Guillermo del Toro - Frankenstein: Part One of Two

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There are many classic novels and stories that have been

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turned into some amazing films over the years. Jane Orry,

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to Kill a Mockingbird, le Mens rob to just name

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a few. Any favorites that you ladies can think of

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that you have enjoyed.

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Being a huge Jane Austen and Bronte Fan Bronte, Yes,

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I get as a you know, a little bit darker

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and because I know Amber and I have had a

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little exchange about the weathering right, But definitely with Jane Austen,

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like Emma Thompson did a fantastic job with since Insensibility.

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That is definitely one of my favorites and recommendations, as

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well as the ninety five Pride and Prejudice series adapted

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by Andrew Davies. So those classics I definitely highly recommend.

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I love the book Jane Eyre is one of my favorites,

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and I've yet to find a bad adaptation of it.

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I've seen them all. They're all really good. But I

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also love.

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Daphne du Maurier kind of like plagiarized it and wrote

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the book. Rebecca and Alfred Hitchcock did a great adaptation

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of that book. It is like no other version is

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as good as that movie.

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And I know you did an episode on Rebecca.

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Not too long ago here on a film by But yeah,

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that Hitchcock version is it just cannot be beat. It's

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so good.

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It's a good one. Great pics, great picks. Well, today

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we are going to discuss one in particular, a classic

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story written by Mary Shelley in a film by Guillomo

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de Toro in his twenty twenty five soon to be

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classic film Frankenstein Birth is.

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Not an hour hand? Is it that sparked the animation?

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Thought and soul? That is a concept. But this now

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their life.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back. I'm David Burns.

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Him Amber Lewis.

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Hi, I'm Angela Norris, and this is a film by

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podcast Amber Angela. I am beyond excited to discuss this

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masterpiece with the both of you. I knew once I

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saw this film a few weeks ago that we had

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to talk about it, and we had to do it soon. Amber.

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I know you were posting on Facebook right away that

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we had to somebody had to talk about this. You know,

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I have watched it so many times now and I

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got to tell you it just gets better and better mhm.

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Absolutely.

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There's always something new you either pick up on, you know,

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a ton of it, an element of you know, whether emotional,

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just to you know, observation and the production. I mean

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especially that, like you know, if you just watch it once,

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we're just kind of don't pay attention to the characters, just.

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Focus on the scenery and the and the.

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Design everything, because it is a overall is it just

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a complete work of art.

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And I know you're you're the one that first pointed

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out it was a masterpiece, and it was before I

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hadn't even seen it yet, so I'm like I was

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like rolling mising, whatever Amber not a masterpiece, for crying

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out loud, we don't have. Then I watched it. By

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the time I got in it's like, well crap, Well.

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I you know, have done two different episodes on Gamma

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del Torre's work. We did one over on Docking Day

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on the film Mimic, and then we did one here

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on the film Devil's Backbone, and I just listeners that

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have heard those episodes. No, I cannot gush about him enough.

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He is one of my favorite directors, and this is

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a passion project of his. He's wanted to do it

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for ever, and so the minute I heard that he

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was doing it, I was one hundred percent all in.

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And my only regret is that I did not make

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it to see it in the theater if they release it,

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like everybody needs to run and see it in the theater,

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because the scale of it and the production value is

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just out of this world.

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What it was only there for a week, wasn't it

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in the theater?

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It was very quick, sure, And I'm like when I.

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When I watched it, I was like, why did I not

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see this in the theater because it's just absolutely stunning

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and it needs to be seen on the biggest screen possible.

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Yes, nice, but schedule and time all oud.

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Yeah, life, kids in the way, and I'm you know,

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I am not one to rush to the theater like

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you know, big huge epic things and anything by Christopher Nolan,

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I know has to be seen in the theater.

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Oh yeah, you know.

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We went to see The New Superman. That was like,

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of course, have to go to see that in the theater.

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But then other things like you know, the intimacy of it.

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It's fine on a TV, like, I don't mind, but

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I was so just blown away by the detail in

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this movie that you know every like Angel was saying,

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every time you watch it, you notice something different, and

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so just imagine the greater layers that you'll get into

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seeing it on a big screen.

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Like, yeah, that's very, very true. I know typically we

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talk about these three facts in Trovia, but as you said,

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you know, we've already covered Del Toro with you and

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Jeff did with The Devil's Backbone, which is a great

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film by the way, if you've not seen the listeners,

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go check out that podcast and go check out that

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film because it's fantastic. But I did I did want

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to give a quote that del Tora had, because he's

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got a lot of them, but this one kind of

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made me giggle because because of who he is and

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his love, he says, if you're not operating on an

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instinctive level, you're not an artist. Reason over emotion is bullshit,

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absolute bullshit. We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy

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liberating and I love that quote. I love that quote

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so much from him, and to see his love just

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everything he's done, you can see his love get poured

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into it. So when we use the word masterpiece for Frankenstein,

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considering the work this guy has done that tells you

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what an amazing film Frankenstein is. So, but before we

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really continue on with that, just in case there is

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some crazy person out there who doesn't know the story

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of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Abery, can you tell us a

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little bit about it please?

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Certainly.

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The story goes that doctor Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but

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egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous

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experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the

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creator and his try creation.

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Intect with Just.

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Where did you say that description was from?

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That's just the one on IMDb. It's very nice, short,

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sweet to the point.

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So because I'm I'm o c D with certain things,

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he technically wasn't a doctor.

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He was just a scientist. He was actually a college dropout.

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He wasn't for a doctor.

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So because I had to be careful when I was,

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Everybody's like, he's not He's not really a doctor, you know,

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maybe in his own mad world. But just just for

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fy f y, I reference and.

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Well and it's it's Frankenstein.

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Frank We'll get we'll get to that one.

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Yeah, I know, we're all going on our pick, that's

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for sure.

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Plus the obvious giveaway that he wasn't a doctor, I mean,

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the stitching skills, yeah, come on now, come on.

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You know, uh, Ember, you kind of mentioned a little

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bit about him loving the story. I mean, he says

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that he has loved the story of Frankenstein since he

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was like nine years old. Yeah, and this was like

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a pet project of his over the years, and it

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just never got to the point where he was ready

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to create it yet to bring it to the screen.

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And what really pushed him over the edge apparently was

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making Pinocchio for Netflix, because if you think about it,

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Pinocchio Frankenston kind of go hand in hand a little

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bit just because of the you know, the creature in Pinocchio,

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both trying to find that they want to be human,

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you know, that kind of thing. So, you know, as

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the Iron film, yeah, absolutely was. So the Iron was hot,

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and he decided, you know, to go ahead and do it,

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do it. And I'm sure Netflick was probably in the

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contract with Netflix, Hey I will do Pinocchio for you

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if you let me do Frankenstein.

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So well, and the smart thing that Netflix did was

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pretty much gave him carte blanche to do his movie.

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You know, he famously had huge struggles with the studio

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on Mimic and has never again been willing, you know,

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to compromise his vision and will only work with studios.

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That will you know, support him in that.

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And so I think, you know, there's been a lot

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of arguing online about you know, is it a faithful

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adaptation and things that he changed and stuff like that,

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but you're not really going to see this to see

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and according to Hoyle Mary Shelley adaptation, you're going to

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see this to see a Gamma del Tora movie, and

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the fact that it's this labor of love. You know,

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he saw this movie, like you said, when he was

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nine and his grandma took him to see it, and

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it like it was like the you know, scales fell

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from his eyes, like it completely was one of those

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just life changing moments and has always stuck with him.

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And so I was just so excited when I read

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that he was finally getting to do it, and then

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to see the finished product is like, you know, like

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want to give.

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Him a hug, like, good job.

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I'm sure he's walking on cloud nine now. As good

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as it turned out.

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There'sh Yeah, you can definitely tell this has been in

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his mind and his heart and his soul and his blood,

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you know, his whole life. And and uh, you know,

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like you're saying him being able to work with a

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studio of you know, hey, trusting his vision and you know,

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because while there have been several adaptations and you know,

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spin off kind of things, you know, for someone to

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really while there were changes, you know, as far as

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the character relationships with with one another from you know,

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the book, he didn't lose sight of the heart and

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soul and the themes and everything of this which which

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I really enjoyed. And you know, and I'm not such

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a stick with that. If you can, you know, make

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it your own reimagine, but not losing that core, that

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that soul of it all them up paired to you.

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And like I said in my review, if there was

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one person definitely you know, to entrust bringing that to

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a new adaptation, it would be del Toro.

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I the love that he shows for not just the

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original nineteen thirty one film, but for the source material itself.

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I mean, the only thing I regret about leaving Twitter

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is not getting to follow him on Twitter anymore because.

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I've been off there for over a year now.

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Yeah, he's such a marshmallow.

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And like when they were shooting this film, he went

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to Mary Shelley's home and like just left two roses

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on the doorstep. Oh wow, you know, and he used

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her handwriting as the font for the credits. I mean,

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just little things like that that you know he loves

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and respects her work. You know, it wasn't just the

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Boris Karlot film that got back to him, right.

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And I really appreciate that.

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Sorry, Dave, didn't mean to, but since you brought up

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you know, del Toro, you know, really acknowledging Mary Shelley's

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work genius on her own, because I mean she did

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write this in about what eighteen eighteen, so obviously thinking

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of that time period and her being a woman. Because

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some funny when I did watch the nineteen thirty one

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Frankenstein and notice in the credits.

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Yeah, oh god, okay, you.

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Caught this too, that it's not the story by Mary Shelley,

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it's by missus Percy B.

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Shelley.

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And I literally put, I took my remote pause and

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I'm like, what the.

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You know, what is that time period?

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Damn it, you know, and it's just like without this woman,

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and you know, and you know how the story came

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to be, and you know the friendships that she had,

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you know, like you know, Lord Byron and and and

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now you know her husband being supportive in this and

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then you know, basically kind of challenging each other to

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come up with an appropriate ghost story. But yeah, as

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soon as I saw that in nineteen there were on credit,

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I was like, I'm like, I just died a little.

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Understandably I would have too. It's just it's aggravating, it

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absolutely aggravating. Yeah, It's it's funny that you're hitting all

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on this because while doing my research, I came across

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an article that really hit home about this film. Now

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these are not my words, but are spot on about

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the film. The article reads, most of the previous Frankenstein

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films went after the horror aspect and truly missed what

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Mary Shelley meant in her book, and Dettorero captured it brilliantly.

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Mary Shelley expert Julie Carson says that Total's take is

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more faithful than most, not in plot, but in spirit.

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It's a story still told through Victor in the creature's eyes,

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still bound by guilt, but now rooted in emotion rather

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than ambition. Victor's cruelty isn't just scientific obsession anymore. It's

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inherited trauma, a violent father, and need to prove worth,

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a cycle of shame that echo through every scene.

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Absolutely, and I think quite of you know that new

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uh you know, uh, that generational trauma you know that

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has been talked a lot a lot more you know,

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in recent years. I think that uh, including that and

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and and adding fuel to Victor's story. You know, while

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it's skewed from the book, I you know, I understand

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those changes, and it definitely helped support again the the

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root the heart of of those you know subjects, including

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you know, passing on you know trauma, not you know,

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sacrificing you know, a reality for you know, greatness, but

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not really having that long term sight of seeing consequences

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of our actions, are really properly thinking things room of

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you know what I could you know, uh to you know,

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to quote Jeff Goldblum, you know we could, but should

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we think you know it talks about the dinosaurs. Uh So, yeah,

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that that definitely should resonate with a lot of people,

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and also just the general of you know, finding your

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place in the world, finding your purpose.

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Why am I here?

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Kindness without judging a book by its cover, and having

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the like this ideal expectations rather than just letting things

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come naturally and.

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To become who we need to be.

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And helping each other, you know, you know, figure that out,

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be accept wanting to belong you know all those points.

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No, absolutely, and that's what's well said. I mean, you know,

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we we know he made changes for this, but it's

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in my opinion, it's it's del Toro being as brilliant

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as it is. And I'm gonna use brilliant because it's brilliant.

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Absolutely, I mean the I mean calling them changes, I

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don't even want to call them changes because it feels

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like it's down plane or making it as if it's

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less than you know, personal source.

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But but you know.

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Well, the word adaptation is very appropriate. You know, it's

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not a faithful retelling. It is an adaptation of the

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story that you already know. And you know, like you said,

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when I started, you know, Day challenged us to pick

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the other versions that we liked, and so I was

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looking like, okay, well, I need to look at because

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I know I'm forgetting some you know, so I like googled,

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you know, all the Frankenstein movies.

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And there's like hundreds of that.

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I mean so many, and even if you kind of

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branch off to ones that don't necessarily fit, but they

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kind of are the same kind of story. And so

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when you look at that, like, why would you just

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tell the same story again again again without making it

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your own sensibility?

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And you know, I think we all knew when going

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in that.

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If you've ever seen any other del Tora movie, you

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know that the monster is going to be hugely empathetic

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character in this, or should say, the creature. But at

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any rate, I always forget because I'm always so captivated

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by del Toro's female characters and the creatures, the fairy

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tale beings. You know that he puts in his films

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that are supposed to be scary but not, or supposed

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to be a villain but aren't, And I always forget

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that he has absolutely diabolical villains.

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And so when Victor, you know he kind of.

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Is leaning that way anyway from the very beginning, but

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when he finally makes that turn and goes full villain.

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Mode, Like I had to stop the movie. I was so.

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Upset the first time I saw it, I was like,

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this freaking guy, Oh my god, you're the worst, you know,

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And I just had to pause and take a minute

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because it was so upsetting. And then, you know, my

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I was watching it with Liam and he looked at

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me and he was like, we just watched Penn's Labyrinth

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like three days ago. Why are you surprised Victor turned

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out to be like the worst human imaginable.

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It's true, he did, yes, and then with you, you know,

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bringing up you know how he loves his monsters and

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being empathetic. What I really liked about his presentation of

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the creature, and actually I kind of found it cool

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that he talked about it. Del Toro said, what I

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wanted was for the creature to be a newborn, something pristine,

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something beautiful, because if Victor has been thinking about it

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for decades since he was a kid, he's going to

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create a work of art and not an accident victim

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or somebody coming out of the ICU looking at you,

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brun as Frankenstein monster. He needed to look beautiful, like

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a baby, like a sort of essence of a human being.

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You have to start with nothing and then evolve into

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a full human being who for the first time at

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the end of the movie, makes his own decision. So

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I really liked that that was his you know, approach,

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that he wasn't out to This wasn't intended to.

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Be a monster, you know.

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And you can even see that too with the makeup

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and you know, the cost and just how you know,

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and I know we'll get to you know, the performances

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and stuff, but you know, how the creature was embodied.

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But I really loved that presentation and that visual and.

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That's what he had had said about that, because that was.

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One of the first things I noticed was you know,

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what he was made what the creatures made of?

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Yes, well, and the people that he interacts with that

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are truly empathetic souls. Their first reaction is that, like,

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maybe he was a soldier that was injured or something.

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Like Elizabeth, the first thing she says to him is

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who hurt you? You know, and even you know, the

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blind man was just assumed that, like he was a

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soldier that had been wounded and like didn't have his

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memory and stuff like that. So the empathy and the

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kindness that they lead with in contrast to Victor's contempt

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is just it's so stark and so brutal. It's just

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just amazing.

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It is. It's funny that we talked earlier about how

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watching this movie, you know, over and over it just

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gets better and better. This movie is like an onion.

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You peel away one layer, you find something new. You

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peel it another layer and you find something different. It's

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crazy on how layered this film is. By del Toro.

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One of the things I found interesting is if you

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watch closely as the movie goes along, the creature starts

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walking more upright like a man, huh, whereas Victor starts

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stooped over like a beast to show you who the

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real monster is. I mean, that's brilliant contrast.

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Yes, and all those little details like shout out to

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all of those people.

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On social media that are have sharper.

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Eyes than mine that pointed things out that I may

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have missed because little details like on the back of

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Elizabeth stresses it looks like a spine. Yes, okay, And

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you know, if you watch on Netflix, they have I

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don't know if you guys watched it, they have a

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making of documentary that is just amazing, and they go

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through every detail, They go through the costumes and the

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makeup and the you know, sets and everything, and like

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her the patterns on her clothes were made of you know,

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like butterflies and blood cells and just all these little

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details that just make everything, you know, to David's point,

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so much richer.

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And did you notice in that documentary, del Toro had

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to approve every single thing.

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He started in makeup and special effects, and so he

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knows how to do every job that he hires you

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to do. So I love that he hires these true

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artisans to help realize his vision. And you know, he

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said other people, other directors will put their office like

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by production and accounting.

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He's like, I put my office in the art department.

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And you know, and I love in the documentary as well,

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like it shows you know, him getting the scenes ready.

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He's got like his hands in there, like he's manipulating

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the dummy for the creature, you know, and stuff like that.

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Like he you know, is puts his blood, sweat and

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tears in like every single molecule of his films.

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And it's just amazing.

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You literally can say he is a hands on director.

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I mean and why wouldn't you want your office being

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right next to the art department. I mean all that

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energy and that that that in the air and just

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feeding off of each other. Why would you want to

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be in next to in the account or you know

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something dull you.

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Know well, and the way he gets them all to

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work together because things that the costumer did informed the

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set decoration and the lighting choices and the color palette

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and vice versa, you know, which just makes energy.

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And yes, yes, everybody feeds off Del Toro's energy. Everybody does.

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And that's why it turns out so well is because

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of that. He's got that love, that passion that just

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goes into everybody that's around you.

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And it only makes them better at their own particular

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craft too, you know, with that, so you know, even

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though they have, you know, their amazing talent you know,

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on their own and then being you know, pushed to

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that next level by someone at the helm like Del Toro. Mean,

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who wouldn't want that kind of direction and feedback and

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hands on and be like dude, because you're just gonna

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make me better at you know, my contribution to this

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you know huge you know production.

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So heck, yeah, what do you let.

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Me know what can I do? You know what it

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means really push to that level and challenging. So I

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mean that, and you know we'll see those people progress

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and other types of you know, films and so forth,

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you know, because of them being under the guidance of him.

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When I saw it when on a writer just did

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an interview talking about her career and she was talking

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about working with Tim Burton, and she said that he's

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one of the few directors that doesn't direct from video village.

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He is like right next to the camera in your face,

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like directing you every second, like you are in the

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moment together. And Garama does the same thing, like he

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is right there, you know, guiding them through. And so

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you get these amazing performances you know that you know

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are so gently guided, and you know it's a collaboration

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that just you know, not a lot of productions have.

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They don't. And that's why he wants control over everything,

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because he doesn't want the studio to say anything. And

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I'm one hundred percent behind him on that for sure. Well,

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I tell you what, let's go ahead and take our

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break and we come back. We'll start talking about this cast.

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We have a lot to talk about. So we will

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be right back. Welcome back, everybody where. We are continuing

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our discussion of Guielmrlo de Toro's Frankenstein with Amber and Angela. So, ladies,

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let's talk about this brilliant cast. And again, I want

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to keep using the word brilliant because everywhere you look

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in this film, it just is everywhere. So let's start

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off with the man himself, Victor Frankenstein. I saw Oscar Isaac,

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so I know he was the only choice for Del Toro.

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He didn't want anybody else. He went right for Oscar Isaac.

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And I know Oscar has done quite a few things

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over the years, but I gotta tell you, without question,

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this is his best performance.

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Yes, yes, yes, I mean we can argue later about

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the fact that Sinners is still the best movie of

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the year.

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And I wanted to win all.

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Of the things, but I would not be sad if

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Oscar Isaac won and all the awards for this performance,

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because my god, yeah, he is amazing and I hate

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him so much in this movie, like I love him

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as an actor, but oh my god, by the end

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of the movie, you're just like, well, somebody please shift

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this guy and put us all out of our misery

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because he's the worst.

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He is, and he plays it so well. That tells

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you an actor does a great job when you hate

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them so much.

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Yep.

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Absolutely, Because at forre, you know, you're kind of supporting, like, Okay,

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this guy's got this dream is ambition.

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You know, he's obviously still.

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Hurt, you know, the trauma losing you know, his mother

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and you know in this case, you know, and then blame,

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you know, blaming you know, the father who was an

488
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:30.119
actual doctor and uh and but you know, unfortunately along

489
00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:35.440
the way he's still in that grieving trauma process, still

490
00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:40.240
skipped several levels of emotional growth and uh, you know

491
00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:43.839
really you know, human connection. And so bringing it back

492
00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.160
around where you know, Oscar has all you know, this

493
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.359
trauma and and you know, obsession to to you know,

494
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.599
work through and then like you said, seeing how at

495
00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:55.039
first you're you're kind of rooting for him, and then

496
00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:58.400
you're seeing all these things that he's really overlooking and missing.

497
00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:00.640
And then especially when the creature comes into and it

498
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.839
just is just a oh, it is a steep downhill

499
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.119
from there until you're like, oh my god, in it.

500
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.359
But I love how he gives you hints of it

501
00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:12.759
in the beginning, because when he's in that tribunal scene,

502
00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:16.200
that scene is very upsetting to me because he already

503
00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:22.559
shows the contempt for life when he reanimates that corpse.

504
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.119
And the scene and you don't know.

505
00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:31.200
Like what consciousness this thing has, you know, and he

506
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:34.519
just plugs it in, makes it do a trick, and

507
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.039
then just brutally unplugs it and it sort of gasps

508
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:41.920
as it, you know, kind of dies again, so to speak.

509
00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:45.160
And he doesn't he's not even really looking at it,

510
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:47.720
like he's not even it's like he turned on a

511
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:52.039
machine or something that is without feeling, and just the51200:28:52.160 --> 00:28:57.960



absolute contempt for you know, whatever it is now it's51300:28:58.000 --> 00:28:58.960



it was a human.51400:28:59.359 --> 00:29:02.599



Yeah. Even his line but please always works when he51500:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.799



says please, yeah, he either.51600:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.839



Snaps his fingers or he taps the table or something51700:29:08.920 --> 00:29:13.279



like really condescending like that, and it's just so just51800:29:13.400 --> 00:29:16.799



horrific to me, Like, I don't, I don't know.51900:29:16.880 --> 00:29:19.400



That just got to me. That scene really bugs me.52000:29:19.960 --> 00:29:23.279



That was hard to watch. And then you're like, who52100:29:23.359 --> 00:29:23.880



raised you?52200:29:24.839 --> 00:29:31.000



Well? I mean, yes, he wasn't doing good from the52300:29:31.000 --> 00:29:33.559



get go, speaking of a guy who you just immediately52400:29:33.559 --> 00:29:35.720



hate as soon as he appears on the screen.52500:29:36.720 --> 00:29:40.559



His voice even like, oh, everything about him is such52600:29:40.559 --> 00:29:42.119



a smarmy.52700:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.359



Yes, sure, absolutely, the guy is.52800:29:46.359 --> 00:29:50.440



So yeah, he is just a trail of red flags.52900:29:51.640 --> 00:29:56.759



But I just can't get over how, you know, other53000:29:57.079 --> 00:30:02.039



Frankenstein's because there's so much violence in the second act,53100:30:02.920 --> 00:30:07.759



you don't really focus on how broken or evil or53200:30:07.799 --> 00:30:13.119



misguided or you know, morally defunct they are. Where this53300:30:13.240 --> 00:30:17.480



is just it's like all on Oscar, Like it's all you.53400:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.079



There's no getting out of it, there's no excuses, there's53500:30:20.119 --> 00:30:22.920



no you know, this is the evil that you are.53600:30:23.799 --> 00:30:30.839



And to just play that despicable villain, I mean, it's just.53700:30:31.799 --> 00:30:35.599



And he just goes deep and but with trying to53800:30:36.200 --> 00:30:39.400



you know, garter favor from the audience of but you know,53900:30:39.480 --> 00:30:42.599



it's for science and figure things out, and it's.54000:30:42.440 --> 00:30:45.119



You know, an ode to his you know mother, and54100:30:45.160 --> 00:30:45.799



you know, you're.54200:30:45.640 --> 00:30:49.319



Just like, so is it though, Yeah, I'm like that's54300:30:49.359 --> 00:30:53.960



some sure blame the woman for you, you're crazy.54400:30:54.599 --> 00:31:00.720



Yeah, if anybody needs fix, did you well?54500:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.920



And like the one in the story, kind of the54600:31:03.960 --> 00:31:08.599



redeeming through line is that he and Elizabeth originally are54700:31:09.640 --> 00:31:11.920



fiance's and really do love each other.54800:31:11.960 --> 00:31:12.880



And that's like his.54900:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.400



One kind of redeeming thing is that he really does55000:31:15.480 --> 00:31:20.480



love this other person. So he does have some kindness55100:31:20.480 --> 00:31:24.720



and some goodness in him somewhere. We're here, it's just55200:31:24.799 --> 00:31:25.759



gross and creepy.55300:31:25.480 --> 00:31:29.359



Because he's a ball on his brother's girl. And yeah,55400:31:29.519 --> 00:31:31.960



like it's just gross, like.55500:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.160



Like dude, man.55600:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.640



And I love that she.55700:31:33.559 --> 00:31:36.039



Does not even fall for it for even like a55800:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.640



marrill a second, Like she calls him out on his55900:31:38.720 --> 00:31:42.079



bullshit the moment she meets him, and I just think56000:31:42.119 --> 00:31:42.720



that is.56100:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.200



Like Chef's case and again on her wedding day.56200:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.799



Yes, you capable of not telling the lie, you know?56300:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.160



Yeah? Mia Goth was awesome as Elizabeth.56400:31:53.039 --> 00:31:54.960



I have never seen her in anything, have you.56500:31:55.119 --> 00:31:59.599



Well, she's done horror films. I recognize her from X.56600:31:59.680 --> 00:32:02.440



That's where I first saw her was the movie X.56700:32:03.599 --> 00:32:07.119



She was also win. Did you ever see the movie Everest? Yeah?56800:32:07.240 --> 00:32:12.440



She played Meg Weathers in Everest. Oh yeah, But she's56900:32:12.440 --> 00:32:14.160



not been in a ton of stuff. But she's just57000:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.519



now starting to get a name for herself because of57100:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.799



the horror films like X and Maxine and stuff like that.57200:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.720



In Pearl, so she started to make a name for herself.57300:32:22.759 --> 00:32:26.480



But I thought she was brilliant as Elizabeth. She was intelligent,57400:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.440



she was she was not fooled by anybody. She wasn't57500:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.960



gonna fall for for for a Victor at all. So57600:32:33.200 --> 00:32:34.559



I love the way she played that.57700:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.680



And her humanity is so beautiful.57800:32:37.759 --> 00:32:42.920



That scene where she first meets the creature and you know,57900:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.599



she puts her his hand on her throat to teach58000:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.240



him how to talk like and then the whole thing58100:32:49.240 --> 00:32:53.599



with the leaves, the leaf Oh my god, just to58200:32:53.720 --> 00:32:58.079



see someone just exude such kindness and empathy is it's58300:32:58.119 --> 00:33:01.359



really hard to play without looking like you're just the58400:33:01.519 --> 00:33:06.559



saint that's perfect and unflawed human. And she comes off58500:33:06.599 --> 00:33:10.839



as very real but interested in the natural world in58600:33:10.880 --> 00:33:15.119



a way that Victor just has no capacity for.58700:33:16.039 --> 00:33:19.519



Or she was teaching him like a kid. You know,58800:33:19.519 --> 00:33:21.559



we'll go back to what you were talking about. He58900:33:21.640 --> 00:33:25.440



was a newborn that, you know, del Torah wanted. I59000:33:25.559 --> 00:33:27.519



just her line when she goes is this for me?59100:33:28.240 --> 00:33:28.400



You know?59200:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.920



I I love that so much because it showed that59300:33:31.920 --> 00:33:35.599



that love, that innocent she had for this creature in59400:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.839



front of her. She didn't see it as a monster59500:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.759



or anything. Like that she saw of somebody who's new59600:33:41.119 --> 00:33:45.079



and just learning things in life, and she was respecting59700:33:45.079 --> 00:33:46.960



the things that she was he was doing for her,59800:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.000



and she was returning that to him. I love that59900:33:50.039 --> 00:33:51.759



scene so much well.60000:33:51.599 --> 00:33:55.079



And the patience that she shows. You know, Victor tried60100:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.880



for like thirty point two seconds, yes the creature anything,60200:34:00.680 --> 00:34:02.640



you know, and then lacked him in the basement, like60300:34:02.839 --> 00:34:07.799



he just had no concept of how humans evolve and60400:34:07.880 --> 00:34:13.960



grow and no patience whatsoever for discovery, you know, kind60500:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.400



of going back to what Angela was saying about Jurassic Park, Like,60600:34:17.159 --> 00:34:19.360



you know, Jeff Goblum has another great line where he says,60700:34:19.400 --> 00:34:21.800



you stood on the shoulders of geniuses and you took60800:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.800



the next step, like you didn't earn the knowledge for yourself,60900:34:24.840 --> 00:34:28.039



and neither did Victor. Like he it wasn't like he61000:34:28.239 --> 00:34:33.880



studied life. He studied the bits that make life that61100:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.920



were meaningless to him.61200:34:35.960 --> 00:34:40.239



They were just tools, yep, Like where's your curiosity? You know,61300:34:40.440 --> 00:34:44.199



that sense of wonder that really desire, you know, to learn?61400:34:44.239 --> 00:34:46.360



You just wanted basically.61500:34:46.360 --> 00:34:50.119



Shortcuts and you know, how how can I get to this?61600:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.159



Just to accomplish it for the sake of accomplishing it61700:34:53.280 --> 00:34:56.960



or you know, proven daddy wrong, proven, you know, the61800:34:57.039 --> 00:35:01.639



actual academic, you know, peers wrong, so forth. But yeah,61900:35:01.679 --> 00:35:05.880



you've got this basically this kid and a diaper chained62000:35:06.639 --> 00:35:10.599



to stone in a wet, dirty, damp basement.62100:35:10.920 --> 00:35:13.679



Because what Victor fears for his life.62200:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.760



Well and doesn't even give him like the basic comfort.62300:35:16.880 --> 00:35:21.199



He's not allowed clothes, nothing, he's not allowed warmth, he's62400:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.159



not like no, he didn't even put him in like62500:35:24.159 --> 00:35:25.239



a comfortable person.62600:35:25.320 --> 00:35:25.559



Sell.62700:35:25.639 --> 00:35:30.719



He just chained him to the wall, like the hell yeah.62800:35:30.039 --> 00:35:32.440



And like you said, Amber giving him all thirty point62900:35:32.440 --> 00:35:35.639



two seconds. I was like, Okay, First of all, he63000:35:36.599 --> 00:35:42.480



after the initial electrical shock into the creature, he gives63100:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.800



it like two point six seconds before it didn't work.63200:35:47.719 --> 00:35:50.920



I'm a failure. Oh here we go yep.63300:35:51.079 --> 00:35:53.519



And then and then, like you said, and there's that63400:35:54.639 --> 00:35:58.199



those little inner the scenes of you know, the interactions,63500:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.280



which you know, I kind of even haven't watch it63600:36:00.320 --> 00:36:01.639



a couple of times, I still got to kind of63700:36:01.639 --> 00:36:05.760



struggle to remember because he just was frustrated with him63800:36:05.840 --> 00:36:08.519



for only saying his name while like you know, shaving63900:36:08.599 --> 00:36:12.320



his head, and I'm like, where are the books where?64000:36:12.440 --> 00:36:14.480



First of all this guy still doesn't have you haven't64100:36:14.519 --> 00:36:15.480



given him a shirt?64200:36:17.119 --> 00:36:19.079



Well, and I have a theory about the name thing64300:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.320



that I just got when I watched it again today64400:36:23.199 --> 00:36:26.679



because it just broke my heart. He keeps saying the64500:36:26.760 --> 00:36:30.519



name because the first victor that he met that he64600:36:30.599 --> 00:36:33.679



connects that name to is the victor that woke up64700:36:33.800 --> 00:36:37.840



and was excited, showed him the sunlight, showed him his hand,64800:36:38.800 --> 00:36:42.840



was kind and gentle and excited to see him. And64900:36:42.960 --> 00:36:47.360



I think he's constantly crying out for where is that person?65000:36:47.519 --> 00:36:51.679



Where is the victor that I first met? Where is65100:36:51.760 --> 00:36:53.360



the one that was happy to see me?65200:36:53.760 --> 00:36:56.719



That was like a very good tender moment that you know,65300:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.440



lasted five point three seconds.65400:36:58.519 --> 00:36:59.800



Yeah, that's all.65500:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.400



We're quantifying everything we are.65600:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.239



How about Victory going back to what his dad did65700:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.079



to him by smacking his face but for not learning65800:37:08.119 --> 00:37:10.320



something to the creature?65900:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.079



Yes, like you know, yeah, because face is vanity, but66000:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.480



he didn't want to hurt his hands because that's what.66100:37:16.440 --> 00:37:17.480



He would be using to create.66200:37:17.480 --> 00:37:21.719



But yeah, I'm like, dude, do you need to own66300:37:21.800 --> 00:37:28.920



some more mirrors and for some literal reflect reflection and66400:37:29.199 --> 00:37:32.079



but yeah, that all that that, Yeah, that that bothered me.66500:37:32.119 --> 00:37:36.320



I felt that slapped to the face that and just no,66600:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.519



like he said, no, no, patience, No, where's that wonder where?66700:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.159



And like you know, I mentioned.66800:37:42.880 --> 00:37:45.039



In my review, like he just expected him to just66900:37:45.079 --> 00:37:48.199



you know what, get upright, start tap dancing and start67000:37:48.360 --> 00:37:54.519



you know, reciting Shakespeare and you know he equals zmc squared,67100:37:54.519 --> 00:37:57.000



which hadn't been known yet, but you know for the partment,67200:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.679



you know, all all this knowledge and stuff and and again,67300:38:00.880 --> 00:38:06.719



but from not really going through the appropriate learning process,67400:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.679



even as an emotional being as well as a student.67500:38:11.639 --> 00:38:14.559



It's like he just completely was.67600:38:14.519 --> 00:38:16.079



Like, no, I don't want to do you know, the67700:38:16.079 --> 00:38:18.039



fundamentals of this what do you what do you mean?67800:38:18.119 --> 00:38:20.079



I'm supposed to be a dad and a teacher and67900:38:20.119 --> 00:38:23.639



a mental you know. It was like so it was68000:38:23.679 --> 00:38:26.800



pretty very much at that point of Maria knew, you know,68100:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.599



but after that, I'm like, oh my god, I want68200:38:29.679 --> 00:38:34.280



you to suffer such dire consequences for your behavior to68300:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.079



this creature.68400:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.400



Well, and he also he doesn't doesn't show any empathy68500:38:39.400 --> 00:38:43.719



for humans either, because I noticed again, like like you said,68600:38:43.760 --> 00:38:44.280



every time you.68700:38:44.280 --> 00:38:48.639



Watch it, you see something new. When Crystal Valtz gives.68800:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.920



Him the reveal that he is ill and this is68900:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.960



why he's funding this research, is that he is hoping69000:38:56.039 --> 00:38:58.719



to you know, be able to have a new body69100:38:58.800 --> 00:39:00.719



himself because he's dying.69200:39:01.119 --> 00:39:02.280



This horrific death.69300:39:02.280 --> 00:39:06.159



Like he's describing this horrible tortoise, horrific death that he's69400:39:06.199 --> 00:39:10.960



looking down the barrel at and Victor the whole time,69500:39:11.039 --> 00:39:14.639



if you watch Oscar, Isaac is not listening to him69600:39:15.039 --> 00:39:18.679



at all. He's like, look, he's nervous because the storm69700:39:18.800 --> 00:39:23.239



is beginning. He needs the electricity to reanimate the creature.69800:39:23.480 --> 00:39:25.559



So he's kind of like, Okay, you know, it's all69900:39:25.639 --> 00:39:27.719



very sad. Can you shut up because I have to70000:39:27.760 --> 00:39:29.559



go during this machine.70100:39:29.760 --> 00:39:31.159



Like, oh, you're dying.70200:39:31.239 --> 00:39:33.280



Well, anyways, I gotta hoo for you.70300:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.400



I got a lightning bolt to catch see you on70400:39:38.480 --> 00:39:42.679



the flip side. And along with the vein of just.70500:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.920



Lack of acknowledgement and since you brought it up, I'll70600:39:46.920 --> 00:39:53.199



bring it up. But the end where Elizabeth is shot,70700:39:54.199 --> 00:39:58.360



when Victor is aiming for the creature but it gets70800:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.360



it's just like it.70900:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.000



Doesn't even don't know, I didn't do that.71000:40:02.440 --> 00:40:07.360



The guy and the yeah, yeah it was his fault,71100:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.280



you know, his fault because you know she was trying71200:40:09.320 --> 00:40:11.239



to protect him, so it's it's his fault.71300:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.800



So he blamed the creature for Christoph Walstein.71400:40:14.639 --> 00:40:14.719



Ye.71500:40:16.159 --> 00:40:19.119



And then and then you know when he's walking by her,71600:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.199



now that you know, body on the on the rock,71700:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.000



and he's no his goal just like that catching that71800:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.000



lightning bolt. No, I just got to catch his creature.71900:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.800



I whatever, Like it was just a dead squirrel line72000:40:30.840 --> 00:40:33.119



on the road, which I still get upset and right72100:40:33.199 --> 00:40:35.599



when I drive by, so I'm not you know, knocking72200:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.280



down or you know, lessening the death of the squirrel.72300:40:39.039 --> 00:40:41.960



But it was just that same attitude of and then72400:40:42.480 --> 00:40:45.360



like no, I'm like, oh my god, I'm like, you72500:40:45.440 --> 00:40:46.760



have like no redemption arc.72600:40:47.519 --> 00:40:49.000



He doesn't. He really cares about himself.72700:40:49.159 --> 00:40:51.199



Yeah, I mean even at that point, it was just72800:40:51.199 --> 00:40:55.760



no accountability, no response, Like still, no, maybe I did72900:40:55.760 --> 00:40:59.800



do something wrong, but not in the way he assumed73000:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.280



he'd it wrong by you know, create an abomination, which73100:41:02.280 --> 00:41:05.320



I do have a little side rant for later. I'll73200:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.239



hold off, you know, not to not to take over anything.73300:41:08.280 --> 00:41:12.320



But that ship has sailed, that's already gone.73400:41:12.360 --> 00:41:14.840



And what you're talking about.73500:41:14.159 --> 00:41:19.679



Control of this conversation. We let him think he was73600:41:19.719 --> 00:41:23.039



a control like right for the and then I was like, yeah.73700:41:23.039 --> 00:41:23.360



You're.73800:41:26.639 --> 00:41:29.400



Well, I do want to talk about another person who73900:41:29.440 --> 00:41:34.119



deserves an Oscar, and that is Jacob Lordy. Yes, replace74000:41:34.679 --> 00:41:38.719



the creature because he takes the creature to a whole74100:41:38.760 --> 00:41:42.639



new level. He is a master. And as you both ladies,74200:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.679



you know, acting with your eyes is something that you're74300:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.599



taught to do and you know to perform, and he74400:41:49.639 --> 00:41:54.159



does such an incredible job of facial expressions, his eye movements,74500:41:54.280 --> 00:42:01.119



everything that it just shows you the innocence, the anger,74600:42:01.480 --> 00:42:06.400



the fear, the heartbreak, everything, every emotion you can think of.74700:42:06.920 --> 00:42:10.000



You can see it in his face when he's supposed74800:42:10.039 --> 00:42:16.239



to do it. And the casting of this guy was perfect. Well, no,74900:42:16.360 --> 00:42:18.679



he wasn't original, He wasn't the original person who was75000:42:18.719 --> 00:42:21.559



supposed to play that. But thank god it did work75100:42:21.599 --> 00:42:24.559



its way out because this guy deserves an Oscar for75200:42:24.639 --> 00:42:25.360



this damn role.75300:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.639



Well, and not only that, but through full body prosthetic.75400:42:30.119 --> 00:42:31.679



Yes, like ten hours, wasn't it.75500:42:32.039 --> 00:42:35.239



Yeah, he would start at two in the morning, get75600:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.920



done it like two in the afternoon, and then you know,75700:42:38.440 --> 00:42:41.679



be able to do his scenes and to be able75800:42:41.719 --> 00:42:45.159



to have that kind of expression, you know, when you're75900:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.800



under just all these layers to use that to inform76000:42:49.920 --> 00:42:56.599



your performance rather than hinder. It is a singular.76100:42:56.960 --> 00:43:01.119



Talent, agreed. And I could imagic sitting in that chair76200:43:01.119 --> 00:43:03.440



that long. I could not. What would you do? I76300:43:03.440 --> 00:43:06.000



mean you're just literally playing on your phone. I guess, yeah,76400:43:06.119 --> 00:43:06.559



I mean.76500:43:06.519 --> 00:43:10.880



Just watch movies on your iPad. And yeah, some actors76600:43:10.880 --> 00:43:12.360



have said that like they doze off.76700:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.760



I could see that like other actors that have.76800:43:14.719 --> 00:43:18.960



Gone through it, you know, for like superhero movies and stuff. Yeah,76900:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.719



like it would be a super exercise and you know,77000:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.119



like you're breathing and you know, because I'm sorry, I77100:43:26.159 --> 00:43:29.320



have like a really big personal space bubble I have,77200:43:29.480 --> 00:43:35.320



Like these people painting all over your body just sounds torturous,77300:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.199



you know, and the stuff's not comfortable. I mean that77400:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.119



those for sex are hot and itchy and all sorts.77500:43:42.199 --> 00:43:46.280



But you know, Germo said in his in that documentary,77600:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.239



and I kind of wish.77700:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.400



I get on hear it because it's so sad.77800:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.239



But he told Jacob to kind of evoke like being77900:43:55.320 --> 00:43:59.360



like a dog with that innocent, you know, kind of78000:43:59.440 --> 00:44:03.960



love and wanting to be in your presence. But then being,78100:44:04.199 --> 00:44:08.599



especially with the blind man being willing to viciously defend78200:44:08.840 --> 00:44:15.360



if necessary, but then immediately goes back to being loving78300:44:15.440 --> 00:44:17.199



as the old man was dying.78400:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.599



But that just makes it sad or I don't know it.78500:44:21.559 --> 00:44:24.480



Does he said, he he used his own dog, like78600:44:24.519 --> 00:44:27.519



you know, watching her and things like that, and then78700:44:27.840 --> 00:44:31.840



something else. I did look up when because like you said,78800:44:31.880 --> 00:44:34.559



he wasn't the original and I.78900:44:34.480 --> 00:44:36.440



Love Andrew Garfield, but there is no.79000:44:37.559 --> 00:44:38.679



Doing this at all.79100:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.119



So what he backed out apparently due to scheduling conflicts79200:44:43.119 --> 00:44:46.679



and only left Jacob four weeks to prepare for it.79300:44:46.760 --> 00:44:48.719



And apparently, and like you said, since del Toro and79400:44:48.760 --> 00:44:50.440



his team, you know, they had started with like the79500:44:50.480 --> 00:44:54.000



makeup and the costume, the with the prosthetics and stuff,79600:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.239



they had already basically had all the stuff fit.79700:44:56.159 --> 00:44:57.760



And ready for Garfield.79800:44:58.239 --> 00:45:00.280



So then they got how to get on or the79900:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.719



gone of redoing all of that, you know, based on80000:45:05.000 --> 00:45:10.840



Jacob's build. And so that was just another headbit.80100:45:11.320 --> 00:45:14.760



But you know, like you said, with del To's quote80200:45:14.840 --> 00:45:17.559



at the beginning, like he kind of looks at those things,80300:45:17.679 --> 00:45:20.760



is like you know what, it's like a zen thing,80400:45:20.960 --> 00:45:22.639



like it was meant to be this is where the80500:45:22.639 --> 00:45:23.559



movie is leading me.80600:45:24.360 --> 00:45:25.960



I just need to follow that path.80700:45:26.039 --> 00:45:30.559



And that's such a healthy attitude because I got the stress,80800:45:30.679 --> 00:45:32.519



like there's a lot of money and a lot of80900:45:32.559 --> 00:45:33.719



work put into this stuff.81000:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.239



It all happens for a reason. And yes, yes, this81100:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.320



one worked out for Yeah.81200:45:39.559 --> 00:45:41.599



Yeah. And speaking of the blind Man, that was played81300:45:41.599 --> 00:45:44.039



by David Bradley, who did a great job.81400:45:44.599 --> 00:45:46.239



If you haven't seen.81500:45:48.679 --> 00:45:50.840



Broad Church, yes I would.81600:45:50.960 --> 00:45:52.639



You would be completely.81700:45:52.079 --> 00:45:56.159



Shocked because he always plays the worst, like he's always81800:45:56.199 --> 00:45:59.400



such a horrible person, but in broad Church he plays81900:45:59.440 --> 00:46:03.639



such a beautiful, empathetic, loving man that has just the82000:46:03.679 --> 00:46:05.119



most tragic storyline.82100:46:05.480 --> 00:46:06.960



Yeah.82200:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.199



So you if you saw that, you knew he had82300:46:09.239 --> 00:46:11.119



it in him. And I was so happy to see82400:46:11.199 --> 00:46:12.559



him in that role.82500:46:12.599 --> 00:46:17.079



He was perfect. And that scene was tough for you, Angel,82600:46:17.159 --> 00:46:19.440



I know with the wolves, was it not it?82700:46:19.960 --> 00:46:23.360



I just kept going, it's c g, I, It's yeah,82800:46:23.400 --> 00:46:24.360



they're not real puppies.82900:46:24.400 --> 00:46:25.199



It's okay.83000:46:25.480 --> 00:46:28.480



I did. I did have to kind of close my eyes,83100:46:28.559 --> 00:46:31.599



especially when he was coming into to check on the83200:46:31.639 --> 00:46:33.719



blind Man after they had already you know, gotten to him,83300:46:33.760 --> 00:46:35.320



and I kind of knew. I was like, oh god,83400:46:35.360 --> 00:46:37.000



oh god, I could you know, hear the sound. I83500:46:37.039 --> 00:46:38.960



did have to cover myse even though I'm like, I83600:46:39.000 --> 00:46:39.559



know it's fake.83700:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.880



I know, I know he's doing it as you know,83800:46:42.880 --> 00:46:43.679



a defensive hit.83900:46:43.760 --> 00:46:47.039



You know everything I stand, but it's yeah, it was.84000:46:47.119 --> 00:46:49.199



It was still tough, but I got through it.84100:46:50.199 --> 00:46:50.400



Yep.84200:46:50.840 --> 00:46:53.719



I do want to call out the young Victor Frankenstein.84300:46:53.760 --> 00:46:57.440



You guys know who that is. Christian Covraiary. He played84400:46:57.440 --> 00:47:01.800



Gus and Sweet Tooth. Okay, yeah, and he's also in84500:47:01.880 --> 00:47:05.760



Cocaine Bear. If you've not seen Cocaine Bear, well, Sweet84600:47:05.760 --> 00:47:09.760



Truth is fantastic amber you need to watch it, Okay, absolutely,84700:47:09.800 --> 00:47:13.320



and he plays Gust, the main character. Okay, so you'll84800:47:13.320 --> 00:47:17.559



definitely about that. Yes, I do as you guys. As84900:47:17.559 --> 00:47:20.159



you ladies know, I love to talk about the cinematography.85000:47:20.440 --> 00:47:25.480



The cinematographer themselves. Dan Lastin is the guy who did this.85100:47:25.599 --> 00:47:27.880



He has done some other things, obviously with Del Toro.85200:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.239



He did The Shape of Water. He did Crimson Peak85300:47:30.599 --> 00:47:33.960



not may Ali, and he did Mimic as well. He's85400:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.119



also done a few of the John Wick films. He's85500:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.400



done The Leave, Extraordinary, Gentleman, Darkness Falls, and I don't85600:47:40.400 --> 00:47:42.039



know if the one if you've seen this foreign film85700:47:42.039 --> 00:47:44.360



called Brotherhood of the Wolf Angela. I know you have85800:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.679



not because it's a horror film, but it is very,85900:47:47.800 --> 00:47:51.159



very good. But anyway, I have, but I don't mind have.86000:47:51.239 --> 00:47:53.800



It's an older film. Yeah, so it's been around, it's86100:47:53.800 --> 00:47:57.400



been around a while. But just this guy's work in86200:47:57.440 --> 00:47:59.599



this film. I know a lot of this is storyboarded86300:47:59.599 --> 00:48:03.119



by Delta Horro, but it still takes a very talented86400:48:03.239 --> 00:48:06.159



camera guy to pull all of that off because they86500:48:06.159 --> 00:48:07.800



are in charge of the lighting. And the lighting in86600:48:07.840 --> 00:48:11.360



this film is absolutely beautiful. But one of the things86700:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.920



that I noticed in watching this so many times that86800:48:15.039 --> 00:48:20.239



camera just glides, it floats like it's not even like86900:48:20.320 --> 00:48:23.559



almost like not camera normal camera movements. It's crazy. It's87000:48:23.559 --> 00:48:27.239



almost like you're in a dream. You're there experiencing what's87100:48:27.280 --> 00:48:30.719



going on in them scenes with that camera work. And87200:48:30.960 --> 00:48:32.880



if you've scenes the behind the scenes stuff that you87300:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.679



talked about Amber, did you see how they were able87400:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.079



to take away take apart some of the sets.87500:48:38.199 --> 00:48:43.480



Yes, came again you know, the marriage of these different87600:48:43.599 --> 00:48:49.360



departments working together. They had these flying walls that you're87700:48:49.440 --> 00:48:53.440



really in this set. You know, people think that there's87800:48:53.760 --> 00:48:57.639



so much CGI in this movie. There's really not that much. Yeah,87900:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.280



these are all practical sets, and they had these flying88000:49:01.320 --> 00:49:04.039



walls that they could move out of the way so88100:49:04.079 --> 00:49:07.239



the camera could come in on a crane, and you know,88200:49:07.960 --> 00:49:14.639



all this really intricate, interesting problem solving techniques to enable88300:49:14.800 --> 00:49:18.320



that cinematographer to do what he did so well, and88400:49:18.360 --> 00:49:22.119



it's just it's amazing, amazing.88500:49:22.519 --> 00:49:24.760



I mean, there's there's so many things about this that88600:49:24.840 --> 00:49:27.440



you could just tell. These people all deserve awards. I mean,88700:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.239



the cinematographer, but the costly.88800:49:30.599 --> 00:49:32.760



Raises it to an absolute art form.88900:49:32.880 --> 00:49:36.440



It does just you know, movie making can be very89000:49:37.239 --> 00:49:42.639



you know, popcorn mass produced, you know, but this is89100:49:43.320 --> 00:49:44.000



actual art.89200:49:44.239 --> 00:49:47.400



This is art getting to look at on all these89300:49:47.440 --> 00:49:50.559



different levels. You know, everybody is at the top of their.89400:49:50.480 --> 00:49:55.639



Game creating this unique world that we just are immersed in.89500:49:56.760 --> 00:49:59.440



Did you I know you caught this with watching the documentary,89600:49:59.440 --> 00:50:03.280



but you the use of red was just for Victor's mom,89700:50:03.840 --> 00:50:07.719



and that's why Victor has read on him is representation89800:50:07.840 --> 00:50:11.000



of his mother. I thought that was so well done89900:50:11.280 --> 00:50:12.679



and I don't know if I would have caught that,90000:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.960



I probably would have on his hands. Yes, his gloves90100:50:16.960 --> 00:50:19.480



are red yep, yep. And then at the funeral when90200:50:19.480 --> 00:50:21.440



he was walking away, he had the red scarf on90300:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.280



around him. But yeah, his hands had the red. And90400:50:24.320 --> 00:50:26.719



if you notice, Elizabeth had some red. She had the90500:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.960



red umbrella, she had the red necklace, so she had90600:50:29.960 --> 00:50:31.119



a little bit of that going on too. And I90700:50:31.199 --> 00:50:33.599



think it was almost telling us he's kind of thinking90800:50:33.639 --> 00:50:35.920



of her as that way. I know that sounds weird,90900:50:35.960 --> 00:50:38.440



but you know, I mean it kind of did. Why also,91000:50:38.440 --> 00:50:40.440



would he use the red in those scenes.91100:50:40.639 --> 00:50:43.320



He's clearly got mommy issues if he's chugging milk all91200:50:43.360 --> 00:50:43.719



the time.91300:50:45.119 --> 00:50:46.239



Yes, he does good grief.91400:50:46.480 --> 00:50:48.880



But and also it's kind of foreshadowing for her too,91500:50:49.000 --> 00:50:54.880



because she's going to have this tragic fate, you know,91600:50:55.159 --> 00:50:58.360



and so you get these little flashes of, you know,91700:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.360



the danger that she's altimate going to be in. And91800:51:02.079 --> 00:51:06.639



I saw the costumer talking about the lengths they had91900:51:06.679 --> 00:51:09.719



to go to on her wedding dress to make these92000:51:09.840 --> 00:51:12.719



layers so that the blood would bleed in like this92100:51:12.920 --> 00:51:16.320



certain way, like my god.92200:51:16.280 --> 00:51:18.719



You know, creative. I don't know if I want to92300:51:18.760 --> 00:51:22.039



say that was beautiful because she's bleeding, but it was beautiful.92400:51:22.039 --> 00:51:23.239



It's beautiful Yeah, it.92500:51:23.239 --> 00:51:25.960



Really was him carrying her out like that. And did92600:51:26.039 --> 00:51:28.800



the red is just coming down the white dress. It's like,92700:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.239



holy crap, that is amazing.92800:51:32.119 --> 00:51:35.079



Yes, it's like a painting like it is.92900:51:35.400 --> 00:51:37.760



Yes, almost every seat was like a painting for crying93000:51:37.800 --> 00:51:41.000



out loud. Even the opening shot when the camera opens93100:51:41.079 --> 00:51:42.519



up in the north and you see the you know93200:51:42.519 --> 00:51:45.039



they're stuck in the ice and that camera just slowly93300:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.599



glides in the blue uniforms with the white background with93400:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.079



the snow, My god, that was stunning.93500:51:52.880 --> 00:51:53.039



Well.93600:51:53.079 --> 00:51:57.599



And then when they get to the laboratory and you93700:51:57.679 --> 00:52:00.960



get this great outside wide shot of like the sun93800:52:01.039 --> 00:52:04.360



setting with the tower on the right and then the93900:52:04.400 --> 00:52:09.400



birds flying out like it's so gothic and so like94000:52:09.440 --> 00:52:12.599



that was like a little wink to the thirty one version.94100:52:12.639 --> 00:52:14.719



I feel like, oh, it has to be yeah.94200:52:14.760 --> 00:52:15.880



And then did anybody.94300:52:15.599 --> 00:52:18.679



Else feel like when they went into the building into94400:52:18.719 --> 00:52:21.559



the laboratory, when they first go in the entrance, that94500:52:21.639 --> 00:52:23.880



is one hundred percent the house from Crimson Peak.94600:52:23.960 --> 00:52:29.039



Oh it has to be at least yeah. Yep. And94700:52:29.079 --> 00:52:31.079



the shot of Elizabeth coming down the steps with the94800:52:31.119 --> 00:52:34.480



candles come on, that was nineteen thirty one. Yes, totally yes,94900:52:34.559 --> 00:52:35.400



that was in.95000:52:35.360 --> 00:52:38.000



Her nightgown and everything. It was very haunted mansion.95100:52:38.079 --> 00:52:40.800



I loved it absolutely. That was great. I feel like95200:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.000



we're talking over angel Angela, you gone quiet now.95300:52:44.719 --> 00:52:46.840



It's a good it's a good problem to have to95400:52:46.920 --> 00:52:49.639



have three people so enthusiastic about the film that like95500:52:50.079 --> 00:52:51.159



none of us can shut up.95600:52:51.880 --> 00:52:54.719



Yeah, well, just to go back on, you know, when95700:52:54.719 --> 00:52:58.119



you guys are talking about the Red that you know,95800:52:58.239 --> 00:53:02.079



it's a good representation that it connects him to his mom,95900:53:02.159 --> 00:53:04.800



whom you know, where he loved very much and and96000:53:05.559 --> 00:53:09.119



wanted to do this, you know, became obsessed because of96100:53:09.199 --> 00:53:12.880



her death. And then you have you know, the Elizabeth96200:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.159



who's you know now kind of become other obsession.96300:53:18.119 --> 00:53:19.480



It is too strong of a word.96400:53:19.960 --> 00:53:22.639



But the other female in his sights that you know,96500:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.800



he's you know that you know was engaged to his his.96600:53:25.800 --> 00:53:26.719



Younger brother, and.96700:53:29.159 --> 00:53:33.079



You know, so those those two females have a connection96800:53:33.119 --> 00:53:36.880



to him even though he's you know, is lacking all96900:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.679



things that one needs to have for a proper, you know,97000:53:39.800 --> 00:53:40.679



proper connections.97100:53:40.719 --> 00:53:42.480



So it makes sense that they use the Red with that.97200:53:42.519 --> 00:53:44.960



And I love that Del Toro said, no, I want color,97300:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.000



I don't want to know black top hats. I don't97400:53:47.000 --> 00:53:49.320



want to Kinsey, and I love the Victoria, I love97500:53:49.320 --> 00:53:51.519



the Charles Dick and stuff. But I totally get why97600:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.920



he wanted to and it works so so well. You97700:53:53.920 --> 00:53:57.159



know that that that palette and that those colors and97800:53:57.199 --> 00:53:59.480



having that symbolism, which there's a lot of in this.97900:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.800



Did y'all get that that was Mia Goth playing both98000:54:02.880 --> 00:54:06.719



roles because I didn't get it until I ran afterwards. Yeah,98100:54:06.880 --> 00:54:10.159



Like I totally did not recognize her playing both roles98200:54:10.199 --> 00:54:10.559



at all.98300:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.400



No, I didn't either until afterwards really, and then go98400:54:14.440 --> 00:54:16.119



back and watch it again, I'm like, oh, okay.98500:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.679



Apparently she didn't know either until she showed up.98600:54:19.719 --> 00:54:22.639



Like, hey, by the way, it's funny that the movie98700:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.079



I told you about, the horror movie x YEA, she98800:54:25.199 --> 00:54:27.719



plays two characters in that one she plays an old98900:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.559



old woman and then she plays the young young girl.99000:54:30.559 --> 00:54:33.840



There're two different characters, but she plays both. So it's like, apparently,99100:54:33.920 --> 00:54:36.000



me a Goth is like just really good at that,99200:54:36.079 --> 00:54:36.960



so like, let's just use it.99300:54:37.119 --> 00:54:40.639



Okay, Yeah, I did see that. They did make some99400:54:40.760 --> 00:54:43.679



kind of a prosthetic for part of her face for the.99500:54:43.840 --> 00:54:45.039



You know, her nose.99600:54:45.360 --> 00:54:48.360



Yeah, with that to give you know, a little bit99700:54:48.400 --> 00:54:51.239



of change. But yeah, I still was like, oh, I99800:54:51.440 --> 00:54:51.760



you know.99900:54:51.800 --> 00:54:53.760



I mean, it didn't change her face that much, but100000:54:53.960 --> 00:54:56.320



I just didn't. I was so lost in it that100100:54:56.400 --> 00:54:59.599



I didn't even realize it was the same person.100200:54:59.639 --> 00:55:01.440



Just because to tell you, you're so involved with a100300:55:01.480 --> 00:55:03.079



movie when you lose track of that kind of thing,100400:55:03.159 --> 00:55:06.719



because you're just absorbing everything and you're not realizing what's100500:55:06.760 --> 00:55:09.119



in front of you like that, you know. So that's100600:55:09.320 --> 00:55:12.320



that's perfect. That's just great storytelling, is what that is. Well, ladies,100700:55:12.360 --> 00:55:14.199



let's goad to take another break and we come back.100800:55:14.280 --> 00:55:17.280



Let's continue our discussion of the film itself, which we've100900:55:17.280 --> 00:55:19.000



already done. But hey, we'll be right back.101000:55:29.159 --> 00:55:32.760



Silly short summary for Frankenstein twenty twenty five. At mid101100:55:32.840 --> 00:55:36.199



nineteenth century, mad scientists with daddy issues resurrects a creature101200:55:36.239 --> 00:55:38.199



made from a bunch of dead dudes, only to discard101300:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.000



it shortly after for being dumb and disappointing. After becoming educated,101400:55:42.039 --> 00:55:45.039



the honky creature returns to its absentee father, request and101500:55:45.039 --> 00:55:48.440



a girlfriend, but as cock blocked and rejected again, Mayhem101600:55:48.440 --> 00:55:50.519



and sues in a murderous rage across the Arctic.101700:55:54.400 --> 00:56:01.800



All right, my mind, ange, love it, Okay,