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Elisa arbeitet zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges in einem Hochsicherheitslabor in den USA. Sie ist stumm und lebt daher einsam und isoliert. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Kollegin Zelda entdeckt sie, dass in dem Labor eine mysteriöse Kreatur in einem Wassertank. Shape of Water – Das Flüstern des Wassers (Originaltitel: The Shape of Water, deutsch: „Die Form von Wasser“) ist ein Spielfilm von Guillermo del Toro aus dem. Shape of Water - Das Flüstern des Wassers [dt./OV]. ()2 Std. 3 MinX-Ray Der meisterhafte Geschichtenerzähler Guillermo del Toro inszeniert eine. Shape Of Water - Das Flüstern des Wassers ein Film von Guillermo del Toro mit Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon. Inhaltsangabe: Die stumme Elisa (Sally. Entdecke die Filmstarts Kritik zu "Shape Of Water - Das Flüstern des Wassers" von Guillermo del Toro: Die scheinbaren „Freaks“, die von der Außenwelt als. In The Shape of Water – Das Flüstern des Wassers von Regisseur Guillermo del Toro verschmelzen Märchen und Horrorfilm, Romanze und. Shape of Water - Das Flüstern des Wassers. WocheDramaFSK Min. Während des Kalten Krieges macht die stumme Putzfrau Elisa in einem.
Pulp Fiction Streamcloud, when the book showed up on my GR Newsfeed I about shat myself out of pure excitement. Richard Propes. Now, flash forward to Baltimore and Elisa Esposito Retrieved January 7, Open Preview See a Problem? Startled, the Amphibian Man slashes Giles's arm and rushes out of the apartment. Oscarverleihung By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Shape Of The Water See a Problem? Video
Pioggia sul Teatro ★ La forma dell'acqua - The Shape of Water Farb-Format Farbe. Sabu in der Lichtburg. Filmfestspiele in Venedig seine Premiere, wo er im Hauptwettbewerb gezeigt wurde. Kerry Hayes. Ich will nicht zu sehr ins Detail gehen aber zum Einen Vergewaltigungsopfer das Verhalten der Protagonistin für mich hin und Christof Wackernagel irgendwie zu unpassend, zum Anderen gab es da eine gewisse Schwimmszene, die zwar künstlerisch und romantisch, gleichzeitig aber doch ein wenig überzogen war. Nachdem Meine Perlen Offenbach erfährt, dass die Sasuke Naruto den Mann sezieren will, plant sie dessen Befreiung. Zwar wird jetzt nicht weiter auf die charakterliche Tiefe von Stickland eingegangen, aber so wie es scheint ist er nur einfach der Stromberg des CIAs und mehr nicht.
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Alexandre Desplat - The Shape Of Water (Audio) Books full of dearly loved monsters. People included me are attracted to anything different and extraordinary for a variety of reasons.
Can I suggest the books by R. Lee Smith for you to try? I consider "Land of the beautiful dead", "Heat" and "Cottonwood" masterpieces in the erotic horror category.
And of course there is also Clive Barker the author of "Cabal", "Abarat", "Sacrament" and so many other books who taught me firstly and before it becomes fashion trend exactly what erotic horror and erotic fantasy mean.
Not that before the 90s there were no books about monsters. But you mainly felt sorry for them, not lust for them.
I could definitely place this book in the above mentioned categories, however on the lighter side of monster romance fiction.
There is no gore, not much rejection by the plain and common humans because there is no interaction with them and the love story and sex are more implied and less described.
The book is lyrical and emotional. It is a manifesto against the hate and fear for anything different. A beautiful love story.
It has a happy ending because it needs to have a happy ending. She reaches out to him. To herself. There is no difference.
She understands now. She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ungliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever.
It can be read easily. The chapters are short and the situations locations, feelings, dialogues are so well and detailed described that they reminded me movie scenes.
Each chapter corresponds to a scene and it mainly has one main character or two main characters on the spotlight. I highly recommend it, even if you have not watched the Oscar-winning movie.
Which obviously is a masterpiece! What a great way to end the year! From Stephen King's social media pages I decided to read the book, before I watched the movie and I do not regret it!
View all 34 comments. Feb 23, Charlotte May rated it it was ok Shelves: magical-realism , supernatural-paranormal , contemporary-recent , sci-fi.
We dragged it up here. We tortured it. What's next? What species do we wipe out next? Is it us? I hope it is. We deserve it. I went into this knowing that it would be pretty odd.
Definitely up there on the strange scale. The first pages or so were pretty slow, I wasn't invested, and almost gave up.
We have 2 main POVs, that of Elisa - a mute janitor working in a science facility. She has worked there for 14 years alongside her friend Zelda, both of them being treated like shit by everyone else who works there.
I think we are supposed to dislike him, but maybe not quite to the level I did. He made my blood boil, and I sat reading with this deep seated hatred burning inside me.
He works in the science facility, though we aren't entirely sure what his role is. Now, the whole story relies on a slight suspension of disbelief.
Elisa discovered what is hidden in one of the labs aka the asset and soon is spending lots of her time there. Of course, soon she catches feels and everything escalates from there.
She is determined to help him escape. The main issue I had, is that we are supposed to accept the creature as more of a man than an animal.
So it is less like bestiality and more just a different form of love. The problem I had with this was view spoiler [ when she helps him escape and takes him back to her apartment, he actually EATS one of her neighbours cats.
A couple of chapters were from Strickland's wife's POV which I found interesting because yaas girl you deserve better.
But there were also ones fron the POV of the creature which again - were just plain weird. Overall, very very bizarre.
Not even sure if I will check out the film or not View all 24 comments. Mar 24, Jilly rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi. The book is awesome, as long as you remind yourself to stay in the moment.
The fantasy. The UNreality. Because, if not, you will be thinking weird shit, like me. See, I'm a weird shit thinker.
I'll let you know where my twisted mind went in just a second. First, about the book. It has multiple POV's and is about an amphibious man-like creature that the army found in the Amazon and immediately captured to study it in the lab.
It sounds about right. As we learned in E. Luckily, the female mute janitor that cleans the den of horrors lab where he's kept is crazy and desperate pure-hearted enough to think she and the Swamp Thing are in love, so she decides to try and save it.
And, have sex with it. Because, you know. That only makes sense. This is where the weird shit thinking comes in. I can't help but thinking that this creature may not exactly be the best choice for a sex partner.
Well, aside from the obvious.. Because it reminded me of that gorilla that learned sign language. You remember the story?
That gorilla could communicate with the humans. And, the humans naturally loved Coco, and Coco loved the humans.
Does this mean that Coco and the humans should have gotten down with hot monkey sex? Because that is gross, and weird, and wrong, and about a thousand ways to Sunday creepy.
Yet, the extent of the communication between Swamp Thing and our heroine is actually less than Coco's communication and understanding with her human caretakers.
Sure, his thoughts were sweet, pure, and simple. But, they were NOT sexy. And, not that particularly intelligent. Yes, it is sentient, but not even close to being like us.
To me, this made the idea of Swampy Sexy Times very icky. My name's not even Doreen. Swamp Thing is a moron.
But, if you could erase all of the mental images I just put into your head, you will love this book.
Because it is intriguing and has a fun throw-back to the 's feel to it. It's totally worth reading. View all 49 comments.
For a variety of reasons. And before TSoW, I considered a ten page chapter to be short. Getting through five chapters went a lot quicker than it usually does.
The short, powerful chapters had an effect usually reserved for significantly longer books—I felt like I knew the characters, and knew them well, almost immediately.
The story itself. It had ups and downs. Pretty simple, right? Government bad, underdog good. Love conquers all. Yes and no. Elisa is an orphan with mysterious scars on her throat, the byproduct of a surgery she has no memory of or explanation for that left her unable to speak.
Her loneliness is palpable. His training only serves to give him the experience and authority to break more shit than a civilian could.
And the list goes on. All of this is made more intense by the s setting. The evil man has more power. The orphan, the gay man, the black woman, and the white housewife have fewer options, are thoughtlessly victimized in ways that fifty years later seem incomprehensible.
In the words of book bff: those fingers will haunt me forever. You: What fingers? You: Eww. Me: You have no idea.
A couple of lost digits, etc. View all 16 comments. Jun 27, Tina Haigler rated it really liked it. This book was beautiful. I can't think of any other way to describe it.
The story, the characters, the words themselves. It was all beautiful. The best way I can think of to describe the way this book made me feel is I'm a shoreline and the words in this book are the waves in the ocean, coming and going, each time leaving something, but also taking something with them when they leave.
The book is split into four parts. Parts one and two are mostly storytelling, atmosphere building, and character development.
Parts three and four are where most of the action is. Getting through the first two parts is worth it, once the story picks up pace and the excitement starts.
To be honest, the first half of the book is very interesting but it's not very exciting. You can tell from the length of the chapters if it is going to be storytelling or action.
Anything over two pages is storytelling. I really enjoyed the pace of the action chapters and how quickly it switches points of view. It gave a sense of urgency to the story.
The characters were amazing as well. Even the characters I didn't like were fascinating. There's the main protagonist, Elisa, an orphan who is mute, works as a janitor, and has a serious shoe fetish.
Also her next door neighbor Giles, an elderly, homosexual artist, her best friend Zelda, a fellow janitor, Hoffstetler, a Russian scientist assigned to the creature, and the creature, of course, who was never given a name, was sometimes referred to as the asset.
The main antagonist is Strickland, a military man, in charge of the creature. We also have POV chapters of his wife, Mrs. Strickland, but she is more of a connecting character, interacting with characters of the main story but never interacting with the main story itself.
I didn't love Elisa but I didn't hate her. She kind of wallowed in her own pity and I'm never fond of that. She had a terrible upbringing though so I tried to be sympathetic.
I did love Giles, Zelda, and the creature though. Zelda has that spunk that I love to see in characters and Giles was just a sweet old man. The creature was magnificent and I would've loved to learn more about him.
Hoffstetler was more of a gray character. You never really knew if he would do the right thing or not. Strickland was one of my favorites to read.
I have always been obsessed with psychology and how different minds work, so reading his POV was frightening and at the same time fascinating.
As far as the wife, I was pretty neutral towards her but liked her more toward the end. I also liked knowing how interconnected the characters were even though they didn't realize it.
Definitely an enjoyable, moving book. My only issue was I wish the action would've picked up before the second half of the book.
It took a little too long to get to the suspense. Now I'm very excited to watch the movie. I hope they did the book justice. The narrator was excellent and each person had a different voice.
The accents were great and I could tell who was talking without looking at the book or hearing names.
I highly recommend listening to this one if you enjoy audiobooks. View all 22 comments. Man-Fish with supernatura 4. View all 26 comments.
A Brilliant Novelizations For a Magical Movie.. Of Hope and Acceptance and Love View 2 comments. Sep 04, Kelly and the Book Boar rated it did not like it Shelves: liburrrrrry-book , the-great-white-hype , we-are-the-weirdos-mister , everyone-loved-it-but-me , or-just-watch-the-movie , i-read-it-wrong , read-in And it sucks double because I obviously read it wrong being that the handful of my friends who have already read it really enjoyed it.
The only thing that can be blamed? The writing. Overwritten literary fiction good v. Not to mention all the various sideplots about becoming a modern woman in the 60s or a closeted homosexual ready for love too late in life and the Russkies and good lord almighty once again.
Before you troll me please note I am NOT a reader who willingly seeks out things I will dislike in order to post some ragey review in fact, those people are all on my bottomless blocked list.
I want to loooooooove every book I read. And I waited. Not even kidding, Stepheny has been waiting for this journey to begin since her baby was born, it seems.
Stepheny opted for the audio version. I hope to all that is right in the universe the Wizarding World that she ends up having a better experience than I did.
And speaking of Stepheny. I was smitten with our resident Harry Potter re-reader extraordinaire pretty much from the jumpstart, but the moment where she told a year to go eff off sealed the deal and had me saying.
View all 27 comments. Shelves: fantasy. This beautiful and beguiling novel is yet another case of the book being better than the movie.
I enjoyed the movie and thought it was well done, but this book? Absolutely loved it! The Shape of Water is a brilliant story and even more brilliant story-telling with unforgettable characters.
I'll be adding Guillermo del Toro's other books to my tbr list. Apr 02, Bark rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasy , fiction.
A mute janitor named Elisa shows him kindness and brings him eggs and music and they fall in love.
There is brutality and ickiness but the sweet romance provides a nice contrast. This book is based on the movie of the same name and if you enjoyed the movie, I think you should read the book too.
The story is fleshed out most excellently as are all of the characters. We see bad guy Strickland in action and he does some horrible, depraved things that end up haunting him throughout the story.
I loved seeing that bastard get beaten down. We also get to know Zelda and Giles and the Russian scientist on a much deeper level as well. We get to know Elisa and are allowed in on all of her intimate thoughts.
This is a unique and strange love story and I really and truly am glad I took some time to read it. View all 10 comments. Aug 01, Mrinmayi marked it as maybe-later.
I have seen the movie BUT even while watching the movie "the creature" creeped me out I would tell what the creature actually is because I have seen the movie BUT I don't want to spoil it My biggest concern is I am Pescatarian myself I am shook To make the matters worse my friends once threatened me of gifting me the poster of the creature That creature has become my nightmare I don't think many of my GR friends have read this book If you have do let me know if this book is worth a read Disclaimer This is just a fun review I am not judging you if you have read this book Some people tend to take reviews personally..
View all 46 comments. Feb 19, JV semi-hiatus rated it it was amazing Shelves: , fantasy , magical-realism , 5-star-reads , romance.
Richard Strickland, a dom "She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ugliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever.
Richard Strickland, a domineering soldier, demands the creature's extermination through vivisection before the Soviets find what they are looking for.
Bob Hoffstetler, a Russian scientist highly skilled in the matters of espionage, thinks otherwise — though horrifying and magnificent, this primordial creature is capable of thoughts, emotions, and communication, and should be kept alive.
The mere existence of the creature baffles all of them, except for Elisa Esposito, a meek and mute custodian, who forms a strong connection with the peculiar creature from the deep.
Like water, her love for the creature flows overwhelmingly that she resolves to free it from its captors with the help of her co-worker and friend, Zelda Fuller, and her next-door neighbour and gay friend, Giles Gunderson.
I just love how Del Toro and Kraus created this complex, flawed characters — each of them transforming gracefully or retrograding to a path of destruction.
Plot-wise, it's exciting, thrilling, and terrifying. The romance aspect is but one of the few parts that makes this novel magical and delightful.
Their own struggles shape the world around them and make it pivotal to the narrative. In this novel, Del Toro and Kraus brilliantly gave them a voice — a voice that resonates and cuts through the fabric of their perceived reality.
It is through this novel that the characters are able to find themselves, continuously find their place in this world, or creating their own alternate reality in which they can live in a world devoid of all hatred — a realm where they are embraced with compassion, kindness, understanding, and love, suspended in water, unfettered by time.
If you haven't read the novel or watched the movie, I urge you to do so. Once upon a time, It happened a long time ago In the last days of a fair Prince's reign, A captivating tale about a Princess without Voice Who defied the odds And fought the monster who tried to destroy it all.
If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love?
That they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her - of Elisa The only thing that comes to mind is a poem, Whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: "Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere. View all 15 comments. Mar 26, Robin Bridge Four rated it it was amazing Shelves: awesome-audio , reads , chocolate-pms-day-reads , buddy-read , quit-crying-robin , stars , bb-b , beautifully-broken-bastards , uf-pnr.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. The prose is beautiful and it helped me connect to each of the characters in a different way. It makes me want to protect Elisa, our mute heroine that finds little ways to defy authority and be the woman she is.
She is a good friend to those she cares for and so easy to love in 4. Then there is Giles a man later in years who was born into a time where his sexual preference is deemed deviant and it has cost him so much be he remains true to the man he is.
I loved him and I really wanted to find a nice man to set him up with. Of everyone in the story he deserved a happy ending too.
This is, in short, the magic of art. To concede the possibility of being captured in this way is to actively collaborate with the artist.
Giles might still, under the right light, bathed in the right water, be beautiful, too. Lainie made me so grateful that I was not a woman in that time.
She did her duty and married someone to keep house for and bare children. Someone, who would make all the decisions as she cleaned and toiled. But what happens when he leaves for 18 months and she made all the decisions and felt the control and freedom of running her own life.
How is she supposed to go back to being just a Mrs. Strickland and not Elaine anymore? How do you go back to only crawling after learning to walk?
Inside these boxes are seventeen months of a different life. The whole thing is silly, she knows that. She will.
Even the scientist that would normally be the bad guy in a book like this is someone I wished had a different life with more chances.
He was a man caught between impossible choices but I liked how he saw not only our fish man but people in general. Watching him decay into the worst version of himself a small step at a time was just horrifying.
Knowing his thought processes and why he made certain choices too was as awful as it was insightful. The Dovonian fish guy is fantastic.
At first when I heard there was going to be some boom-chicka-bow-wow between him and Elisa I was a little leery of that. It was actually a bit beautiful how they communicated and after the ending it completely felt right for them to have that moment.
I adored getting a few PoVs from the Devonian to really understand his thinking patterns and such. It humanized him as more than a creature and made the story that much more special.
This is a fantastic story of hope, doing the right thing and being okay with being different. It showed how each of us might feel alone, but we are connected in so many little ways to so many people that you are never truly alone.
Audio Note: This is one of my absolute favorite audio narrations of the year. Jenna Lamia was spectacular in her narrative performance. I loved her performance of this and will look for other books narrated by her.
View all 3 comments. When I first saw the previews for The Shape of Water I remember thinking that it not only looked different, but it looked weird.
Weird is my thing. I love weird. I embrace it. Well, when the book showed up on my GR Newsfeed I about shat myself out of pure excitement.
Not only is it a book, but it is written by Guillermo del Toro himself. We all know the man can make movies, but a writer too? Surely this was going to be a perfect storm of creative genius that I would fall hopelessly in love with.
She was orphaned as a child and has horribly scarring across her throat where her vocal chords were removed as a child.
And she loves wearing fancy shoes. Seems legit. Because as a janitor wearing glittery pumps makes all the sense in the world.
Or rather, she goes willingly into a room she has been expressly forbidden from entering. What does she find? The company is hoarding a man-beast.
It is some sort of reptile meets human who radiates colors and farts rainbows or something. Who the fuck actually knows? Either way, Elisa and her ruby slippers get this things motors running.
Because no one could ever love Elisa. But you know something? Not only does she have glittery shoes, but she is of the Bejeweled Vagaina Variety.
Everyone who meets her, walks by her, hears mention of her name is immeidiately smitten and must do everything in their power to bend over backwards for her.
We have closet homosexuals being mistreated. We have the Civil Rights Movement. We have the Russians coming. I mean it literally never ends.
I am not even remotely trying to be insensitive to any of those issues. What I AM saying is that authors try to cram waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much shit into one book.
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Add Article. The Shape of Water Critics Consensus The Shape of Water finds Guillermo del Toro at his visually distinctive best -- and matched by an emotionally absorbing story brought to life by a stellar Sally Hawkins performance.
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Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab's classified secret -- a mysterious, scaled creature from South America that lives in a water tank.
As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist.
Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo del Toro , J. Miles Dale. Guillermo del Toro , Vanessa Taylor. Feb 23, Sally Hawkins Elisa Esposito. Michael Shannon Richard Strickland.
Richard Jenkins Giles. Octavia Spencer Zelda Fuller. Michael Stuhlbarg Dr. Robert Hoffstetler. Doug Jones Amphibian Man.
David Hewlett Fleming. Nick Searcy General Hoyt. Stewart Arnott Bernard. Nigel Bennett Mihalkov. Guillermo del Toro Director. Guillermo del Toro Screenwriter.
Vanessa Taylor Screenwriter. Guillermo del Toro Producer. Miles Dale Producer. Liz Sayre Executive Producer.
Dan Laustsen Cinematographer. Sidney Wolinsky Film Editor. Alexandre Desplat Original Music. Paul Denham Austerberry Production Design.
October 19, Full Review…. October 9, Full Review…. October 2, Rating: 4. September 22, Rating: 4. August 13, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Jul 08, Guillermo del Toro is one of those filmmakers I'd love to spend hours with talking movies.
His passion for the art form is infectious. Not being able to do that, at least I can watch The Shape of Water over and over again.
It's a love story about a woman and a beast. But, the real love story is about the moviemaking. Del Toro's zeal for using all the moviemaker's tool are in full display.
Aldo G Super Reviewer. Mar 17, Peter B Super Reviewer. Dec 22, Del Toro's direction saves this film from be a terrible film but it's no a great film like many people says.
Fernando M Super Reviewer. Nov 26, With this movie, I have now watched all of Guillermo Del Toro's filmography. I don't know if I've reviewed every single one of his movies that I've seen on Rotten Tomatoes, but I may end up posting the reviews on Letterboxd at some point or another.
Regardless, my fandom of Del Toro actually dates back to ish, when I was around 15 or 16 years old. I remember I had this Spanish teacher at school and one time she was talking about this movie, raving about it really, and that movie was El Espinazo Del Diablo or, as you gringos know it, The Devil's Backbone.
There was a Blockbuster Video that's how old I am, Blockbuster was still a thing and I regularly visited the store literally across the street from my school.
So, one of those times me and my aunt went to Blockbuster, I found The Devil's Backbone and we rented it. And, naturally, I loved the movie then and I still love the movie now.
As someone who is now 30, I have now been a fan of Guillermo Del Toro's work for half of my life and it's a fandom that I will carry until Del Toro decides to retire.
I think I would, quite easily, place him in my top five of favorite filmmakers of all time. Those aren't placed in any real particular order, but that's just how they came to mind to me.
The first two of those, however, Del Toro and Miike aren't on that list for their filmography per se. Don't get me wrong Del Toro's filmography is top-notch but, as an example, Mimic isn't great though I don't blame Del Toro for that as much as studio interference and Crimson Peak is only just good.
The reason I place him there has as much to do with his unique visual style, his fantastical settings, the creatures that inhabit his incredibly detailed and impressive worlds and the writing.
He's a man who clearly an auteur. He's got a very distinctive style that makes it every easy to pick up on which film are his.
I didn't need to know who the director of this film was to point out that it seems precisely like the sort of thing Del Toro would do.
This brings us to this lovely, lovely movie, however and how it stacks up against his filmography. Most people have said that this is Del Toro's best work since El Laberinto del Fauno and, honestly, I'm inclined to agree with that.
I don't think it surpasses Laberinto, but it's the film in his filmography that has come closest to it.
One of the first reviews on Letterboxd mentioned the fact that Elisa's friends didn't kinkshame her for doing it and how this person needs the same love and support from her friends.
And, admittedly, it is a funny meme review and I'm certain that this particular person knows what the movie is about anyway, it's just a funny review to get likes on Letterboxd.
The thing is that plenty of other people, essentially, summed down the movie to just that. It's a movie about a woman who fucks a 'fish', even though there's a difference between amphibians and fishes.
Regardless, summarizing the film to something as simple as that is sort of, honestly, missing the point about the movie and they simply did not bother to look beyond the film's outward appearance, they didn't bother looking into the film on a deeper level and understand the connection that was built between Elisa and the amphibian man.
In short, I think this really is one of the loveliest romance stories I've seen in quite some time. But, once again, what the movie does quite best is give voice to the voiceless, in this case quite literally as Elisa cannot speak.
Another reason why, I feel, the film works is the fact that all of its major characters are in a state of loneliness.
The film's main theme IS loneliness. Elisa is lonely as a result of the fact that she's mute and her feeling that she won't be able to connect with someone else, as they might see her limitations instead of who she is.
Giles, Elisa's best friend, is a struggling illustrator who also happens to be a gay man in the 60s, when that was looked down upon even more so than it is now in some states.
Zelda, Elisa's co-worker as a cleaner at this secret government lab, has an useless husband who does nothing around the house but watch TV. Strickland, a colonel who is in charge of the project to study the asset ie: the amphibian man is a workaholic who is distant with his wife and children.
And, finally, Dimitri is a Soviet spy who does not feel at home in the U. S nor with his own people as they are actively trying to undermine the project by eliminating the asset.
So, again, you can see how all of these people, in their own way, are all struggling with their loneliness, even if we're shown the movie, mostly, from Elisa's point of view.
Every few minutes, there's the constant reminder of water thrown in your face. And, to me, I think that plays precisely into the loneliness these characters feels.
I don't think there's a lonelier place in the world than in the vast expanse of the ocean. In many ways, you could make the argument that Elisa and the amphibian man were in the same ocean and even with how vast and empty it is, they managed to find each other.
And, honestly, that's just lovely storytelling to me. But, of course, not all is flowers and sunshine as the movie, which is set against the backdrop of the Cold War, sees the Soviets and the U.
S covertly fight against the other to gain control of the 'asset', as they want to study them to see if it can give them an advantage against the other.
There comes a point when both the U. S and the Soviets both want to kill the amphibian man and this is when Elisa springs into action to save him, with help from Giles, Dimitri and Zelda, from the laboratory and release him back to the ocean at a later date.
As far as villains go, I think Michael Shannon does a phenomenal job as Strickland. Like I said earlier, he is a man who is fully concentrated on the job at hand, he needs to get the results no matter what.
I think it's an interesting story to tell because when the amphibian man is freed from the lab, Strickland goes to his higher ups and essentially tells him that, regardless of how well he may have performed or gotten results in the past, that this one fuck up, if he doesn't fix things before it's too late, will end up destroying his entire career.
So, really, Strickland is not a man that is driven by his own personal motivations. I mean, technically, he is, but he is driven by the fact that he always gets the job done, no matter what.
Michael Shannon, as always, plays this role tremendously with the quiet intensity that is required to make Strickland an incredibly threatening character.
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\I'm not going to give this away, but unlike some of the naysayers who've damned this film, they obviously didn't watch it with their eyes open.
Who can make a film like this for under 20 million these days? Obviously Guillermo can. This is a dark and beautiful fantasy that one has to pay attention to.
The story flows like the water it contains and I can't single out any one performance since all of them are so excellent.
I would have liked it if the Amphibian man had a little more original look. He looked like Abe Sapien with the creature from the black lagoon's hands.
But he is a beautiful creature, streamlined and wonderful. While some may poo-poo this film, It's Del Toro's best original film since Pan's Labyrinth and far superior to either Crimson Peak and the utterly terrible Pacific Rim.
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Won 4 Oscars. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Sally Hawkins Elisa Esposito Michael Shannon Richard Strickland Richard Jenkins Giles Octavia Spencer Zelda Fuller Michael Stuhlbarg Robert Hoffstetler Doug Jones Ihre einzigen Freunde sind ihr schwuler Nachbar Giles, ein alternder Plakatkünstler und Katzenliebhaber, und ihre resolute und geschwätzige Arbeitskollegin Zelda, die für sie oft als Übersetzerin agiert.
Hoffstetler mit einem seltsamen Geschöpf im Labor auf. Am Amazonas haben sie ein Wesen, halb Amphibie , halb Mensch, fangen können, das dort wie ein Gott verehrt wird und das sie nun für Experimente in einem Wassertank gefangen halten.
Hier begegnet Elisa zum ersten Mal dem Amphibienmann, von dem sie von Anfang an fasziniert ist. Sie bringt ihm hartgekochte Eier zum Essen mit, spielt ihm Musik vor und unterrichtet ihn in Gebärdensprache.
Währenddessen kommt das Team um Dr. Hoffstetler kaum mit seinen Forschungen voran. Strickland wird von General Hoyt unter Druck gesetzt, Ergebnisse zu liefern.
Er misshandelt das Wesen daraufhin mit einem Viehtreiber. Elisa wird heimlich Zeugin des Vorfalls, was von Hoffstetler bemerkt wird, der seine Entdeckung aber für sich behält.
Sie quartiert den Fischmann in ihrer Badewanne ein. Auf der Arbeit werden Elisa und Zelda wie auch alle anderen Mitarbeiter einem Verhör durch den wütenden Strickland unterzogen.
Elisa plant, den Amphibienmann, zu dem sie sich immer stärker hingezogen fühlt und mit dem sie auch Geschlechtsverkehr hat, in einigen Tagen in einem durch Regen vollgelaufenen Kanal ins Meer zu entlassen.
Unterdessen entdeckt Giles, dass die Kreatur eine seiner Katzen getötet und verspeist hat, und findet heraus, wie das immer schwächer werdende Wesen Verletzungen heilen kann und selbst sein ausgefallenes Haar wieder wachsen lässt.
Er folgt Hoffstetler heimlich zu einem Treffen mit zwei sowjetischen Agenten. So begibt sich Strickland zu Zeldas Wohnung, wo ihm deren verängstigter Ehemann verrät, dass Elisa das Wesen bei sich zu Hause versteckt hält.
Von Zelda telefonisch gewarnt, eilt Elisa mit Giles und ihrer geliebten Kreatur zum Kanal, wo die Freilassung stattfinden soll.
Eine Kalendernotiz in Elisas Wohnung führt Strickland ebenfalls dorthin. Er schlägt Giles nieder und verletzt das Geschöpf und Elisa mit seiner Schusswaffe schwer.
Das Wesen kann sich wundersamerweise selbst heilen und Strickland die Kehle aufschlitzen. Unter Wasser erweckt der neuerstarkte Fischmann Elisa wieder zum Leben.
Aus dem Off erzählt Giles, er hoffe, dass Elisa und die Kreatur bis an ihr Lebensende glücklich und zufrieden waren. Ich nenne ihn ein Märchen für unruhige Zeiten , weil er als eine Art Salbe gegen die Welt wirkt, in der wir jeden Morgen mit schlechteren Nachrichten aufwachen.
Sally Hawkins übernahm die Rolle der stummen Elisa. Doug Jones , der im Film die Rolle der Kreatur übernommen hatte, war bereits in Hellboy und Hellboy — Die goldene Armee in der Rolle von Abe Sapien als Wasserwesen zu sehen, das auch optische Ähnlichkeiten mit dieser Figur aufweist, [7] aber auch an den Kiemenmenschen aus dem Film Der Schrecken vom Amazonas von Jack Arnold aus dem Jahr erinnert, einer ebenfalls in Südamerika entdeckten, halb menschlichen und halb reptilen Kreatur, die man einzufangen versucht, um sie zu untersuchen.
Del Toro hatte im Dezember begonnen, das Drehbuch zu schreiben. Ein Jahr später hatte er mit Setdesignern und bildenden Künstlern erste Ideen für die Kreatur und die Ausstattung gesammelt.
Melvin und Shane Vieau. Während Elisas Apartment farblich in Blau und Cyan gehalten ist, erstrahlt Giles Wohnung nebenan ständig in einem goldenen Licht, die Wohnungen und Häuser von Strickland und Zelda erstrahlen hingegen in normalem Tageslicht.
Jahrhunderts, mit dem Kino, das zwar heruntergekommen ist, aber auch eine immense Wärme und Romantik ausstrahlt. Das verschlissene Holz, die veralteten Pflasterstein-Wände und das kurvenreiche Design stehen im Kontrast zu dem brutalen Stil und der institutionellen Architektur der Anlage.
Die Räumlichkeiten sollten zudem einem Tempel in Südamerika ähneln, da die Kreatur am Amazonas wie ein Gott verehrt wurde.
Die Konstruktion sei nicht mit Wasser befüllt gewesen, sondern wurde mit Rauch gefüllt, und die Haare und Kleidung wurde mit einem Ventilator bewegt, wobei die Aufnahmen in Zeitlupe zu sehen sind.
Über die Dreharbeiten in Elisas Wohnung sagte del Toro, man habe eine Menge Möbel mit Klavierdrähten aufgehängt und digital kleine Blasen und Fische hinzugefügt, um eine Unterwasserwelt zu kreieren.
Luis Sequeira , der mit del Toro bereits für die Horror-Fernsehserie The Strain zusammengearbeitet hatte, zeichnete für die Kostüme verantwortlich.
Bei der Gestaltung von Elisas Kostümen dachte Sequeira daran, dass diese im Film viel Zeit damit verbringt, alte Filme zu sehen, und das Einzige, was sie sich in einem Secondhand-Laden leisten könnte, Schuhe sein würden.
Sie habe so etwas wie einen Schuhfetisch, so Sequeira, und die roten Schuhe, die Elisa später im Film trägt und die sich von ihrem restlichen Outfit deutlich abheben, sollten eine gewisse Stärke zum Ausdruck bringen, die ihre Figur im Film nach und nach erlangt.
Die Dreharbeiten wurden im August begonnen, [20] Anfang November beendet [21] [22] und fanden in Toronto und Hamilton statt.
Gedreht wurde auch in den Cinespace Studios in Toronto. In Hamilton drehte man in und an der dortigen City Hall. Laustsen sagte, del Toro habe eine sehr genaue Vorstellung von den Farben für seinen Film gehabt, der in der Ära des Kalten Krieges spielt.
Sie wollten Elisas Lebensumwelt in Grün- und Blautönen halten, und die Welt um sie herum sollte in normaler Farbintensität erscheinen, bis sie sich in den Fischmann verliebt und auch Goldtöne hinzukommen.
Diese Bewegung ist bereits musikalisch, ich muss dafür nur noch die Emotionen der Hauptfigur und ihre Beziehung vertonen und dann im Grunde auf den Bildern mitgleiten.
Die Filmmusik komponierte Alexandre Desplat. Der Soundtrack zum Film umfasst 26 Musikstücke und wurde am 8. Dezember von Decca Records veröffentlicht.
Der Film feierte am August im Rahmen der Filmfestspiele in Venedig seine Premiere, wo er im Hauptwettbewerb gezeigt wurde.
Dezember kam der Film in ausgewählte US-amerikanische und am Februar in die deutschen Kinos. Dies erleichtert es ihnen, eine emotionale Distanz von den teils dramatischen Geschehnissen zu bewahren.
Vereinzelt gibt es drastische Gewaltszenen , die von Jugendlichen ab 16 Jahren aber in den Kontext der Geschichte eingeordnet und angemessen verarbeitet werden können.
Die romantische Liebesgeschichte sowie einige humorvolle Momente ermöglichen zudem eine emotionale Entlastung.
Für Robbie Collin vom Telegraph ist der Film ein wunderschöner Horrorschocker , so zeitlos wie ein Märchen und ein irgendwie schönes Melodram , dessen gejagtes Geschöpf ihn an Der Schrecken vom Amazonas erinnert.
Auch Andreas Borcholte von Spiegel Online beschreibt den Film als ein visuell kraftvolles Kreaturenmärchen, das jedoch anders als in Guillermo del Toros Film Pans Labyrinth ohne die Horrormomente auskomme, die er so liebe, dafür aber virtuos den Tanz- und Revuefilm der er Jahre zitiere.
Brian Formo von collider. März startete, verzeichnete er am ersten Wochenende 2. Das Onlineportal kinofenster.
Dort schreibt Christian Horn, im medienkundlichen Unterricht biete sich Shape of Water für eine Analyse der Stilmittel und filmhistorischen Verweise des Fantasyfilms an.
So sanft es auch sein kann, ist es zugleich die stärkste und verformbarste Kraft des Universums. Gilt das nicht ebenso für die Liebe?
Ich mag Filme, die befreiend sind und sagen: Es ist gut so, der zu sein, der du bist. Del Toro selbst erklärte, dass sich im Film unter anderem Fantasyfilm, Spionagethriller und Musical mischen.
Und das, scheint mir, ist gerade in der heutigen Zeit sehr wichtig. Philipp Stadelmaier von der Süddeutschen Zeitung bemerkt zur aktuellen Situation in Hollywood, wo radikal Sexismus- und Missbrauchsstrukturen aufgearbeitet werden und sogar Filmemacher wie Quentin Tarantino unter Beschuss geraten, wirke del Toro wie der liebe Märchenonkel, der keiner Fliege was zuleide tun kann, und man könne den Film sorglos konsumieren, ohne sich fragen zu müssen, ob ihr Schöpfer ein chauvinistischer Wüstling ist.
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Eines Tages kommen der Wissenschaftler Hoffstetler und der Sicherheitschef Strickland mit einem seltsamen Geschöpf in die Basis, einem Amphibien-Mann, den man im Power Rangers Der Film Deutsch in Südamerika gefangen hat, wo er von den Einheimischen wie ein Gott verehrt You Are Everything Stream German. Ein klassisches, original erhaltenes 50er-Jahre-Filmtheater. FebruarUhr Leserempfehlung 0. In: collider. Strickland hat eine wasserstoffblonde Frau, einen nagelneuen Cadillac und ist getrieben von einem einzigen Gedanken: das fremde Geschöpf umzubringen, Bijou Phillips es den Russen in die Hände fällt. Beschreibung Vor dem Hintergrund des Kalten Kriegs in Amerika spielt der Film in den Sechzigerjahren Edgar Selge Unterwerfung handelt Vergewaltigungsopfer der stummen Elisa, die in einem versteckten Hochsicherheitslaber der Regierung arbeitet und dort eine isolierte Existenz fristet. Ist es eine Hommage an ein Zeitalter, oder eine an den Zauber des Kinos an sich? Für Robbie Collin vom Telegraph ist der Film ein wunderschöner Horrorschockerso zeitlos wie ein Märchen und ein irgendwie schönes Melodramdessen gejagtes Geschöpf ihn an Der Schrecken vom Amazonas erinnert. Schönen Sonntag Abend Bilder ist ausgerechnet der Finger mit seinem Ehering, der Strickland von der Kreatur Gandalf Zitate wird.
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