 The shape of water my name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion hey guys thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for the shape of water i really do appreciate it but before we get into the review go ahead and click that subscribe button also click the bell so you can be notified when i make uploads and also give me that thumbs up let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes now a lot of people will say when the name Gail Murrow del Toro comes up as the writer-director that he is the grand or one of the best storytellers out there i'm kind of on the fence as far as that's concerned i've seen majority of his films i haven't seen them all um his most uh one of the films he started out with in the 90s was Mimic which came out in 1997 i did not see that film um he also did Blade II which came out um i think that came out in 2002 of course with Weston types and i love that film um he did Hellboyz 1 and 2 and i thought those films were okay he did Panze Labyrinth which i did not see but heard it was really good and then after that he did a Pacific Rim i enjoyed that film but i was slightly disappointed one of the things that turned me off in that film was that a lot of the uh battles that had to do with the Yeagers had to do with at night and there was a lot of rain and so it was kind of hard to make out the choreography and you know tell kind of what that was doing i enjoyed the film but i was a little let down then he did Crimson Peak and i absolutely despised the film i didn't like at all i thought it's pretty much horrible and now he has the shape of water and of course i'm going to tell you about that now so i'm kind of 50-50 with these films and you know if you do a like a good moral del Toro you know that's perfectly fine you know all films are subjective um so i was going to this movie with somewhere you know mediocre expectations um you know before i saw the movie i was just talking to one of my uh my subscribers in the comment section he was saying that all the critics love this movie and they're just raving about it but a lot of the fans you know are you know not liking it so much and i had an opportunity to see this film two weeks ago um but it was too many people at the screening so i got turned away i got there real late and then i tried to see it like every day this week but then everything just you know stuff kept getting in my way you know but i was finally able to see it so i'm glad that we can talk about it right now and um you know if you've seen Gilmorrow del Toro's films you know that you know he can be considered an art tour um his films are none like any other films that have come out before him or at the same time he is really a artsy director you know he um he always has some type of mystical magical creature or coming from outer space you know from the bottom of the earth or just something you know weird and obscure like that so i will give him credit as far as that's concerned and that is definitely the case with the shape of water and what the shape of water is about it is during the cold war in the 1960s um and the two main characters or somebody named Eliza and Zelda Eliza is played by Sally Hawkins and Zelda is played by Octavia Octavia Spencer i'm not too familiar with Sally Hawkins but i really do love Octavia Spencer i've seen pretty much all the films that she's been in um and she accepted this role because she just wanted to work with Gilmorrow for a very long time she said that she will walk the earth to uh work with the film uh to work in a film that he's you know writing producing and directing so it looks like this she you know her she got her chance on her you know her dream came true and Gilmorrow when he was putting this film together he said that he wrote this film for the actual actors and actresses that are in this film so as far as Sally Hawkins concerned he said that was his only choice Octavia Spencer was his only choice and he actually met her in the 2014 Golden Globe um movie awards that they just announced their nominees and he said that he actually pitched the idea to her drunk or whatever while he was intoxicated and because of the source material of this film you know it didn't sound you know too promising because it's kind of a weird love story between one character and you know some aquatic creature and whatnot you know and just imagine how they can be sounding pitch to you while someone is intoxicated um so but one thing I really did enjoy this film one thing that I really did like a lot was the characters and their performances because you know they all did a great job and that's you know um most likely due because when Gilmorrow was writing this film he had all these actors in mind the only actor that dropped out of this um out of this picture was Ian McKellen he was supposed to play somebody uh by the name of Giles but a gentleman named Richard Jenkins took the place you know Richard Jenkins you've seen him before and I don't want to tell you why I don't actually I don't know why um Ian McKellen dropped out but I don't want to tell you what role he was going to take in this movie because I consider that to be a spoiler but if you do see the shape of water which I do recommend you do you will know by the end of this movie who Ian McKellen was going to play and why and I thought the casting one was going to be perfect but I don't want to ruin that for you now uh but the the actor the acting in this movie was phenomenal uh from Sally Hawkins Octavia Spencer Richard Jenkins and Michael uh Shannon oh excuse me Michael Shannon is pretty much one of the antagonists of the film and you know whether someone is a protagonist or an antagonist in this movie everybody did a great job and just something about Michael Shannon's character that really just stood out to me is he is really just a prime example of somebody that just has everything in the world that they want and necessarily need but they just still are pride and hungry for more because I mean this guy had a great job uh and you know in his in his life he had a great career he was respected among his peers he had two loving children and a loving wife that pretty much gave him everything he wanted without him even asking for it but he just still was just going around moping and just kind of had this chip on the shoulder and he just wanted more he had a like a lot of pride and you know we see a lot of that today and that just kind of stood out to me I mean like just kind of a slight spoiler here I mean his kids so bait him doing everything that he wanted you know his wife is you know giving him breakfast and just oh honey here's your breakfast I'll clean the place hey and when you're done you know wash your hands real good and come upstairs you know so of course you kind of know what they're about to get into and just doing that scene just alone when you know they went upstairs you know she's off from this and that or whatever and she just kind of I don't want to ruin it for you but I just kind of found his character they're kind of just really disgusting and repulsive you know but at the same time you know I like this character because every character in the movie can't be just great and it was just a nice nice contrast from the good characters especially from Octavia Spencer and Sally Hawkins so I mean I love the film there this movie is I will say it is not for everybody I can really understand why somebody would not like this film but I really liked it because I'm taking my bias out of it out of the equation now this is nothing that I will buy and watch repeatedly over and over myself but I do like the I do respect and like the direction and the vision that Guillermo del Toro had and what he put in the script what he put on the page what he put on the screen and like I said I can't do anything you know but respect it something else that also stood out to me that since this is um you know I don't even think I told you what it's about but I'll get to that but uh well let me tell you that first before I go there uh what it's about it's in the 1960s during the Cold War and I did cover that and Octavia Spencer character Zelda and Sally Hawkins character Eliza they are janitors and this research facility but I believe it's in New York um Eliza Sally Hawkins character ism she's I went in thinking she was deaf not yet deaf but she's not deaf she's a mute but she can't talk and or that's what mute is of course I don't want to tell you why you just kind of see the movie for yourself and she does a lot of sign language and she creates a relationship with an aquatic creature and I'll just stop there because I don't excuse me I don't want to spoil anything for you now that's pretty much what the movie is about now um as far as if you just want to rip this story down to its bare bones you have seen this story told you know plenty of times before in Hollywood it's not necessarily anything new that you haven't seen before what is new and what you have seen before is the way that it is told and that goes straightly due to the moral deltoids you know writing and directing because he took this somewhat familiar story that you've seen before and gives it a nice little twist with his style personality and just swag and just you know dumped it all over the swim man he it really did deliver something beautiful and I will say this movie is a really artsy film um it is just a prime example of expressing yourself and how you feel about yourself in the world and how you fit into the world and the main character in this movie that's driving that bus is Sally Hawkins I think she did a great job especially with her acting um she does deserve um some type of recognition and during Oscar season which is coming up because she barely had a line of dialogue but she was just able to express herself any more so well through her expressions body language and mannerisms and sign language I mean she really drove it home with her acting and she only had like a liner to a dialogue you know in this movie now you're probably saying well Brandon how does she have a line to a dialogue in this movie when she was a mute well there is one scene in particular to where it transitions the film is majority in color and also Gomorrah wanted to shoot this film in black and white but he didn't do that because of budget constraints I don't know how that would be more expensive if you know please let me know in the comment section below but there's just one point where Sally Hawkins transitions into some type of dream sequence to where she's able to express herself on the stage and that was one of the best film one of the best scenes in the whole entire film she had a lovely voice doing this and it was just nothing short of beautiful and I just really did like that also something that stood out to me is that this is a this film took place in the 1960s and during that time there was a this this country was just rampant with racism you know black people were in the streets there's modern own damn business and getting dogs sicked on them and getting blasted with water holes and things like that and so this film does cover racism just a little bit and you know I think it was appropriate um it also goes to show just how much apathy people had in this movie about they're like oh I don't want to see that turn the channel it has nothing to do with me but during this time in the 1960s in real life you know somebody with a disability that has that's mute and somebody that is black Octavia Spencer and someone that is a closet homosexual homosexual that is another character that I don't want to reveal here you have to see it for yourself those were the three prominent actors and actresses in this movie and they had the most important parts so I just found that really interesting that doing such a whole time in this you know country to where it had to do a race and you know people with disabilities and you know being homosexual or whatever these characters were given the forefront in this movie and that really spoke to me especially you know for the black lady Octavia Spencer or whatever you know she's black I'm black so I'm going to be able to relate to her more and when I was looking up some information on this film that is another one of the reasons that got Octavia Spencer excited for the role you know is just because of that the aquatic figure in this movie was played by Doug Jones um he this is the sixth film that he's worked with Guillermo del Toro and um he was also the silver surfer in the Fantastic Four movie that came out from Fox as now Disney um in 2007 um he was also uh he was also one of those figures that had the eye the eyes on his hands and the hell boy and um I think yeah he was the merman in this movie it took him about three hours three and a half hours per day for the makeup but he was like oh that's nothing you know because all the other movies I had to sit into the chair of makeup even hours and hours before um all the makeup that he used in this crete in this film is the merman was mostly uh practical the only CGI elements was when the creature had to light up for certain reasons and sequences um and I thought that was pretty cool as well um you know without having a lot of dialogue as well too you know he did a great job in all the makeup and I really did appreciate that also Guillermo del Toro said that he got a lot of inspiration from the creatures from the black lagoon oh black and white film which I have not seen but I've heard of it before and I'm pretty sure you've heard of it before too um let me see I don't want to leave anything else because I really did love this film but like I mean I really did love the acting and performances um you know because the everybody did a great job from good and bad uh this this was a beautiful example of expression expression in this film and you know Sally Hawkins character was a really isolated character that really just stuck to herself and you know she found love in a particular character and while others may consider extremely taboo and there are some decisions that the director and the characters made in this movie that may turn the general audience off and initially when I was like oh man I can't believe they weren't there with it but in the end it's just something I appreciate it and like I said I use this word a lot of prime example of just like hey man fine happiness however you can it does not matter what anybody else is what anybody else thinks if you're happy doing something or loving a certain character hey you know more power to you you know in this film you know had a lot to do with that um like I really did enjoy the film like I said it's nothing that I will buy but um this is honestly one of the better better movies that I have seen all year and it since it is becoming the end of the year I'm putting my list together of like the top 10 best films right now on my list I have about 15 or 16 films so far um I have more films to see as well I got to see the post and there's a number of films this week but um I think that may get up to about 17 or 18 and I'm gonna do a video for my top 10 best uh films of the year um I don't know if I'm gonna do my top 10 favorite but you know you know just you know subscribe and you'll find out my guys if I had to rate the shape of water out of a one out of 10 oh I had my writing before but I may want to bump it up even more oh man uh damn I'm gonna give it a 9.25 out of 10 yes a 9.25 out of 10 my guys that is just my opinion have you seen the shape of water yet or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't that's fine go ahead and subscribe to my 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