"I was extremely thin. I'm not joking. I used to button my shirt all the way up, and had a bowl haircut. I was like a Rutger Hauer son. almost albino, very pale. And in 1969, my father won the National Lottery, and he became a millionaire, and he bought a house, and somebody told him that he needed a library, because he was now a cultured gentleman. So he bought a huge library, which he never visited, and I read everything in there."
"I read an encyclopedia of art that made me know as much about painting or sculpture as I would have a comic book artist: Jack Kirby or Monet or Manet or Renoir, they were all mixing in my imagination. I read an encyclopedia of health that made me the youngest hypochondriac in history."
Guillermo del Toro recounts a solitary, bookish childhood that shifted after his father won the National Lottery and bought a house and a large library. He devoured encyclopedias on art and health, merging painters like Monet, Manet, and Renoir with comic-book creators such as Jack Kirby in his imagination. Early reading produced broad visual literacy and heightened bodily anxieties, prompting hypochondria. Those layered literary and visual influences inform a Frankenstein adaptation that combines Mary Shelley’s thematic complexity with del Toro’s distinctive visual and narrative sensibility. The result emphasizes design, character nuance, and emotional depth.
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