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Happy Anniversary to my all time favorite movie.
Ever.
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Sometimes I consider fact that ROTG is probably the only kids film with a whole scene partially dedicated to some human corpse floating around in the water. You know just. Being dead.
Apparently Peter Ramsey and Guillermo Del Toro giggled to each other during screenings because they couldn’t believe they got away with opening their kids movie with what is basically Jack’s corpse rising from the lake, which is the greatest story from movie production I’ve heard.
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guillermo del toro could write cosmic horror but lovecraft could never write the shape of water
The difference between the Shape of Water and Shadow Over Innsmouth is that one was written by a racist and the other isn't.
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Guillermo Del Toro checking the envelope card for Best Picture before giving his speech
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Congratulations to Guillermo del Toro for winning Best Director at the 90th Academy Awards!
Source: mcavoy
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Well, I have said this in the past, so I hope i don’t bore you by repeating it, but I think that we live or die under the tyranny of perfection. Socially, we are pushed towards being perfect. Physically, beautiful to conform to standards that are cruel and uncommon, to behave and lead our lives in a certain way, to demonstrate to the world that we are happy and healthy and all full of sunshine. We are told to always smile and never sweat, by multiple commercials of shampoo or beer.
And I feel that the most achievable goal of our lives is to have the freedom that imperfection gives us.
And there is no better patron saint of imperfection than a monster.
We will try really hard to be angels, but I think that a balanced, sane life is to accept the monstrosity in ourselves and others as part of what being human is. Imperfection, the acceptance of imperfection, leads to tolerance and liberates us from social models that I find horrible and oppressive.
Guillermo del Toro, on why he has always been intrigued by monsters [x] (via radiophile)
Guillermo del Toro wins Golden Lion for The Shape of Water at the 74th Venice Film Festival
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!!!!!
Source: twitter.com
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It’s important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren’t the only ones to triumph in war.
Guillermo del Toro (via taurielsilvan)
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I love Edith Wharton, because very much like Henry James, she can play things ambiguously even to the point of being cryptical. That’s why my main character in Crimson Peak is called Edith, because of Edith Wharton.
Guillermo Del Toro [5 Creepy and Cool Things Del Toro Told Us About Crimson Peak]
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Now that’s how you sell your movie!
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That’s the thing that people keep forgetting: when the gothic romance novels first came out, they were pretty punk. They were very highly charged. They were sort of improper. They were bold and overt. For lack of a better analogy, they were like the Sex Pistols of that era.
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In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.
Guillermo Del Toro (via francisdollarhydes)
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This past September, 43 students were kidnapped by the local police in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. After a period of apathy, the authorities only then were forced to search for them, due to the protestations of citizens across the entire country and the world, and they found the first of many, many mass graves. None of these graves contained the remains of the missing students. The bodies within them were those of other anonymous victims. Last week, the general attorney announced that the 43 students were handed over by the police to members of a drug cartel to be executed and burned in a public dumpster. But even now the identity of those charred remains awaits proper DNA tests.
The federal government argues that these events are all just local violence — not so. As Human Rights Watch observes, these killings and forced disappearances reflect a much broader pattern of abuse and are largely a consequence of the longstanding failure of the Mexican authorities. We believe that these crimes are systemic and indicate a much greater evil: the blurred lines between organized crime and the high-ranking officials in the Mexican government. We must demand the answers about this and we must do it now.
This amazing night is overshadowed by the events in Mexico. It’s difficult to even talk about film when that is hanging over not only every Mexican, but any other person who is aware of what’s going on: a lot of indignation.
We feel it’s a very tragic moment for our country. When you have 43 people disappearing, you not only not trust the authorities to solve it but you realize many of the authorities were behind the act.
Guillermo Del Toro, in a statement co-signed by Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. (x)
Source: hollywoodreporter.com
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"It was very important to give this to Mako and to have her say "for my family", but it’s not only the family that she lost in that memory. I made the conscious decision not to show the family destroyed in the memory because all the family that she’s formed now, the russians that died, the chinese that died is her family, the human family that we see slaughtered in the movie everytime a Kaiju appears." -Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim Director’s Commentary
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[Crimson Peak] has moments that are very visceral, physical violence. You’re in this sort of sedate romance and then there is this brutal moment where you’re like, “Whoa!” And it has a lot of kinky moments. The only kinky moment I’ve ever shot is the leg f**k in The Devil’s Backbone. [laughs] This has a little more kinkiness than that.
Guillermo Del Toro
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