Tag: crimson peak

thehumming6ird:

‘Gothic Romance is, itself, a genre, as separate from horror. You know, I think horror is something that has evolved more recently as something that is explicitly about terrifying you, about giving you nightmares, about creating the scariest environment possible. And Gothic romance is more… when it came around in literature, it was the first time that anyone had explained the supernatural in terms of unprocessed emotional trauma. The idea that ghosts were emotions locked in time, that they were warnings about the past or future, and it’s always bound up with these two forces of love and death. And usually there is a young, innocent heroine who is drawn to a tall, dark stranger with a crumbling mansion and impelled into a very dangerous situation by her sexuality… At the time it was a very rebellious genre, people didn’t talk about sex and death in the same context. And so, that’s where Crimson Peak sits: it is squarely a love story, with ghosts in it.’

zombeesknees:

#the framing of these poses kills me every time  #his hands are up technically in surrender or supplication but they’re in her space  #and they’re covered in blood  #and she’s BRANDISHING A PEN AS A WEAPON  #so his hands are in her space and hers are in his and they’re pivoting around their bloody hands like dancing  #(and that pen is not ~accidentally symbolic AT ALL)  #(GdT explicitly says the pen represents her power through her writing)  #(which she stops doing when she gets to allerdale hall)  #(and is only seen writing again by writing her name just before she fights back)  #(yah so i’ve been listening to the commentary and getting emo about gothic archetypes how’s your night going)

zombeesknees:

#the
trick is not falling into the trap of thinking del Toro’s love of
monsters means ‘super nice good folks who look monstrous’  #listening to the director’s commentary on CP and the monsters in this aren’t only the nice ghosts  #thomas and lucille straight up murder people  #and he still loves them as embodying the concept of the monstrous  #and it’s not about a syrupy victorian super-happy redemption when edith realises she really does love thomas  #even after she KNOWS he facilitated her attempted murder  #and the actual murder of several others  #it’s not about forgiveness or changing or absolving – it’s just love  #like when he says in interviews love is not about changing someone it’s about accepting someone  #which – hi most gothic fiction – can make love horrific and melancholy as well as beautiful  #(as opposed to solely being healing and healthy)  #sometimes love is monstrous  #lucille’s love and thomas’ love AND edith’s love  #del Toro’s love of monsters isn’t just hellboy and that nice fishman  #he loves the kaiju that killed mako’s parents and he loves the sharpes  #and whatsmore he loves that edith loves thomas when it’s (in his words) ‘too late’  #the
point of this is i worry about the current love-fest from the united
states re: guillermo del toro turning sour the way it usually does  #like ‘we liked u when by monster u meant the ugly duckling’  #‘but now that u actually mean monsters like ‘horrifying behaviour’ we need to throw u on the trashpile’  #i mean like and dislike whatever you want but GdT’s thing is right there on the label and he’s not shy about it  #idk i can see him being accused of being a Rochester Apologist after his next gothic romance and like can we pre-emptively Not