Why Is Guillermo Del Toro Are So Indispensable To Modern Films?

Superior Essays
In the sphere of film discussion often you hear people openly say that modern films are all remakes, sequels or prequels that have no soul or imagination. I wholeheartedly disagree with this sentiment, but the wide release film schedule would definitely prove contrary. Which is why filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro are so indispensable to the modern film ecosystem, they’re constantly churning out these original concepts with boundless imagination. This is a guy who, on a constant basis, creates event films, Matthew Vaughn and del Toro are both in the same category as far as underrated directors go. Del Toro has never made a film that didn’t transcend common genre tropes and archetypes, and ‘Crimson Peak’ is no exception.
This is the type of
…show more content…
Many are going to make the trek to their local cinema this weekend, hoping to see a spooky Halloween film, and that’s not what this is, or what it wants to be. This is a love story cloaked in a darkly vibrant aesthetic with a sub-plot involving ghosts – except not really. The ghosts here, as is blatantly stated at the start of the film, are metaphors for the past. They’re there to represent the gruesome nature of what happed at Crimson Peak, and in that light the film becomes a whole lot …show more content…
If you’ve never experienced a del Toro film, then you’re life is not yet complete. Every single solitary film he’s ever made has looked magnificent, even so, I don’t think he’s ever made a better looking film than this. It’s truly awe-inspiring the way he’s able to make this film simultaneously dreary yet vibrant. The towns are dark and drab, but the blood and clay adds a vibrancy to the film that is impossible not to fall in love with. It’s also an intelligent plot device, the clay, it gives way to many moments of confusion due to intentional

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Despite the red clay that drips down the walls like blood in an old, broken-down mansion and ghosts shrieking throughout the halls, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is hardly scary, although riveting. An aspiring young author named Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) is wooed by and wed to a penniless aristocrat, Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston). With her new husband, Edith is taken to Allerdale Hall, an old, weather-beaten mansion atop a hill of red clay that stains snow the color of blood and is nicknamed “Crimson Peak.”…

    • 223 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Movie Brats Case Study

    • 926 Words
    • 4 Pages

    “The 1970s marks Hollywood’s most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating story telling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood” Name of the dude who said that An era that started off by breaking new ground and later become what would be a profitable era of block buster entertainment, New Hollywood is recognised as a period where some of the most revered directors rose and some of the most memorable films ever to come out of the American film industry were made, all thanks to a new generation of film makers that would later be known as the ‘Movie Brats’. But before Jaws and Star Wars, before the millions of dollars that were made, the box office records smashed, and…

    • 926 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Raina Telgemeier's Ghosts

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Ghosts “Ghosts” is a graphic novel written by Raina Telgemeier, an author who is also known for other popular books like “Smile”, “Drama”, “The Baby- Sitters Club” and “Sisters”. This book takes place in present-day Bahía de la Luna in California; a cold and gloomy place where the sun only shines for about sixty-two days in a year. Cat, or Catrina, is a snappy sixth-grader who is terrified of ghosts and other spooky things. She has to leave her friends behind and move to northern California since her sister Maya, has cystic fibrosis that affects her breathing and digesting. While living in Bahía de la Luna, Cat meets Carlos, a boy of her age who gives ghost tours to people.…

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Molly is overlooked as a “gothic” girl that’s very lonely. She allows ghost to replace living things in order to have the feeling of belonging there. “The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on.” Molly builds these imaginary characters so she can also feel accompanied.”…

    • 770 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As well as this , Tarantino is very ‘over the top’ in his approach. Fulfilling the three criteria Sarris created, Quentin Tarantino can qualify as a modern version of a film auteur. While the theory is extensively criticised for its absence of a solid definition and its continual reworking of the criteria, the explanations and opinions that are currently presented on the topic all propose that Tarantino is a worthy example of a film…

    • 828 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel ‘Beloved’, Morrison successfully mananges to create a credible ghost character. Despite the fact that the novel is based upon a very real history, the fictitious parts of the novel almost seem as shockingly real as the factual parts. In CHAPTER, Morrison shows that we learn more about Beloved through the eyes of Paul D. We as readers already trust Paul D so as Morrison voices her opions of Beloved through Paul D it helps us to acknowledge that Beloved is more than just a ghost. Paul D has been less isolated than the other characters, he has been exposed to the outside world for ’18 years’, and during this time he has seen many different kinds of people, he knows that there is much more to Beloved than meets the eye.…

    • 527 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Sexism In Ghostbusters

    • 1627 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The primary image of the poster creates a strong visual attraction to viewers with the contrast between the background of dark night and the occult, cold, blue bright light coming from the car’s headlight and the ghost sign in the air. The colors that the poster is adopted with are also in stark contrast: characters’ dim, dull clothing versus the bright, alarming red and orange stripes on ghostbusters’ uniform and the ghost sign. Such overall tone of the poster is indeed strong pathos in that it creates a sense of mystery and evoke viewer’s curiosity into the story. The ominous foreboding color implies the intensity of the story, a sense of urgency of how crucially needed the ghostbusters is to save the general public in the movie. It also help strengthen the story’s essential character (ethos)—the ultimate inexplicable supernatural…

    • 1627 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bambi II Vs Lion King

    • 1084 Words
    • 5 Pages

    For reasons that defy logic, movie studios continuously attempt to build around the foundation of film classics. Take The Wizard of Oz for example – which in the last 3 years alone has garnered a prequel (Oz the Great and Powerful) and a sequel (Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return). And as you might expect, neither of those productions was able to fully harness the admiration and energy established by the 1939 classic. Sure, there’s plenty of other examples to use, as well – like virtually any sub-par Disney sequel that went straight to video, like Bambi II or The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride.…

    • 1084 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” vs. Franco Zeffirelli’s Film You may be someone who believes that nothing can exceed the great elements that Shakespeare includes in his works, or do you believe that the plays should be converted to fit modern time? Sometimes you are able to experience both. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Franco Zeffirelli’s film version share the same characters and the same plot.…

    • 807 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Steven Spielberg as Inspired by Frank Capra Throughout the short history of film, many directors have arisen that stand out in history. These directors have defined generations and created lasting legacies. These legacies carry on to future directors of future generations; be it the techniques used by directors, or the ideas and themes in their films. One such director that has been credited as an influence for a modern director is, Frank Capra, who inspired the works of Steven Spielberg.…

    • 1527 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Corneto Trilogy Outline

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Corentto Trilogy And more I. Intro Attention Getter: While some directors have been known to drink, they unexpectedly find themselves with hangovers. Director Edgar Wright often used a Cornetto ice cream as a home remedy to cure his own, and even putting them into his movies based on those experiences. And thus, the Corneoto trilogy was born Revealed Object and Speaker Credibility: The Cornetto trilogy pack (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and World’s End) Thesis: Due to their long history of working together, almost two decades, as coworkers and friends, Wright, Pegg, and Frost have become almost a staple of British comedy.…

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Mezzotint Analysis

    • 1120 Words
    • 5 Pages

    MR James’s “The Mezzotint” is set at an English university with its “homely and familiar” (2011, p. 24) libraries, museums and common rooms. This contrasts the stereotypical gothic settings which Dani Cavallaro presents: ruined castles and abbeys, murky crypts and fungoid dungeons, clammy cellars, dank passages and stairwells echoing with howls, groans and tapping fingers, dripping charnel houses and ivy-clad monasteries, secret cabinets, storms, bleak forests and treacherous marshes. (2011, p. 21) However, James claims that “the more ordinary and normal both setting and actors are, the more effective will be the entangling of them in a dreadful situation” (Moshenska, 2012, p.1195). According to Briggs, James also believed that a fairly familiar…

    • 1120 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This helps James to make the reader fearful of the ghosts and challenge the governess’s interpretations, consequently heightening the sense of…

    • 1444 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    For many years, authors have been writing scary novels such as The Shining, It, and The Turn of the Screw. These novels all tell a bone-shuddering story and leave readers cautiously checking under their bed and sleeping with a few lights on. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House does this as well as making readers question their own mental strength. A good expression for a variety of emotions and characters, this novel leaves the audience hanging onto every word. Jackson utilizes foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony in The Haunting of Hill House.…

    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout history, writers of all eras and cultures have frightened us, chilled our very hearts with their works. After all, fear is universal, and each and every one of us have felt this in our life time. However, Edgar Allan Poe was by far one of the best at bewildering a reader’s mind. His tales of horror, the evil that lurks within society and the macabre make us feel as if what we have just read could actually happen. As for Poe, he lived his own horrors; he had known loss all too well, death seemed to follow him like a shadow, and he experienced many other misfortunes.…

    • 1085 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays