From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

In the 30 years since I've known, writer-director, Guillermo D'Oter thing has constantly come up, and no, it's not just as bad taste in pop music.

It's his devotion to what I think was being the most epic Y-A novel of all time.

It's known by some people as the modern Prometheus.

I think he would call it Frankenstein. It's his newest film, which is now doing spectacularly well in theaters and garnering him almost two billion hits in social interaction. Guillermo Dutero has been away from this show for way too long. First of all, welcome back. Thank you. The thing that still stays in my head is how close you are to what's done in the now, which is to say

the evolution of the character.

Yes.

That evolution is not just the maturation of a person, of a being, but also really sort of

being in the Garden of Earthly Delights.

Yeah.

Isn't it?

Yeah, it is because it's a part of the lost, which was a big influence with the romantics

and is quoted in Shelley's book.

And the idea to examine evil, the sort of interparental relationships, like the child and parent,

which is implicit in the book somewhat, but I think it's explicit here.

In reading Shelley's biography or biographies, you know, you realize she had a very tense

relationship with her father. So I said, well, this is oblique or between, there's a lot of

the movie that takes things that were sort of lost in the book at first glance,

things like Victor thinking of his dead mother when he kisses Elizabeth in the book.

That gave me the idea of the death of the mother.

Elizabeth being described as an insect, which gave me the idea of giving her the interest in insects and so forth.

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