"Literally hundreds of these adaptations have been made since the dawn of the moving image, every year bringing at least one new interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic tale. In 2022, Rob Zombie remade The Munsters; in 2023, Yorgos Lanthimos brought us the Oscar-winning Poor Things; in 2024, Zelda Williams made her directorial debut with Lisa Frankenstein. And now it's Guillermo del Toro 's turn."
"The Oscar-winning auteur's big-budget, sumptuously made Frankenstein features Oscar Isaac as the titular scientist, with Jacob Elordi as his creation. Many of the familiar plot beats from Mary Shelley's original novel are present, including the framing device of Victor Frankenstein telling his story to a ship captain who has led his crew on a potentially doomed expedition to the Arctic. However, del Toro has remixed much of the original plot, keeping many of the characters and details but shifting them around to serve his vision."
Guillermo del Toro's big-budget Frankenstein adapts Mary Shelley's story into a lavish, remixed film that retains core characters and the Arctic framing device. The film opens with an injured Victor Frankenstein found on Arctic ice and then traces a troubled childhood and his attempts to persuade contemporary medical authorities of reanimation. After academic rejection, financier Harlander underwrites the experiments; Harlander is uncle to Elizabeth, engaged to Victor's brother William. Victor assembles a creature from collected body parts and reanimates it during an electrical storm, then dismisses the being as a failure when language does not develop rapidly, triggering ensuing tragedy.
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