#love del toro so much

[beekerosene]

Guillermo Del Toro is really out here making the best possible movies for me to obsess over. progressively undermine every aspect of fascism but also reimagine popular storybook characters but also commentary on catholicism but dont forget we still hate fascists and what if biblically accurate divine beings with Cate Blanchett making monkey noises the whole time and now the pain of immortality but also the pain of mortality and up next its a cri- *stepped on* its a cricket tha- *hit by door* its a cricket that doesnt get to fi- *pummeled by unrolling paper* its a cricket that doesnt get to finish his song but dont worry you get some other bangers in the meantime and the fox is a conman and whoops crucified delimbed and eaten 1.2 times now bury your family and carry the dead in your heart as you wander the earth not knowing if you will die but rabbit poker in undeath

[drrav3nb]

CHARLIE HUNNAM as Raleigh Becket RINKO KIKUCHI as Mako Mori PACIFIC RIM (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[sokoe]

What happens, happens.

[exlimix1a]

I drew the lad 🥺 colored/painted a sketch I made while trying to learn how to draw him!!!

[girl-from-yharnam]

Just Guillermo del Toro ghost hunting in Scotland:

[canonfanon]

Rewatching Pacific Rim right now, and there's this tiny moment between Mako and Raleigh that I really love

Toward the beginning of the movie, before any of the main action, Mako is showing Raleigh around the shatterdome, introducing him to the newly-renovated Gipsy Danger

Directly after this, Mako shows Raleigh to his quarters and the two of them have this conversation:

They talk a little more, Mako reveals her amazing simulator score, but also confirms that she is not one of the pilot candidates. They then discuss Raleigh's abilities. He asks Mako for her opinion - she thinks he is skilled but too unpredictable and reckless. She ends with this:

Raleigh thanks Mako for her honestly and says she may be right. Then goes on to say this:

And the tiny detail in this scene that drives me crazy is right here

He says when. Not if, when. Mako has just explicitly confirmed that Marshal Pentecost is not considering her for Jaeger pilot. It has already been established at this point that there are only 4 Jaegers left anyway, and that the program is nearing its end, one way or another. In all likelihood, they have very little time left until the end of the whole damn world. Hell, Mako herself just criticized Raleigh, and he could very well wish to get back at her for that, were he a different person. AND YET, despite all of that, he says when. Raleigh has faith in Mako from the very, very beginning, before they even drift together, before he even sees her fight.

And that drives me crazy! I love their relationship so much

[bumblebeebats]

Wow, Guillermo del Toro really said You know what my animated kid's musical needs? Catholicism. War. Death. Alcoholism. Fascism. Frankensteinian undertones. A haunting meditation on mortality and grief. Cate Blanchett making monkey noises. And he was so fucking right

[greenerteacups]

hi GT!

Lionheart had me the moment you kicked it off with “it’s a nice day to start again.” Might i ask why you chose that particular line?

And, if you havent already answered to this emoji:

❄️

P.s: you have my eternal gratitude for creating the most brilliant piece of writing i’ll ever read. I shout about it from the rooftops, share it on my socials, requested my spouse to read it so we may discuss it together (in lieu of a present for my 30th birthday), et cetera.

I see from your URL you are a fellow lad of taste.

There's a couple things going on in the epigraph for Book 1. On one level, it's a lyric from the first muggle song I picture Draco listening to on his walkman at the end of the book, so there's a cute full-circle thing there. The second layer is the theme of change and redemption, which, in Lionheart, doesn't so much come from major moments or self-sacrifice, but from the slow, grueling, everyday work of living, and living better. It's a nice day to start again because every day is. You always have the opportunity to start making better choices, no matter what lies behind you. That's the thesis of any Draco redemption arc, right? You have to imagine that he could have chosen to be better.

And then thirdly, there's the audacity of doing a full Hogwarts canon rewrite, a good 30 years after the original books came out, millions upon millions of words of fanfic later, and basically asking everyone to read the same story they did the first time around, only different. So it's a kind of winking entreaty. It's saying to readers, many of whom are understandably wary of doing it over, zeroing out the characters to starting positions, and starting from the beginning with 11-year-olds all over again. It's going: "hey. That was fun, right? Why not do it again?"

[stillnotyourmusebitch]

I just rewatched The Shape of Water. Ahhhhh, it's still one of my favourite films of his. Something so beautiful and dreamy about it.

Will always brighten my heart and lift my spirits🩵

[nerdystarlightlove]

pov: I have just experienced something that changed my life forever (I just watched Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio)

[084392]

UGH, cannot stop thinking about how beautiful this movie was!!!

[5kape]

He’s a little guy, I love him with all my heart :]

[azure-trash]

Two more doodles of the Caparezza OCs. I may be diseased.

[saffron-rays]

(Sorta) Abe Sapien from Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy

I’m starting to think my traditional rendering is much better than my digital >:/ oh well! That just means I get to practice more :)

[themidnightcircusshow]

@heartofstanding tagged me in this meme months ago and unfortunately it took me this long to get to it because I had a mild crisis over how long it's been since I've read a novel, let alone one that I loved 😅 so this is nine of my favourite novels (not books, because if I included manga/short stories/comics/etc this would be giant)

0The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde// Pyrrhus-- Mark Merlis//The Scarecrow--Ronald Hugh Morrieson//Unnatural History--Kate Osman//Tunnels of Blood--Darren Shan//The Coffin Dancer--Jeffery Deaver//Hero--Perry Moore//Frankenstein--Mary Shelley//One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-- Ken Kasey

[valkaryah]

Baz Luhrmann's ‘Elvis’ by Guillermo del Toro

Source: Variety

I absolutely love Guillermo's last paragraph, he puts into words what makes Baz's work so magical in such a beautiful way: "Such is the power and purity of Baz — our only Baz and his belief in Truth, Beauty, Freedom — and, above all else: Love. Love of Cinema, Love of Emotion and Love of Love." Yes, this is what has always drawn me to Baz's work. Pure love and beauty. How am I supposed to watch one of his movies and not feel completely full of love and life? It's impossible. I love Baz's passion and love for the stories he chooses to tell. "Love of Love", that's exactly it. He is a Maestro. I really love that Guillermo was the one to review Elvis is in this article too 💕 Both these auteurs surrender themselves to the Cinematic Wonder and Magic. Perfect fit.