“Lucille (Jessica Chastain) is actually part of the house. They’re connected. The house is history, it’s the past, it’s her childhood, it’s everything. And she cannot separate that.
Her wardrobe has pieces of architecture of the house embroidered in lace,” Del Toro said. “We very deliberately made her the same color as the walls. The walls are the same color as her eyes. We wanted to make them have the color of the house.”
Guillermo del Toro at the TimesTalks discussion on The Shape of Water
“My movie is called ‘The Shape of Water’ because water like love, it has no shape. When it appears it can be in the shape of someone from your same gender, with a different language and culture, with a different age. It can appear in a thousand shapes, but in the end, you recognize it.”
— Guillermo Del Toro, Mexican film director from The Shape of Water
It’s a savage world of things dying or eating each other right beneath our feet.
the shape of water (2017) characters » the creature
You may think that thing looks human, stands on two legs. But we’re created in the Lord’s image. And you don’t think that’s what the Lord looks like, do you?
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Made Brewster pigs in a blanket tonight before leavin’. Boy, he just ate ‘em up.
No thank yous, no yum-yums. Not a peep. Man is silent as the grave. But if farts were flattery, honey, he would be Shakespeare. Then I get home and I make him breakfast. Eggs and bacon and buttered toast. I butter the man’s toast, Elisa. Both sides… As if he were a child… And I don’t get a “thank you.”
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Egg.
Have you always been alone? Did you ever have someone? Do you know what happened to you? Do you?
The Shape of Water (2017, dir. Guillermo del Toro)
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