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The ending is arguably the most important part of any story. Luckily, with Frankenstein, we get two for the price of one.
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- 00:01
No When it comes to fiction good endings air really
- 00:05
important Think of planet of the apes with the statue
- 00:09
of liberty just jutting out of the sand and the
- 00:10
protagonist having a good scream on the beach Yeah spoiler
- 00:14
alert Sorry with that money be remembered is such a
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- 00:17
classic if instead the protagonist had just spilled some soup
- 00:20
on his pants screamed a little bit and spent the
- 00:22
last twenty minutes of the film trying to clean up
- 00:24
probably not soiled pants don't exactly feel the cinema's At
- 00:29
least we hope they don't remind us to bring some
- 00:31
wet wipes next time we go to a movie but
- 00:33
luckily for frankenstein it has a pretty epic laundry free
- 00:36
scene to cap it off As we recall captain robert
- 00:40
walton was the guy who was listening to victor frankenstein's
- 00:42
long tale of woe and monsters until victor finally wrote
- 00:46
which was a real impediment to his storytelling career In
- 00:50
the books last seen walton finds the monster weeping over
- 00:53
his creators dead body of course he's going to be
- 00:55
a bit sad he might be a monster but he's
- 00:57
not a monster The monster delivers a bit of a
- 01:00
monologue with his maker dead the monster thinks that he
- 01:03
has no purpose in life and resolves to build a
- 01:06
funeral pyre for himself and die When some people want
- 01:10
a personal project we'll think maybe build a birdhouse or
- 01:13
a spice rack but not this guy And with that
- 01:15
his monologue completely leaps out the window onto a nice
- 01:18
raft which takes him out of you into the darkness
- 01:22
That might be an impressive exit but we don't recommend
- 01:24
that you ever try it One thing that's interesting about
- 01:26
the end of frankenstein is that depending on the addition
- 01:28
you're reading you might get a slightly different ending Not
- 01:32
that there's one where the monster goes water skiing into
- 01:34
the distance behind a motorboat being driven by a polar
- 01:37
bear The difference is air a bit more subtle than
- 01:39
all that well here the two last senses of the
- 01:42
eighteen thirty one version and has everything we just covered
- 01:45
jumping out the window getting on the ice raft and
- 01:48
then disappearing into the darkness No surprises by contrast here's
- 01:52
the original eighteen eighteen version it's almost exactly the same
- 01:56
but he had noticed any difference is one big one
- 01:59
Is that in the original the monster clearly pushes himself
- 02:03
off This gives us the image of a character who's
- 02:06
in control of the very end of his story unlike
- 02:09
one who's getting thrown around by the very strong waters
- 02:12
as powerful as a bath toy Well the second difference
- 02:15
is that in the original it's walton who loses sight
- 02:18
of the monster that gives us a dose of ambiguity
- 02:21
he's only lost a human eyes It might have a
- 02:23
life beyond our world While who knows he might even
- 02:27
skip out on the funeral pyre and make a nice 00:02:29.198 --> [endTime] birdhouse instead
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