I finally got to read the entirety of the complete screenplay for Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and I'm overwhelmed to the brim with the countless unused/altered scenes- the scene that moved me the most is mentioned below, both for mine and other artists' behalf (incredible inspiration material if you ask me) :
It's the very first interaction of Elizabeth and the Creature. There's an unused previous scene where Elizabeth is praying to a statue of Jesus Christ; its color's greenish and the attention is specifically pulled to his scars (A reference to the Creature). Elizabeth is transfixed, she worships the statue with passion and she kisses it.
And in the first encounter scene Elizabeth is seen bewitched by the Creature. She approaches him just like how she approached the Jesus Christ statue in the church scene, full of passion yet also tender as she kisses and caresses him just the same.
In the movie it's simplified into a scene of two familiar creatures finding shelter within each other. But the screenplay grants us a different perspective. The bond between them is something way more intimate, an act of worshipping. A bond formed between God's perfect creation and a devotee- something that is more than just mutual understanding, more than love- it's something biblical.
