You’re referring to this post, which carries my darling heart Sus’ (aka @harrietvane) tags. And since those are her tags, I’ll leave it to her to explain fully, if she so wishes.
Heyyyyy so if you’re into this: that Rochester reference in my tag-rant about Crimson Peak and GdT was me being flippant about gothic tropes and fandom, not any actual real discourse (disclaimer: Rochester discourse I’m pretty sure is An Actual Thing, but fun fact, I deeply, deeply don’t care). In the context of Crimson Peak I was just noticing that this site is very very into Guillermo del Toro right now, and the way that happens is everyone gets all in a lather about how great and organically grass-fed non-problematic a creator is, then a few months later someone finds A Receipt about a Wrong Opinion They Have, and it’s on like donkey kong. Passive aggressive tea-sipping gifs are flying, and it all gets super boring in about 8 seconds. My flippant prediction was that if the love of GdT around here is based on the concept of The Monstrous being ‘actually just a super sweetheart, they’re just misunderstood!’, then this shit is about to go downhill fast, because that 100% is not what he seems to be into, by his own admission. The man is into the full monster spectrum, from what tumblr would call Good People (hey Frankenstein’s creature! or a finger-biting river god! Hellboy!), to Bad People (Mako’s flashback kaiju, fascist wind-up clockwork assassins, or serial murderers Lucille and Thomas Sharpe). The key for me is he’s not ever trying to make the Bad People column fit into the Good People column – he’s just genuinely just …into all of them. It’s not even ‘they’re all the Good column!’ – he’s not keeping labelled columns about which ones he’s allowed to like, it all just seems like Monster Mash to this guy. This site however loves to work itself into a froth about Gothic-lit style monsters that are put in the Bad People column (the big ones being MCU Loki, the Beast from BatB (any version tbh), literally anyone in Wuthering Heights, or Edward Fairfax Rochester, or Han and Leia’s nightmare progeny, etc), and the struggle over which column they belong to, Officially™, and ‘what exactly IS the correct bad childhood to homicide ratio anyway?’ And like, I’m exhausted even just turning my mind in the direction of that discussion at all tbh.
TL;DR: Lucille Sharpe and Thomas Sharpe totally murderised multiple vulnerable people, and had zero excuse for killing a woman in a wheelchair, but GdT doesn’t try and give them one – he knows they’re awful, and just loves Lucille’s jealous, neurotic, serial-poisoning self as-is, and Thomas’ self-interest and weakness and outright blatant lying self as-is. Like, he’s aware they’re gross, and he loves them. Not a mutually exclusive thing. If he gives some interview in future about a Gothic-style Horrible Person in popular media and is like ‘yeaaaah i love that gross trainwreck!’ and i see posts about how GdT is cancelled? I’ll make myself a rose-infused gin and tonic and kick back in my chair, wondering where my fucks went.
I think one of my favourite things about Murder House Puffy Sleeves, aka Crimson Peak, aka the best goddamn film in the universe, is in the end it just comes down to a knife fight between pre-raphaelites:
1. A dark fairy tale as a metaphor for the effects of war on children, set in the midst of the Spanish Civil War 2. A superhero movie that features a war between mankind and magical creatures 3. An action movie where the heroes have to share their minds and bond emotionally so they can punch aliens from the sea better. Also Charlie Day is a scientist. 4. Basically what would happen if all three Bronte sisters got hammered and wrote a book with Lord Byron. and 5. An adorable woman falls in love with a fish man. Not a merman. A FISH MAN.
No one in Hollywood is having more fun.
Could someone tell me the names of the movies? Haven’t heard of any of these…
1. Pan’s Labyrinth 2. Hellboy 2 3. Pacific Rim 4. Crimson Peak 5. The Shape of Water
this is the full size original clayboard etching for my Crimson Peak print for Guillermo Del Toro and Legendary Pictures. 18×36″ and easily 250+ hours of work on this alone. beginning to end, my crude sketches in the theater to sending the final separations this poster took me a month, and i couldnt be happier with it. i also couldnt have been more thrilled to work with the director himself on the project and been more thankful to a studio for understanding the best results are going to come from trust between them and us artists.
This is BY FAR one of the best prints I have EVER seen.
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