![]() ![]() ![]() The director attempted to address his inspiration through his film projects, including Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), in which he scripted a romantic plotline between a princess and an amphibian man in the form of the characters Nuala and Abe Sapien (who bears more than a passing resemblance to the creature from The Shape Of Water). I hoped they would end up together but they didn’t,” del Toro recalls. “I remember seeing the creature swimming under her and I thought it was a beautiful image. He recalls being inspired by the film - a career focused on movie monsters has followed - but dismayed by its ending, when the creature is killed after abducting a female member of the expedition. Mexican-American director Guillermo del Toro was just six years old when he first watched Creature From The Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold’s 1954 black-and-white monster movie about a mysterious amphibian discovered in the Amazon. ![]()
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