In the film "Frankenstein" Henry Frankenstein is an amazing scientist who becomes too absorbed in his experiments. He was the perfect first example of the phrase "mad scientist", he shut himself off from everything else in his life focusing exclusively on his work.
His thirst for creating new life or recreating old life got worse and worse as he went from dissecting and reanimating animals to experimenting on human bodies. He would dig up bodies and steal organs, all to build his "perfect body" for reanimation. This lead to some "creative differences" with the university he was with so he had to leave and continue his research by himself.
I particularly liked the scene when Dr. Waldman was making the distinction between the normal good quality brain and the "abnormal" criminal brain during his lecture. When Fritz broke in to steal the brain you could almost tell that something would go wrong and sure enough the normal brain is ruined so Fritz has to steal the abnormal one.
After reanimating the body it spends its first days in darkness so when it is exposed to light things go sideways almost immediately. After his exposure to light it becomes apparent that Fitz had been beating "Frankenstein" which lead him to kill Fritz. When Dr. Waldman and Henry incapacitate "Frankenstein" they considered the matter dealt with. However "Frankenstein" managed to kill Dr. Waldman and began to look for Henry.
When Henry discovers this he is overcome with guilty claiming "I made it with my own two hands, I must destroy it with my own two hands." During this time "Frankenstein" had been terrorizing the mountains where he killed a little girl which lead to a massive manhunt. Henry is feeling massive amounts of guilt as he feels the girl's death is his fault so he joins the manhunt. As the manhunt comes to it's inevitable conclusion it comes to the final face off between Henry and "Frankenstein" on top of the windmill. As Henry is thrown off leaving him almost dead the mob decides to set the windmill on fire trapping "Frankenstein" inside to burn to death. This I feel would've been the place to end off. I felt the ending scene with the maids and the baron talking was rather unnecessary and took away from the plot.
His thirst for creating new life or recreating old life got worse and worse as he went from dissecting and reanimating animals to experimenting on human bodies. He would dig up bodies and steal organs, all to build his "perfect body" for reanimation. This lead to some "creative differences" with the university he was with so he had to leave and continue his research by himself.
I particularly liked the scene when Dr. Waldman was making the distinction between the normal good quality brain and the "abnormal" criminal brain during his lecture. When Fritz broke in to steal the brain you could almost tell that something would go wrong and sure enough the normal brain is ruined so Fritz has to steal the abnormal one.
After reanimating the body it spends its first days in darkness so when it is exposed to light things go sideways almost immediately. After his exposure to light it becomes apparent that Fitz had been beating "Frankenstein" which lead him to kill Fritz. When Dr. Waldman and Henry incapacitate "Frankenstein" they considered the matter dealt with. However "Frankenstein" managed to kill Dr. Waldman and began to look for Henry.
When Henry discovers this he is overcome with guilty claiming "I made it with my own two hands, I must destroy it with my own two hands." During this time "Frankenstein" had been terrorizing the mountains where he killed a little girl which lead to a massive manhunt. Henry is feeling massive amounts of guilt as he feels the girl's death is his fault so he joins the manhunt. As the manhunt comes to it's inevitable conclusion it comes to the final face off between Henry and "Frankenstein" on top of the windmill. As Henry is thrown off leaving him almost dead the mob decides to set the windmill on fire trapping "Frankenstein" inside to burn to death. This I feel would've been the place to end off. I felt the ending scene with the maids and the baron talking was rather unnecessary and took away from the plot.