![]() ![]() ![]() What would it even look like when Guillermo Del Toro poked his head into cynicism?Īs it turns out, Del Toro has a distinctive take on film noir as evidenced by his remake adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham's novel Nightmare Alley-one that actually falls in line with an idiom he had already proved quite comfortable in. Even the movie that won him an Oscar is about a love story involving the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It's more that his preferred stories have generally been pop entertainment, like his three different comic-book adaptations and robots-vs.-monsters adventure Pacific Rim. It's not that Del Toro doesn't have a distinctive aesthetic, or even that he might not seem comfortable in darker thematic shades there's plenty of evidence in his career of both. ![]() If you gave me a list of 100 of the most critically and commercially successful directors working today, and asked me which of them was best-suited to making a contemporary film noir, I'm not sure Guillermo Del Toro would be among my first dozen choices. ![]()
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