National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

330 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:00,000 Then why did you create me? To prove that I could! 331 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:05,000 So you make sport with my life? In the cause of science! 332 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:10,000 You were my greatest experiment, but an experiment 333 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:15,000 that has gone wrong. An experiment that must be curtailed! 334 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:25,000 Be still, genius! 335 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:30,000 I have a request. Damn you, you can't have requests! 336 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:35,000 Oh, I can! Listen to me. It's your duty. I've no duty to a murderer. 337 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:40,000 If I'm a murderer, you made me one. You killed my brother! 338 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,000 You did it, not me! I curse the day when you drew breath. 339 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:50,000 Since then I've lived in darkness. Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, 340 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:55,000 said then the lost Archangel, this the seat 341 00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:00,000 that we must change for heaven, this mournful gloom 342 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:05,000 for that celestial light? 343 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:10,000 That's Paradise Lost! 344 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:15,000 You've read Paradise Lost? I liked it. 345 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:20,000 Why? You saw yourself as Adam? I should be Adam. 346 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,000 God was proud of Adam. But Satan's the one 347 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:30,000 I sympathize with. For like Satan, I was driven out 348 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:35,000 though I did no wrong. And when I see others content, 349 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:40,000 I feel the bile rise in my throat, 350 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:45,000 and it tastes like Satan's bile. 351 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:50,000 But this is remarkable! You are educated! And you have memory! Yes, I use it to remember 352 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,000 being hunted like a rat, running from human places, finding refuge in the woods. 353 00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:00,000 I use it to remember being beaten and whipped. 354 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,000 And I was good, 355 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:10,000 I wanted to be good! Then why did you kill William? 356 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:15,000 I wished to see you, and you came. Would you have come otherwise? 357 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,000 If I had killed half of Ingolstadt, would you have come? 358 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:25,000 Did no one show you kindness? 359 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:30,000 There was an old man. He taught me many things. But he was blind, 360 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:35,000 he never saw my face. He did not know that I looked like this! 361 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:40,000 After a year, by after he'd described to me the seasons, 362 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:45,000 and I'd watched them go round, one, two, three, four, 363 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:50,000 when I was one year old, he said they'd take me in. 364 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:55,000 The son, and his wife. A beautiful wife… What happened? 365 00:55:55,000 --> 00:56:00,000 You know what happened. Oh, God, I do. 366 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:05,000 I burned them in a fire. 367 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:10,000 I'm sorry, I… Sorry? You're sorry? 368 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:15,000 You caused this! This is your universe! 369 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:20,000 Frankenstein. 370 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:25,000 Here is my request. 371 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:30,000 I wish to be part of society. But no human being 372 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,000 will associate with me. But one of my own kind, 373 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:40,000 one just as deformed and horrible, she would understand, 374 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:45,000 she would… What, I… I want a female. Built like me. 375 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:50,000 A female? You did this. You alone have the power to… To create another monster, another brute? 376 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:55,000 No, I will not. It is my right! You have no rights. 377 00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:00,000 You are a slave. You want me to make you a female, 378 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:05,000 so the pair of you can be wicked together? No, I will not. Torture me as much as you like, I'll never consent! 379 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,000 I will not torture you. 380 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:20,000 I will reason with you. Isn't that what we are supposed to do? 381 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:25,000 Have a dialogue? There is no dialogue with killers! Yet you'd kill me if you could! 382 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:30,000 Why, you have just tried! So why is your killing justified, and mine is not? I won't argue with you! 383 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:35,000 My God, I'm halfway up a mountain, debating with a… a… A living creature! 384 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:40,000 A nothing, a filthy mass of nothing! 385 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:45,000 I am your master, and you should show respect. A master has duties,