everyone mocked guillermo for making a movie about a fish romance and he just won best director for it like……. he really did that…… “monsters are the patron saints of our blissful imperfection”…… he is the true hero of 2018 i am so proud
Wasn’t that movie funded with Weinstein’s dirty money?
no and guillermo openly hates weinstein so please don’t spread misinformation like this around. to quote the man himself (re: working with weinstein on mimic in the 90’s):
Since childhood I’ve been faithful to monsters. I’ve been saved and absolved by them because monsters are the patron saints of our blissful imperfections.
Guillermo del Toro in his Golden Globe acceptance speech. (via shapeofh2o)
heyyy so. i went into this movie expecting a really cute fishy romance, which it. almost was. but i had no idea there was gonna be extremely graphic, gratuitous violence, a hell of a lot of nudity and sex scenes (one dude literally fucks his wife on screen which was a lot), and a cat gets eaten on screen.
the cat thing was the most upsetting, the rest was just either really awkward or unsettling. but, yeah. i had no idea about any of that, and was kind of unnerved coming out of the film.
please be careful if you plan on seeing this movie. it’s not a bad movie, but i’ll admit i was really put off.
Yeah seriously! It was really really good, but I had a panic attack after the film because it was so stressful, and an employee had to literally hold my hand and lead me out of the theatre step by step, because I had such a bad shutdown …
H.P. Lovecraft: Fucking people from alien cultures is WRONG and BAD!!!! It leads to genetic and cultural degradation!!!! Let me demonstrate with this helpful fish-person metaphor: You wouldn’t fuck a fish-person-monster, now would you? Guillermo Del Toro:
Loki is the Philosopher King 