"Earlier this year, Quentin Tarantino, when asked to parse the high points of his filmography in an interview, described the two-part "Kill Bill" (2003-04) as "the movie I was born to make." He added, "I think 'Inglourious Basterds' is my masterpiece, but 'Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood' is my favorite." Might these be distinctions without a difference?"
"Still, in the case of the new "Frankenstein," which is the thirteenth feature directed by Guillermo del Toro-and is, by almost all accounts, the movie he was born to make-the cliché warrants more consideration than hasty dismissal. This is del Toro's personal Unholy Grail of cinema, one that he has pursued, if not from the womb, then at least from the moment he first set enraptured eyes on James Whale's classic "Frankenstein," from 1931."
Quentin Tarantino described Kill Bill as the movie he was born to make and called Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood his favorite, while Ryan Coogler has applied similar "born to make" language to both Fruitvale Station and Sinners. The new Frankenstein is Guillermo del Toro's thirteenth feature and a project he has pursued since childhood after seeing James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and reading Mary Shelley's novel at eleven. Del Toro's films consistently emphasize the humanity of monsters and the monstrosity of humans, and the new film functions as a culmination of those Frankensteinian impulses within his personal cinematic vision.
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