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\u201cMy maker told his tale,\u201d Jacob Elordi whispers over an image of a lightning-scarred tower in the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein. \u201cAnd I will tell you mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein focused on Oscar Isaac\u2019s Victor Frankenstein, the new trailer centers on his creation: the patchwork Creature played by Elordi. In del Toro\u2019s version of Mary Shelley story, the creature is beautiful and almost delicate; a statuesque figure. \u201cHe needs to feel like a baby, and then he needs to feel like a philosopher, like a man,\u201d del Toro tells Netflix.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean he isn\u2019t intimidating. As seen in the trailer above, the Creature is on the trail of his maker, riven with visions of his body\u2019s past lives. This iteration of Frankenstein\u2019s has its origins in the Crimean War, a puzzle pieced together out of the frozen bodies of soldiers found on a shattered battlefield. \u201cHe\u2019s working with a bunch of mutilated corpses,\u201d del Toro says. \u201cThis is a resurrected soldier out of a mass grave, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n So when, as in the trailer, the Creature stalks through hails of bullets and attacks a grounded ship, he\u2019s doing it with the full strength provided to him by his creator, and the fury inspired by that creator\u2019s callousness. \u201cIf you are not to award me love,\u201d he intones in the trailer, \u201cthen I will indulge in rage.\u201d<\/p>\n For his part, Elordi turned to a few unlikely sources for performance inspiration, such as the Japanese dance form butoh, and his own golden retriever. \u201cThere\u2019s a real innocence in the way she moves and the way that she loves,\u201d Elordi says, of his canine companion. That innocence may seem a far cry from the scarred Creature who tells Victor to run in the final image of the trailer \u2014 but as any viewer of del Toro\u2019s films already knows, there\u2019s more to his monsters than meets the eye.<\/p>\n “Frankenstein<\/strong>” hits select theaters on Oct. 17, and Netflix on Nov. 7. You can read more about the film right here.<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a9Courtesy of Netflix \u201cMy maker told his tale,\u201d Jacob Elordi whispers over an image of a lightning-scarred tower in the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein. \u201cAnd I will tell you mine.\u201d If the teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein focused on Oscar Isaac\u2019s Victor Frankenstein, the new trailer centers on his creation:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20471,30],"tags":[3666,842,11681,17562,4194,7215,12230,4402,92,2896],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n