The style of the top is often a piece of old fondant cake covered in cobwebs for me. The surface is dull and gloomy, and the cream mixed with mold is still sweet. When it comes to this style, some people may want to talk about Tim Burton, but the baker should take the raw materials of dry bones and carrion, and then cover it with a layer of moth-eaten lace white yarn. The impression of the top to passers-by is generally dark, bloody, Cthulhu, etc. However, you know that he has decorated his home into a paradise for B-movie lovers to collect otaku, and the big red looks terrified. Wall paint, there are so many bloodshots that have to be seen through the fingers of the movie, but the final story is only the most basic fairy tale skeleton, and it can't even be called a black fairy tale, a bad fairy tale may be more appropriate .
His story frameworks are all the same, and after watching most of his movies, you will sigh that the gyro's routine is only a little better than Dan Brown's. The mix of fairy tales and classic comics, plus a huge amount of so-called top brand aesthetic dyes that are too thick to dissolve, three points are maverick and disgusting, and one point has a familiar formula and a familiar taste every time. illusion. Alien and deformed love is his favorite main course.
Many, many years ago, during the second year of secondary school in the literal sense, I saw the elf siblings of Hellboy in a post that recommended orthopedics (the word should not exist at the time), and I just wanted to say how they look like this. The terrifying elf, after reading it, immediately slaps his face and slaps, and Legolas is a passerby from now on.
It was in the anime series Hellboy that Abel, the predecessor of the Murloc in the Shape of Water, appeared. Compared with the minimalist and cold style of the original comics, the top just took a basic setting, and the storyline is completely different. If you have seen the appearance of Doug Jones himself, who has collaborated with the spinning top many times, the extremely thin and tall figure has kept him confined to similar character types, and his appearance has always reminded me of Jim Parsons, the man of Abel the Fishman The design also resembles Sheldon Cooper, the sidekick blue boy as the male protagonist, the nerd with IQ, who acts as a light bulb between a pair of childhood sweethearts who are on and off. Touch to read each other's emotional and physical condition.
What confirms with the shape of the water is that there are not too many words in the emotional scene between him and the elf princess, and a light touch is a heart-to-heart connection, even at the time of death. The two met in the library of the troll market, and a book of poems strung together many follow-up clues. The third episode of the movie was stranded for many years (Huantai 2 hehe), and there was no way to know whether the murlocs belonged later, so I learned that the shape of water When I was shooting, I wondered if the top gave Abel a HE this time.
The mermaid traded her voice for her legs, and she could breathe in the water with the mermaid's kiss. In the end, Elisa dropped a red high-heeled shoe. I don't know if it means Cinderella's waking time. The fairy tale stalk that seems like a real fairy tale is accompanied by Giles's dream-like monologues at the beginning and the end, making people willing to believe that they will finally live happily together like all fairy tales. (By the way, the prince mentioned by Giles at the beginning refers to JFK? Also, we must complain that the bullets in the murloc’s body are healed without falling out. This does not conform to the general self-healing law!)
This fairy tale is also like a normal fairy tale, the characters are so simple that it is outrageous, the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, it doesn't have the gray area that usually makes the movie deep, but it makes the good guys have countless lovely details to add points, and the bad guys have Countless odious characterizations, good guys assisting, bad guys thwarting, plus Strikland's little reverie, is basically a Cold War version of Gaston Bell and the Beast. People of color, ethnic minorities, homosexuals, and white people with overwhelming sense of superiority are all very typical facial expressions.
Strikland, a standard WASP, should have a serious daddy issue when he was a child. It may be that he was often taught to be the best and often beaten. It seems that Laozi is invincible in the world, but he lacks self-confidence in his bones. So it's no surprise that his rhetoric of fancy racism and conquest of underdogs like Elisa is not surprising.
What's interesting is that he is addicted to sugar and medicine, and he is also a successful student. The Teal stalk is a straight steel man (you can learn a lot about colors with MF's Cam), and his son's flattering face seems to be a textbook rich family. The stinky child, his wife is just like a vintage Barbie in the 1960s. On the bed, his posture is like using his wife as an inflatable doll. He is a type-faced villain.
Giles and Zelda are also full of faces, but it doesn't prevent them from being cute, just like the characters in Disney cartoons. The setting of the old painter cat slave who cares about the index very much is exactly the same as that of the red boy, who is also a small room with countless cats, not only rescued the kitten in the cardboard box on the subway, but also rescued from the mouth of the troll old lady The kitten, water-shaped Pandora, mourning. Zelda is soft-hearted and righteous. Her husband, Brewster, who talks about her all day, thought that she would not appear from the beginning to the end, but when she did, she was a coward who would only bully his wife. Bob, oh no Dmitrim, a good guy through and through, a good guy with a tragic ending, who always smiles a little bit hahahaha after the Soviet identity is revealed.
From the beginning of the film, Elisa seemed to be surrounded by sea water. When she woke up from the deep sea, all the lighting and scenery to set off her clothes, even the unpalatable lime pie, were mainly green, and it was not until she was full of spring that she injected red. Embellishment, this deep blue sea continues tightly. On the contrary, Giles's advertising map, the red tone at the beginning was ordered to be changed to green symbolizing the future (this plate of green jelly later appeared on the dining table of Strikland's house) , the huge slogan "THIS IS FUTURE" on the advertisement, but Giles losing his job is not only a homophobic social tone, the era of drawing has been gradually eroded by photography technology.
In other representative works of the spinning top, the blade warrior seems to be shrouded in dark and cold blue light, the bright red blood tears the night, and the color of the scarlet mountain from the poster to the picture is Le Rouge et le Noir. Prince Nuada's appearance in my favorite Hellboy is always surrounded by blue tones, and the Red Boy scene is the opposite.
Alien and Deformed Lovers All the love blueprints of the top are like Notre Dame de Paris, a variant of Beauty and Beast. The so-called Alien, in addition to the appearance of chaos and strange gods, actually uses a kind of unrealistic contrast to show people's heterogeneity and society. difference. In addition to this one, the gyroscope, which has been in the orthopedics episode for more than three times, is constantly trying to refresh itself. The orthopaedic plot of the brothers and sisters in Blade and Hellboy is almost the same, the brother is also played by Luke Goss (swallowing saliva), and the scarlet mountain is, alas, not to mention.
The B-movie fan Gyro can bring ingeniously disgusting and bloody luxurious feasts to the audience who love him every time. The various things about the fingers in the shape of water may have become unforgettable images for many people. The toad in Pan, the little disgusting, the things that monsters do (both monsters and Pan are played by Doug Jones) may also be the common childhood shadow of many people, the creepy Cthulhu monsters in Hellboy, the mechanical The face of a Nazi officer (I forgot his name! Looks like Kroenen?), the most disgusting thing is the Tooth Fairy Meal. The peak is definitely the blade warrior, not only the blood rain at the beginning, the fat man in the library, the opening face of the second part is the masterpiece. Ring Tai is simply appetizer level. These characters and brain holes are all designed by Tuo himself. If you are interested, you can read his book Cabinet of Curiosities. There are also set sets for several movies. There are many manuscripts of Tuo, a genius and lovely person.
At the end of The Shape of Water, Elisa and the murloc embrace in the water. The poem that Giles recites will make many people cry, but what I remember is another poem from many years ago, when the princess of the elf panicked from the collapsed old Run away from the world, another poem, from a blue-covered collection of Tennyson's poems, witnesses her and Abel's love, that's where the title comes from, the sun and the deep sea are not destined to embrace each other, and the shape of water is to me. Yan may be the most satisfying ending that Abel could get in another parallel world.
Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow.
Be near me when the sensuous frame
Is rack'd with pangs that conquer trust;
And Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
Be near me when my faith is dry,
And men the flies of the latter spring,
That lay their eggs, and sting and sing
And weave their petty cells and die.
Be near me when I fade away,
To point the term of human strife,
And on the low dark verge of life
The twilight of eternal day.
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