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Fresh Air

Best Of: Guillermo Del Toro / Cameron Crowe

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The great filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has a new adaptation of Frankenstein. He saw the 1931 film when he was 7. “I realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass,” he tells Terry Gross. “And I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was gonna be my personal avatar and my personal messiah.” His other films include Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water


Also, we hear from Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed Jerry Maguire, Say Anything and the semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous, about writing for Rolling Stone starting at age 15. His new memoir is about being a naive teen, exposed to the excesses of rock musicians.

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From W.H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger. Today, Frankenstein,

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the classic story reimagined by the great filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. He saw the 1931 film

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when he was seven. I realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through

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Sunday Mass.

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And I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was going to be my personal

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avatar and my personal Messiah.

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His other films include Pan's Labyrinth and the Shape of Water.

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Also, we hear from Cameron Crow, who wrote and directed Jerry McGuire,

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Say Anything, and the semi-autobiographical film almost famous about writing for Rolling Stone

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starting at the age of 15. His new memoir, The Uncool, is about being a naive team,

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exposed to the excesses of rock musicians.

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That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

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