Shape of Water - The whisper of water

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Movie
German title Shape of Water - The whisper of water
Original title The Shape of Water
Logo The Shape of Water blue.svg
Country of production United States
original language English ,
US Sign Language
Publishing year 2017
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Guillermo del Toro
script Guillermo del Toro,
Vanessa Taylor
production Guillermo del Toro,
J. Miles Dale
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Dan Laustsen
cut Sidney Wolinsky
occupation
synchronization

Shape of Water - The whisper of water (original title: The Shape of Water , German: "Die Form von Wasser") is a feature film by Guillermo del Toro from 2017. The fantasy romance takes place and acts at the beginning of the 1960s of a mute cleaner ( Sally Hawkins ) who falls in love with an amphibious creature ( Doug Jones ) imprisoned there at her workplace, a US secret laboratory .

The film premiered on August 31, 2017 at the Venice Film Festival , where it won the main prize of the festival with the Golden Lion . Numerous other awards followed in the 2017/18 American film awards season, including four Oscars (including for Best Film and Best Director), two Golden Globe Awards and four Critics' Choice Movie Awards .

The film opened in selected US cinemas on December 8, 2017. The cinema release in Germany took place on February 15, 2018.

action

Baltimore , early 1960s: Elisa, a single woman, lives above a little-visited downtown cinema. As a toddler, she was dumped in the water on the riverbank and grew up an orphan. She is mute and communicates with her surroundings through sign language . She works as a night cleaner at the Occam Aerospace Research Center , a secret US government laboratory. Her only friends are her gay neighbor Giles, an aging poster artist and cat lover, and her feisty and talkative work colleague Zelda, who often works as a translator for her.

At the height of the Cold War , in competition with the Soviet space program , the USA wanted to put a person into space as quickly as possible, after the Soviet Union had already sent a living being into space with Laika . One day, the ambitious security chief Strickland and the scientist Dr. Hoffstetler with a strange creature in the laboratory. In the Amazon they were able to catch a being, half amphibian , half human, who is worshiped there like a god and which they are now holding captive in a water tank for experiments.

One day Elisa and Zelda are supposed to clean the laboratory of the pools of blood that were created when the creature Strickland bit off two fingers. It is here that Elisa meets the amphibian man for the first time, and has been fascinated by him from the start.

Elisa regularly sneaks into the laboratory during working hours and spends time with the prisoner. She brings him hard-boiled eggs to eat, plays music for him and teaches him sign language . Meanwhile, the team around Dr. Hoffstetler hardly made any progress with his research. Strickland is pressured by General Hoyt to deliver. He then mistreated the creature with a drover . Elisa secretly witnesses the incident, which is noticed by Hoffstetler, but who keeps his discovery to himself. The Jewish scientist, whose real name is Dimitri and speaks fluent Russian , secretly works for the Soviets, who are also interested in information about the creature.

Despite the protests of Hoffstetler, the American side orders a vivisection of the creature, while the Russians decide to kill the creature with poison. With the help of Giles, Hoffstetler and Zelda, Elisa succeeds in smuggling the creature out of the laboratory. She quarters the fish man in her bathtub. At work, Elisa and Zelda, like all the other employees, are interrogated by the angry Strickland. However, both can convince him that they have nothing to do with the kidnapping of the "thing". Elisa plans to release the amphibian male, to whom she is increasingly attracted and with whom she also has sexual intercourse, into the sea in a canal that is filled with rain in a few days. Meanwhile, Giles discovers that the creature killed and ate one of his cats, and finds out how the weakening creature can heal injuries and grow back even its lost hair. General Hoyt gave Strickland 36 hours to find "the object". He secretly follows Hoffstetler to a meeting with two Soviet agents. Strickland shoots the agents and tortures the seriously injured Hoffstetler until he reveals to him that the creature was not freed by a task force but by cleaners. So Strickland goes to Zelda's apartment, where her frightened husband tells him that Elisa is hiding the creature at home. Warned by Zelda by phone, Elisa rushes with Giles and her beloved creature to the canal where the release is to take place. A calendar note in Elisha's apartment also leads Strickland there. He knocks Giles down and seriously injures the creature and Elisa with his gun. The being can miraculously heal itself and slit Strickland's throat. When Zelda reaches the canal with the police, it escapes into the water with Elisha's lifeless body. Underwater the newly strengthened fish man brings Elisa back to life. From the off , Giles says he hopes Elisa and the creature will be happy and satisfied for the rest of their lives.

production

Staff and cast

Directed by Guillermo del Toro , who wrote the screenplay for the film together with Vanessa Taylor . Del Toro returned to fantasy with the film after Crimson Peak , Pacific Rim and Hellboy: The Golden Army . In an interview with Collider in November 2017, del Toro said that none of his works are more personal than The Shape of Water , that he is very proud of this and that it is his favorite film: “I love it. I call it a fairy tale for troubled times because it acts as a kind of ointment against the world in which we wake up every morning with bad news. ”Del Toro said it can be hard to make a film and to make sure that it is also seen, but The Shape of Water connects wonderfully with the audience, because the film has a lot of heart.

In the movie The Terror of the Amazon , Ricou Browning was dressed as a gill man

Sally Hawkins took on the role of the silent Elisa. Octavia Spencer plays her best friend and work colleague Zelda and Richard Jenkins plays her neighbor Giles. Michael Shannon plays Strickland, the government agent and security officer for the Occam Aerospace Research Center. Michael Stuhlbarg took on the role of Hoffstetler, a scientist and infiltrator for the KGB. Doug Jones , who had taken on the role of the creature in the film, was already seen in Hellboy and Hellboy - The Golden Army in the role of Abe Sapien as a water creature , who also has visual similarities to this character, but also to the gill people from the The 1954 film The Horror of the Amazon by Jack Arnold , a half-human and half-reptile creature also discovered in South America, which one tries to capture in order to study it. In The Shape of Water , the being is also referred to as The Asset , The Object or, by Zelda, simply The Thing . Del Toro admitted that he was fascinated by the out-of-the-way, the outsiders and the empathy that emanated from the monster classic when he saw it for the first time: "That was when I first noticed how art can move you." What he lacked in Arnold's creature adventure, however, was love, and so in his film he combined dreamy fantasy cinema with dark elements of the monster genre and peppered this mix with genuine romance, wit and surprisingly coherent musical moments.

Del Toro began writing the script in December 2011. A year later he had gathered initial ideas for the creature and the equipment with set designers and visual artists. After two years of pre-financing out of pocket, del Toro brought 20th Century Fox on board, but they refused to allow him to shoot the film in black and white, as he originally planned.

Equipment and costumes

The production design created Paul Denham Austerberry , Jeffrey A. Melvin and Shane Vieau . Michael Pekler from Standard explains that a lot in the film is reminiscent of Pan's labyrinth playing in the time of the Franco dictatorship , only that this time fantasy and realism are very closely interlinked: “The outside and the underworld of the bunker, the radiant green of the Water with the steel gray of the laboratory, Elisha's sparsely furnished apartment with the luxurious film palace, into which water pours at some point because it flows inexorably like love. "

While Elisa's apartment is colored in blue and cyan, Giles' apartment next door is constantly shining in a golden light, while the apartments and houses of Strickland and Zelda shine in normal daylight. Austerberry said there should be a contrast between Elisha's apartment and the establishment she works in, and it was extremely important to create these two opposing worlds: “Elisha's world is from the past, late 19th century, with the cinema, which is shabby, but also exudes an immense warmth and romance. The worn wood, the outdated cobblestone walls and the curvy design contrast with the brutal style and institutional architecture of the complex. Even the paneled mural outside Strickland's office was done with special straight-line ceramic tiles. ”The facility, Austerberry continues, is all about science and war, while the world of Elisa and Giles is all about old movies, art and music Shoot tv shows. For the establishment of the research facility and laboratory where the creature is being held and the water tank it lives in, Austerberry was inspired by the architecture of Carleton University in Ottawa with its brutalist buildings , and he wanted a similar structure for that Use laboratory. The premises were also supposed to resemble a temple in South America, as the creature was worshiped like a god in the Amazon. Regarding the film set that houses the water tank the creature lives in, del Toro said it was not possible to build a real giant tank there. The construction was not filled with water, but was filled with smoke, and the hair and clothing were moved with a fan, whereby the recordings can be seen in slow motion. Regarding the filming in Elisha's apartment, del Toro said they hung a lot of furniture with piano wires and digitally added small bubbles and fish to create an underwater world. Most difficult, however, would have been the preparations for the film set, in which Elisa floods her bathroom to have sex with the creature, said Austerberry.

Luis Sequeira , who had previously worked with del Toro on the horror television series The Strain , was responsible for the costumes. Sequeira began his work with a fabric and vintage shopping spree in the United States and Canada. When choosing the color palette of the fabrics, he coordinated with production designer Paul Austerberry. He usually made the employees of the research laboratory appear to work in muted colors, such as brown, green and gray tones, which should reflect the oppressive work environment. When designing Elisa's costumes, Sequeira kept in mind that she spends a lot of time in the film watching old films and that the only thing she could afford in a thrift store would be shoes. She has something like a shoe fetish, according to Sequeira, and the red shoes that Elisa wears later in the film and that clearly stand out from the rest of her outfit should express a certain strength that her figure gradually gains in the film. The amphibious man design was created by Dave Grasso and David Meng .

Shooting and film editing

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Exterior shots were taken at Massey Hall in Toronto
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The movie scenes were shot in the Elgin Theater. Here, the film was also during local festivals shown

Filming began in August 2016, ended in early November 2016, and took place in Toronto and Hamilton . Street scenes were created on Dundas Street West in Toronto, where the diner is also located. Exterior shots were made in front of Massey Hall, interior shots in the Elgin Theater, where the film was also shown as part of the Toronto Film Festival . The premises served as a backdrop for the cinema, above which Elisa lives. The film was also shot at Cinespace Studios in Toronto. In Hamilton they shot in and around the City Hall there.

The cameraman was Dan Laustsen , who worked with del Toro on his first US feature film Mimic from 1997 and also for Crimson Peak from 2015. Laustsen said that del Toro had a very precise idea of ​​the colors for had his film set in the Cold War era. They wanted to keep Elisha's living environment in shades of green and blue, and the world around her should appear in normal color intensity until she falls in love with the fish man and shades of gold are added. Sidney Wolinsky acted as film editor.

Film music and publication

“Right from the start of Shape of Water , when everything floats through the water, there is this flowing movement that runs through the entire film, the camera never rests. This movement is already musical, all I have to do is set the emotions of the main character and their relationship to music and then basically slide along on the pictures. "

- Alexandre Desplat
The music for the film was composed by Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Desplat composed the film music . It was the French composer's first collaboration in this capacity with director del Toro. In a video interview with Zach Laws, Desplat said that he wanted to give the silent Eliza in the film a voice with the music, with which she can express her feelings, but also the other minorities in the film, since all the characters shown in the film are next to her Film, apart from the heads of the research facility, are outsiders to society, such as people who do low-level jobs such as cleaning women, African-Americans and gays. At the same time, he wanted to use the music to make it possible to distinguish who the real monsters are in the film and who aren't. According to Desplat, the creature in the film is a real man and not a monster, only among people are the real monsters.

Desplat said of the preparations for the project, which takes place in the 1960s: “I didn't have to do any research, I knew the music from that time. As a child, I heard American music from the thirties, forties, and fifties. My parents had a large record collection, that's part of my education, just like I don't have to research Stravinsky or Bach anymore because I grew up with them. [...] My research is primarily to find access to a film, the secret path that I transform into music that guides the audience. With the right score, the individual scenes become a flowing whole. ”Desplat also explained that the beginning of Shape of Water , when everything floats through the water, has this flowing movement that runs through the entire film and the camera is still never: "This movement is already musical, I just have to set the emotions of the main character and their relationship to music and then basically slide along on the pictures."

The soundtrack for the film includes 26 pieces of music and was released on December 8, 2017 by Decca Records . The first trailer for the film was accompanied by the song La Javanaise , sung by jazz and blues singer and songwriter Madeleine Peyroux . This was presented in July 2017 at the Comic Con in San Diego . This song is also included on the soundtrack.

The film premiered on August 31, 2017 as part of the 74th Venice Film Festival , where it was shown in the main competition. The film was presented at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2017 and screened at the Sitges Film Festival and the London Film Festival in October 2017 . In November 2017, Fox Searchlight Pictures released a third and final trailer for the film. The film was released in selected US cinemas on December 8, 2017 and in German cinemas on February 15, 2018. The film was shown in advance in January 2018 as part of the Fantasy Filmfest's Fantasy Film Fest White Nights . In spring 2018, an audio book on the film was also published in German, with the voices of Marie and Detlef Bierstedt , among others .

reception

Age rating

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The statement of reasons for approval states: “For young people aged 16 and over, the film is clearly recognizable as an unreal fantasy story . This makes it easier for them to keep an emotional distance from the sometimes dramatic events. Occasionally there are drastic scenes of violence that young people from 16 years of age can put into the context of the story and deal with appropriately. The romantic love story and some humorous moments also enable emotional relief. "

Reviews and grossing results

The film was previously at 92 percent of critics Rotten Tomatoes convincing and was always with the film Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet compared, including Giorgio Viaro of bestmovie.it for a likewise shown eccentric love story full of fantastic elements. Other critics also recognized elements from Beauty and the Beast and ET - The Extra-Terrestrial in the film . As part of the Golden Tomato Awards in 2017, the film came out third in the category Best Film Romance .

For Robbie Collin from the Telegraph , the film is a wonderful horror shocker , as timeless as a fairy tale and a somehow beautiful melodrama , whose hunted creature reminds him of The Horror of the Amazon .

Guillermo del Toro at the screening of the film in Sitges in October 2017

Also Andreas Borcholte of Spiegel Online describes the film as a visually powerful creature tales, however, unlike in Guillermo del Toro film Pan's Labyrinth get along without the horror moments that he so affectionately, but however brilliantly the dance and Revue film quote of the 1940s. Borcholte sums up: " The Shape of Water is an alien burlesque staged in stunning color nuances and magnificent images, whose old-fashioned flair, longing for simplicity, is just as touching as its romantic humanism."

Brian Formo from collider.com explains that the film is not only a great achievement because it is entertaining as a wonderful fairy tale, but also strengthens the belief in humanity at a time when tolerance towards other races , nationalities and unconventional love relationships are fleeting was.

Brigitte Häring from SRF Kultur sums up the plot of the film under the heading Princess Loves Fish and says that del Toro packs many contemporary references into his film, such as the legendary alien location Area 51 and the Cold War , but also the golden age of television and dance shows.

Fritz Göttler says in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Sally Hawkins works as the gentle, sensitive Elisa who finds natural ways to communicate with the gill man in The Shape of Water as distinctly and naturally as the other great Eliza, the flower girl from My Fair Lady .

Alonso Duralde from The Wrap comments on Doug Jones ' performance as an alien creature, whose motion capture performance is on par with Andy Serkis' in the remakes of the Planet of the Apes and shows the limitless potential of this technology.

The production cost of the film of $ 19.5 million is offset by worldwide revenue from screenings of so far $ 195.2 million. The film has so far recorded 487,644 visitors in Germany. In China, where the film opened on March 16, 2018, it recorded 2,178,845 visitors on the first weekend and grossed over 10 million US dollars as a result.

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends the film for the subjects English, German , art , history, media studies and ethics and offers materials for teaching. Christian Horn writes there that Shape of Water is an ideal way of analyzing the stylistic devices and historical references in fantasy films in media studies . The opening sequence, in which the camera glides through a flooded apartment, is recommended as an introduction: “The leitmotif of water, which is already anchored in the title, runs through the film in many different ways, which can sensitize the students for the design of artistic works. "In terms of content, the outsider motif also provides a topic of conversation," Horn continues, and in this context the action time in the 1960s also comes into play.

Film analysis

Movie title

In an interview with Cicero magazine, del Toro said of the significance of the eponymous water : “Water always takes the form in which it is located. As gentle as it can be, it is also the strongest and most malleable force in the universe. Isn't that also true of love? Love can also take any form, whether for a man, a woman or a creature. I like films that are liberating and that say: It is good to be who you are. "

Philipp Stadelmaier of the Süddeutsche Zeitung notes that the water that flows through this film, in the opening sequence, in the bath water and later in the pouring rain, also liquefies the dividing lines between different minorities and brings them together in the fight against the white supremacist Strickland. For Stadelmaier, water is also the medium of the fundamental diversity of life.

Film genre

For Kai Mihm from epd Film , the film is staged as a mixture of fairy tales , horror films and comics. For Hannes Koenitzer from Robots & Dragons it is in a certain way a romantic, albeit sometimes a bit wacky, fairy tale for adults: “The entire film is surrounded by magic and, at the same time, a fairytale-like narrative style that is not based on hectic pace and fast cuts, which we find today in the fantasy genre only very rarely found. "For Barbara Schweizerhof from the taz , Shape of Water is not just a monster film, but a cinematic Frankenstein, sewn together from cinema set pieces believed to be dead and revived by the projector light:" a nostalgic 50s horror film welded together with a melancholy love drama, a fantastic one Fairy tales and a cold war espionage thriller. "

Del Toro himself explained that the film mixes fantasy films, spy thrillers and musicals, among other things.

Themes and motifs

Be different

Sally Hawkins , shown here a few weeks after filming at the 2017 Berlinale, plays the silent Elisa in the film

Katja Nicodemus from Zeit Online explains that in The Shape of Water the mute, the gay and the black formed a small solidarity community, and their common goal is to free the creature from the laboratory. But there is more to it, so Nicodemus, namely that the three outsiders, without having to speak out loud, take great pleasure in defeating a racist, fascist, misogynistic, homophobic, conceited white asshole. Barbara Schweizerhof from the taz recognizes in the mute Elisa, the gay Giles, the black Zelda and a Soviet spy a kind of "rainbow faction" with women at the top.

Andreas Borcholte from Spiegel Online thinks that del Toro is making an edifying film that conjures up the solidarity of the weak, and that it is the most improbable film at the right time: “A brilliantly staged, imaginative and heartfelt plea for humanism and solidarity for the weakest in society “, In which the Misfits unite against the inhuman technocratic system.

Del Toro himself describes The Shape of Water as a film against exclusion and for diversity and went on to say: “I like to make films that have a liberating effect, that say that you are okay with the way you are. And that, it seems to me, is very important nowadays. "

Sexuality and femininity

Elisa's “morning routine” reminds Barbara Schweizerhof a little of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's fabulous Amélie and her cuteness, but an act of masturbation that is as discreet as it is unashamedly implied makes her firstly an adult and secondly a less ethereal being. Philipp Bühler from the Berliner Zeitung calls the later sex between Elisa and the creature a polymorphic, monstrous love game between two battered souls, which is one of the most sensitive and honest representations of sexuality in recent film history.

Philipp Stadelmaier from the Süddeutsche Zeitung comments on the current situation in Hollywood, where radical structures of sexism and abuse are being dealt with and even filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino come under fire, del Toro looks like the dear fairy tale uncle who can't and you can't hurt a fly Consume the film carefree without having to wonder if its creator is a chauvinistic libertine. Dietmar Dath from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recognizes in the cast of del Toro an old preference for a “visibly emancipated protagonist, including an actress type”.

Awards (selection)

The following list contains a selection of the most famous award ceremonies.

American Film Institute Awards 2018

  • Inclusion in the top 10 films of 2017

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Film - Theatrical Release ( Dan Laustsen )

Art Directors Guild Awards 2018

Black Reel Awards 2018

British Academy Film Awards 2018

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018

Directors Guild of America Awards 2018

  • Award for Best Fiction Director (Guillermo del Toro)

Eddie Awards 2018

Golden Globe Awards 2018

Grammy Awards 2019

  • Nomination as Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Alexandre Desplat)

Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017

  • Nomination in the category Original Score: Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film (Alexandre Desplat)

Venice International Film Festival 2017

  • Golden Lion (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Future Film Festival Digital Award
  • C. Smithers Foundation Award - CICT-UNESCO
  • Soundtrack Stars Award ( Alexandre Desplat )

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2017

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2018

Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards 2018

  • Received the Vanguard Award

Academy Awards 2018

Producers Guild of America Awards 2018

  • Received the Darryl F. Zanuck Award (Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale)

Satellite Awards 2017

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2018

Writers Guild of America Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Original Screenplay (Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor)

synchronization

The German synchronization was created for the cinema premiere on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH , Berlin.

role actor Voice actor
Elisa Esposito Sally Hawkins Anna Grisebach
Richard Strickland Michael Shannon Oliver Stritzel
Giles Richard Jenkins Bodo Wolf
Zelda Delilah Fuller Octavia Spencer Martina Treger
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler / Dimitri Michael Stuhlbarg Axel Malzacher
Fleming, Elisha's superior David Hewlett Florian Halm
General Hoyt Nick Searcy Rüdiger Joswig
Bernard, Giles' contact at the advertising company Stewart Arnott Till Hagen
Elaine Strickland Lauren Lee Smith Manja Doering
Brewster Fuller, Zelda's husband Martin Roach Thomas Petruo
Yolanda, cleaning lady Allegra Fulton Monica Bielenstein
Mr. Arzoumanian, cinema operator John Kapelos Grigory Kofman
Cake seller Morgan Kelly Jacob Weigert
Sally, Strickland's secretary Wendy Lyon Marina Krogull

Web links

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