![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It riffs on similar themes, and reflects it in many ways, but it deals with its ideas in a much more tender-hearted way. The Shape of Water is, therefore, like a tribute to one of his favourite monster films ever. Throughout his career Del Toro has expressed wishes to remake that film but “genre got in the way”, he says. That film has a tragic ending: the creature is killed but is lost by the scientists. The 1954 monster-horror Creature from the Black Lagoon was a huge influence: in that film, an aquatic monster known as Gill-Man becomes fascinated with a female character called Kay, who’s part of a scientific expedition whose aim it is to capture or kill the monster and study its breathing. Del Toro and Daniel Kraus developed the film from one of Kraus’ ideas. ![]()
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