"Guillermo del Toro finds material for his films in his memories, his traumas, and the favorite monsters he grew up with. Frankenstein his most recent film as he recounts in an interview held at the St. Regis Hotel in Mexico City, was the dream of an 11-year-old boy from the provinces. He remembers riding his bicycle to a supermarket of the now-defunct Maxi chain, buying a pocket-sized edition of Mary Shelley's masterpiece published by Bruguera, and telling himself, I'm going to make this movie."
"Romanticism is a very violent, very iconoclastic, very anarchic moment, seeking to destroy what was seen as a hypocritical society. People forget that Mary Shelley was 16 when she met Percy Shelley [her husband], who was 21 and married. They decided to elope against all the family's opposition. He brought her a poison, laudanum, which was an opium tincture. Drink this poison and I'll shoot myself in the head. And we'll live together eternally,' he told her."
Guillermo del Toro draws on childhood memories, personal traumas, and beloved monsters to shape his films. Frankenstein originated as an 11-year-old's promise after buying a pocket-sized edition of Mary Shelley’s novel. The project matured into a gothic, fantastical, and modern adaptation that integrates biographical elements of Shelley’s life. The film incorporates themes recurring in Shelley’s work, such as tyrannical father figures and the idea of war, and emphasizes Romanticism’s interplay of death and love. Del Toro situates the film in Mexico and uses the production to exorcize and rework his own story.
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