There is a scene early on inVictor Frankensteinthat director Paul McGuigan thinks sums up the movie.
And hes not wrong.
Ostensibly, he is actually removing an overabundance of puss for help the young lad.
It also crystallizes the mania that informs this very different take on Mary ShelleysFrankensteinstory.
It should also be pointed out that this was McAvoys first day on the shoot.
McAvoy is keen to point out that the siphoning of the hump was always in Max Landis revisionist script.
As aforementioned, this is not what is traditionally considered to be Mary ShelleysFrankenstein.
And that goes back to the title itself.
What was interesting was to give Victor Frankenstein back his name a little bit, McGuigan said.
Because every time youre told Frankenstein, you think of the Monster.
So, its nice to kind of play with that a little bit.
Similarly, McAvoy seemed most interested in exploring the root cause for Victors supposed madness.
We tried to say in a, I suppose, post-Freudian world, why is he so maniacal?
Why is he so hyper, bipolar, sort ofits not just because he is.
Its not just because hes a mad scientist.
[We] find a reason for that and run with it the whole movie.
During the press conference, they displayed a clearly developed, easygoing, and professionally amicable rapport.
And I was like, Well done me.
And Im walking to set, and I just hear Daniel literally running to set.
And I thought, Dude are you going to do that every day?
Otherwise, Im going to lose weight by trying to get there before him!
It has to be slightly dicey at times and controversial, McAvoy said.
And thats harder to do these days, people arent as disturbed as easily.
Part of the fact was that it was a fucking woman writing the book.
That was another level of like WHAT?!
Thats what its about, those people, rather than just the Monster.
Victor Frankensteinquickens to life in movie theaters everywhere on Nov. 25.
