The Leading Man
Jan. 31st, 2024 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingHow Guillermo del Toro Crafted a Fish Monster You’ll Fall in Love With
https://www.gq.com/story/guillermo-del-toro-shape-of-water-interview
I told the designers, "Let's go to nature, and let's go to different sources." I went to Japanese engraving. To an engraving called "The Great Carp," which shows a black fish with stripes of color. And I said, "Let's pattern the color work on the creature off of this." We are not doing a movie creature but a leading man. Let's construct him as a beautiful work of art. Let's not build him as a creature, but as something that looks precious. Something that, if you look at it the right way, you want it to live. You want it to exist in our world.
While I'm always down to fuck a fish monster, Guillermo del Toro is my perfect man. I love him.
It was just announced that del Toro cast Oscar Isaac to play Victor Frankenstein in his upcoming adaptation. Admittedly, "unhinged grad student" is not the first thing that springs to mind when I think about Oscar Isaac, but I'm paying attention.
https://www.gq.com/story/guillermo-del-toro-shape-of-water-interview
I told the designers, "Let's go to nature, and let's go to different sources." I went to Japanese engraving. To an engraving called "The Great Carp," which shows a black fish with stripes of color. And I said, "Let's pattern the color work on the creature off of this." We are not doing a movie creature but a leading man. Let's construct him as a beautiful work of art. Let's not build him as a creature, but as something that looks precious. Something that, if you look at it the right way, you want it to live. You want it to exist in our world.
While I'm always down to fuck a fish monster, Guillermo del Toro is my perfect man. I love him.
It was just announced that del Toro cast Oscar Isaac to play Victor Frankenstein in his upcoming adaptation. Admittedly, "unhinged grad student" is not the first thing that springs to mind when I think about Oscar Isaac, but I'm paying attention.
