In his movie, when you need help,
What will be stretched out will be a hand covered with scales.
"The Shape of Water", a small-cost fantasy movie that won Oscars, Golden Lion Awards and other major movie awards. Director Gilmour Del Toro (referred to as "gyro") is frank: "Some of the movies I made look like those made by an eight-year-old child."
That’s not a problem. The spinning top mentioned it more than once. "The Shape of Water" was inspired by the classic monster movie "Black Lake Monster" (1954) he watched when he was six years old. Then fell in love with her.
Top hopes that the two of them will finally get married, but the half-murloc is killed in the end of the movie.
The heroine swims slowly across the water, and under the sparkling waves is the monstrous figure and slightly sad eyes. It was this contrast that hit his young heart in one fell swoop. From "Hellboy" and "Pan's Labyrinth" to "Ghost House", monsters have always been the subject of spinning top movies.
In those days, monsters were supposed to be badass. In the heart of the top, they are poor creatures that have been cruelly treated.
Until "The Shape of Water", the monster finally "boiled out" and became the protagonist, but controversy also followed. Some say that this film deliberately caters to Oscar's taste and deliberately creates conflicts in order to achieve the so-called "political correctness."
But looking back on the past, the cause of "The Shape of Water" is not simple. At least when it comes to telling about living or non-living bodies other than human beings, Gyro dares to press his hand on his loose-leaf notebook and swear that all creations have origins.
Love and study these supernatural creatures, and the love of tops for monsters is well known.
He owns a house in Los Angeles that is affectionately called "Desolate Mountain Villa", which is definitely the ultimate dream of all B-rated film lovers.
Frankenstein's huge head hung from the railing.
In the "Horror Library", there are various horror suspense novels. The front is a full-length portrait of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of Cthulhu. It is said that there are 16 such theme libraries.
In addition, there is also a special room with tens of thousands of DVDs...
Thanks to his hobby, the spinning top is filled with a lot of intuitive depictions of "alienated human bodies" and monsters in the movie.
In "Hellboy", the body of the villain Keyan is mechanically strengthened, with a body flowing with iron sand, and a somewhat fancy clockwork mechanism, which expands the steampunk aesthetics of the combat machinery to the extreme.
The design of the vampire in "Blade Warrior 2" is a bit more traditional. The chin can split a flower and chew people without blinking. It is said that the top is quite proud of this design.
In "The Shape of Water", the villain Richard was bitten by a murloc and had two fingers broken. Richard finally had to pull his finger out forcibly.
The top has photographed these distorted and abnormal parts with a coquettish beauty.
For example, in the image design of the monster, the murloc in "The Shape of Water" has "the most perfect swimmer figure, just like an ancient Greek sculpture". The fins, plastron, chest and arm muscles are all carefully designed. of.
In current movies, some monsters are all made up of special effects, but the top insists on using real-life makeup. Humans personally control the murloc’s lips and flashing eyes, which are more realistic and arouse human empathy.
The top will focus the lens on these alien bodies, just like an 8-year-old kid, just to scare everyone.
But what he wants to convey is more than that.
It's not just the appearance, the top loves monsters true, love from the outside to the inside. In the words of the spinning top, he "is not a fan of monsters, but an acolyte and an evangelist."
The most valuable thing that Gyro considers monsters is that they don’t lie, they have the most real side: “Godzilla doesn’t knock on the door from house to house and say, “I’m going to destroy the house.” He will do it directly. You know they were originally. They have the truth in their bodies."
In the monsters that others fear, the top sees their beauty.
This has something to do with his growing background. Top is a Mexican. Starting in the 16th century, the Spanish invaded Mexico, slaughtered Indians, and brought Catholicism there. Since then, religion and local culture have been constantly fighting and fusing, and even violent conflicts broke out.
Gyro has resisted strict Catholicism since he was a child, and was obsessed with various undead cultures and various "abnormal" things. His grandmother even wanted to exorcise him.
"I know that what I saw in my childhood has the power of redemption. Some people saw Jesus, and I saw Frankenstein in it. The reason why I am still alive and able to speak is still half-awake These monsters. This is not hypocritical. For me it is a complete spiritual reality. And I am not going to change it."
In the local church, Gyro saw a statue of Jesus hung up. His bones above his knees were all protruding, and his whole body was blue and purple. On him, the spinning top saw the shadow of Frankenstein who had set himself on fire.
The so-called monsters are martyrs killed by so-called "normal people." In the eyes of the top, there is no "heresy" in the world, these are all artificial frameworks. The real monsters are the human heart, not their appearance.
The abandoned war orphans in "Ghost Boys", the little girl living in the shadow of the Nazis in "Pan's Labyrinth", and the deaf-mute female protagonist in "The Shape of Water", the human protagonists of these movies are also These poor people excluded, monsters in the eyes of the outside world, thus highlighting the malice of the slanderous "normal people".
Long before the so-called "political correctness" blew up, the top paid attention to these so-called monsters and aliens. Falling in love with a non-existent creature is not a taboo, but just falling in love with "another person."
Hellboy has a pair of devil horns and looks fierce, but he is a big boy who keeps cats, likes to eat muffins, and is jealous for his beloved girl. As early as 2004, when superhero movies were not booming, Gyro shot "Hellboy", a film focused on showing the human nature of superpowers.
The bloody ghost of the boy in "Ghost Children's Courtyard" is extremely scary, but never hurts the innocent, and still silently guards his little friend. In fact, the hideous and distorted appearances of these ghosts appear to be frank, because the ghosts are originally harmless, but they are all alive people who conspire and actively treachery.
At the end of "The Shape of Water", the murloc showed the power and majesty of God, but he is still not much different from ordinary people. He has favorite food and music, learns to get along with kittens, and touches his head with old painters. , Also has his own sex life and emotions, you will no longer treat him as an outlier.
Murloc does not need to become a prince, this is not a "Beauty and the Beast" story, because the point is not transformation, not appearance, but heart.
The top wraps up a childlike heart with a B-grade coat. In his movie, when the protagonist has nowhere to go and nowhere to escape, it is very likely that a scaly, pitted, rough and hard limb stretched out.
It came from a monster, however, Toro trusted the monster.
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?| Author | Yan Yan, middle school Chinese teacher, or Slime teacher, soft creature. While teaching and coding, occasionally give lectures and sell SF to Amway. I believe that both Chinese and sci-fi must be hard to grasp, and I am determined to invest my limited life into infinite dimensional transformation.
Su Xiaoqi, a reporter for "Non-Existence Daily", a fish with a seven-second memory, has now been captured by a cat. The body is a ferret.
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