Guillermo del Toro Reflects on Achieving Lifetime ‘Frankenstein’ Goal

Guillermo del Toro has spoken about fulfilling his lifelong wish to bring his own version of Frankenstein history on the silver screens.

Frankensteinclassic novel originally written by Mary Shelly, adapted by Del Toro starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth.

In a post-screening Q&A with director Jason Reitman, the Mexican director shared that bringing Frankenstein to the big screen has been his dream since he was 11 years old, when he first read the novel.

“My whole life, I’ve been aiming for this movie,” he said. “All 50 years of crafting, thinking, thematic contemplation—everything. It’s an amalgamation of the book, my life, and what I know about the Romantic movement.”

With his take on the film, Labyrinth of the Pan The star deconstructed the Frankenstein myth and instead of portraying the Creature as an ugly being or a monster like other filmmakers before, he created a kind and innocent being portrayed by Elordi.

He also used various motifs, such as religion playing an important role when the characters ask, “Can man play God?”

Colors also played a key role in the film, with red, white and blue being the dominant choices.

“We follow Victor’s experiments in the laboratory, which have the tongue of red and reflect the brutality of Victor as an artist whose musical notes happen to be anatomical,” del Toro said in the report.

He explained that only Victor and Elizabeth wore red, since Elizabeth was a “mother figure” in a sense and Victor “was on a quest for eternal life because his mother died.”

When bringing the creature to life, Del Toro discussed how the seamless stitching and different coloring on the Creature’s body reflected how Victor pieced it together from body parts found on the battlefield.

“Until the Creature is revealed, [the audience] he will have already seen the things that make him unique,” ​​says del Toro. “He looks like a newborn, not an ICU victim. And that’s important.”

Frankenstein is now available to stream on Netflix.