Inside Guillermo del Toro’s Lifelong Journey to Frankenstein

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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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