Frankenstein (2025 film)
Frankenstein is a 2025 American Gothic science fiction film about the life of Frankenstein, an egotistical scientist whose experiment in creating new life results in dangerous consequences.
- Directed and written by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley.
Only monsters play God.
The Creature
[edit]- If you are not to award me love, then I will indulge in rage. And mine is infinite!
- I cannot die. And I cannot live... alone.
- The miracle was not that I should speak, but that you would ever listen!
- You gave me life unwanted. I give it back to you. You thought me a monster. Now I return the favor.
- There was silence again. Then, merciless life. How long did I die for? I do not know. But I saw my injuries healed. The cold winter air stung in my lungs. I felt lonelier than ever, because for every man there was but one remedy to all pain: Death, a gift you too had denied me.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein
[edit]- In seeking life, I created death.
- Some of what I will tell you is fact. Some is not. But it is all true.
Elizabeth
[edit]- Choice is the seed of the soul.
- My place was never in this world. I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it. To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love. And in its brevity, its tragedy... this has been made eternal. Better this way... to fade... with your eyes gazing upon me.
Dialogue
[edit]- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: In you, I have created something truly horrible.
- The Creature: Not something. Someone.
- The Creature: I found what I am. What I'm made from. I am the child of a charnel house. A wreckage, assembled from refuse and discarded dead. A monster.
- Blind Man: I know what you are. A good man. And you are my friend.
- The Creature: Make one like me.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: And then what? Procreation. Reproduction. Mm... A home? A grave? Death begetting death begetting death. A race of devils propagated upon the earth. Obscenity perpetuating itself.
- The Creature: I am obscene to you, but to myself I simply am.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I am sorry. Regret consumes me. And I now regard my life for what it was.
- The Creature: You will go now, creator. Fade away. It will all be but a brief moment. My birth. My grief. Your loss. I will not be punished, nor absolved. What hope I had, what rage... It is all nothing. The tide that brought me here now comes to take you away. Leaving me stranded.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Forgive me. My son. And if you have it in your heart, forgive yourself into existence. If death is not to be, then consider this, my son. While you are alive, what recourse do you have but to live? Live. Say my name. My father gave me that name, and it meant nothing. Now I ask you to give it back to me... one last time. The way you said it at the beginning. When it meant the world to you.
- The Creature: Victor. I forgive you. Rest now, Father. Perhaps now, we can both be human.
Cast
[edit]- Oscar Isaac — Baron Victor Frankenstein
- Christian Convery — young Victor
- Jacob Elordi — the Creature
- Mia Goth — Lady Elizabeth Harlander / Baroness Claire Frankenstein
- Felix Kammerer — William Frankenstein
- David Bradley — the Blind Man
- Lars Mikkelsen — Captain Anderson
- Charles Dance — Baron Leopold Frankenstein
- Christoph Waltz — Henrich Harlander
- Kyle Gatehouse — the Young Hunter
- Lauren Collins — Alma
- Sofia Galasso — Anna-Maria
- Ralph Ineson — Professor Krempe
- Burn Gorman — an executioner
