Guillermo del Toro and Neil Gaiman Find Hope in Powerful, Eclectic Films | EXTENDED CUT
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#GuillermodelToro, the Oscar-winning director of #TheShapeofWater, joins #GoodOmens creator #NeilGaiman to share a list of films that provide a sense of hope in difficult times. Their picks include some of the top-rated films on IMDb as well as cult classics. The two visionary artists have teamed up with IMDb and the United Nations Refugee Agency to assemble this list and raise awareness for refugees and other vulnerable communities who have been especially effected by COVID -19. If you can help, please make a donation at: imdb.to/GDTNGYT
The conversation between del Toro and Gaiman explores the inherent hopefulness of films that place characters in harrowing situations. They begin by discussing #TheShawshankRedemption and the way the characters portrayed by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman manage to find solace and friendship in confinement. In #Tampopo and #BabettesFeast they find hope and meaning in the importance of sharing a meal. Despite claims of Frank Capra’s work being lighter fare, del Toro insists that #ItsAWonderfulLife finds its strength in first dragging viewers to the lowest of lows before allowing the hope to shine through. Similarly, in discussing Jean Cocteau’s #BeautyandtheBeast, del Toro describes the French filmmaker's need to overcome great difficulty in real life in order to bring beauty to the screen.
According to Neil Gaiman, #AllThatJazz also manages to make stunning art out of a traumatic situation when Bob Fosse turns his own experience into a surrealist film. Gaiman also believes that Terry Gilliam’s #Brazil is a wonderful demonstration of how one must fight hard to defeat the forces that wish to squelch one’s dreams. And on the topic of “dreams you dare to dream,” del Toro brings new color to #TheWizardofOz with a powerful interpretation of the journey at the center of the film.
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the fact that Guillermo del Toro and Neil Gaiman not only know each other but are good friends really warms my heart. A good plus is that they also seem to be friends with Stephen King.
@leonardojake9153
2 жыл бұрын
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Can these two continue speaking for eternity? Some of the best minds the world has to offer.
Two of my favorite masters of the storytelling world!
My love for these two men just grew even more by the inclusion and discussion of Tampopo. What a fantastic film.
Wow, it was so nice of IMDb to interview my dads.
"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time." - Abraham Lincoln
Guillermo del Toro for film adaptation of "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" PLEEEEEASE!
@robertdochter277
2 жыл бұрын
So much yes!
id love that both of you Guillermo del toro and Neil Gaiman would do this every week! i love hearing your takes on film and how you interpret them..
The creator of Good Omens and the creator of Tales of Arcadia in the same video!😊
@gaurav5161
3 жыл бұрын
Which one is Toro’s?
@sashasublette866
3 жыл бұрын
@@gaurav5161 Tales of Arcadia. It’s on Netflix.
I had the opportunity to watch Babette's Feast in a theater last 2017. I was expecting it to be controversial for an article I read a long time ago and I thought it will be like The Cook, The Wife.... but it wasn't. Perhaps I didn't comprehend what I read. Already beyond half of the film still expecting a cannibalism, witchcraft, but nothing was happening. They're just eating. Remembering.. But damn, the lights were already on. The credits were rolling. I was crying incessantly. I didn't understand why.. The film was so simple.. yet so noble. My favorite quotation from Babette's Feast is: " Throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me the chance to do my very best." I wish you too could watch the film.
Watch a master director like Guillermo mess up and knock his camera off it’s mount tickles me! Humanizes a legend
These 2 should collaborate on a dark fantasy movie or a TV series mixed with drama, horror and comedy. It would be an instant cult classic I tell yah!
@carsonsmith7314
Жыл бұрын
That would be the greatest thing either of these two would ever make. And I agree about it being an instant cult classic.
You know, these guys once collaborated to make a Doctor Strange movie. Oh what could’ve been...
I wrote shawshank woman, pushes her away. What a great story. I love when life goes full circle.
It is fascinating , thanks IMDb for adding this video) And a huge thanks for Neil and Guillermo, for such an pleasant conversation. Both have an interesting choice and even more interesting descriptions about the reasons and feelings that films evoke in them. Personally, i have seen 8 of 10, and totally agreed with choice. Also I would add some other films of hope : Some like it hot, Pursuit of Happyness and The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob. 1 and 3 is light and bubbly, and more about how all things happened to you can help you to live better life. The second one is dramatic but it is a real story of success, which can give inspiration and hope to people.
Only my two favorite people alive.
Oh my god I clicked on this so fast
More of this please! Really enjoyed it! :)
Amazing video, love what your doing! Continue the great work!
They made the Best Movie list.
Thanks IMDb
Hope, when you realize that at 53 you still have that childlike hope of telling even one of your stories in the form of cinema you realize that you yourself are the rope that helps you escape your tower prison of insecurities, it’s even more terrifying
They were both on Studio Q interviews.
Guillermo Del Toro should direct a live action remake adaptation of Neil Garman's beloved book Coraline. What do you think?
It's about time someone talked about BRAZIL.
I like the prison scene in Sullivan's travels where they show the prisoners cartoons
These 2 have quite a bit in common!😀
can these two please make a movie together
My novel. Glamorous and glamorous.
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Quiero ser uno de ellos, sentarme con ellos, beber algo,,,, 😭 los amo
I do not agree that we are ever more interconnected. I see the opposite. I feel more disconnection and indifference in the world because of Covid-19. First we saw simple physical distancing, then closing borders, lockdowns, segregation, fighting for PPEs, fighting for natural resources (for the lame excuse of sustainability), fighting for survival, fighting for democracy, and now fighting for vaccines.
3 жыл бұрын
And yet here we are still fighting the good fight. Even in the face of adversity we still join together by the means necessary (digital or otherwise) to keep going. It's so easy to lose hope, specially when you're only shown the bad parts, but, like "It's a Wonderful Life" show us, even if it doesn't seem that way, every good action you do sparks another and it helps to make the world a little better.
I'm looking for a firm to contract on my novel to produce a film.
You know what's weird? Both these directors did Hellboy films. Del Toro did the original duology, and Gaiman did the reboot in 2019. So, to me, the fact that these two are friends and both have similar goals in their films basically proves to me that Hellboy 2019 was the way it was cause of studio interference and not really cause of Neil himself. Del Toro was not bothered with studio interference with his duology of hellboy films. That's what causes the big change in quality.
@gamemediafan1714
3 жыл бұрын
@Sunny Sunny oh fuck I mixed his name up with Neil Marshall. Fucking shit. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'm a novelist.
Shawshank was my god boring and mediocre in every way, watching was like doing twenty years to life.