The Cinematic Magic of <i>The Shape of Water</i>
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Each day before going to work, Elisa puts eggs on the stove to boil, gets into the bathtub, and pleasures herself.
Eggs, water, and—yes—sex will all play crucial and overlapping roles in the director Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, an adult fairy tale that is at once deeply familiar and utterly original.
Del Toro’s principal inspiration for the film was the 1954 monster-movie classic , which he recalls watching recently. “I saw him swimming under [actress] Julie Adams, and I loved that the creature was in love with her, and I felt an almost existential desire for them to end up together.” Years ago, del Toro even tried to sell Universal Pictures on a remake in which the creature and the woman end up together.The studio passed. So instead, he has now given us the modest miracle of .
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