Alexandre Desplat Created Score To Contrast Horrors Of 'Frankenstein'

Guillermo del Toro has created his own monsters on screen and adapted comic book monsters, so it was only a matter of time before he tackled Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . His adaptation is faithful, while emphasizing empathy for the creature (Jacob Elordi) that Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) created.

In crafting his sixth score for del Toro, Alexandre Desplat , who won the Oscar for the director’s Best Picture winner The Shape of Water , strove not to simply reiterate what was on screen.

“It’s on the screen so why mimic what is already there?” Desplat said at Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film event. “There’s always this thing I like to say: A good score balances function and fiction. Some scores are more function than fiction. This one needed fiction to be showing something else.”