Tom Groom: Assignment 2

Dr Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced Fronk-en-stine), the grandson of the Original animator of corpses, is a well regarded Doctor teaching in the United States, but the shadow of his great-grandfather’s terrifying and dangerous experiments loom over him. His great-grandfather’s death leads to his inheriting the Frankenstein castle. Leaving his fiancee and all that he knows behind and traveling to Transylvania he is paired with Igor—great-grandson of his Dr Frankenstein’s assistant Egor, and his lab assistant Inga.
Soon after arriving he discovers his great-grandfathers lab and private study, including the incredibly helpful “How I Did It” book. Piquing his interest, he begins his machinations to build a superhuman from a dead criminals giant body, and one of the brain of the greatest dead minds. Needless to say things go wrong, not least Igor collecting a specifically abnormal brain, and the monster escapes into the world. He is quickly captured by the trio, though the word has spread through the community, already fearful due to the previous inhabitants of the castles experiments.
With much coaching, love and affection, Frederick works to build the monster into functioning member of society, and its all going swell until the one blown bulb on stage, turns a song and dance into riot. The monster is captured and set to be exterminated, but the Doctor comes up with a plan for equalizing his brain chemistry—and once the monster breaks out and returns to the castle, they set about sacrificing some of the doctors brain to save the monster. The process is complete, all is forgiven by the mob, and both take something away—the monster, a high level of intelligence, and the doctor, an enormous schaunstooker.

Comedy
Change
Reanimation
Bond
Monster

Young Frankenstein is a comedy about a scientist who becomes deeply changed, through continuing his grandfathers work in the reanimation of the dead, and the bond he forms with his creation—the Monster.

The animation is a collection of "Victorian medical illustrations", each of which relates to either the role of the person in the making of the film, or the character of the actor in the film and a personality attribute or recurring theme. For example Teri Garr is represented through the illustration of a heart as she is the main love interest of the main character, Dr Frankenstein.

The animation uses music from the film itself which is used to calm the monster down. Although the film is a comedy, they titles act to set the scene for the comedy, beginning the film with a "straight-man" persona which allow the first jokes to hit harder and set the tone for the movie. It also references the writer's (Gene Wilder) desire to make a "real" comedy, in which the forth-wall wasn't broken and the comedy wasn't too silly. The final shot references the original titles sequence which is a slow zoom-in of a castle.