Tag: del toro

agatharights:

tinyfiestyrosiekitten:

@agatharights

I blame you-

Del Toro makes movies that look like something that stepped out of dreams or nightmares.

Predacons and Insecticons get special attention. With gleaming carapaces and dagger fanged denta. They twist and stalk and skitter on screen. Even the Autobots and Decepticons are a little more feral.

Megatron and Optimus fight with swords from the start. An epic clash of titans over laid with dramatic music scores that make you want to get up and fight as well. WIth well thought out speeches by Optimus and Megatron who is scarily charming.

Both are eerily handsome.

Starscream is elegant, sleek lines and flaring wings and swinging between cooing softness and shrieking rage that scares you badly enough to want to hide. Soundwave’s monotone over laid with the faintest reverb really makes you wanna hide.

The humans don’t over take the story line.

It’s a box office hit with nicely timed screen cuts and angles and dramatic moments paired with a little occasional tongue in cheek humor with an actual over reaching story arc that makes you walk out feeling good on what you watched.

Me: Listen okay del Toro’s Transformers are a Thing I can already see in my head sweats they all have teeth and Wayne Douglas Barlowe designs are used for some of the weirder Predacons and everything feels vaguely magical because it’s so dang beautiful and colorful. I’m incorporating del Toro’s Transformers aspects into Matrix like. I gotta. I can’t not.

TinyFiestyRosieKitten: YESSSS. It is beautiful with a good story line and kick ass action and deep heart felt moments. There are a lot of teeth.

Me: “Spike” Witwicky or the stand-in therof is a younger girl, who represents the human viewpoint, but she is not portrayed as necessarially innocent nor in dire need of protection. The humans don’t overpower the plot becuase the few human characters there are (and there’s a hard limit, like, maybe a handful of named humans, at best- the rest are generalized) are part of the plot, a seamless portion showing Optimus’ quick connection to earth and desire to protect all life- not just his own. Optimus is shown as conflicted- his own desire for peace clashes against his instinct to fight- to defend others.

Me: Megatron is given equal parts sympathy and horror in the history we see of him- the decay of what was a justified revolution that turned inwards and cannibalized the better parts of itself to become stronger. Megatron who knows and carelessly accepts that he has become a monster, and who has decided it suits him far better than trying to be better ever did.

Me: None of the bots are self-gendered. A human calls Arcee a girl and tries to explain it and the cybertronians get confused and laugh about it. Careful modulation gives the majority of them decidedly gender-neutral or ambiguous voices. When there’s no humans around, they don’t speak english, and instead Cybertronian is layered and crackled and shown translations in subtitles- or you do the clever thing where onscreen it displays as running a translation program, thus implying that the audiance POV is physically present as an observing force capable of translating.

Me: Lots of designs have multiple sets of eyes

We continued talking about this on Skype……….