Victor Frankenstein (2015) - full transcript

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

IGOR: You know this story.

The crack of lightning.

A mad genius.

An unholy creation.

The world, of course,

remembers the monster,

not the man.

But sometimes,

when you look closely...

there's more to a tale.

Sometimes the monster

is the man.

I've been with the circus

for as long as I can remember.

Circuses like to think

of themselves as families.

But, of course,

each one has its clown.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

(CIRCUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTING)

Oh!

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

I didn't have a name

back then.

I was just "the hunchback".

Or "freak",

if you were being kind.

But the truth is,

I didn't hate them for it.

It's hard to judge cruelty

when you've

never known kindness.

Besides, I always

had someone to look up to.

When I wasn't performing,

I served

as the company's doctor.

I became fascinated by

the science of medicine.

Particularly of human anatomy.

I wanted to understand

everything about...

...this internal universe

that makes us who we are.

The brains, lungs,

bones, muscles.

The heart.

I don't know

why the science of life

captured my imagination.

I think

it just helped me escape.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

(IGOR MUTTERING)

My God!

You really think you're smart,

don't you, eh? Huh?

A real intellectual.

What an embarrassment

that must be!

(MAN SHOUTING)

Oi!

You're on!

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

IGOR: Little did I know

that on a chilly

London evening...

...I was about to meet the man

who would change

my life forever.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

(GROWLING)

BARNABY: Ladies and gentlemen!

Witness now

the death-defying feats

of our very own

bird in the sky...

The beautiful Lorelei!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

(CIRCUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(AUDIENCE GASPING

IN WONDERMENT)

(ALL GASP)

(GROANS)

Lorelei!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Lorelei! Lorelei!

Oh, Lorelei!

She can't breathe!

Previous injuries?

Uh, she broke her arm

a year ago

and her collarbone

sometime before that.

Oh! Oh, my God.

VICTOR: Collarbone

is rebroken,

shoulder's dislocated,

causing pressure on the lungs.

She can't breathe.

(STAMMERING) What do we do?

Nothing, I'm afraid.

Don't have the tools

to reset the bone.

Do you have a pocket watch?

Give it to me.

I'm not giving you...

Do this now or she dies!

Come on!

VICTOR: Wait.

That dislocation is

forcing the sternum

to rest at an

untenable angle, yes?

Yes. Ready?

Set?

Three, two, one...

(LORELEI GASPING)

(EXCLAIMS) Yes!

There we are.

LORELEI: You saved me.

Breathe.

LORELEI: (PANTING) Thank you.

VICTOR: That was incredible.

Why are you wearing

that silly makeup?

Well, I'm a clown.

You're not a clown,

you're a physician...

...who just performed

a dry surgery

in less than a minute

with nothing to prepare.

Well, I'm a clown physician.

BARNABY: Don't panic,

ladies and gentlemen!

All part of the act!

You're being wasted here.

I'm with the circus, sir.

VICTOR: You're going to

leave the bloody circus.

What's going on?

You're a doctor, then?

VICTOR: On my better days.

Chiswick Cross Hospital

is just up the road.

I can lead your men there now.

Get her out of here sharpish!

Go out the back way.

(LORELEI EXHALES DEEPLY)

Don't want her

upsetting the clientele.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

Where are they taking

that poor creature?

Sir! Please,

may I know your name?

(GASPS)

Ladies and gentlemen!

The Human Cannonball!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

Please, no!

BARNABY: You sneaky rat!

You want to leave? I own you!

I've had enough

of these books!

You belong to the circus!

Burn them!

IGOR: Please, Master Barnaby,

it's my only thing.

(STRONGMAN GRUNTING)

No! No!

(BARNABY LAUGHS)

Get out of there!

(GRUNTS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Let that be a lesson to you!

Get in there!

You are going nowhere!

(IGOR GROANS)

(WOMEN LAUGHING)

Do you know

what's happened to Lorelei?

Romanticizing, are we?

She's probably gonna die,

you know that.

These city doctors

and their dirty hospitals.

(LAUGHS)

Ow!

What are you doing?

High powered magnet.

Should work. Usually does.

Hold on, sir. You don't know

what he'll do to me.

Don't I?

I can't just leave.

Of course you can.

No, sir, they own me!

You are better than this.

You can be better.

I can get you out,

but you'll have to trust me, understand?

BARNABY: Oi!

Choose now or remain here

for the rest of your days.

Get away from that cage!

You hear me?!

Open it!

BARNABY: Oi!

Get him!

He's property of the circus!

Now, the thing is... (GRUNTS)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

BARNABY: He's robbed us!

The hunchback! He's attacked

me and robbed the circus!

Get him!

Get after him!

(GRUNTS)

(GASPS)

Don't touch him!

Go!

(BOTH GRUNTING)

(FIREWORKS POPPING)

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(LAUGHING)

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

RAFFERTY: Got you.

What do we do?

What do we do now?

(GROANING)

MAN: Oh, shit.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

(HORSES WHINNYING)

How do we get out of here?

You know this place, damn it!

How do we...

BARNABY: Where are they?

STRONGMAN: Whoa!

(BOTH PANTING)

(VICTOR LAUGHS)

I'm not in the circus.

What?

Yes, very good.

Come along!

IGOR: I've never been

out of the circus before, sir.

VICTOR: Eyes open, door shut.

Coat off.

Coat off.

We're going to slip into something

a little more comfortable.

(DOOR OPENS)

(INSTRUMENTS CLATTERING)

(GRUNTS)

What's that for?

Next order of business.

No. What are you

gonna do to me?

Absolutely nothing.

Don't worry about it.

Look.

This is going to hurt

just a little bit.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

What are you doing to me?

Listen to me!

You are not...

...a hunchback.

(SCREAMING)

Not a real one, anyway. No.

You have an abscess...

causing a fluid pocket,

a rather...

...large fluid sac.

It hurts!

Yes, I imagine it does.

You'd be surprised

how often I hear that.

(GROANING)

(VICTOR SPITS)

Oh, looking at the size

of this beauty,

I'd say it's gone

untreated for, oh...

...18 years, but...

...the good news is,

I'm convinced

that if we can drain it...

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

...in three...

...two...

...one. And pulling out.

(IGOR GROANS)

(IGOR PANTING)

Garde a l'eau!

(PEOPLE SCREAM)

(PANTING) Right.

That's the easy part done.

Easy part?

(LAUGHS)

(SCREAMS)

(BONES CRACKING)

You're all right!

And up... we... go.

(BOTH GRUNT)

Now, your muscles...

...your bones...

...your entire

skeletal system...

...will be struggling

to reset themselves...

...to return you to

your former ground-sniffing...

...Luddite-bearing posture

of the last...

...18 years.

So, for the time being,

my friend,

you shall have to

wear this rather...

...wonderful back brace

I constructed for Gordon.

IGOR: Who?

I'm standing up!

That's rather obvious.

I haven't overestimated

your intelligence, have I?

It's just I'm not

in the circus

and now I'm standing up.

Yeah, you said that.

Right!

Library and study are over

there. Kitchen's over there.

IGOR: I'm standing up.

Your bedroom's on the right.

There's a water heater

and soap in there.

I suggest you use it

to do something about your...

...hair.

I'll be in the basement for

the rest of the evening,

as I have school...

...in the morning.

Make yourself at home,

don't touch anything.

Oh!

By the way, I had,

have a flatmate.

Goes by the name

of Igor Straussman.

Man's a morphine addict.

Idiot. Complete liar.

Thankfully for us,

he's almost...

...never home.

So, should anyone question

your presence here,

you are to say

that you are he.

I'm Igor?

Very good.

(DOOR SLAMS)

"Hello, my name is Igor."

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

TURPIN: Let's see.

A dangerous hunchback is

detained for the safety

of the public...

...with a determined and

equally dangerous accomplice.

They proceed

to the circus owner's trailer,

where they rob the safe

of its contents.

They make their violent

escape, culminating...

...in the murder

of an innocent man,

and vanishing...

(ECHOING) ...into thin air.

A fair summing up, Alistair?

Yes, Inspector.

Escape, robbery, murder.

Just as Mr. Barnaby said.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

TURPIN: Now here's what

I think happened, Alistair.

A human being

with a spinal deformity

is locked up against his will.

Perhaps a common feature

of his treatment here.

A stranger releases him...

...using a magnet

and tickler...

...as any fool can.

They make their escape

urgently, as they must...

...for the circus

is against them.

They flee.

A chase.

A man dies.

Manslaughter in self-defense

at most, I would say.

"Wanted for murder."

Have it copied.

I thought you said it wasn't...

I did.

Something tells me

our circus freak...

may be only the beginning.

Good morning!

VICTOR: Igor:

At school till six.

Clothes in the wardrobe.

Money and key

in the tin by the door.

Be home for dinner. F.

IGOR: Chiswick Hospital.

(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)

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(BARKERS SHOUTING

INDISTINCTLY)

(DOCTOR SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

Doctor?

DOCTOR: This way, gentlemen.

We have amputation to perform.

You.

What, me?

Yeah.

She needs camphor inhalations

twice a day,

uh, extract of allium...

...a quarter ounce of arsenic

and three of Filcher's Oil,

but more if you can get it.

I can't do that.

You can.

(STAMMERING) And then

when she wakes, tell her...

...a friend will be back.

(DRIVER SHOUTING)

(GROANS)

TURPIN: Six months ago,

a man tried to buy parts of

recently deceased animals...

...at the London

Zoological Gardens.

He was turned away.

Two weeks later,

there was a forced entry.

Animal limbs amputated

and stolen.

A month later,

a similar pattern of events

at the Veterinary Academy.

ALISTAIR: Sounds gruesome,

but what...

I confiscated that from

the crime scene at the circus.

Open it.

Sir...

...this is disgusting.

It belonged to a lioness

recently deceased.

But it was found near our

murder victim at the circus...

...and it didn't walk there

of its own accord.

You think

there's a connection?

I think our other man

at the circus

fits the same description

as this...

...animal thief.

But who would do that?

Huh?

What motive?

Something reeks here.

It reeks of an evil,

sinful mischief.

And now that man walks

the streets of this city.

Back in the mud so soon?

(CHUCKLES) Yes, I see.

Absolutely savage depiction

of me, I'm afraid.

(CLICKS TONGUE) Got the hair

all wrong, and the nose, too.

I'm new to this criminal life,

but I never thought the authorities

would attack my vanity.

They think I'm a murderer!

I've been called

much worse things in my time.

Besides... they're not

looking for you...

...are they?

They're looking for a piteous,

nameless hunchback.

And Igor, I would like you

to look at yourself.

Igor, that creature

no longer exists.

Dinner.

This is excellent.

So... what brought you to

the circus in the first place?

Cutlery.

What?

Use it.

Oh. Sorry.

Wipe your hands.

Animals.

Parts.

I am a student at

the Royal College of Medicine.

The curriculum

is straightforward,

the exams easy,

the professors...

Oh! The professors are

men of limited ability

and even more limited horizon.

Why did you rescue me?

You, my friend,

were an unexpected gift.

It's not every day

I come across a man,

albeit one suffering from

such grotesque deformity...

...who is so clearly talented,

observant, and resourceful...

...and in possession of the most

gifted pair of hands I have ever seen.

My interest in you

does not stem from charity.

Follow me.

Before I met you,

I was to approach Mr. Barnaby

about acquiring some of

your deceased animals.

To what end? Study?

(LAUGHING)

No, not as you would

think of it.

I am of the strong belief

that death

can be made

a temporary condition.

That's impossible.

Improbable, yes.

Impossible, no.

Life is temporary.

Why should death

be any different?

(LAUGHS) I have absolutely

no time for false modesty.

So it is without pride

or shame

that I declare my discovery

an act of...

...genius.

Those eyes...

...they're over

three months old.

And the liquid is an

electrically conductive jelly

of my own device.

Serves a double function:

To preserve and to...

Well, just wait and see.

It's all a matter

of conversion, you see?

The conversion

of pure electrical energy

into the biological variety...

...that flows

through the human body.

Hence, the construction

of this device:

The Lazarus Fork.

I have found that by passing

that current through a...

...specially blended variety

of sulfates and metals...

You've mastered

the conversion?

Yes.

Well, show me.

Ready?

There. Do you see?

They live.

(VICTOR LAUGHING)

What do you think?

It is impressive.

But you have

made a mess of the nerves.

(STAMMERING)

I beg your pardon?

The oculomotor nerves.

You haven't

connected them properly.

That's why

they don't move evenly.

You.

(VICTOR LAUGHING)

There he is!

That's the man.

That's the man I'm after.

Thank you for asking.

You're welcome.

Now, I shall bring you

your assignments piecemeal.

You will complete them

in a timely fashion,

whereon I shall apply them

to a larger...

...whole of my own device.

Questions?

Uh, this larger whole...

...is not of your concern.

(STAMMERING) Well, but if I...

Igor, I...

All this is now yours.

Every book. Every piece

of reference material.

Apparatus. Desk.

Room. Your laboratory,

if you like.

As my assistant, you shall be

at the very heart...

...of a scientific enterprise

that will change the world.

Now, will you help me?

Yeah. Fix that.

Ah. Thank you.

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

Mmm-hmm.

(VICTOR GRUNTING)

VICTOR: Keep working on it.

(MECHANICAL WHIRRING)

(FAINT RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

IGOR: The hospital made

arrangements for Lorelei.

She now had a benefactor.

I was pleased

she had recovered

and had someone

to look after her, but...

...as the weeks went by,

I missed her.

And I wondered if her life

had changed as much as mine.

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

(FAINT RHYTHMIC THUMPING)

(DOOR OPENING)

Uh...

Victor?

Mmm-hmm?

This letter

for Master Straussman.

We are going out on the town.

Oh!

VICTOR: Here we are.

I have a tenured membership

at the club,

thanks to my father's...

(CLEARS THROAT)

...status as a charter member.

Bought the velvet

for the seats.

IGOR: Your father...

VICTOR: Is what they call

a great man.

Esteemed doctor,

member of the Royal College

of Physicians, and...

...pioneer in the field

of cardio-physiology.

I should be honored

to meet him someday.

Uh, perhaps not.

Look, here's the club!

Master Victor, I'm not sure

I'm suited for this.

Pish!

Just keep your back straight,

your words clean,

and do your damnedest

not to embarrass me.

Babies grown in vats!

Victor, do you think this is

really the appropriate place

to talk about this?

Help me!

I am just trying to inform

these two wonderful

young ladies that...

...fertilization needn't take

place inside the female body.

Sperm! Sperms!

Can sperm move?

They can.

Thank you.

Why can't

it move independently

towards the egg in, say, a...

(STAMMERING)

...bucket?

Where does the mother fit in?

Exactly!

You're off educating yourself!

By the time we need you,

we're...

...sucking the fertilized egg

up into a funnel

and then we shuck it

up your...

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

(INAUDIBLE)

Igor?

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

LORELEI: Excuse me?

Sorry, I thought

I recognized you.

Well, you might do.

I don't remember your name.

Well, I never had one.

(GASPS)

It's you.

It's me.

Well, yeah, a bit different.

You saved my life.

My life.

(MAN LAUGHING)

Boring!

IGOR: Friend of yours?

That's Baron Bomine.

He recruited me

to be in his cabaret...

...and his consort in public.

Right.

(BOMINE LAUGHING)

He, uh... prefers

the company of men.

Oh.

(STAMMERS) I have a name now.

I am Igor.

(LAUGHS)

What?

It's perfect.

VICTOR: This woman

seems to think

that the human brain is pink.

(PEOPLE GASPING)

In fact, it is grey.

That's Victor Frankenstein.

Grey like this oyster.

I'm done. (TRAY CLATTERS)

He's the man who rescued me.

And he helped save you.

Is he always like that?

No. He's very clever,

and he is kind.

He just finds

ordinary people very...

...ordinary.

Victor, how did you...

Who are you?

You're the fallen angel.

Plummeted from any other great

heights lately? (LAUGHING)

Maybe you should try this one.

It's only, oh...

...all of 30 feet.

You've had worse.

I'm afraid the only thing

plummeting here

is my opinion of you,

Mr. Frankenschteen.

Frankenstein.

All right, Victor.

Igor, um... (LAUGHS)

Igor speaks

very highly of you.

Would you like to join us?

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

Now, of course,

I can't tell you everything,

but suffice it to say...

...Igor and I stand upon

the cusp of...

...creating life out of death.

(VICTOR LAUGHS)

Mr. Frankenstein...

Victor. Please.

I find your promise

more than a little unsettling.

Ooh.

Superstitious, are we?

No.

Are you not afraid to

challenge the natural order?

Igor, speak up.

What do you think?

Once, I would have agreed

with you, Lorelei,

but think about it.

Twenty years ago,

electric lights

would have been

thought of as magic.

Your injuries in the circus

would have been fatal.

Every day science

and technology

changes the way

we live our lives.

Look at me.

Well said, that man.

Life and death are different.

"Life and death!"

I dream of a world

where hope replaces fear.

A world where a murdered man

can stand in court

to face his murderer.

Where a crippled soldier,

shrapnel in his spine...

...can be killed, healed,

then brought back to life

to walk again.

Don't you see?

The possibilities are...

...endless! Life is beautiful!

But unfortunately

it is finite.

Now, tell me what that says.

"Death."

Thank you very much.

I cannot argue with that.

There it is,

in black and white.

But with a little

applied science...

...what do I give you now?

(CHUCKLES) "Life."

VICTOR: That's

what I'm trying to do.

Perhaps I spoke too soon.

VICTOR: You shouldn't

see that girl again.

What? Why?

Well, she's very nice.

Uneducated, superstitious.

Distraction from our work.

She's kind to me.

Tonight was not about

meaningless frivolity.

It was a celebration

of our work together.

I think it is high time...

you met our monster.

Don't tarry! Come, come, come!

Come on!

(MECHANICAL WHIRRING)

What is that?

Gordon.

What?

Gordon! (GRUNTING)

(STAMMERS) You made this?

VICTOR: No, no, no.

We... made this.

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Lungs, heart, spine, brain...

...all your work.

All...

...impossible without you,

in fact.

Victor...

You promised me

this was all about life.

It's about more than that.

Hands off.

Three... two...

...one.

(WHISPERING)

Come on, come on, come on.

Shh!

Look.

(LAUGHING SOFTLY)

It's alive.

Yes, it's... alive.

It's alive?

Victor... how?

Can't quite move yet.

Charge lasts barely an hour,

and the bottom half

is predominantly

a rude mockup.

You have created life

out of nothing!

Do you realize

how significant this is?

Oh, I have an inkling.

You are to accompany me

to the college tomorrow.

I've announced that

I'll be making a presentation

of my private work.

I'm coming to the college

with you?

As your assistant?

Igor, try not to be

quite so dim.

From this day forth...

...you are to be my partner.

(EXHALES SHARPLY)

MAID: Letter for you,

Miss Lorelei.

Letter? From who?

IGOR: Dear Lorelei:

We've had a breakthrough.

Please come to

the Royal College of Medicine,

Hall H, this evening at 8 PM.

Igor.

Big presentation in Hall H.

Presentation in Hall H.

Big presentation, Hall H!

Igor, around to the right.

Since the beginning

of modern medicine...

...there has been

an assumption...

...regarding the status

of mortality...

...that being that death...

...is an unavoidable...

...event, the inevitability of

which we should...

...take for granted.

(STAMMERS) I will show...

(CLEARS THROAT) ...today

that life is not some...

...grace bestowed

upon us by...

...some outdated notion of

an all-powerful...

Get on with it.

Yes, of course. I'm not

accustomed to public speaking.

Igor, would you prime

the dynamo for me, please?

Yes, master.

I would like to show you,

uh, show all seven of you...

...and, of course,

the young lady...

Come on, come on!

I have a coach waiting.

Uh... (SIGHS)

(STAMMERS)

I give to you... life...

...by my own... creation.

MAN: (SCOFFS) Cattle market.

I have built this homunculus

from various body parts...

...I got from...

the London Zoo.

They've had a terrible time

with the upkeep

of their exotic animals,

all to my benefit.

He's mainly chimpanzee...

...but with the aid of

my esteemed associate,

Igor Straussman,

we've managed to interlace...

...multiple individuals,

multiple species

as a matter of fact.

Igor, is it ready?

They're staring at me.

Thank you.

Do come to the front.

Get a closer look.

Don't be shy.

He won't bite.

Now, by the miracle

of electricity...

...I give you in three,

two, one...

...life.

(FLIES BUZZING)

(MEN EXCLAIMING IN DISGUST)

(MAN LAUGHING)

God!

MAN: I've seen enough.

(LAUGHS MOCKINGLY)

No!

Don't go!

Igor, shock him again. Harder.

Three, two, one... now!

(SHOUTS)

(FINNEGAN LAUGHS)

Frankenstein, you've surpassed...

(SCREAMS IN PAIN)

...all expectations, even by

your own expansive mythos of

strangeness and perversion.

This is spectacular.

It's delightful!

Just an exquisite show of...

...depraved lunacy.

Igor.

Full charge.

Ready?

Igor?

Ready.

Now!

(SCREAMING)

(BOTH GROAN)

FINNEGAN: Oh, look,

there she goes, Victor.

Bing, bang... boom.

What have you got next?

Perhaps a midget

hidden inside your rotting

meat sculpture's stomach...

...ready to pop out

with a bouquet of ro...

(FAINT WHEEZING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

Do you see?

(GROANS)

(LORELEI SHOUTS)

(GASPS)

(GROWLING)

It's all right.

Gordon... Gordon...

Igor!

Lorelei, stay back!

(SCREECHING)

Lorelei, are you all right?

Igor!

I'm fine.

VICTOR: Don't let him escape.

(IGOR PANTING)

(FLY BUZZING)

(GASPS)

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

(IGOR GRUNTING)

Gordon! Stop!

Ahh!

(PANTING)

(MEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)

No, no! Don't go out there!

(SNARLING)

(IGOR GRUNTING)

Victor!

Calm down, Gordon.

Get him off me!

Gordon?

Victor!

(GRUNTING)

Ahh!

Igor,

what have you done to him?

Victor! Help me, not him!

Victor, we have to kill it!

(PANTING)

Do it, Victor!

(GRUNTING)

IGOR: It was out of control!

We made progress today!

It was homicidal!

I had no way of knowing

that Gordon...

Am I to understand

that you built that?

Yes!

I apologize.

I misjudged you.

Your flaws, though they're...

...glaring and massive,

are merely social...

...not intellectual.

I find your work

astonishing...

...and to be

perfectly frank...

...brilliant. Brilliant!

Quite beyond

my own ability to comprehend.

Could you create another one?

I could,

and a whole lot more beside.

But that would take

considerable resource.

As you are aware,

I do come from the third

richest family in England.

As a result, I can provide you

with whatever it is

you so require.

In that case, yes.

And when you say... "more"?

A man.

A thinking, intelligent being.

Can we discuss this?

FINNEGAN:

I like this ambition.

You were right, Igor.

The beast was dangerous...

...but now we have

the opportunity

to show the value of our work.

You and I, Igor... we shall

create a man after our own...

...image.

Think of it.

An intelligent...

...civilized...

...man.

I'll want

another demonstration.

I want to know whether you can

take direction.

Follow orders, so to speak.

Is that a problem?

Victor, we cannot.

No.

Excellent!

Expect to hear from me soon.

You did not create

this technology

and yet you presume to

tell me how to use it.

You should know your place!

Your ignorance

of the ways of the world

cannot hinder the furtherment

of my experimentation.

But surely you see

you have no control.

Surely you have forgotten

what I did for you

at the circus!

This is my destiny.

It is your destiny.

And that man represents

our only ally on this planet.

And if he wants us to make him

an entire zoo of homunculi,

that is exactly

what we will do...

...if it ensures the

furtherment of our research.

Am I making myself clear?

Am I making myself clear?!

Yes, Victor!

(THUNDER CRASHING)

(FLIES BUZZING)

BARNABY: I own you!

You belong to the circus!

(MOCKING LAUGHTER)

(GASPS)

(BANGING ON DOOR)

Good morning. Can I help you?

Detective Inspector Turpin,

Scotland Yard.

I want to speak with

a Mr. Frankenstein.

I'm afraid

that's not convenient

at the moment, sir.

May I know your business?

Do you miss the circus?

I'm not sure

what you mean, sir.

Get me Frankenstein.

I've informed the college

I would happily pay

for the damage.

Just a bit of broken glass.

An animal

was involved apparently.

There was indeed.

Mr. Straussman and I are currently

involved in the study of...

...chimpanzees.

It's quite... quite

fascinating, actually.

We have discovered that

by using emotional cues...

...we can teach them

primitive belief systems.

Of course, it's only because

they are not yet capable

of higher logical thought.

Where is the creature now?

Dead.

Poor thing.

Had to be put down, didn't it?

Why would the police be

interested in such a trifle?

There may be a connection

with a murder investigation

of ours.

Murder investigation?

Igor, this is

a murder investigation!

Am I to understand

we have to summon

the chimpanzee's lawyer?

(CHUCKLES)

Mr. Frankenstein, I warn you

that there are consequences

for obstructing police work.

I should like to see records

of your experiments

for the past twelve months.

If you cannot cooperate,

then, by God,

I'll conduct a thorough search

of these premises.

"By God," you say?

Inspector,

I must inform you...

...that you are currently

in the home of rational,

free-thinking men.

To violate it or my research

would require

a proper legal warrant.

And God has no authority here.

Tread lightly, sir.

You may insult me,

but you impugn the Lord

at your peril.

I should remind you that life

is a sacred creation.

Are you a police officer

or a theologian?

Let me tell you something

for nothing.

Life... I'll say this

very slowly... is merely...

...the application and outcome

of applied chemistry.

And did you or did you not

apply such chemistry

at the Royal College

of Medicine two days ago?

Igor, when was the last time

you went to confession?

The good friar has come to see

whether we have sinned.

"He that covereth his sin

shall not prosper."

I'll ask you again.

(VICTOR SIGHS)

And I will ask you again, sir:

Why are you so interested,

nay, infatuated

with this case?

Surely there are

more interesting mysteries

to be solved in London.

Or...

...is it precisely

because this experiment,

which you imagine

took place...

...may very well discredit

your own primitive

belief system?

Uncover what you will

about me, Inspector.

Men like you have always stood

in the way of progress

and invariably been

left in its wake.

My creation...!

(EXHALES SHARPLY)

Be careful, Mr. Frankenstein.

You toy with wrathful forces.

And there's no mercy

in nature.

Good day.

I'll be back with a warrant.

That thing

in the school, Igor...

...I looked into its eyes

and there was nothing there.

There is a difference

between using your machines...

...to restore a life

wrongly lost and...

...to create something that

was never supposed to exist.

Victor must understand that.

Look...

...I never thought

I'd leave the circus.

I thought I'd be in there

till I died. And Victor...

...has given me all this.

And all he asked

is that I believe in him.

I understand that, Igor.

What I'm saying is...

...don't let yourself be

bullied by anyone ever again.

Victor says he's your friend.

But if you believe

Victor is on a wrong path,

then you must make a stand.

I have to go.

Victor, if you truly respect

me as a scientist...

If you truly respect me

as your friend...

...you must listen

to my concerns.

Igor.

Sir.

What's it been? Three years?

You look slimmer.

I'm sorry, sir, I don't...

Is Victor here?

Yes, sir.

Very well.

Where have you been?

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Not wise to be out on the town

when there's a manhunt on.

Get off his heart!

Father.

Get up.

Leave.

VICTOR: Father, I'm so excited

that you've come.

Your timing is impeccable.

I've had such

breakthroughs with my...

I don't care.

I don't care about your poorly

researched theories

or your disastrous experiments.

Not poorly researched,

I've told you...

Victor, silence.

Yesterday I received

a telegram...

...informing me

that you are to go

before the board of directors

at the college.

They say you neglect

your schoolwork.

(LAUGHING)

They intend to expel you.

No, they can't!

Can't they?

The work I am doing

is far more important...

...than anything

they are conducting

at that damn school.

You're a fool, Victor.

You always have been.

If only you could have been

more like Henry.

But you...

You just bring shame

to the name Frankenstein.

I will ensure

that the name of Frankenstein

is never forgotten!

(GROANS)

You've done it again, Victor.

Only this time it's your own

life you've ruined.

(DOOR CLOSES)

So, what's this, then?

Finnegan's project.

My man.

He was going to be

the modern Prometheus.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

He's also not nearly

big enough.

Yes. What?

Gordon was fast

and strong, sure,

but he couldn't sustain

any of that.

And towards the end,

he was having some

real trouble breathing.

Breathing?

Embolisms. Embolisms

in his lungs. Yes, of course.

How stupid.

So much raw energy

coursing around his structure.

His body couldn't

take the charge.

Wretched creature would have

been dead in ten minutes.

If we want to build something

that can live and stay alive,

we'll need a lot more energy.

Tons more.

Just stop. What could possibly

generate that kind of...?

BOTH: Lightning!

Yes, I have...

...just the thing.

One of my early designs

for the Lazarus Fork...

...incorporated a structure

that actually

sucked its energy...

...from the atmosphere.

It's possible that we can

build a larger version

that would simulate

a static burst...

...similar to

that of lightning.

No, it's the same problem.

We can't just make the body

accept that charge.

We are incapable of simply

making larger organs.

What if we gave him

two sets of lungs?

You know you're brilliant,

don't you?

Why wouldn't we? He's our man.

We can do what we like.

Not just two sets of lungs...

Two hearts.

Yes!

Pump all that blood

around the larger body.

Absolutely. He'd need it.

(LAUGHING)

Igor...

Earlier, when my father

was here...

I was reading.

I didn't hear a thing.

Did he say

anything interesting?

No, he didn't.

Whiskey?

Yes. Yes, do that.

A larger chest cavity...

...to incorporate four lungs.

Two sets on the left

and the right.

Bigger with the arms! Biceps.

Now what do we do?

Tilt him.

Backwards and forwards.

Let that liquid

run through the body.

Cheers.

Here's to him.

Flat head.

Why?

Because I like it, that's why.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

To his two hearts.

(GLASSES CLINKING)

(VICTOR CONTINUES LAUGHING)

Mmm...

(VICTOR SIGHS)

Is that precious?

ALISTAIR: They've denied us

the warrant, Inspector.

As the Magistrate said,

with no sign of any foul play,

nor indeed of any crime...

No foul play?

Look at the debris

at the Royal College.

Acid burns, the same.

Bloody paw prints

on the floor.

Something's going on.

Something's happening

in that basement, I know it.

I know it.

And it's my job, my duty.

It's my moral duty to stop it.

But, sir, you have no warrant.

Yes, he's insulted you.

Yes, he's clever.

But we have no evidence.

I don't care.

I need to find out

what's in that basement.

Now we can enact

my true vision.

You and I will take

life's raw elements,

its base components, and we...

...shall assemble them

to our own specification,

to our own design.

(LAUGHING)

For tonight we begin

our model...

...of Prometheus.

Um...

Tonight... actually, Victor,

I was...

I've been invited to a ball.

A what?

A ball. Lorelei's asked me.

Lorelei?

Yes.

No, no, don't speak.

Lorelei...

I shall stay here and work.

I'm sorry, Victor.

No need to apologize.

You should go off and enjoy

yourself. You deserve it.

You've earned it.

You can go now.

Thank you.

(OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(ALL CHEER)

(BOTH LAUGHING)

I don't know what to do.

You're already doing it.

ALISTAIR: Frankenstein,

open this door!

We'll break it down!

Open this door now!

Scotland Yard!

Frankenstein! Open the door!

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Harder.

Frankenstein! Open the door!

(VICTOR GRUNTING)

Victor, we have to leave!

Where have you been?

With Lorelei.

Oh, I see.

Wasting your time...

...with pointless courtship...

...while it remains to me to

take care of the work in hand!

ALISTAIR: Frankenstein!

Open this door!

Frankenstein, we're coming in!

Get this door down.

I've sent for

one of Finnegan's men

to provide a carriage.

I'm trying to

overload the conductors.

Forget the conductors!

We have to get out of here!

And let them have my machines?

Not bloody likely!

Trap door to the sewers...

it's the only way out.

Try and open it.

Pickaxe on the ice closet.

(GASPS)

What are you waiting for?

What is that?!

Oh. Uh...

Igor Straussman,

meet Igor Straussman.

What? What did you do to him?!

Found him like that

a couple months ago. Overdose.

A couple of months?

You took his eyes!

Victor, what is

wrong with you?

You want to die in prison...

...executed by that maniac?

Hunchback!

Do you see the truth now?

This is the man

who took you from the circus.

Who would gouge the eyes

from a dead friend.

Move once more

and I'll kill you.

Do as you wish.

I have no fear of death!

TURPIN: Really?

I do.

I lost my wife...

...to a malign growth.

And in my suffering

I know about death.

That it's an abyss from which

no man nor woman

can be returned.

Would you not rather

have her by your side?

Would you not have her

live again?

She is alive.

In God's house.

And when I, too,

fall into that abyss...

...I shall be by her side.

Don't you see?

You trust in a fiction!

And you shall be forgotten.

That's right.

History will bury you,

Frankenstein...

...and no man

will remember your name.

No, you're wrong. Igor, no!

(GRUNTING)

You'll remember me now.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

(VICTOR GROANS)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

Victor!

(SCREAMING)

VICTOR: Come on, Igor!

(CONTINUES SCREAMING)

Pull! Pull!

(GRUNTING)

Frankenstein, we're coming in!

Inspector?

Finnegan.

Finnegan! Where are you?

FINNEGAN: Frankenstein! Igor!

What an unexpected surprise.

The police have raided my home

in search of Igor Straussman.

We managed to avoid

incarceration, but...

...it's just possible

we might have

gravely wounded

a police officer.

Ah. I suppose now you'll have

no choice but to leave London.

Posthaste.

Very good.

My family has an estate.

The Castle Erskine

in Scotland. It's quite...

...rural and secluded.

Ideally situated,

you might say, for...

...both your needs

as scientists and, um...

...well, fugitives.

Yes.

I'll go and prepare the coach.

Very good, thank you!

How could you do that to me?

Do what?

Keep from me

that you had killed a man

and given me his name!

I told you,

I did not kill Straussman.

You're overreacting.

You harvested his eyes!

Details.

He was a waste of space.

This fanfare from you

is more than his own family

will give him.

All right, gentlemen,

time is of the essence.

Your coach is ready.

VICTOR: Come, Igor.

We'll talk about this

on the way.

No.

What?

What you're doing is wrong.

(LAUGHS)

You've gone mad. Come.

It's gone too far.

We simply

do not have the time.

I'm not leaving then.

Listen to me.

You have the chance here

to be part of...

Of what?

Of being lied to by you?

Of being hunted by the police

and chased by monsters?

Well, if you're going

to concentrate

on the dark side.

I'm not leaving.

What will you do?

Go back to the circus?

Resurrect your

illustrious career as...

It's none of your concern.

You're a fool.

I created you.

You think that just because

I put you in a back brace

and you cut your hair...

...you can

turn your back on me?

That you can walk out

into the world on your own?

See how far you get

with your acrobat

and your morals

and your new life.

Just come with me.

Fine.

I'm done with you.

(COUGHS)

You know... I knew

Igor Straussman.

(SIGHS) He was a real bore.

Nouveau riche. Drug addict.

So, who are you then?

Hmm?

Doesn't matter really.

Victor's been very forthcoming

with his designs.

But I still need him for now.

You, on the other hand...

So, let's see. Your benefactor

has departed...

...your home has been

ransacked by police...

...your identity

revealed as a fraud...

...and you know far too much

for me to let you walk away.

What I'm getting at,

old boy...

...is that

you won't be missed.

(IGOR GRUNTING)

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Tie him up

and put him in the carriage.

You and Victor aren't

the only ones with vision.

I, too,

have a dream of the future.

A dream where my family

will control

this new technology.

Hmm? What's that?

You don't approve.

No, I imagined you and Victor

wouldn't like that much.

You know, for men

obsessed with death,

you think yourselves

so above violence.

Curious.

Good-bye, Igor.

(MUFFLED GRUNTING)

Straussman wasn't Straussman.

The body, the frozen creature,

that was Straussman.

The young man pretending

to be Straussman

was the hunchback...

...transformed

by Frankenstein.

Inspector, this is not...

They escaped in the

Finnegan family coach.

Finnegan attends

the Royal College of Medicine.

It makes sense.

He's in on it, too,

maybe funding them.

CHIEF INSPECTOR:

Inspector Turpin, stop...

TURPIN: My guess is that

he's fled the country by now,

more than likely

alongside Finnegan...

...who, a little digging

shows, has an estate,

Castle Erskine in Scotland.

We'll find them there.

Stop it, Roderick, damn it!

No, listen to me!

We can catch them now.

We can...

...and we will.

What do you mean?

You're being removed

from the case... sir.

From the whole force, in fact.

Constable Alistair will be

taking your place.

You are on a medical

and mental reprieve.

You had no warrant, Roderick.

Do you have any idea

the lengths I have been to...

...in order to protect you

from criminal charges?

It was a necessary action. Really?

In pursuit of what?

High society hunchbacks?

Undead monsters?

Conspiracies involving

one of the richest families

in England?

Yes, a conspiracy

to create life in...

...a direct, defiant action

against God.

You were the best detective

Scotland Yard had,

but now it's time

for you to rest.

You must heal.

And when you return,

you will see things

how they really are.

(IGOR COUGHING)

IGOR: Is that precious?

I took possession of this

when I was... ten.

It was a very cold winter

that year.

We lived in the country then.

It was a happy time.

We crept out of

my bedroom window

because we wanted to

play in the snow...

...and so we did.

Until we were...

...engulfed by a blizzard.

I almost died.

Anyway, when...

When the snow cleared...

...and dawn finally broke...

...I was alive.

I looked into my hand

and I was holding this.

It serves to remind me.

Remind you of what?

That God...

...if at all He does exist...

...sent us

into this world imperfect.

We're weak.

We're fragile.

And we're destined to die.

This reminds me that

that is not good enough.

Who were you with?

VICTOR: Hmm?

You said "we".

In the blizzard.

Did I?

Where in God's name

do you think you're going?

You haven't been

out of bed in weeks!

You can barely walk!

Igor. Igor, don't go.

Don't do this.

I have to go. He needs me.

You owe him nothing.

You're your own man.

No.

I'm the man he made me.

You're wrong.

You've always been

this person.

This brave,

brilliant, beautiful person.

He gave me a life.

I'm sorry, Lorelei, but...

...you must understand,

I have to go.

He's my friend.

Then you will not go alone.

VICTOR: Two hearts.

Pump all that blood

around the larger body.

A larger chest cavity

to incorporate four lungs.

Two sets on the left

and the right.

You and I, Igor...

we shall create a man...

...after our own image.

An intelligent...

...civilized...

...man.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

IGOR: Stop!

Stop here!

DRIVER: Whoa!

IGOR: Finnegan's men.

Wait here.

Please take care.

What are you doing?

Go.

Hello?

Sorry, we seem to be lost.

Thank you!

(IGOR PANTING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

What's this?

Hold her here.

I'm going to the castle.

Sir, there is a storm coming.

That man is in allegiance with

Satan... and must be stopped!

DETTWEILER:

All stations ready!

VICTOR: Engineers! Scientists!

Eyes to me!

The storm is nigh!

The storm is nigh!

Conditions are perfect!

ENGINEER: Electrical station

ready, sir!

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

Prometheus moving,

station one!

(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

ENGINEER 2: Stoke the furnace!

We need it hotter!

ENGINEER 3:

Mind the blood pipe!

Prepare the blood!

ENGINEER 1: Fluid station now!

VICTOR: Now. Set?

Inserting.

In. Tapped.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

Respiratory station!

DETTWEILER: Prepare

the respiratory station!

Victor.

Igor?

I'm so glad you've come.

Victor, Finnegan tried to

have me killed.

I believe he intends to

kill you, too,

when you've given him

what he wants.

We can still get out of this,

but you must stop

this experiment.

Father sent you, didn't he?

Don't be ridiculous!

He'll stop at nothing,

and you don't know

what he's capable of!

I don't care.

What?

Finnegan's motives

mean nothing to me.

I will turn the tide of human

existence here, tonight.

Then this world

which has spurned me...

...will forever

remember my name!

No, if you do what he asks,

no one will remember

Frankenstein the man.

Only the monster!

(GRUNTING)

(GROANING)

I forgive you, Igor.

I forgive you this remarkable

lack of foresight.

So stay here!

Your brother was with you!

Henry Frankenstein.

He was with you that night.

Was he older

or younger than you?

He was older.

You must have

looked up to him.

Where did you get that?

I wouldn't be surprised

if it was your idea, though.

Was it?

To go out into the snow.

And he protected you.

And he died while you lived.

Isn't that what

all this is about, Victor?

You want to stop

other people...

...from having to endure

that pain that you felt.

No.

No?

No.

It's about so much

more than that.

Don't you see? To my mind...

I took my brother's life

that night.

I have to redress the balance.

I have to create life now.

Victor, none of this

does that.

This only brings

more and more and more pain.

And whatever path this is

that you've gone down,

this is not you.

You're a good man, Victor.

Igor...

FINNEGAN: Frankenstein!

Frankenstein! Hurry, man!

The storm is almost upon us!

Victor...

...don't.

Victor!

ENGINEER 1: Station one ready!

(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

Prometheus moving!

Electrical station!

ENGINEER 2: Electrical station

ready, sir!

FINNEGAN:

Who'd have thought it, eh?

You and I on the threshold

of immortality.

Prometheus moving!

Lazarus station!

Damn them all, eh?

The naysayers... and

the hypocrites.

For tonight, Victor,

we breathe life...

...into flesh!

ENGINEER 1: Balloons released!

Lazarus Fork.

(EXHALES)

I will give you life.

I will give you...

...life!

Prometheus ascending!

ENGINEER 1:

Station ready, sir!

VICTOR: I want full power,

on my mark.

Now!

Converter B standing by.

Full power... now!

All positions, relays open!

This is your moment, Victor!

Victor!

It's too much power!

IGOR: You know this story.

The crack of lightning.

A mad genius.

An unholy creation.

IGOR: Victor...

...don't!

Live!

Well, Victor.

Sir, I must warn you...

...we are overloading!

(MEN SCREAMING)

(VICTOR YELLING)

(SCREAMING)

No!

(FINNEGAN SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

No!

(MEN SCREAMING)

(VICTOR GROANING)

(YELPS)

Frankenstein!

You will burn

for what you do here.

This isn't science.

This is the work

of Satan himself.

(LAUGHING)

There's no Satan.

No God. Only humanity.

Only me!

(CHAINS RATTLING)

May God forgive you,

Frankenstein!

May God forgive you!

Out of the way, Victor!

Out of the way!

Come to me.

I am your brother.

Oh, my brother Henry,

forgive me.

I have wronged you.

For this is not life.

(SOBBING) This is not life!

You are not life!

Live!

Victor!

Out of the way, Frankenstein!

Live! Live! Live!

(GROWLS)

(CHOKING)

May God drive out

this devil...

...and be driven back

to the pits of hell

from whence he came.

(GUN CLICKS)

No!

(PANTING)

Igor, I'm sorry.

What are we going to do?

What are we going to do now?

We will do the only thing

we can do.

(OBJECTS CRASHING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

Huh?

Shit.

(VICTOR YELLING)

(GROANING)

No!

Igor!

(YELLING)

(ROARS)

Victor...

(GROANS)

...get off.

(SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

(GROANING)

(HEART BEATING)

Igor!

Two hearts!

(ROARS)

No!

(GROANING)

Oh, my brother, forgive me!

(VICTOR GRUNTING)

(MONSTER GROANING)

Victor?

VICTOR: Dearest Igor:

I would have

waited for you, but...

...three's a crowd

and all that.

Besides, I think

you've probably had enough

of my work.

Truth be told, you've probably

had enough of me.

Our time together is done.

Our achievements

are in the past...

...and our discoveries

will probably never be known.

But I will always

think of you fondly,

and always as my friend.

As for myself...

...I have some ideas

about where we went wrong

this time...

...and one day I may

call on you once more.

Be ready.

For now,

your life is your own...

...and I wish you

luck with it.

You are and will remain

my greatest creation.

Your friend...

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