1. Director Guillermo Del Toro (Guillermo Del Toro) said of Sally Hawkins: “She is not only the first choice, but also the only choice. I wrote this movie for Sally, and Michael Shannon wrote this movie...I hope Alisha's character is beautiful in her own way, not in a way similar to the perfume business style. You can believe that this character will sit on the bus next to you On. But at the same time, she will have a bright, beautiful, almost magical feeling."
2. The half-man, half-fish monster image design in "The Shape of Water" was strongly inspired by the movie "Black Lake Demon Pool" (1954). The character of Michael Shannon even said that they picked it up in a river in South America.
3. Richard Jenkins (Richard Jenkins) was selected through an email sent by Gilmour Del Toro, he said: "I hope you like this script as much as I do."
4. After finishing shooting the underwater scene of "The Shape of Water", Sally Hawkins had to fly to London, England to start filming "Paddington 2". It turned out that on the first day of filming, she had to Filming the scene of "Paddington 2" underwater.
5. "The Shape of Water" has similarities with Beryaev's Soviet novel "Amphibious Man" (1928).
6. ELISA Esposito (dumb name) is an Italian name for abandoned or exposed children.
7. Director Gilmour Del Toro met Sally Hawkins for the first time at the 2014 Golden Globes and introduced her to the movie when she was drunk. He said: "I'm drunk, this is not a movie that makes you sound less drunk."
8. According to Dan Rausson, a Danish Democrat, 95% of the film was shot in a studio. The limited location required a lot of rain. Due to the cold winter weather in Canada, the rain had to be created and artificially created. heating.
9. Gilmour del Toro wrote lengthy background stories for each of the main characters, some of which are said to be 40 pages long. After writing these, he provided the actors with the stories of these characters and said that they can choose to use or ignore these background stories to play their own roles. The actors reacted differently. Richard Jenkins said he ignored the backstory and said "the only thing that matters is what happened on the screen", while Michael Stuhlbarg said he read it greedily The background story, I found it very helpful for his performance.
10. According to an interview with the National University of Mexico TV, Gilmo del Toro said that if the film fails, he will completely withdraw from the directing industry. He also pointed out that the film has a strong personal style, as do "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006) and Guitongyuan (2001).
11. Doug Jones spends three hours a day putting on costumes. According to him, it took more than nine months to find the appearance of this monster compared with the costumes of Gilmour del Toro that he had worn in other movies before. Toro said it was him and The hardest movie his team has ever designed.
12. Sally Hawkins studied the performances of Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton and Audrey Hepburn. Director Gilmour Del Toro even bought her a series of costumes featuring performers before filming.
13. The composer Alexander Deprat provided the whistle in the soundtrack . Gilmour del Toro hopes this movie will feature whistle.
14. In the two films released by Sally Hawkins in 2017, she played a disabled woman. In "Mo Di" (2016), her character suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and in "The Shape of Water" (2017), her character is dumb.
15. The role of Richard Jenkins was originally written for Ian McLean.
16. Director Gilmour Del Toro originally wanted to shoot this film in black and white , but due to budget constraints, he finally decided to shoot in color.
17. Octavia Spencer said that when working with director Gilmour Del Toro, she was fascinated by the set and many props, so she asked him how much she could keep.
18. In one scene, the character of Michael Shannon tells the character of Octavia Spencer that God may look like her or himself. Octavia Spencer once played God in the movie "The Shabby Room" (2017).
19. "The Shape of Water" is the first film in which director Gilmour del Toro has a female screenwriter in the script.
20. Despite the visual similarities, director Gilmour Del Toro denied that the film had any connection with "Hellboy" (2004).
21. The movie poster of "The Shape of Water" was painted by Taiwanese American artist James Jane.
22. Director Gilmour Del Toro has been making this movie for several years, even before he started making "Pacific Rim" (2013). In the end, he chose to direct the film instead of "Pacific Rim: Rising Thunder" (2018).
23. The shooting of "The Shape of Water" took twelve weeks.
24. "The Shape of Water" won the Golden Lion Award at the 2017 Venice Film Festival. This is the first English film to win the Golden Lion Award since 2010 .
25. The background of "The Shape of Water" is a war in real life, featuring magical elements, similar to director Gilmour del Toro's early movie "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006).
26. "The Shape of Water" is the third collaboration between photographer Dan Laustsen and director Gilmour Del Toro. The two previous collaborations were "Variant DNA" (1997) and "Scarlet Peak" (2015).
27. "The Shape of Water" is considered to be a retelling of "Better And The Beast" by Jeanne Marie LePrince De Beaumont.
28. One of the main roles played by Richard Jenkins is an artist, and there is a painting by Audrey Hepburn in his studio. Sally Hawkins played a woman named Eliza in this movie, and Audrey Hepburn played a woman named Eliza in "Slim Lady" (1964).
29. Michael Shannon and Michael Stuba have both starred in HBO's "Atlantic Empire" (2010).
30. The pie shop manager said "I'm from Ottawa." This may be an endorsement of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, because the film was mainly shot in Ontario (though not in Ottawa).
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