Arete Nani (based Japan) - Untitled, 2025, Paintings: Digital Art

ICE now tackling press.

Source.

Interview where he talks about what happened.

Modern Family 4.04

i love this image because not only is it accurate but also every time i see it i subconsciously scan the image to make sure its not somewhere i know. because everywhere in england looks like this. could be literally anywhere.

never kill yourself because who knows if guillermo del toro will make a film that stares straight into your soul and says "i see you, i understand you, and the cycle of violence can end" and you will leave a theater sobbing with hope

i bought the $70 book about guillermo del toro's frankenstein film because i'm nuts, and here are some of my favorite highlights thus far:

• the fact that all jacob elordi really had to say for guillermo to cast him was "my father is spanish. also i went to catholic school and felt scared and deeply uncomfortable there" like...GDT's requirements are: you gotta be hispanic/latine, be filled with catholic guilt, or BOTH

• [regarding the nine hour prosthetic application process] "elordi recalls, 'the first thing guillermo said to me was that it would be my skin, and i would have to take the sacrament. like every morning, getting the prosthetics put on would be like the eucharist. that's how he spoke about it from the moment i came to the project.'" THAT'S INSANE LMAO

• this quote from jacob - "i love that the film doesn't have a fatalistic ending. what recourse does the creature have but to live? in all the drudgery and sadness and rejection, what else will you do but keep walking toward the sun?"

• the character of william frankenstein was based on guillermo as a child. guillermo gave the actor, felix kammerer, a photo of himself where he looked very little and sad and lonely, and felix carried that photo with him for the entirety of the film.

• the makeup artist applied subtle prosthetics to mia goth's face when she played victor's mother in order to make her look slightly more similar to oscar isaac

• jacob had to wear oversized fake teeth because of the way the prosthetics altered the proportions of his face. they also gave him large dark contact lenses to make him even more doe-eyed/baby-ish.

Still thinking about how Victor hesitated after burning down his lab and leaving the Creature for dead as he heard him crying out his name in terror---mirroring the last time he saw his mother alive whose last words to him were his name, cried out in pain and fear from behind closed doors.

I'm not okay.

Okay, wait I’m still not done thinking about this because just before Victor commits to killing the Creature, he asks him to prove himself an intelligent being by saying a word, any word, besides “Victor”.

Of course, Victor really has no intention of saving him. It’s all a flimsy excuse that seeks to justify destroying him. He issues this challenge fully anticipating the Creature will fall short of the mark. Only, the Creature doesn’t.

Yet, the moment the Creature utters “Elizabeth”, his fate is sealed. Victor's jealousy and resentment towards the Creature allows him to dismiss this evidence of intelligence by confirming, in his mind, that the Creature is only capable of parroting words he hears without understanding.

Still, Victor pauses and there is this powerful moment where the two look at each other with varying degrees of frustration and resentment.

There is something in the Creature’s eyes. Something different. Victor considers this revelation only for brief a moment but he does consider it. Yet, it’s not enough to halt him in his course. He is determined to destroy the Creature if only to soothe his wounded ego as a jilted lover and eradicate all evidence of the “failed experiment” he considers little more than a stain upon his perfect record.

Yet, as Victor walks away from the burning lab, the Creature calls to him by name again and again. Victor. Only Victor. Never Elizabeth. If the Creature truly had only been parroting the only two words he knew, surely, he would have called out “Elizabeth” at some point, too. He didn’t. He called out solely to Victor in his urgency and fear, and you can pinpoint the exact moment that Victor realizes that he was wrong. The Creature understands the meaning and difference between the two words. He understands the danger he is in. He is calling out for Victor's help by name.

For a brief moment, the Creature is once again his triumph, the miraculous being that he brought to life and is, by all means, his son. Once again, the Creature is that miracle bathed in sunlight which he just abandoned to flames. For that one brief moment, in Victor’s eyes, the Creature is a man. One capable of thought and emotion and understanding. One that needed him. Suddenly, what Victor has done is no longer disposing of “faulty equipment”, it’s coldblooded murder.

Victor had been lamenting the fact that the Creature only ever uttered his name again and again without any real comprehension or significance, only to realize that the Creature did in fact understand its significance and had been calling out to him by name because Victor truly was the centre of his world. There was only one other who had spoken his name in such a way.

Who else, but his mother?

“Victor!” Once spoken with that same unconditional reverence and affection was now being cried out in desperation and fear, just like his mother in her last moments.

Suddenly, Victor is once again that helpless child, separated from his screaming mother by a door, beyond which death is quickly closing in. Horrified, Victor does what he could not do for his mother when he was a child, he runs back. In that moment, I feel that he was trying to save his mother just as much as he was the Creature. Yet as even as he tears open the doors, by then it’s already (presumably) too late.

Not only did the Creature's screams remind him of his dying mother calling out his name, but they proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that he was no longer disposing of evidence, he was killing his child.

This thought has been in my head for months now and I still can’t stop thinking about it, so I need you all to suffer with me on this one, gang.

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband

as seen in guillermo del toro’s frankenstein, the mid-19th-century fisk coffin, also known as the fisk metallic burial case, featured an airtight seal and cast-iron construction designed to slow decay and preserve the body for viewing and long-distance transportation. developed by almond dunbar fisk in 1848, these coffins were marketed as sanitary, modern, and protective against grave robbers. their distinctive anthropoid (body-shaped) form, glass viewing plate, and metal shell reflected both victorian fascination with death and the growing influence of medical science at the time.

The more you know

@flastar13

I love learning such an interesting detail! It's clear Guillermo del Toro researched every last detail. The sarcophagus perfectly symbolizes one of the film's themes: how we, as a society, try to gain control over something as inevitable as death through science.

Thanks, @tamisdava2, you're the best!

“To be lost and to be found, that is the life span of love.”

I’m just so in love with these two worms so much, look at them

love how no one on this site says "doctor frankenstein" anymore. his name is VICTOR and he is UNLICENSED

“Actually, Doctor Frankenstein is the monster. The creator is only referred to as Victor”

Yes Adam Frankenstein is licensed. In my heart

"Isaac laughs remembering "One time we were looking at the monitor and Guillermo said to me, 'A European would never make this movie that we're making. This is a Latino-telenovela version of the story. It is not a coincidence that my Victor Frankenstein isn't being played by an English person, it's being played by Oscar Isaac Hernández from Guatemala." Speaking in Spanish with his director was comforting to Isaac. "It was truly the first time I felt like I was making something with a family member. Even though its Mary Shelley, and the story takes place in Geneva and Scotland, I felt so connected to my heritage. It bubbled up from the earth. It felt like an ancestral journey for me." [Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro]

WHO ELSE UP FRANKEN THEY STEIN RN

Gentle

is this anything?