{"id":34270,"date":"2025-08-31T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34270\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:13:12","slug":"guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-is-a-banquet-of-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34270\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is a ‘Banquet’ of Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"

With regard to \u201cFrankenstein<\/a>,\u201d it is hard not to watch the new Netflix<\/a> release, which had its world premiere at the 82nd Venice<\/a> Film<\/a> Festival, without thinking about how, on a surface level, it is so sumptuous to those of us judging from a crafts perspective. \u201cIt\u2019s not just that it was so realistic, but that there\u2019s meaning in so much. There\u2019s so much symbolism in the way it\u2019s constructed,\u201d said star Oscar Isaac, who plays Victor Frankenstein in the upcoming Netflix release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, the metaphor of a full table is one of the descriptions that made the film a must-watch among festivalgoers. \u201cI\u2019ve been creating this banquet for you. You just have to show up and eat,\u201d Isaac added, recalling what the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker said to him personally before production.<\/p>\n

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To his point, del Toro was very particular about the look of the film, given how long it lived in his mind, attempting to make it as practical a set as possible. \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between eye candy, which is pretty, and eye protein, which is a fabulous story,\u201d he said. For \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d one of his first thoughts was \u201cLet\u2019s construct the wardrobe and tailor the sets and then give them to the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, from an awards campaign perspective, \u201cFrankenstein\u201d is a major player below the line, for everything from production design to costume design to its original score conducted by longtime del Toro collaborator Alexandre Desplat. \u201cAlexandre and I, we have a deal where, if it\u2019s an important, emotional cue, it\u2019s not ready until I cry,\u201d said the director, in reaction to Desplat\u2019s beautifully \u201clyrical\u201d work on the film.<\/p>\n

\"MiaMia Goth at the \u201cFrankenstein\u201d Premiere at The 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2025 in Venice, Italy.Earl Gibson III<\/p>\n

Craft was also\u00a0something that was key to Isaac settling into his own take on Doctor Frankenstein. \u201cWe really, early on, approached Victor as more an artist. He knows where he expresses himself, the way he dresses, the way he moves, and less of a scientist. And it comes from a much more painful place,\u201d said the Emmy-nominated actor. \u201c[The film] asks, \u2018How do you live with a broken heart, and what do you do with a broken heart?\u2019 And often cruelty happens out of broken hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though \u201cFrankenstein\u201d is the best acting showcase Isaac has had in several years, the true standout of the Netflix film is Elordi as Frankenstein\u2019s monster, who receives a lot more screen time than one would expect, yet is still most viable as a Best Supporting Actor contender. Not only was the heavy makeup a challenge for the young Australian artist, but he also had less time to prepare for the role, having replaced Andrew Garfield shortly before production commenced.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had about three weeks, four weeks, before I got to filming, so it presented itself as a pretty monumental task. But like Oscar said, the banquet was there and everyone was ready to eat,\u201d said Elordi. Similar to del Toro preparing to make the film long before he had the budget for it, Elordi added that \u201cfrom the moment I was born to being here with you today, all of it is in that character. In so many ways, the creature that\u2019s onscreen in this movie is the sort of purest form of myself. He\u2019s more me than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With regard to \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d it is hard not to watch the new Netflix release, which had its world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,597,11489,19187,19,17,127,12876,11492],"class_list":{"0":"post-34270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-frankenstein","13":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-netflix","17":"tag-venice","18":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}