Guillermo del Toro
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the same with life.
Liberating, which can happen with reviews.
Do you read them?
Not anymore.
Not anymore.
I'm 61.
I don't.
But I did.
I did.
Oh, my God.
When I was younger, I would read every single one until I found the one that would never leave my brain.
I remember a few that are really well phrased.
Jay Hoberman of the Village Boys wrote a great, he put down Blade II beautifully.
He said, the only thing remotely scary about Blade II is that it's done by the same man that did Devil's Backbone, which is beautiful.
And the first version of Waterloo Bridge, which is, his version is so brutal and sort of Brechtian.
He was a very interesting director and a very interesting man.
It's very modern, by the way.
Yeah.
I mean, for 1931, this film, well, Whale and a lot of this era of Hollywood filmmaker is extremely influenced by German cinema.
And to the point where Whale does an artifice that is not apparent to the audience until you tell them to look for it.