The Shape of Water

[pj1228]

Finally I saw The Shape of Water in the movie theatre. What a delightful film! A nice change from today's action-packed movies. Instead it was wonderfully nostalgic with a lot of nods towards classic Hollywood. Ranging from Jack Arnold's Creature from the Black Lagoon over Betty Grable to Mr. Ed. The sentence "Bonanza is too violent for kids" was hilarious. Oh those good old times...

The end was totally awesome. And I liked the music so much (in particular Renée Fleming's "You'll Never Know") that I'm going to buy the soundtrack.

And then there was Nigel, speaking Russian all the time, with subtitles. He appears in several scenes. I was torn between watching him and reading what he was actually saying. I definitely need to watch that again.

John Kapelos was supposed to be in the movie as well, but I have to admit that I missed or didn't recognise him. Shame on me! Another reason to watch it again.

Other familiar sites included a teal-coloured Cadillac, although it wasn't a convertible. And I recognised several Toronto locations, such as streetcar tracks, Massey Hall, Cherry Street shore, Gardiner Expressway, and the beautiful Elgin Theatre.

Comments

[senmut]

Awesome. I had to pass on theater, and am hoping the March DVD release is not delayed.

[pj1228]

You're lucky to get the DVD so soon. The German DVD release date has been set to July 31.

[abby82]

I got the Blu-Ray earlier this week and totally agree that it was such a lovely movie. I adore Guillermo Del Toro so much. He's so gosh darn delightful.

John's scenes were extremely brief. He plays the theatre owner. His first scene is near the beginning when he encourages Eliza to bring a friend to a screening. His is hair snow white so it's hard to tell that it's him. I only recognized him because of his voice and I had the luxury of rewinding it a bit to confirm. His second scene is when he pounds on Eliza's front door because all the water from her rendezvous with the creature was seeping into the theatre downstairs. Oh, that beautiful theatre! The Elgin is stunning.

I was so happy that Nigel's scene were fairly significant. This past awards season I've become such an admirer of Michael Stuhlbarg's work that I was pleased to see that all of Nigel's scenes were with him. Also, Nigel is looking sooo good. He's so dashing.

[pj1228]

Ah, so that's why I didn't recognise John Kapelos. I didn't expect white hair. I haven't seen him in anything in years. The last was probably an episode of Castle.

I also enjoyed Michael Stuhlbarg's performance a lot. He looked familiar, but I couldn't place him at the time. After looking him up at IMDB I noticed that I've seen him in Dr. Strange and Men in Black 3 although I don't remember him from these movies.