Tag: guillermo del toro

seidrade:

foundlingmother:

Just take a moment to imagine how Hela would have looked had Guillermo del Toro directed Thor: Ragnarok.

Thank you @seidrade for blessing me with this mental image.

(As per usual, it’s all @philosopherking1887’s fault…)

I mean, she looks amazing already because Cate Blanchett is an actual goddess, but she would have been legitimately SO TERRIFYING and deeply eerie/unsettling and heartwrenchingly compelling. Mmmmm.

Anyway I’m just grooving on this AU now. I love Kirby’s art and the idea of doing an homage to him but like as a monumental capstone to the trilogy, GdT at the helm would have been INSANE—and also did you see the lighting in Crimson Peak, the dude would have just nailed the aesthetic left right and center

And I’m sorry but I can’t stop— the idea of not just Hela, not just Thor but Jotun Loki in GdT’s hands is making me weak

I would write that AU if I were half as creative as GdT… but since I’m not, I can only imagine it vaguely and wistfully.

beckyhop:

iwilleatyourenglish:

today i learned that, when Jared Leto sent Margot Robbie a live rat as a part of his rude, bullshit “method acting” fo Suicide Squad, she was scared but still refused to abandon or harm the rat.

she overcame her initial fear in order to buy him a proper set up and take care of him until she found the rat a reliable owner, who… ended up being Guillermo del Toro for some reason?

so yeah that’s what happened with the Suicide Squad rat

I mean, I’D trust Guillermo del Toro with a rat.

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

writernotwaiting:

darklittlestories:

hommeles:

Monster of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: “Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”

Monster of Frankenstein in pop culture: (unintelligible moaning)

monster erasure. it’s bullshit

What we need: a Frankenstein movie directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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)

lifetimeinafist:

Guillermo del Toro’s last five films have been:

1. A dark fairy tale as a metaphor for the effects of war on children, set in the midst of the Spanish Civil War
2. A superhero movie that features a war between mankind and magical creatures
3. An action movie where the heroes have to share their minds and bond emotionally so they can punch aliens from the sea better. Also Charlie Day is a scientist.
4. Basically what would happen if all three Bronte sisters got hammered and wrote a book with Lord Byron.
and 5. An adorable woman falls in love with a fish man. Not a merman. A FISH MAN.

No one in Hollywood is having more fun.