"The most enduring images of The Creature in pop culture actually have next to nothing to do with the way he's described in Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus; in the book, he's eight feet tall with yellow, translucent skin, and most importantly, he's incredibly intelligent - so much so that he's able to eloquently narrate his own story for a chunk of the novel."
"So compared to the schlocky creature features we've grown accustomed to, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (in theaters now in limited release, on Netflix beginning Nov. 7) is much closer to Shelley's original vision. It's not exactly surprising, of course, given del Toro's previous work; he's got a long history of crafting sympathetic monsters in films like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water."
Popular culture reduced Frankenstein’s Creature to a grunting, green, bolt‑necked icon that misrepresents Mary Shelley’s description. In the novel the Creature is eight feet tall with yellow, translucent skin and remarkable intelligence, capable of eloquent self‑narration. Guillermo del Toro’s film restores many aspects of Shelley’s vision and draws on the director’s history of crafting sympathetic monsters in Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water. The film departs from the novel by altering the ending. The book concludes with Viktor Frankenstein dead in the Arctic and the Creature planning to die on a funeral pyre. The film ends more hopefully: Viktor apologizes, calls him "son," and urges him to cherish life.
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