Introduction: Ofelia from "Pan's Labyrinth"

[dieastra]

A while ago I saw pictures of Ofelia from "Pan's Labyrinth" but didn't know the movie yet. Finally I have watched it and promptly ordered the figure. I never learn LOL
She comes with the stone, you even can take the eye out! Plus fairies, key and book.

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[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I just read on IMDB that they had to put a warning that it is not for small children as parents were bringing their kids to the cinema.

It was surprisingly dark. I am usually not into fantasy but I was really curious because sometimes I feel I need to educate myself, and also I have become appreciating the director, Guillermo del Toro. Have you seen "The Shape of Water" or the first two "Hellboy" movies? In all of these movies you will find weird characters, but also great imagination of sets and costumes and rich decoration, and I really like that. It's a magical world.

I originally only watched the second Hellboy movie because Seth MacFarlane is voicing a character there. He does not even play him, only voice him. I was very reluctant at first, thinking I would not enjoy it, but in the end I can truly say that I did, and Doug Jones who works a lot with this director and is really great at playing all these magical figures (it took him 5 hours to get into costume for one of the characters of this movie, can you imagine?) did draw me in at the end.

Pan's Labyrinth is set during the Spanish civil war, so we have the real and very bad world on one side, and the fantasy world that needs to be saved on the other side. And the girl is the heroine.

Sadly that beautiful dress that her mother made for her does not stay pristine for very long as she is then crawling through mud and it gets ripped apart :(

She also feels a bit like Alice in Wonderland to me.

Also, as I just learnt, the movie is not in English but in Spanish, with subtitles. But my version was dubbed German (on TV) of course.

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I haven't seen any Guillermo del Toro films. I know him as a maker of "dark, unsettling movies" I avoid. Even Tom Hiddleston in "Crimson Peak" wasn't enough to watch it :) I know "The Shape of Water" isn't a horror, but it still feels gloomy and I like light and colour in movies. Maybe I should watch it though, it won an Oscar after all.

Five hours to get into the costume? So when the shooting starts at nine, you have to be there at four. That's a challenge.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I truly can recommend "The Shape of Water". Yes, there are bad guys (military, soldiers) doing bad things, but there are also good guys (female heroes! Yay!) helping the creature. There is not much talk as the creature and also the main woman don't speak but still understand each other.

It did not feel gloomy to me. It felt old-fashioned. Like a movie from old Hollywood, in the Thirties or Fourties. The whole look, sets, costumes. In this warm color palette. Classic. Stylish. Or maybe like a fairytale?

My brother found it boring and fell asleep but I found it mesmerizing. One of those movies that draws me in and I forget everything and don't dare to breathe. It does not happen often but when it does I enjoy it.

I ended the movie and went straight to the internet to see whether a figure of the amphibian man had been made. It had not come out yet at the time, but I saw pictures and ordered him immediately. For some reason I skipped the introduction post but you can see him here and I think it is an amazing figure: https://dieastra.livejournal.com/338894.html

I am so out of the loop with Tom Hiddleston, I never even have heard of "Crimson Peak". I need to rectify that! If I know what to expect, I can adjust.

I watched "Only Lovers Left Alive" for him. Now THAT was a big pile of absolutely nothing! I remember, my friend went to the cinema back then, asking if I want to come along and I declined, thinking it would not be for me. By now I have a pretty good sense of what I will enjoy and what not. But when it was in TV recently, I thought I might give it a go and you should be open for new things, right?

But I was absolutely right. I could not find a story anywhere. It was just talking, talking, sitting around, more talking and nothing ever happened. And it felt all so lifeless, subdued. I mean, they are vampires having lived for hundreds of years and are bored out of their minds, so maybe that was what they wanted to achieve, but... ;)

Yeah, some of those call-sheets for actors in costume are crazy early indeed. I heard that some just go back to sleeping while the make-up team applies stuff. It is very demanding. Also, since Doug Jones also is in the current Star Trek, I keep seeing some of his tweets on Twitter, and I never would have guessed that he already is 60 years old! He looks amazing.

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

My brother found it boring and fell asleep but I found it mesmerizing.
Everyone has their own interests! I guess I just have to watch and see myself :)

Being open for new things surely sounds like a good idea, but you seem to know yourself well :) I often have different needs in different times. Like, when I saw a couple episodes of "Friends" and I was quite busy with my life and happy, I thought "Why should I watch those people? They only talk about relationships and have boring jobs, they're not extraordinary, I'm not getting anything from this show". Some time later I felt lonely and had a lot of time, and then the show didn't seem like a waste of time, watching those people having downs and bad days, too was uplifting.

The creature figure looks good. I guess there's a possibility of a crossover with Doctor Who here? I'm not sure what the story would be, but the Doctor would surely object to keeping the creature chained!