A week ago this day, Guillermo Del Toro won the Oscars for both Best Director AND Best Picture for The Shape of Water. As a monster fan ever since childhood, you have NO idea how much that means to me, doubly so because I LOVE Guillermo Del Toro’s work. To see a film that is, essentially, part of The Creature of the Black Lagoon’s legacy to nab THE top prize in Hollywood is nothing short of phenomenal, in a genre where movie monsters have been a staple since the beginning; from the era of Karloff’s Frankenstein and Lugosi’s Dracula all the way to the Xenomorph and the Predator and BOTH Clash of the Titans (the old one is still better). And at long last, after all these decades, a monster movie nabs the Oscar.
Thank you Guillermo Del Toro, you never cease to amaze us, and inspire us to create and imagine.
Regarding the picture, kept in Black and White for the most part, to really capture that vintage 1940s-50s feel. Only the statue is colored.