.
Now there are rumors
of cholera.
I can look after Father and Willie.
You go to lngolstadt--
No, that's not possible.
He won't want me.
He's probably found
someone else.
If he was mine,
I would have gone already.
But he isn't mine.
He's yours,
and you must go to him.
Raw materials,
that's all they are.
Tissue to be re-used.
The very finest brain.
MAN: But they all died of cholera, sir.
No matter.
Thank you.
The assembled organs must have the
appropriate nutrients and heat
and crucially,
more direct power.
More direct power.
[SCREAMING]
VICTOR: Amniotic fluid is
the chief biogenic element.
The subject is injected with this. The
copper acupuncture needles pierce the flesh
at all key energy points.
Now, after the removal of current, the
dead toad should retain animation.
But independently
of external power sources.
Yes.
That's it.
That's the combination.
That's the combination!
That's it!
[CROAKING]
[III]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
HENRY:
Victor? Victor!
Victor, open the door!
Victor, please!
What do you want?
There's cholera.
It's an epidemic!
The city's been placed
under martial law.
Are you listening to me, Victor?
Yes. And?
The militia's arriving
to quarantine the city.
Most of us are getting out
while we still can.
Krempe knows that you're here, for God's
sake. What if he tells the authorities?
Goodbye, Henry.
ELIZABETH:
Victor, it's me.
Elizabeth.
Can you hear me?
Victor, I have to see you.
Go away.
ELIZABETH: Please, Victor!
I won't leave here until you see me.
Come in the side door.
Alone!
What's happened to you?
How can you live here
like this?
And that stench.
Don't go in there!
Aah!
We have to leave. It isn't safe.
No, I have to stay.
Even if it means you'll die?
Yes.
[III]
Well, let me help you.
No, that's impossible.
We made a promise.
Victor, I beg you.
Look, I know that this is
difficult for you to understand
but I cannot abandon
this work now.
It is too important. Not just for
me, but, believe me, for everyone.
And it must come first.
Before us?
Elizabeth,
I love you so much, but...
Goodbye.
[III]
[CRYING]
Elizabeth! Elizabeth!
[SOBBING]
Oh, God! Elizabeth!
Elizabeth!
[III]
Live! Live! Live!
Live!
Yes!
No...
No!
No!
No!
It's alive.
[THUMPING ON METAL]
It's alive.
[III]
[GRUNTING]
No.
What have I done?
What have I done?
"Massive birth defects.
Greatly enhanced
physical strength.
But resulting reanimant
is malfunctional and pitiful
and dead."
Tomorrow this journal and
its secrets must be destroyed
forever.
Oh, God.
[CRYING]
[THUD]
Aah!
[GROANING]
No!
You fool,
Victor Frankenstein of Geneva.
How could you know
what you'd unleashed?
How is it pieced together?
Bits of thieves, bits of murderers...
Evil stitched to evil stitched to evil.
Do you really believe this thing
will thank you for its monstrous birth?
Evil will have its revenge.
God help your loved ones.
[III]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
What do you think
you're doing?
Aah! He's got cholera! He's the one
who's been spreading the plague!
Get him!
[PEOPLE YELLING AND
WOMEN SCREAM]
[III]
[GRUNTING]
MAN 1:
Come here, you--
[ROARS]
WOMAN:
Keep away from him.
MAN 2:
No, kill him now!
MAN 3:
He went this way.
HENRY: There now. Easy.
Easy. Just a bit.
That's it. There, now, rest easy.
Henry, you're here.
Of course I'm here.
It was touch and go with you, though.
Just a bit more.
I feared cholera, turned
out to be pneumonia.
Yes, I'm becoming
something of a doctor.
Even Krempe seems
pleased with me.
At this rate, I might
even pass Anatomy.
The epidemic?
Dreadful.
There's nothing
we can do for them.
The vulnerable, anyone who's
without shelter or food,
the newborns, especially,
will die.
Are you sure?
I'm certain of it.
Thank God.
What do you mean?
Nothing.
Well then,
that's my shift finished.
I'll see you later.
[PIANO PLAYING]
Elizabeth.
[III]
Elizabeth.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
VICTOR: Please, please, forgive me!
Of course I do. Of course.
Victor, I don't know what you're
working on, and I don't want to know.
But it nearly killed you.
It's over, it's finished.
It should never have started.
It's dead! It's dead.
[FLUTE PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
[LATCH RATTLES]
WOMAN: Felix!
FELIX: Yes?
WOMAN:
Don't forget the onion scraps.
FELIX:
All right, I've got them.
Go on, get.
Come on. Come on.
Go on, go on. Go on. Get.
How are the pigs?
FELIX: They're happy
they've been fed.
How are your hands?
FELIX: Oh, they're bleeding again.
MARIE:
Let me see them.
[MARIE HUMMING
AND FELIX GRUNTS]
FELIX:
That's better.
MARIE:
There.
The soup's ready.
THOMAS: Come on, Grandpa.
Sit down.
GRANDPA:
Thank you.
[III]
[THUDDING]
We'll never get through
the winter with this yield.
The ground's frozen hard.
We'll sell another pig at market.
We can't. Not until they
lift the quarantine.
Even then, it's one less for us. Last
month's rent, he'll be back for that.
Come on.
We'll do this together.
You're right.
We've got to,
before the snow comes.
Come on, then.
The ground’s frozen solid. We
haven't the strength to do this.
We'd need 20 men to work this field.
It's useless!
We should stop now.
It's getting late.
We don't have
enough to eat.
We'll manage.
Let's go.
Look. Look.
[LAUGHS]
They must be gifts from the
Good Spirit of the Forest.
Father, nothing in this
life comes free of cost.
I would like to know
who and why.
THOMAS: Was it, Grandpa? Was it?
Was it the Good Spirit?
GRANDPA:
I believe it was.
FELIX: Will you stop filling
their head with nonsense?
[TWIG SNAPS]
Who's there?
Felix? Children?
MARIE:
Right.
What's this one?
Fr-- Eh-- Nd.
Friend?
Ha, ha. Friend! Well done!
That's very good.
You've got lots of friends, haven't you?
Grandpa and...
Friend...
Friend...
Friend.
Friend.
Family.
Ff-- Fa..
Father.
Now, this is very important. You must
travel with them for the entire journey.
This equipment must not
be left unattended.
My father will personally take delivery
of them in Geneva. Do you understand?
I do, sir.
Thank you.
HEN RY: Going somewhere?
ELIZABETH: Henry, look.
Look at this locket Victor gave me.
Isn't it beautiful?
Yes, it's lovely.
ls this really you?
Yes, it's a bad likeness,
I know.
But for now, it will serve
instead of a ring, huh?
HENRY: Congratulations on
the entirely expected!
When?
As soon as we get home.
Ha, ha. Oh.
I can't believe we'll be there
for New Year's Eve.
Victor's going to take
over Father's practice.
And expand it.
I'm going on ahead now the
quarantine's being lifted.
There's so much to do
for the wedding.
Now, the practice needs a partner.
Now, there's not much money,
but there is food and board
and some very good company.
And it's the ideal position for someone
who has finally passed Anatomy.
And so we were
wondering if
there was anybody that
you could recommend?
Victor, I--
I don't know what to say.
VICTOR:
Well, please say yes.
Yes.
ELIZABETH: Yes!
Yes, yes! VICTOR: Yes!
And you can write that
down in your journal!
[LAUGHING AND
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[III]
"This is...
the journal...
of...
Victor...
Frankenstein...
of...
Geneva."
FELIX:
Come on, quickly.
Come on, then, off you go.
Quickly, now.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Come on, now. Come on.
Time for bed.
MARIE:
In you go.
CREATURE: "For the Good
Spirit of the Forest."
Are you
the Good Spirit of the Forest?
Not exactly.
Where's your father?
I said,
where's your father?
Who's there?
Maggie?
No.
Oh, it's you.
What have you done to Maggie?
ls he in there?
Hiding behind a blind old man?
Get away! Get away!
LANDLORD:
Don't blame me.
Blame your son for not
paying his rent on time.
[FLOOR CREAKS]
[LANDLORD SCREAMS]
My God.
Thank you, my friend.
Thank you so much.
Won't you come and sit by the fire?
Please, don't be afraid.
Come. Come in.
Have a rest, sit down.
Ah. That's better.
I'm glad you finally came in.
A man shouldn't have to
hide in the shadows.
Better that way, for me.
Why?
People are afraid.
Except you.
It can't be as bad as that.
Worse.
I can "see" you with my hands,
if you'll trust me.
Papa, Papa, he hurl Grandpa!
FELIX: Who hurt Grandpa?
MARIE: What was that noise?
FELIX: Tell me what the noise was.
What happened,
Maggie?
Poor man.
Have you no friends?
There are some people.
But they don't know me.
Why do you not go to them?
Because I am so very...
Ugly -
And they are so very...
beautiful.
FELIX:
Father! Get out of here!
Get out of here, monster.
Leave him alone!
We have to leave here.
[SOBBING]
[III]
No.
[GRUNTS]
[III]
[ROARS]
I will have revenge!
Frankenstein!
[III]
Geneva.
Yay!
MAN: Quickly, quickly.
She's here, she's here!
ELIZABETH: Willie!
We got your letter!
We got your letter!
It's the first one
I was allowed to read.
Congratulations,
Elizabeth.
I'm happy for you.
Thank you, Justine.
Oh, is that the locket?
Oh. Look how handsome
Victor is.
Elizabeth, can I take
this to show Peter?
Yes, but, Willie,
it's not a toy.
Let him go. Let him go.
Don't dawdle, William!
[JUSTINE & MRS. MORTIZ
LAUGHING]
Justine, you idiot.
Pay attention.
Anyone would think you're the
one that's getting married.
Yes, Mother.
ELIZABETH: What's wrong?
JUSTINE:
Nothing. Really.
MRS. MORITZ: Just leave it.
You've ruined it now.
[FLUTE PLAYING]
No! No!
Frankenstein.
You, with me.
FATHER: Have you seen Willie?
Isn't he back yet?
Claude rode over to find out
if he'd lost track of time.
They say he never arrived.
Far too late for him to still be out.
[III]
William!
MAN: William!
William!
William!
Willie!
Willie!
[THUNDER RUMBLING AND
MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[CRYING]
Willie...
Willie!
This isn't a game!
Willie!
It's so late.
We're all so tired.
I'm so tired.
Father! I'm so
pleased to see you.
What's wrong?
[THUNDER CRASHES]
[III]
[WHIMPERING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
MAN:
William!
VICTOR: We checked the east ridge.
There's nothing there.
Damn!
Elizabeth?
I found him!
I found him!
Elizabeth!
No!
[SOBBING]
We did everything
we could, sir.
You just rest easy now.
We did everything we could.
MRS. MORITZ: Sir, I'm terrified for my
girl. She's still out looking for William.
We parted badly. I was cruel to her.
I didn't mean it.
I think she finds it very hard now, with
your wedding. She loves you dearly.
I couldn't bear it if
anything happened to her.
She's all I've got.
Please, help me!
We'll organize another search
now that ifs light.
We will find her, Mrs. Moritz,
I promise.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
How is Father?
His heart is breaking.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Mr. Frankenstein,
we've apprehended the murderer, not
five miles from here hiding in a barn.
We found this on her.
It's yours, I believe, sir?
Sir, you must come immediately.
The townspeople have gone mad.
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
My God.
What are they doing?
They must have
broken into the jail!
Well, for God's sake, man,
can't you stop them?
They've gone wild!
This is a lynching mob!
Stop! This is unlawful.
Justine.
Justine!
[SCREAMING]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Victor! Help me!
I was trying to find him!
I went to the lake,
but it was dark!
I wanted to bring him to you!
He must be there for the wedding!
I'm sorry! He's so tiny.
[III]
[SCREAMING]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
VICTOR: We managed to close
the gates on the mob, Claude.
What about Justine?
We've cut her down. We can
bury her in the morning.
Thank you, Claude.
Get to bed.
CREATURE:
The sea of ice.
I will meet you there
on the sea of ice.
Oh, Justine, forgive me.
Victor, tell me.
Who is this man?
How do you know
he's responsible?
I'll tell you everything
after I've destroyed him.
But if what you say is true,
then surely this is a matter
for the police.
They wouldn't understand.
Well, neither do I.
Then just accept it.
[GRUNTING AND PANTING]
[III]
[GRUNTING]
CREATURE:
Get up.
Get up.
You do speak.
Yes, I speak.
And read.
And think.
And know the ways of man.
How did you find me?
Your journal.
Then you mean to kill me.
No.
You murdered my brother,
didn't you?
I took him by the throat
with one hand,
lifted him off the ground
and slowly crushed his neck.
And as I killed him,
I saw your face.
You gave me these emotions. But you
didn't tell me how to use them.
Now two people are dead
because of us.
Why?
There's something at work in my soul
which I do not understand.
What of my soul?
Do I have one?
Or was that a part you left out?
Who were these people
of which I am comprised?
Good people? Bad people?
Materials, nothing more.
You're wrong.
Do you know
I knew how to play this?
In which part of me
did this knowledge reside?
In these hands?
In this mind? In this heart?
And reading and speaking.
Not things learned
so much as things remembered.
Trace memories in the brain,
perhaps.
Did you ever consider the
consequences of your actions?
You gave me life,
and then you left me to die.
Who am I?
You...
I don't know.
And you think I'm evil.
What can I do?
There is something I want.
A friend.
A friend?
Companion.
A female.
Someone like me.
So she won't hate me.
Like you?
Oh, God,
you don't know what you're asking.
I do know that
for the sympathy
of one living being,
I would make peace with all.
I have love in me
the likes of which
you can scarcely imagine.
And rage, the likes of which
you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy the one
I will indulge the other.
And if I consent,
how will you live?
We would travel north,
my bride and I,
to the furthest reaches of the Pole.
Where no man has ever set foot.
There, we would live out our lives
together.
No human eye
would ever see us again.
This, I vow.
You must help me. Please.
If it is possible
to right this wrong,
then I will do it.
Victor!
Victor.
Are you all right?
Yes, I'm safe. I'm safe.
What happened?
Tell us.
Victor.
Victor, you have to
tell us what happened!
One month,
that's all I ask.
And then we can
be married,
and we can forget
this whole business.
I promise.
Promise? Promise.
Oh, don't dare use that word to me.
You promised to tell me
who this man was.
You promised to abandon
this work for good.
Your promises don't mean anything.
Elizabeth.
I have to leave this house.
What are you saying?
Where will you go?
I don't know.
Somewhere I can recover.
Well, look. This is ridiculous.
I haven't got time to argue.
Oh, isn't it convenient? Or doesn't
it fit in with your plans?
Don't you ever think of anyone
or anything but yourself?
God forgive me.
[III]
Why her?
Materials, remember?
Nothing more.
Your words.
No.
You will honor
your promise to me!
I will not.
Go on, kill me now.
That is mild compared
to what will come.
If you deny me my wedding night,
I will be with you on yours.
Elizabeth!
Elizabeth.
Wait. Wait,
please wait. Please.
I have to speak to you.
Please!
What do you want to say?
Don't go.
[III]
Please, don't go.
I'm frightened.
Of what?
I have done something
so terrible,
so evil.
And I'm frightened
that if I tell you the truth
that I will lose you.
You'll lose me if you don't.
I..-
don't know...
what...
to do.
[CRYING]
Will you marry me,
Victor?
Marry me today.
Tomorrow,
tell me everything.
But you must tell me
the truth.
And together,
we can face anything.
Whatever you've done,
whatever has happened,
I love you.
To share the truth, the whole
truth, for good or ill,
to stand by each other
in sickness and in health,
and in joy,
from this day forward
till death do you part.
Who is this man, sir?
How shall we know him?
Believe me, you'll know him.
He killed Master William,
and Justine Moritz died for it.
No hesitation, lads. Shoot
the bastard on sight!
Henry?
HEN RY:
Don't worry about a thing.
You two look after each other.
I'll look after your father.
[III]
I'm sorry, sir.
The last ferry's gone.
There's nothing now till morning.
Damn.
I'll ride on ahead and secure
you lodgings for the night.
Thank you, Claude.
Come on.
Keep your pistols dry!
MAN: They're dry enough.
And if they fail, we've others.
And if those fail,
we can always
gut the bastard.
Go to your post.
Yes, sir.
Don't worry, sir.
You're well guarded.
Now, why don't you
go on upstairs to your wife?
It's not often a man
has his wedding night.
[III]
You're soaking.
Brother and sister
no more.
Now husband and wife.
[FLUTE PLAYING]
Victor?
Lock the door.
Lock the door.
Victor.
I saw him in a flash of lightning.
He ran to the lake.
You two stay here.
[THUNDER CRASHES]
MAN:
We lost him.
VICTOR:
Elizabeth!
Don't bother to scream.
Please...
Please don't hurt me.
You are lovelier than
I ever could have imagined.
VICTOR:
Elizabeth!
Elizabeth!
[III]
I keep my promises!
[GUNSHOTS]
[VICTOR SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY]
[SOBBING]
For God's sake,
tell me what happened.
No point.
I know what I have to do.
God. No, Victor! You can't
do this, I won't let you!
She's gone. I love her.
What would you do?
Leave her in peace.
Peace? You call this peace?
Think my father wouldn't have
done this for my mother?
Your father's dead.
Then there's nothing
left to lose.
Nothing but your soul.
[III]
Live!
No!
Live. Live.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
[COUGHING]
Say my name.
Please, say my name.
Remember!
You must remember.
Elizabeth?
Elizabeth?
That's it.
That's it, you remember.
That's it.
Now, stand. Stand.
[GRUNTING]
Yes. Yes. Yes.
You remember.
You remember.
[III]
[THUNDER CRASHES]
She's beautiful.
She's not for you.
Come.
Elizabeth?
Say my name.
Elizabeth.
Yes.
Elizabeth!
You're beautiful.
Say my name.
Elizabeth,
come to me.
Come to me.
[III]
Say my name, Elizabeth.
Vic...
That's right, Elizabeth.
Victor.
No, you're mine.
You're mine.
Leave her alone! No!
Get away from her. She's mine.
VICTOR: She's mine! She said my name!
She remembers!
She's mine!
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[III]
VICTOR:
No!
[GASPS]
VICTOR: All that I once loved
lies in a shallow grave
by my hand.
I followed the trail he left for me--
North.
Always north.
--For months now
with one intent:
To kill him.
Now...
I'm tired.
I'm so very, very tired.
What did he say?
He's dead.
He died raving
about some phantom.
What is it out there, captain?
He told me a story that...
couldn't be true.
He was mad, I think.
A warming breeze.
The ice will melt yet.
And what then, captain?
We head north.
No.
[CREATURE GROANS]
[CRYING]
[III]
Who are you?
He never gave me a name.
Why do you weep?
He was my father.
WALTON: "And yea, I gave
my heart to know wisdom
and to know madness and folly,
and I perceived that all is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
For in much wisdom is much grief,
and he that increaseth knowledge,
increaseth sorrow.
For God shall
bring every work
and every secret thing
into judgment,
whether it be good,
or whether it be evil."
Captain--
He has a right to bear witness.
[ICE CREAKING]
[III]
Jesus, ifs breaking up!
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[GRUNTS]
Get back to the ship, captain.
Leave the damn torch!
Leave it!
Come with us.
I am done with man.
MAN:
Hang on, I've got you!
Help! Help!
MAN: Here, captain. Here, captain.
Quick, grab my hand!
Where to now,
captain?
Home.
[III]
[III]
NARRATOR: I busied myself to think of a story
which would speak
to the mysterious fears of our nature
and awaken thrilling horror.
One to make the reader
dread to look around.
To curdle the blood, and quicken
the beatings of the heart.
[III]
[GRUNTING]
SAILOR 1: Tell the captain, we've
got to take in the topsail.
She's going to rip!
Please, captain! We
have to drop the sails!
All hands to the mast!
Take the wheel!
Come on!
SAILOR 1: Captain, we've hit the ice!
We've hit the ice!
Iceberg ahead!
Hard to starboard!
SAILOR 2:
Go back!
[SCREAMING]
Help! Help!
Help!
Hold on, Vernon!
Hold on!
WALTON:
Put your backs into it, men!
Let's go!
Captain, this is useless.
The ice stretches for miles.
What do you suggest we do?
Lay down and die?
The men are exhausted, sir.
They can't go on, man.
I tell you, I have not come
this far to give up now.
They knew the risk
when they signed on.
And we are gonna chop our way to
the North Pole if we have to.
Then you run the risk
of mutiny, captain.
Did you say mutiny?
Yes I did, sir.
We proceed north as planned.
At the cost of
how many more lives?
As many as it takes!
[CREATURE HOWLS]
[BARKING]
There's something out there.
MAN:
What is it?
What the hell is that?
Who is your captain?
I am.
Who the devil are you?
I've no time to talk.
You bring your men and your
weapons and follow me.
Now!
Stay where you are.
I give the orders here.
[CREATURE HOWLS]
Get the dogs! Get them!
Leave them.
They're already dead.
[GROWLING THEN WHIMPERING]
[CREATURE ROARS]
Get back to the ship now!
Everybody back to the ship!
[III]
Bears don't kill like that,
nothing does.
MAN: Maybe it wants the
man with the captain.
Or it wants the captain.
It's the devil come
for the captain.
For the last time, I made my way from St.
Petersburg to Archangel on foot.
From there I took
a whaling ship north.
When we hit the ice,
I used the dogs.
[CREATURE HOWLS]
What's out there?
[CREATURE PANTING]
Listen to me. I have spent six years
planning this, my entire fortune.
I will not be stopped by you
or some phantom.
Do you share my madness?
What, then? No. not madness.
There's a passage to the North
Pole, and I will find it.
At the cost of your own life?
The lives of your crew?
Lives come and go.
If we succeed, our names
will live on forever.
I will be hailed as the
benefactor of our species.
You're wrong.
L, of all men, know that.
Who are you?
My name...
is Victor...
Frankenstein.
[HARPSICHORD PLAYING]
Mother!
Oh, my wonderful son Victor!
You are the handsomest,
kindest, cleverest,
most wonderfulest boy
in the whole world!
[WHOOPS THEN LAUGHS]
MRS. MORITZ: Madam! You
will spoil the boy, really.
FATHER: Would you and your daughter
leave us, please, Mrs. Moritz?
Doctor.
Come along, Justine.
Victor, this is Elizabeth.
She's coming to live with us.
She's lost both her mother and
father to the scarlet fever, Victor.
She's an orphan now.
You must think of her
as your own sister.
You must look after her,
and be kind to her.
Always.
[III]
Mother, oh. How is the
imminent arrival?
Oh, a little frisky today.
Yes.
When you were a little boy, you used
to chase fireflies in the field.
Yes, and when I trapped
them in my jar, they died.
Yes. And do you
remember how you cried?
Yes.
Because you wanted to keep them
glowing by your bedside
to light you as you read.
You were so hungry for knowledge.
Such a serious little boy.
You've become
such an earnest young man.
All these strange
and ancient books.
You'll be an even greater doctor
than your father.
But you know, Victor,
life shouldn't be all study.
There's such fun to be had.
Oh.
Give me that back.
No.
Give me that back,
Mother.
[HARPSICHORD PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
MRS. MORITZ:
Change partners. And twirl!
Now, Caroline.
You're right.
You mustn't exert yourself. Please.
I know.
MRS. MORITZ: Don't worry, madam. Your
new baby will be a natural dancer.
Excellent.
You'll be the envy of all the
young ladies and gentlemen.
[HARPSICHORD CLANKS]
Justine.
Justine, may I have
this dance?
[LAUGHS]
[GRUNTS]
MRS. MORITZ: Madam!
Hurry!
[GRUNTING]
Sir. You must
make a decision!
FATHER: How can I? The baby's
in the wrong position.
I can't proceed...
I can't...
[MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Cut me. Save the baby.
[CAROLINE SCREAMS]
[III]
She'll be all right.
Your father's the finest
doctor in Geneva.
[FATHER SOBBING]
Father?
Father?
Father,
how is she?
I did everything I could...
Everything I could...
VICTOR:
Mother? Mother!
Bring her back.
Please, bring her back.
No!
Please, bring her back.
[VICTOR SOBBING AND
MURMURING INDISTINCTLY]
Oh, Mother.
You should never have died.
No one need ever die.
I will stop this.
I will stop this.
I promise.
ELIZABETH: Victor, you're completely
obsessed. Please explain what that is.
VICTOR: It's energy. It never
disappears, it merely changes form.
It's possible to convert
this candle wax
into the convulsions
of a mechanical dog.
But the applications of
this are limitless. Really.
Oh, please come outside, Victor.
It's such a beautiful day.
Go away, I'm busy.
What's this?
It's for spraying down
the electric eels.
[LAUGHING]
Now, put it down. Put it down.
It's not for playing with.
It's not for playing with. Put it
down, put it down-- Don't do that.
I warned you. Don’t-- Don't--
Give me that, you little...
VICTOR:
Come on!
[ELIZABETH & VICTOR
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Yes! Come on!
After all, we should
be grateful to Victor
for abandoning his experiments
for one afternoon.
Well, who says I have?
What do you mean?
[THUNDER CRASHES]
Look!
ELIZABETH: We're all going to die.
You knew this was going to happen.
No, not for certain.
But I had hoped the
conditions would be right.
They're quite common here
at this time of year.
I've never seen one quite as
large as that, though. Look.
Isn't it wonderful?
Victor, you shouldn't have done this.
It's all right,
it's all right.
We must take cover.
A tree!
No, no, no. That's exactly
the wrong thing to do.
It's potentially a much
larger conductor than we are.
Victor, what about Willie?
Um...
What are we to do?
Come on.
VICTOR: Now, everyone, spread out.
Elizabeth, take this. Now, quickly.
Come on, quickly!
ELIZABETH: What is that?
VICTOR: Dig it right into the ground.
Go ahead.
ELIZABETH: Now what?
VICTOR: Justine, take this. Come on.
JUSTINE: Willie!
VICTOR: Everyone down.
[LAUGHING]
VICTOR: Give me your hands. It'll be fine.
Now take him. Now, that's good.
ELIZABETH: Victor, I hope
you know what you're doing.
VICTOR:
Willie? Willie, don't look up!
Willie.
Victor--
Wait!
One, two, three...
[III]
Now.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
VICTOR:
So how do you feel, Elizabeth?
ELIZABETH:
Alive.
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends.
Gather round and listen.
As you probably know,
tomorrow my dear son Victor
leaves me to pursue,
what I'm sure
will be an illustrious
career in a profession
I, myself, am not altogether
unassociated with.
Ha, ha.
Oh, modesty.
[LAUGHING]
No. My- My-- My one
regret is that his mother
my late wife,
is not here
to share the pride
which our son fills me with tonight.
Yes.
She wanted you to have this,
Victor.
On your graduation.
And in it she has written:
"This is the journal
of Victor Frankenstein."
The rest of the leaves are blank,
to be filled with the deeds
of a noble life.
[GUESTS CLAPPING]
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
We'd, uh, better go in,
before they miss us.
Just a little while longer.
Please.
I don't know when we'll
be alone together again.
[LAUGHING]
Oh, dear Victor.
I shall miss you
laughing at me.
I'll miss you
making me laugh.
So...
how do brothers and sisters
say goodbye?
Perhaps they never have to.
I won't, if you won't.
[III]
Are you my sister?
Sister...
friend...
lover.
Wife?
Yes.
Then come with me to lngolstadt.
Marry me now.
Victor, no.
Well, then I'll stay.
Oh.
I want more than anything else
in the world to be your wife.
But as long as you're
away, I belong here.
I want to make
this house live again.
I want to make this a great
home for our children.
And now you must go, and do the
great things you need to do.
I want you so much.
I'll be here
when you return.
Each holiday.
Every visit.
Then on our wedding night.
Until our wedding night.
[III]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
WOMAN:
Lots of stairs, I'm afraid.
How was your journey?
It was very good, thank you.
I made very good progress
over the mountains. Clear run.
Good. I am pleased.
Well, as I said,
we've only got attic space.
VICTOR:
It's exactly what I'm looking for.
But Frau Brach,
there will be a great deal
of scientific equipment
and rigging to be delivered.
Every day, I'm afraid, for the next week.
I trust you have no objections.
I'm sure you appreciate the need
for a proper laboratory, madam.
Oh, Putzi likes you.
[III]
This will be perfect.
MAN: "The foolish and vain
force their views by the rod.
But knowledge is power
only through God."
Our motto. Easily forgotten
by you young men in a hurry.
[LAUGHING]
But perhaps the greatest
mistake that all students make
during their time here,
is to suppose
that they can ever have
an original or creative thought.
We have all imagined that
in our time.
But gentlemen, you have not come here
in order to think for yourselves.
You are here to learn
how to think for your patients.
You must learn, therefore,
in the first place
to submit yourselves
to the established laws
of physical reality.
But surely, professor,
you don't intend we disregard
more philosophical approaches?
Philosophical?
Those which stir the imagination
as well as the intellect,
as in Paracelsus,
for example.
Ah, Paracelsus.
An arrogant and foolish Swiss.
Albertus Magnus?
His nonsense was exploded
500 years ago.
Cornelius Agrippa?
A sorcerer. An occultist.
What is your name?
Victor Frankenstein, sir.
Of Geneva.
[STUDENTS CHUCKLE]
Oh-ho. Another Swiss.
Mr. Frankenstein, here at the
University of lngolstadt, we teach--
And indeed, hope to advance.
--the science of medicine.
Chemistry, biology, physics.
We study hard science.
Yeah, but surely, professor, the greatest
possible advances lie in combining these things.
We do not study the ravings
of lunatics and alchemists
hundreds of years
in their graves
because their kind of amateur,
fanatical, fantastical speculation
does not heal bodies
or save lives.
Only science can do that.
[STUDENTS MURMUR
AND APPLAUD]
Now, have we your permission
to continue?
[CHATTERING]
Nice coat.
Why, thank you.
Don't take it too hard.
It's just that Krempe doesn't
approve of public humiliation.
I am not mad!
My dear fellow,
of course you're not.
In fact, that's just the sort of thing
I'd expect a perfectly rational person
to say to a
complete stranger.
Henry Clerval, by the way,
and I'm completely crazy.
Victor Frankenstein.
Of Geneva.
Of Geneva.
Yes, I noti-
Why don't you look
where I'm going?
That's Schiller. Ornement
of the playmg field.
Really.
He's new as well.
You can tell because he goes around
looking at things with his mouth open.
What are you here for?
Research.
Very grand.
I'm here to become
a mere doctor.
I'm told it has something to
do with healing the sick.
Which is a pity, really, because I
find sick people rather revolting.
Still, I'll have a good time,
get my degree--
If I can stop failing
Anatomy.
--And settle down to relieve rich old
ladies of their imaginary ailments
and then relieve their very
real and beautiful daughters.
Who was that?
He was at the lecture.
Ah. That's Waldman.
Ah, that's Waldman.
Yes.
Interesting case.
They say in his youth
he could break into heaven
and lecture God on science.
Ran into trouble with the authorities
a few years back.
Something to do
with illegal experiments.
But what kind of
experiments, I wonder?
So what was it
you were saying? Uh...
Rich old ladies
and their daughters?
Yes, it's a life of sacrifice, I
know, but someone's got to do it.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[HORSE NEIGHS]
[III]
WALDMAN: And that is why
the central nervous system
and its crowning
achievement, the brain,
are as complicated and
mysterious a set of organs
as you are ever
likely to encounter.
Mr. Frankenstein,
the incision is yours.
Excellent.
Mr. Clerval, you may
remove the cranial lid.
"Henry, now fully recovered, and
continues his struggle to pass Anatomy."
I was always terrible
at anatomy.
"Professor Waldman is very
tolerant of him, and of myself.
I'm learning a great deal."
Professor Waldman is remarkable.
And so is Henry.
"God bless you, all my love, Victor."
That's very nice.
"P.S. I've fallen in love."
I beg your pardon?
"She's dark, sleek,
and beautiful,
and always wags her tail
whenever she sees me.
Her name is Putzi, and she's the friendliest
sheepdog that I've ever known."
[LAUGHING]
"P.S. Elizabeth, I dream of
how your hair shines..."
VICTOR: "Of how your lips taste.
I dream of your arms and breasts
and of the time on our wedding night
when we will be atone together at last."
WILLIE:
What else does it say?
It says, "I'm working very hard
to make lots of new friends."
More coffee, anyone?
Once and for all, Frankenstein!
Life is life, death is death.
These things are real.
They are absolute.
That is rubbish and you know it!
That premise has been repeatedly
challenged by members on your own staff!
Yes, you, sir! We don't know
where life ends or death begins.
Hair continues to grow after what we
choose to call death. So do fingernails.
We know that
a man's brain may die
but his heart and lungs may
continue to pump and breathe.
Now, you know that.
Mr. Frankenstein
of Geneva, I warn you
what you are suggesting is not
only illegal, it is immoral.
Rubbish!
"Dear diary, why does
no one understand me?
P.S. I am not mad."
WALDMAN:
You.
Explain yourself.
Professor, I'm sorry.
Listen, I came here to learn
all about the new science.
About galvanism,
Franklin's experiments.
The combination of modern
disciplines with ancient knowledge
in an attempt to protect and create--
To create what?
Sir, we can change things. We can
make things better. You know that.
We are on the verge of
undreamed-of discoveries
if we only have the courage to ask the right
questions. Now, you must help me. Please
Come on.
Victor...
VICTOR: Come on.
[III]
Henry-
Lock the door.
Now, for thousands of years
the Chinese have based their
medical science on the belief
that the human body is a chemical
engine run by energy streams.
VICTOR: That's fascinating.
Then how do they explain--?
Don't touch that!
Their doctors treat patients
by inserting needles
like these into the flesh
at various key points, to
manipulate these electric streams.
I see.
So electricity is the key.
Now, look at this.
[III]
[BOTH GASP]
Go on, touch it.
It feels warm.
It is.
Yes. How do you do?
Aah! Turn it off!
I can't, it's not working.
Try to stay calm, Henry.
It's simply a matter of reducing the
polarity in your body 0r in the arm.
A monkey's arm is basically
the same as a human being.
No arm is this strong!
Now, this must work.
[ELECTRICTY BUZZES]
Let me help you, professor.
You shall, of course, tell no one.
They wouldn't believe you
anyway.
Dearest Victor.
Nothing much changes here.
Mrs. Moritz continues to love and
torment Justine, in equal measure.
Willie grows more
precocious every day,
and Father almost
expires with pride
at the very thought of you
and your work.
And I...
Well, I just miss you, very much.
Please write soon, Victor.
VICTOR: 'No, I'm serious. You
take vaccine, for instance.
Thirty years ago the entire
concept of vaccine was unheard of
and now we save lives
every day.
But that isn't the whole answer.
What do you mean?
That sooner or later the best way to
cheat death will be to create life.
HEN RY:
Now you've gone too far.
There's only one God, Victor.
No, leave God out of this.
Listen, if you loved someone,
they had a sick heart,
wouldn't you give them
a healthy one?
Impossible.
VICTOR: No, ifs not impossible.
We can do it,
we're steps away.
And if we can do that-- If we can replace one
part of a human being, we can replace every part.
And if we do that,
we can design a life.
We can create a being
that will not grow old or sicken.
One that will be stronger than us,
better than us.
One that will be more intelligent
than us, more civilized than us.
In our lifetime?
No.
[III]
How close did you get, professor'?
Too close.
Professor, I beg you,
let me see these notes.
No. My work now,
and its application,
lies exclusively
in the preservation of life.
I abandoned my other
researches many years ago.
Why?
Because they resulted
in abomination.
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY]
You're not sticking that in me.
It's got a pox in it, I hear.
Pox? They've given us pox?
That's right. Pox.
It's not pox, it's a vaccine that
will prevent a plague in this city.
What's that?
It's a tiny, harmless amount
of anti-smallpox serum.
You just said pox!
WALDMAN:
I said it was harmless.
It's a necessary precaution, without
which this godforsaken city
would be immediately
put under quarantine.
You doctors kill people. I don't care what
you say. You're not sticking that in me.
Yes, I am. It's the law!
Sit him down, someone.
Come on.
You're not sticking that
in me!
[GRUNTS]
Sir?
Professor? Sir?
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY
AND WOMEN SCREAMING]
Find him!
Come on! Come on! Come on!
It's no use, Victor,
he's gone.
No! No, Henry!
Let him go!
No! No, this shouldn't happen!
Let him go! Victor, stop!
VICTOR: It shouldn't happen!
HEN RY: Stop! Victor.
It need not happen!
[CROWD JEERING]
MAN:
The hell with you!
Whatever you say, whatever you
call it, you doctors are killers.
You murder people!
Evil! You're evil!
Evil!
You're the ones that deserve to die.
God will punish you. He'll punish you!
God will punish you!
[CHEERING]
My God, you were so close!
Of course, the power!
The materials were wrong.
You needed auxiliary sources.
"The experiment a failure.
Resulting reanimant malformed
and hideous to behold.
This factor dependant on the
appropriate raw materials."
Raw materials...
[III]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
VICTOR: Come on, Henry.
HEN RY: I can't, Victor.
I can't help you.
You won't help me.
What are you frightened of?
Everything! What do you think?
And what if
the authorities--?
We'll do this in secret. I've got the raw
materials, I've got Waldman's journals.
Together we know more
than Krempe's whole staff.
You stole
Waldman's journals?
We owe it to him
to complete this work.
He was one step away.
He never wanted this.
Couldn't face it,
there's a difference.
Even if it were possible,
and even if you had the right--
Which you don't.
--to make this decision for us,
can you imagine for one second that there
wouldn't be a terrible price to pay?
I think for the chance
to defeat death and disease,
to let everyone on this Earth
have the chance at life,
sustained, healthy life,
to allow people who love each
other to be together forever...
For all of that,
I think it's a risk worth taking.
[III]
ELIZABETH: Please, Justine,
just leave me alone.
I won't talk about it.
But all these letters, you read
them to us yourself every week.
I wrote them.
I wrote the letters.
He hasn't written to me
in months.
Elizabeth...
Something horrific is happening to him.
I can feel it.
At first I wasn't sure, but I knew
I had to hide it from Father.
Now there are rumors
of cholera.
I can look after Father and Willie.
You go to lngolstadt--
No, that's not possible.
He won't want me.
He's probably found
someone else.
If he was mine,
I would have gone already.
But he isn't mine.
He's yours,
and you must go to him.
Raw materials,
that's all they are.
Tissue to be re-used.
The very finest brain.
MAN: But they all died of cholera, sir.
No matter.
Thank you.
The assembled organs must have the
appropriate nutrients and heat
and crucially,
more direct power.
More direct power.
[SCREAMING]
VICTOR: Amniotic fluid is
the chief biogenic element.
The subject is injected with this. The
copper acupuncture needles pierce the flesh
at all key energy points.
Now, after the removal of current, the
dead toad should retain animation.
But independently
of external power sources.
Yes.
That's it.
That's the combination.
That's the combination!
That's it!
[CROAKING]
[III]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
HENRY:
Victor? Victor!
Victor, open the door!
Victor, please!
What do you want?
There's cholera.
It's an epidemic!
The city's been placed
under martial law.
Are you listening to me, Victor?
Yes. And?
The militia's arriving
to quarantine the city.
Most of us are getting out
while we still can.
Krempe knows that you're here, for God's
sake. What if he tells the authorities?
Goodbye, Henry.
ELIZABETH:
Victor, it's me.
Elizabeth.
Can you hear me?
Victor, I have to see you.
Go away.
ELIZABETH: Please, Victor!
I won't leave here until you see me.
Come in the side door.
Alone!
What's happened to you?
How can you live here
like this?
And that stench.
Don't go in there!
Aah!
We have to leave. It isn't safe.
No, I have to stay.
Even if it means you'll die?
Yes.
[III]
Well, let me help you.
No, that's impossible.
We made a promise.
Victor, I beg you.
Look, I know that this is
difficult for you to understand
but I cannot abandon
this work now.
It is too important. Not just for
me, but, believe me, for everyone.
And it must come first.
Before us?
Elizabeth,
I love you so much, but...
Goodbye.
[III]
[CRYING]
Elizabeth! Elizabeth!
[SOBBING]
Oh, God! Elizabeth!
Elizabeth!
[III]
Live! Live! Live!
Live!
Yes!
No...
No!
No!
No!
It's alive.
[THUMPING ON METAL]
It's alive.
[III]
[GRUNTING]
No.
What have I done?
What have I done?
"Massive birth defects.
Greatly enhanced
physical strength.
But resulting reanimant
is malfunctional and pitiful
and dead."
Tomorrow this journal and
its secrets must be destroyed
forever.
Oh, God.
[CRYING]
[THUD]
Aah!
[GROANING]
No!
You fool,
Victor Frankenstein of Geneva.
How could you know
what you'd unleashed?
How is it pieced together?
Bits of thieves, bits of murderers...
Evil stitched to evil stitched to evil.
Do you really believe this thing
will thank you for its monstrous birth?
Evil will have its revenge.
God help your loved ones.
[III]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
What do you think
you're doing?
Aah! He's got cholera! He's the one
who's been spreading the plague!
Get him!
[PEOPLE YELLING AND
WOMEN SCREAM]
[III]
[GRUNTING]
MAN 1:
Come here, you--
[ROARS]
WOMAN:
Keep away from him.
MAN 2:
No, kill him now!
MAN 3:
He went this way.
HENRY: There now. Easy.
Easy. Just a bit.
That's it. There, now, rest easy.
Henry, you're here.
Of course I'm here.
It was touch and go with you, though.
Just a bit more.
I feared cholera, turned
out to be pneumonia.
Yes, I'm becoming
something of a doctor.
Even Krempe seems
pleased with me.
At this rate, I might
even pass Anatomy.
The epidemic?
Dreadful.
There's nothing
we can do for them.
The vulnerable, anyone who's
without shelter or food,
the newborns, especially,
will die.
Are you sure?
I'm certain of it.
Thank God.
What do you mean?
Nothing.
Well then,
that's my shift finished.
I'll see you later.
[PIANO PLAYING]
Elizabeth.
[III]
Elizabeth.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
VICTOR: Please, please, forgive me!
Of course I do. Of course.
Victor, I don't know what you're
working on, and I don't want to know.
But it nearly killed you.
It's over, it's finished.
It should never have started.
It's dead! It's dead.
[FLUTE PLAYING IN DISTANCE]
[LATCH RATTLES]
WOMAN: Felix!
FELIX: Yes?
WOMAN:
Don't forget the onion scraps.
FELIX:
All right, I've got them.
Go on, get.
Come on. Come on.
Go on, go on. Go on. Get.
How are the pigs?
FELIX: They're happy
they've been fed.
How are your hands?
FELIX: Oh, they're bleeding again.
MARIE:
Let me see them.
[MARIE HUMMING
AND FELIX GRUNTS]
FELIX:
That's better.
MARIE:
There.
The soup's ready.
THOMAS: Come on, Grandpa.
Sit down.
GRANDPA:
Thank you.
[III]
[THUDDING]
We'll never get through
the winter with this yield.
The ground's frozen hard.
We'll sell another pig at market.
We can't. Not until they
lift the quarantine.
Even then, it's one less for us. Last
month's rent, he'll be back for that.
Come on.
We'll do this together.
You're right.
We've got to,
before the snow comes.
Come on, then.
The ground’s frozen solid. We
haven't the strength to do this.
We'd need 20 men to work this field.
It's useless!
We should stop now.
It's getting late.
We don't have
enough to eat.
We'll manage.
Let's go.
Look. Look.
[LAUGHS]
They must be gifts from the
Good Spirit of the Forest.
Father, nothing in this
life comes free of cost.
I would like to know
who and why.
THOMAS: Was it, Grandpa? Was it?
Was it the Good Spirit?
GRANDPA:
I believe it was.
FELIX: Will you stop filling
their head with nonsense?
[TWIG SNAPS]
Who's there?
Felix? Children?
MARIE:
Right.
What's this one?
Fr-- Eh-- Nd.
Friend?
Ha, ha. Friend! Well done!
That's very good.
You've got lots of friends, haven't you?
Grandpa and...
Friend...
Friend...
Friend.
Friend.
Family.
Ff-- Fa..
Father.
Now, this is very important. You must
travel with them for the entire journey.
This equipment must not
be left unattended.
My father will personally take delivery
of them in Geneva. Do you understand?
I do, sir.
Thank you.
HEN RY: Going somewhere?
ELIZABETH: Henry, look.
Look at this locket Victor gave me.
Isn't it beautiful?
Yes, it's lovely.
ls this really you?
Yes, it's a bad likeness,
I know.
But for now, it will serve
instead of a ring, huh?
HENRY: Congratulations on
the entirely expected!
When?
As soon as we get home.
Ha, ha. Oh.
I can't believe we'll be there
for New Year's Eve.
Victor's going to take
over Father's practice.
And expand it.
I'm going on ahead now the
quarantine's being lifted.
There's so much to do
for the wedding.
Now, the practice needs a partner.
Now, there's not much money,
but there is food and board
and some very good company.
And it's the ideal position for someone
who has finally passed Anatomy.
And so we were
wondering if
there was anybody that
you could recommend?
Victor, I--
I don't know what to say.
VICTOR:
Well, please say yes.
Yes.
ELIZABETH: Yes!
Yes, yes! VICTOR: Yes!
And you can write that
down in your journal!
[LAUGHING AND
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[III]
"This is...
the journal...
of...
Victor...
Frankenstein...
of...
Geneva."
FELIX:
Come on, quickly.
Come on, then, off you go.
Quickly, now.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Come on, now. Come on.
Time for bed.
MARIE:
In you go.
CREATURE: "For the Good
Spirit of the Forest."
Are you
the Good Spirit of the Forest?
Not exactly.
Where's your father?
I said,
where's your father?
Who's there?
Maggie?
No.
Oh, it's you.
What have you done to Maggie?
ls he in there?
Hiding behind a blind old man?
Get away! Get away!
LANDLORD:
Don't blame me.
Blame your son for not
paying his rent on time.
[FLOOR CREAKS]
[LANDLORD SCREAMS]
My God.
Thank you, my friend.
Thank you so much.
Won't you come and sit by the fire?
Please, don't be afraid.
Come. Come in.
Have a rest, sit down.
Ah. That's better.
I'm glad you finally came in.
A man shouldn't have to
hide in the shadows.
Better that way, for me.
Why?
People are afraid.
Except you.
It can't be as bad as that.
Worse.
I can "see" you with my hands,
if you'll trust me.
Papa, Papa, he hurl Grandpa!
FELIX: Who hurt Grandpa?
MARIE: What was that noise?
FELIX: Tell me what the noise was.
What happened,
Maggie?
Poor man.
Have you no friends?
There are some people.
But they don't know me.
Why do you not go to them?
Because I am so very...
Ugly -
And they are so very...
beautiful.
FELIX:
Father! Get out of here!
Get out of here, monster.
Leave him alone!
We have to leave here.
[SOBBING]
[III]
No.
[GRUNTS]
[III]
[ROARS]
I will have revenge!
Frankenstein!
[III]
Geneva.
Yay!
MAN: Quickly, quickly.
She's here, she's here!
ELIZABETH: Willie!
We got your letter!
We got your letter!
It's the first one
I was allowed to read.
Congratulations,
Elizabeth.
I'm happy for you.
Thank you, Justine.
Oh, is that the locket?
Oh. Look how handsome
Victor is.
Elizabeth, can I take
this to show Peter?
Yes, but, Willie,
it's not a toy.
Let him go. Let him go.
Don't dawdle, William!
[JUSTINE & MRS. MORTIZ
LAUGHING]
Justine, you idiot.
Pay attention.
Anyone would think you're the
one that's getting married.
Yes, Mother.
ELIZABETH: What's wrong?
JUSTINE:
Nothing. Really.
MRS. MORITZ: Just leave it.
You've ruined it now.
[FLUTE PLAYING]
No! No!
Frankenstein.
You, with me.
FATHER: Have you seen Willie?
Isn't he back yet?
Claude rode over to find out
if he'd lost track of time.
They say he never arrived.
Far too late for him to still be out.
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William!
MAN: William!
William!
William!
Willie!
Willie!
[THUNDER RUMBLING AND
MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[CRYING]
Willie...
Willie!
This isn't a game!
Willie!
It's so late.
We're all so tired.
I'm so tired.
Father! I'm so
pleased to see you.
What's wrong?
[THUNDER CRASHES]
[III]
[WHIMPERING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
MAN:
William!
VICTOR: We checked the east ridge.
There's nothing there.
Damn!
Elizabeth?
I found him!
I found him!
Elizabeth!
No!
[SOBBING]
We did everything
we could, sir.
You just rest easy now.
We did everything we could.
MRS. MORITZ: Sir, I'm terrified for my
girl. She's still out looking for William.
We parted badly. I was cruel to her.
I didn't mean it.
I think she finds it very hard now, with
your wedding. She loves you dearly.
I couldn't bear it if
anything happened to her.
She's all I've got.
Please, help me!
We'll organize another search
now that ifs light.
We will find her, Mrs. Moritz,
I promise.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
How is Father?
His heart is breaking.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Mr. Frankenstein,
we've apprehended the murderer, not
five miles from here hiding in a barn.
We found this on her.
It's yours, I believe, sir?
Sir, you must come immediately.
The townspeople have gone mad.
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
My God.
What are they doing?
They must have
broken into the jail!
Well, for God's sake, man,
can't you stop them?
They've gone wild!
This is a lynching mob!
Stop! This is unlawful.
Justine.
Justine!
[SCREAMING]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Victor! Help me!
I was trying to find him!
I went to the lake,
but it was dark!
I wanted to bring him to you!
He must be there for the wedding!
I'm sorry! He's so tiny.
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[SCREAMING]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
VICTOR: We managed to close
the gates on the mob, Claude.
What about Justine?
We've cut her down. We can
bury her in the morning.
Thank you, Claude.
Get to bed.
CREATURE:
The sea of ice.
I will meet you there
on the sea of ice.
Oh, Justine, forgive me.
Victor, tell me.
Who is this man?
How do you know
he's responsible?
I'll tell you everything
after I've destroyed him.
But if what you say is true,
then surely this is a matter
for the police.
They wouldn't understand.
Well, neither do I.
Then just accept it.
[GRUNTING AND PANTING]
[III]
[GRUNTING]
CREATURE:
Get up.
Get up.
You do speak.
Yes, I speak.
And read.
And think.
And know the ways of man.
How did you find me?
Your journal.
Then you mean to kill me.
No.
You murdered my brother,
didn't you?
I took him by the throat
with one hand,
lifted him off the ground
and slowly crushed his neck.
And as I killed him,
I saw your face.
You gave me these emotions. But you
didn't tell me how to use them.
Now two people are dead
because of us.
Why?
There's something at work in my soul
which I do not understand.
What of my soul?
Do I have one?
Or was that a part you left out?
Who were these people
of which I am comprised?
Good people? Bad people?
Materials, nothing more.
You're wrong.
Do you know
I knew how to play this?
In which part of me
did this knowledge reside?
In these hands?
In this mind? In this heart?
And reading and speaking.
Not things learned
so much as things remembered.
Trace memories in the brain,
perhaps.
Did you ever consider the
consequences of your actions?
You gave me life,
and then you left me to die.
Who am I?
You...
I don't know.
And you think I'm evil.
What can I do?
There is something I want.
A friend.
A friend?
Companion.
A female.
Someone like me.
So she won't hate me.
Like you?
Oh, God,
you don't know what you're asking.
I do know that
for the sympathy
of one living being,
I would make peace with all.
I have love in me
the likes of which
you can scarcely imagine.
And rage, the likes of which
you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy the one
I will indulge the other.
And if I consent,
how will you live?
We would travel north,
my bride and I,
to the furthest reaches of the Pole.
Where no man has ever set foot.
There, we would live out our lives
together.
No human eye
would ever see us again.
This, I vow.
You must help me. Please.
If it is possible
to right this wrong,
then I will do it.
Victor!
Victor.
Are you all right?
Yes, I'm safe. I'm safe.
What happened?
Tell us.
Victor.
Victor, you have to
tell us what happened!
One month,
that's all I ask.
And then we can
be married,
and we can forget
this whole business.
I promise.
Promise? Promise.
Oh, don't dare use that word to me.
You promised to tell me
who this man was.
You promised to abandon
this work for good.
Your promises don't mean anything.
Elizabeth.
I have to leave this house.
What are you saying?
Where will you go?
I don't know.
Somewhere I can recover.
Well, look. This is ridiculous.
I haven't got time to argue.
Oh, isn't it convenient? Or doesn't
it fit in with your plans?
Don't you ever think of anyone
or anything but yourself?
God forgive me.
[III]
Why her?
Materials, remember?
Nothing more.
Your words.
No.
You will honor
your promise to me!
I will not.
Go on, kill me now.
That is mild compared
to what will come.
If you deny me my wedding night,
I will be with you on yours.
Elizabeth!
Elizabeth.
Wait. Wait,
please wait. Please.
I have to speak to you.
Please!
What do you want to say?
Don't go.
[III]
Please, don't go.
I'm frightened.
Of what?
I have done something
so terrible,
so evil.
And I'm frightened
that if I tell you the truth
that I will lose you.
You'll lose me if you don't.
I..-
don't know...
what...
to do.
[CRYING]
Will you marry me,
Victor?
Marry me today.
Tomorrow,
tell me everything.
But you must tell me
the truth.
And together,
we can face anything.
Whatever you've done,
whatever has happened,
I love you.
To share the truth, the whole
truth, for good or ill,
to stand by each other
in sickness and in health,
and in joy,
from this day forward
till death do you part.
Who is this man, sir?
How shall we know him?
Believe me, you'll know him.
He killed Master William,
and Justine Moritz died for it.
No hesitation, lads. Shoot
the bastard on sight!
Henry?
HEN RY:
Don't worry about a thing.
You two look after each other.
I'll look after your father.
[III]
I'm sorry, sir.
The last ferry's gone.
There's nothing now till morning.
Damn.
I'll ride on ahead and secure
you lodgings for the night.
Thank you, Claude.
Come on.
Keep your pistols dry!
MAN: They're dry enough.
And if they fail, we've others.
And if those fail,
we can always
gut the bastard.
Go to your post.
Yes, sir.
Don't worry, sir.
You're well guarded.
Now, why don't you
go on upstairs to your wife?
It's not often a man
has his wedding night.
[III]
You're soaking.
Brother and sister
no more.
Now husband and wife.
[FLUTE PLAYING]
Victor?
Lock the door.
Lock the door.
Victor.
I saw him in a flash of lightning.
He ran to the lake.
You two stay here.
[THUNDER CRASHES]
MAN:
We lost him.
VICTOR:
Elizabeth!
Don't bother to scream.
Please...
Please don't hurt me.
You are lovelier than
I ever could have imagined.
VICTOR:
Elizabeth!
Elizabeth!
[III]
I keep my promises!
[GUNSHOTS]
[VICTOR SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY]
[SOBBING]
For God's sake,
tell me what happened.
No point.
I know what I have to do.
God. No, Victor! You can't
do this, I won't let you!
She's gone. I love her.
What would you do?
Leave her in peace.
Peace? You call this peace?
Think my father wouldn't have
done this for my mother?
Your father's dead.
Then there's nothing
left to lose.
Nothing but your soul.
[III]
Live!
No!
Live. Live.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
[COUGHING]
Say my name.
Please, say my name.
Remember!
You must remember.
Elizabeth?
Elizabeth?
That's it.
That's it, you remember.
That's it.
Now, stand. Stand.
[GRUNTING]
Yes. Yes. Yes.
You remember.
You remember.
[III]
[THUNDER CRASHES]
She's beautiful.
She's not for you.
Come.
Elizabeth?
Say my name.
Elizabeth.
Yes.
Elizabeth!
You're beautiful.
Say my name.
Elizabeth,
come to me.
Come to me.
[III]
Say my name, Elizabeth.
Vic...
That's right, Elizabeth.
Victor.
No, you're mine.
You're mine.
Leave her alone! No!
Get away from her. She's mine.
VICTOR: She's mine! She said my name!
She remembers!
She's mine!
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[III]
VICTOR:
No!
[GASPS]
VICTOR: All that I once loved
lies in a shallow grave
by my hand.
I followed the trail he left for me--
North.
Always north.
--For months now
with one intent:
To kill him.
Now...
I'm tired.
I'm so very, very tired.
What did he say?
He's dead.
He died raving
about some phantom.
What is it out there, captain?
He told me a story that...
couldn't be true.
He was mad, I think.
A warming breeze.
The ice will melt yet.
And what then, captain?
We head north.
No.
[CREATURE GROANS]
[CRYING]
[III]
Who are you?
He never gave me a name.
Why do you weep?
He was my father.
WALTON: "And yea, I gave
my heart to know wisdom
and to know madness and folly,
and I perceived that all is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
For in much wisdom is much grief,
and he that increaseth knowledge,
increaseth sorrow.
For God shall
bring every work
and every secret thing
into judgment,
whether it be good,
or whether it be evil."
Captain--
He has a right to bear witness.
[ICE CREAKING]
[III]
Jesus, ifs breaking up!
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[GRUNTS]
Get back to the ship, captain.
Leave the damn torch!
Leave it!
Come with us.
I am done with man.
MAN:
Hang on, I've got you!
Help! Help!
MAN: Here, captain. Here, captain.
Quick, grab my hand!
Where to now,
captain?
Home.
[III]
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