The star of ‘Frankenstein’ Christoph Waltz in the cinema: “CGI is for losers”

Guillermo del Toro has a long curriculum that demonstrates that it prefers practical effects and physical crafts on computer -generated tools. That cinematographic philosophy extends to his last film, FrankensteinAnd it went quite well with its actors, especially Christoph Waltz.

“CGI is for losers,” said veteran actor this afternoon during Frankenstein’s Official Press Conference of the Venice Film Festival. Waltz had words today, but caused a great impression, and generated many laughs, since he only spoke twice during the session. First with the excavation mentioned above and later, he was asked how he is still hopeful in today’s monstrous times. “I don’t do it,” he said. And that was all.

Fortunately, for those looking for longer, the bull and one of their stars, Oscar Isaac, had more to say about the issues, particularly about the use of effects and crafts that are destined to the construction of SET.

“I say, ‘let’s construct the wardrobe and tailor the sets, and then give them to the actors,’ Because sets are wardrobes and wardrobes are sets. Acting is every Windows and Real Light with Real Giant Batteries, They are reacting to Another actor.

Of the Toro’s Frankensteinwho directed from his own script, focuses on Victor Frankenstein, played by Isaac, a brilliant but selfish scientist who gives life to a creature (Jacob Elordi) on a monstrous experiment that finally leads to the undo of creation and its tragic creation.

Isaac said that it is not only that Del Toro develops so much of his sets, it is the consideration that is dedicated to the construction and production design. “There is so much symbolism in the way in which it is built, where the circles are placed, the archetypal nature of, for example, when Victor is in his father’s room again, many years later, everything is large, as if it were a child again. For that to be the experience.

However, to be clear, Del Toro added that he is not against CGI or other film tools, he uses many of them, but prefers to take them from the kit in the right way. “As a filmmaker, there are no bad resources. There are only misused resources. We have digital effects, but it only does when the limit of the physical has not been an easy solution. The more experience it has with the tools, the more you know how to do a finer job with them.”

Frankenstein It opens tonight, August 30, within a large room followed by a limited theatrical release on October 17 and a Bow Global By Netflix on November 7.