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Go behind the scenes with the cast and artisans as they reveal how years of collaboration helped bring Guillermo del Toro’s decades-long passion project to life. Frankenstein is a story the filmmaker was born to tell. Streaming now on Netflix.

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00:01My maker...
00:06...taught his tale.
00:09And I...
00:12...will tell you mine.
00:15I am not something.
00:19I am someone.
00:21And...
00:22Shut up!
00:25This movie in particular, I wanted to do before I even had a camera.
00:29Few people get this kind of religious experience.
00:32It takes that kind of inherent understanding of Frankenstein to make the film.
00:37It's a story about the scientist who is able to create life.
00:41But it's also about so many other things.
00:44Grief, loneliness.
00:46The theme of father and sons and fracturing of a human being is a big theme for him.
00:52I've lived with Mary Shelley's creation all of my life, but I wanted to make it my own.
00:59We have big machines outside to control the sun and lights.
01:07This tower is 450 feet high.
01:09We could never build it, but we've built the full miniature.
01:15Gemma said to me, I don't want busty old period for this.
01:18You know, it needs to be of its own.
01:20Frankenstein is not a butcher. He's trying to make the perfect man.
01:26Jacob is just born to do this.
01:30I deeply think that to have a good score, you have to find the soul of the film.
01:35The great thing about art is that you are creating something that is going to stay there forever.
01:46There are very few filmmakers who actually are capable of creating worlds.
01:52GEMMA really put something together that is an experience once in a lifetime.
02:07I would like to make a movie that tries to do things that I don't quote unquote normally do.
02:13I thought it was going to be an extraordinary process.
02:19And it has been.
02:22Frankenstein, a film by Guillermo del Toro.
02:25For your consideration. Rated R.
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