Director, producer, screenwriter and novelist Guillermo del Toro was born in Mexico on October 9, 1964, in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
He began filming in his hometown when he was a teenager, combining this activity with his studies at the Instituto de Ciencias. At that time he made the short films "Doña Lupe" (1985) and "Geometría" (1987). For ten years he specialized in makeup design, which led him to create his own company, "Necropia", in collaboration with his great friend and animator Rigo Mora.
He was the founder of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (previously called Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara), and created the production company Tequila Gang.
His debut feature, "Cronos" (1993), won nine Ariel awards, including Best Film and Best Director, and won Best Screenplay and Best Actor at the Sitges Film Festival.
"Mimic" (1997), was his second feature film and his first work produced in the United States.
Later he undertook new projects fusing fantastic effects with historical fables and used symbolic elements, such as "El espinazo del diablo" (2001), a film with the collaboration in the production of the brothers Agustín and Pedro Almodovar and "El Laberinto Del Fauno" (2006), winner of three Oscar awards (Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Makeup), which achieved his consolidation at an international level.
Prior to "Pan's Labyrinth", Del Toro returned to vampire films by directing "Blade II" (2002) and made "Hellboy" (2004), a film based on Mike Mignola's comic book. In addition to his work as a director, Mexican Guillermo del Toro has also produced several films, including "El Orfanato" (2007), directed by J. A. Bayona.
He returned to directing with the sci-fi action film "Pacific Rim" (2013). He later released "The Scarlet Summit" (2015), a nineteenth-century ghost story; and "The Shape Of Water" (2017), a fantasy starring Sally Hawkins for which the Mexican won an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
"The Shape Of Water" also won the Oscar for best film of the year 2017.
In 2019, as producer and screenwriter, he released "Historias De Miedo Para Contar En La Oscuridad" (2019), a film directed by André Ovredal that adapted a book by Alvin Schwartz. A year later, he produced with Robert Zemeckis the film "The Witches" (2020), an adaptation of a book by Roald Dahl.
In 2021 he released as producer the DreamWorks animated film "Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans" (2021), a film based on his own 2015 book that Guillermo co-wrote with Daniel Kraus.
Also in 2021 he produced the horror film "Antlers: Dark Creature" (2021). Other books written by Del Toro are the so-called Darkness Trilogy, co-written with Chuck Hogan and consisting of the novels "Nocturna" (2009), "Oscura" (2010) and "Eterna" (2011).
He collaborated again with Hogan on "The Hollow Beings" (2020). Also from 2021 is "The Alley of Lost Souls" (2021), a film based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham starring Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper.
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:what-the-hell: :wut:
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What was your favorite Guillermo del Toro Movie nerds? mine was hellboy also new megathread :posting:
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same. goated film
"un accidente...? No Podrais regresar! NO PODRAIS REGRASAR JAMAS!!"
It's so fucking good, politically as well.
Never forget, Pan's Labyrinth lost Best Picture to the Lives of Others.
In retrospect, that decision seems awfully appropriate for Hollywood.
i like the part where the fascist gets domed :meow-floppy:
not just any fash, Spanish fash that looks like a young Franco. By a Catalonian anarchist.
Prestigious institutions fucking hate genre fiction.
Toni Collette didn't even get an Oscar nomination for Hereditary.
My mom bought it for me when I was like 10 years old without checking the rating thinking it was just some kids fantasy movie
Scarred me but it transformed my current taste in film and really cemented my appreciation and interest for practical effects in movies. The pale man and the faun terrified me so badly I couldn't sleep for like a week, but it also made me want to be a practical effects designer (engineer?? Idk the actual term for it now) when I grew up for a solid 4 years
Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth. Still haven't seen Pacific Rim. Is it worth watching?
I liked it, it was a good mecha/kaiju movie, dont watch the 2nd one tho
Pacific Rim is good if you wanna see some dope ass robot-monster fights
The second one exists
What was your favorite Guillermo del Toro Movie nerds?
You know....you axolotl questions :funny-clown-hammer:
A recent burst of crime (and the general increase in the homeless population) has turned my cities subreddit into friekorps headquarters. Upvoted comments saying homeless people and drug addicts all need to taken “somewhere”.
I LOVE TRAFFIC. I LOVE TRAFFIC. I LOVE TRAFFIC. I LOVE BEING IN A BUS THAT'S NOT MOVING. I LOVE TRAFFIC. THEY HAD TO HIRE NEW DRIVERS WHO DON'T KNOW THE ROUTE BECAUSE THIS ENITIRE SHITSHOW WITH TEMPORARILY REPLACING THE TRAINS WITH BUSSES WAS NOT PLANNED OUT. WE ARE LOST. I LOVE TRAFFIC. I LOVE TRAFFIC. I LEFT WORK OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO. I WISH I WAS HIGH. I LOVE TRAFFIC.
I've got good news and bad news
Bad news: The climate is collapsing
Good news: We're all going to die.
I honestly thought that because eggs aren't alive that they were vegan.
:engels-wut:
i mean there are also way too many people who seem to think fish are vegetables, but most of them arent 'vegan' youtube influencers
We truly are alienated from the food production process, aren't we. Food apparently sprouts up in supermarkets as pre-formed cubes.
yeah the whole weird pescetarian mental gymnastics of somehow fish dont count as meat, and the number of times ive said :im-vegan: and been asked if i eat fish, and the number of times ive been to restaurants and they tell me yes their 'vegetarian' stuff is vegan and then i ask if it has fish sauce or oyster sauce or shrimp paste and they tell me yes with a quizzical look like they dont even understand the problem
I think a lot of people see it as like a fad diet thing and are used to dieting = avoid red meat and animal fats. Plus medieval traditions categorized fish as acceptable for Lent and other fasting days because fish aren't associated with wealth/landownership and always were more accessible to peasants (you can also find medieval almond milk recipes for the same reason).
I don't think they understand that veganism is an ethical issue about the treatment of animals as conscious beings. Most people don't even consider the consciousness of animals that aren't housepets.
edit to add that yeah, basically everyone who asks about veganism immediately assumes its just a health thing
in my omni days i was on some tourism thing with a group including this old israeli guy, and when we got to the lunch place he was yelling at everyone for being animal abusers for eating meat and bragging about being vegetarian (he had turned vegetarian a few months earlier). then he turned around and ordered the whole fish for lunch, head and all.
that was always a really wtf moment for me since he really was supposedly doing it 'for the animals' rather than a diet, and in retrospect it may have planted the seed for me to think more about the fucked up double standards we have regarding animals and helped me along the vegan path, so i guess thanks awful old israeli guy
Boomers probably consider chicken to be a vegetable lol
I bet that demographic heavily skews Catholic since fish are okay to eat on Fridays during Lent for some reason
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So I'm rewatching Fury Road rn. This really may be the most insane big budget film it's so wild it ever got the budget it did. Holds up really well, like the experience of watching this is exceptional it really looks and feels amazing.
Immortan Joe flies red and black flags btw, which is I don't know you know? I don't really think he's antifascist something tells me
Also remember Tom Hardy? He was a thing for like 3 or 4 years, like a real star. Now he's Venom lol.
Should've won best actor for The Revenant tbh. Leo could've been thrown a best supporting bone.
Sex workers on twitter are talking about how business slowing down for them is a good indicator for a recession.
Inside 'er trading. :kelly:
Lol, my brother unironically did the whole, "Did you know hitler was a vegan too!?!?" song and dance to earlier today, fucking lol
No he wasn't, he was just a vegetarian. It shows the slippery slope from eating cheese on a cheat day to the holocaust.
Today's the day it happened! Mark it down on your calendars everyone, on this day, the 20th of May 2020, Hexbear reached 20,000 accounts! :penguin-dance:
can't believe my CW-labeled comment was removed. "You're loved but this is triggering" Oh thanks. Your love is really making a massive material difference for me right now, mod. Reality is far more triggering than my comment about my thoughts regarding the state of the world. I just spoke about how I felt, which includes a sense of hopelessness I know I share with a lot of other people here. Fucking sucks I can't even express the hurt welling up within me (but directed at no one) in the one place I thought it might be accepted.
Completely shocked to learn that socialists oppose NATO, an organization whose original purpose was to fight against socialism in europe.