Gods and Monsters

Bill Condon 1998

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120684/

In the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.





                         "GODS AND MONSTERS"

                              Screenplay
                                  by
                             Bill Condon



                          Based on the novel

                       "Father of Frankenstein"
                                  by
                           Christopher Bram





                             May 30, 1997

                            SHOOTING DRAFT







     NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS
     AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR
     THIS SOFT COPY.




     FADE IN:

     MAIN TITLES BEGIN

     Writhing pools of light and dark, out of which emerge images
     from "The Bride of Frankenstein," directed by James Whale.
     Elsa Lanchester, as the Monster's Bride, looks up, down,
     left, right, startled to be alive.  The Monster stares at
     her.  "Friend?" he asks, tenderly, desperately.

     EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - NIGHT (B & W)

     Lightning splits the black-and-white sky, revealing a single
     shattered oak in a desolate landscape.  Below, a HUMAN
     SILHOUETTE stumbles through the darkness, the top of his
     head flat, his arms long and heavy, his boots weighted with
     mud.

     Suddenly the storm fades.  Light creeps into the scene, and
     color, as we DISSOLVE TO:

     THE PACIFIC OCEAN

     melting into a hazy morning sky.  In a box canyon off the