be Captain Andersonship trapped in the Arcticfinds half-frozen Victor Frankensteinbefore dying, Victor starts narrating his storyflashback timeVictor’s father Leopold Frankenstein is a famous doctor and academicVictor’s mother dies giving birth to William, and Victor blames him and his FatherVictor grows up brilliant but bitter, obsessed with conquering death and surpassing his father’s medical reputationVictor attends university, performs an illegal corpse reanimation experiment, gets expelledenters Henrich Harlander (Christoph Waltz), a wealthy arms dealer dying of syphilis and Elizabeth’s uncleHarlander offers unlimited funding for Victor’s research for a favor in the futureVictor agreesVictor forces his brother William to stay behind and help build the tower lab while he goes to seduce ElizabethElizabeth is engaged to William (her arranged marriage) but Victor flirts with her anywaythey share a scene with a butterfly then entrap it and she says she feels like the butterfly trapped in a live she doesn't want to live. She hates war.Once the lab is done, Victor assembles a body from corpses of soldiersHarlander shows up wanting his consciousness transferred to the monsterVictor refuses, they argue, Harlander tries to sabotage the lab, falls to his deathVictor then animates the monster through electrical and chemical methodsCreature awakensinstead of awe or remorse, Victor panicschains it up, beats it, runs tests. full-on abuses the creature(none of this abuse exists in Shelley’s book)Elizabeth and William go visit VictorElizabeth meets the monster and falls in love with itVictor tells he to be careful and she calls him a monster. Says the man in the dungeon has a pure heart and soul and Victor doesn'tVictor gets mad and jealous, and abuses the monster.Victor forces William to take Elizabeth away and destroys the lab trying to kill the monster, losing his leg in the process.
Elizabeth and William get marriedCreature escapes, finds Victor, asks for a mateElizabeth intervenes, shows him compassion says she loves him.Victor tries to shoot the creature, accidentally kills ElizabethWilliam gets fatally wounded in the chaos says he hates his brother and calls him a monster.Creature takes Elizabeth’s body, before dying in his arms she tells him she loves him and caresses his faceVictor, now completely broken, chases the creature norththey fight on the ice, Victor collapses, and is found by the ship crewhe dies telling his storythe Creature forgives him, calls him father they say they love each otherMonster frees the ship from the ice, and disappears into the snowno Henry Clervalno philosophical debate about science or moralityno sense that Victor had everything. Family, love, status but threw it all away for his obsession with conquering death.Victor’s father is a cold, elitist surgeonElizabeth is rewritten as a feminist moral anchorthe creature is a tragic victimand Victor is a jealous, abusive narcissist funded by Elizabeths syphilitic uncle
