Conversation about a movie premiere Frankenstein to Guillermo del Toro He never stops adding unusual and delicious Mexican tales. Now, it was his Oscar Isaacwho plays tortured doctor Victor Frankenstein, spoke a little about the atmosphere behind the scenes and the surprising “muck” of filming.
In a recent interview for the magazine GQIsaac shared what it was like to find it all in A very happy groupFar from the usual seriousness of Gothic drama.
“Guillermo is a very happy person. The atmosphere on set was very happy. We laughed the whole time. He basically drove me around in a fun way and we only spoke Spanish to each other. I think that since there was a lot of joy and lightness, we were also able to delve into the darkness,” the actor of Guatemalan descent revealed.
This dynamic, resulting from Mexican humor and trust between actor and director, allowed the classic tragedy to be taken into unexpected territory.
According to Oscar Isaac, for him Frankenstein “It’s a very emotional Mexican melodrama.”. “It’s a very European story told from a very Latino point of view.” He even admitted it At one point he questioned the tone, asking del Toro if it wasn’t all “too much”..
It did not take long for the director’s response to arrive filled with pride: “Look you bastard, it’s no coincidence that Victor’s real name is Oscar Isaac Hernandez.”.
The fact that such a classical and supposedly European character has an interpretation that intersects with Mexican and Latin particularities has not gone unnoticed by critics and audiences.
Many have noticed this One of the key changes del Toro made For Mary Shelley’s version, it is that she highlights the relationship between the Creator and the monster as much as the relationship between the Creator and the monster “Father and son”.
However, for the director, the relationship between father and son In the Mexican cultural senseshe was not always completely happy, and was even a bit “promiscuous,” as he described it during a screening of the film at the College of San Ildefonso.
“It is understood better than anywhere else in Mexico… because the tolerance, the acceptance, the family, the pain that is passed down from one generation to the next, is something that we Mexicans understand because the father figure here is completely illegitimate and powerful.”The manager said.
The film is now available in Netflix And in some of the country’s independent cinemas, it was received with enthusiasm and surprise by those who expected a traditional version of literature’s most famous monster.
With scenes that move between authentic tears and the most elaborate Gothic scene in Europe, Frankenstein It’s the latest example that, under del Toro’s watch, even the most classic horror films can have a “very Mexican” flavor and drama.
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