Frankenstein Subtitles by wizyw (wizyw422@gmail.com)
Sorry to interrupt. Let's do the craft, thank you.
You know one of those devices that holds the chest open?
- What're they called? - Chest springer.
Chest...?
Chest springer, okay.
Yeah, one of those from 1816, please.
What's extraordinary about working on it is that you realize it's timeless.
It will be here a long time after we're all gone.
Because it swims into focus depending on different issues.
Either in a very specific way, like genetics or cloning,
or in a very general way about what man is capable of,
and what are the repercussions of the events.
There's no time to explain, the simple fact is I built a man.
- You did what? - I built a man and succeeded
in animating him!
- You mean bringing him to life? - Yes.
Bringing him to life, my creature, I brought him to life!
I think Mary Shelley was writing almost without appreciating it
a sort of creation myth for the science age.
In many culture there are creation myths but they always involve
a deity, a cosmic power, something sets the spark of life in motion,
and we humans come to life.
The first time Mary Shelley comes up with a creation myth
which doesn't involve a deity, doesn't involve cosmic power,
but involves solely the skills of humankind.
That's why I think it stays with us now,
because God doesn't play a very big part in our rationalization
about the world we live in and what we're gonna do with it,
and the extent to which we're destroying it, as we blatantly are.
Mary Shelley is a very literate, highly educated,
young, 18-19 year old woman when she comes to it.
And the book is stuff full of ideas which seem to me to remain
very pertinent to us now.
- How does it feel, to be in love? - It... it feels like...
...all the life is bubbling up inside me and spilling from my mouth,
it feels like my lungs are on fire and my heart is a hammer!
It feels like I could do anything in the world!
The most important thing about the production, hopefully,
is that it gives the Creature a voice,
and I think a lot of people coming to it won't know the novel
but they will know the movies which robs him of his voice.
The movies just waded in there and robbed him of his voice straight away.
And yet, that is the most extraordinary thing.
So Nick's approach was to begin with the point of view of the Creature.
You abandoned me.
It speaks.
Yes, Frankenstein.
- "It" speaks. - You know my name.
We decided to enhance this idea of the creator and the created
by getting a couple of great actors to swap the parts.
Literally, one night they would be the created creature,
and next night they'd become the creator,
the scientist, Frankenstein.
If you can find the right two actors who can approach it in the right way,
they feed off each other, they're challenging each other the whole time,
and of course that is a mirror of the relationship of Victor and the Creature.
Take my hand, we seal the bargain.
What I started to notice, yesterday actually, that quips of my Creature
- go into Victor. - Yeah.
My Creature has a stammer and a stutter slightly,
and I have some of that come into Victor at the end.
I've met stroke victims in recovery, people who had severe injuries
by being in wars or car crashes trying to reeducate their limbs, their bodies,
and when you see that happening, the amount of vulnerability...
...it's a very endearing thing to watch evolve, you really care for him.
There's a lot of my two-year-old in the Creature.
It's a blank canvas as a body, but the brain works extremely fast,
it's a fully grown brain, so it's absorbing everything super quick.
The learning comes really quickly.
It's alive. It's alive!
I think it endures
because we want to know who made us, really.
And how far back does that process of being made go.
Does it go right back to God, does it go just to the point of
sexual union or is there something you can interfere with?
That's why we're obsessed with it.
I... no, no...
Keep away!
No!
You do as I say!
Come on!
Give me what I paid for, now!
Come on, you scum!
Oh, thank you, sir!
Thank you!
One good turn deserves another.
Wanna come with me?
I've got wine, we can drink.
What's your name? I'm Gretel.
What are you playing at?
Give us a little kiss, at least... Christ!
I'm not gonna scream.
I'm just gonna walk away.
All right, mister?
Just walking away.
All right?