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** Part of the reason his family left Mexico was that his dad got kidnapped and held for ransom. The loss of a father is a big motif in his work - [[Film/PansLabyrinth Ofelia]], [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Elisa]], and [[WesternAnimation/TrollHunters Jim]] are all fatherless, [[Film/Hellboy2004 Hellboy]] and [[Film/CrimsonPeak Edith]] both [[YouKilledMyFather lose their fathers]] (the latter in a truly brutal scene), [[Film/NightmareAlley2021 Stan Carlisle]] [[spoiler: kills his own father]], and ''Film/{{Cronos}}'' is ultimately about a little girl saying goodbye to her grandfather. His version of ''[[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio Pinocchio]]'' is all about the complex relationship between the title character and his father, [[spoiler: and the movie ends with Gepetto dying of old age]]. On the other hand, evil father figures show up pretty often as well - most overtly with the WickedStepfather [[Film/PansLabyrinth Cpt. Vidal]] and the deconstructed StandardFiftiesFather that is [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Richard Strickland]], and the [[Film/CrimsonPeak Sharpe siblings']] father is said to have been [[DomesticAbuse a drunken abuser]].
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** Part of the reason his family left Mexico was that his dad got kidnapped and held for ransom. The loss of a father is a big motif in his work - [[Film/PansLabyrinth Ofelia]], [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Elisa]], and [[WesternAnimation/TrollHunters Jim]] are all fatherless, [[Film/Hellboy2004 Hellboy]] and [[Film/CrimsonPeak Edith]] both [[YouKilledMyFather lose their fathers]] (the latter in a truly brutal scene), [[Film/PacificRim Mako]] is orphaned in her backstory and ''then'' [[spoiler: loses her adoptive father in the climax]], [[Film/NightmareAlley2021 Stan Carlisle]] [[spoiler: kills his own father]], and ''Film/{{Cronos}}'' is ultimately about a little girl saying goodbye to her grandfather. His version of ''[[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio Pinocchio]]'' is all about the complex relationship between the title character and his father, [[spoiler: and the movie ends with Gepetto dying of old age]]. On the other hand, evil father figures show up pretty often as well - most overtly with the WickedStepfather [[Film/PansLabyrinth Cpt. Vidal]] and the deconstructed StandardFiftiesFather that is [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Richard Strickland]], and the [[Film/CrimsonPeak Sharpe siblings']] father is said to have been [[DomesticAbuse a drunken abuser]].
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a critically acclaimed Mexican filmmaker, animator, and author, widely known for his SpeculativeFiction works. He is perhaps best recognized by moviegoers as director of the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' film duology and ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', as well as the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a critically acclaimed Mexican filmmaker, animator, filmmaker and author, widely known for his SpeculativeFiction works. He is perhaps best recognized by moviegoers as director of the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' film duology and ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', as well as the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a critically acclaimed Mexican filmmaker filmmaker, animator, and author, widely known for his SpeculativeFiction works. He is perhaps best recognized by moviegoers as director of the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' film duology and ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', as well as the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.
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* RenaissanceMan: Is the first person in history to win an Oscar for directing both live-action and animated films. Is also an accomplished screenwriter, novelist, gamer, artist, and a [=historian/collector=] of Victorian era antiquity.
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** Many of his films are passion projects. He's turned down or postponed high-profile films to work on smaller ones that he has a personal connection to. He's even taken significant budget cuts rather than cave to ExecutiveMeddling. He ''especially'' doesn't like it when people assume ''Film/PacificRim'' or ''Film/Hellboy2004'' aren't deeply personal [[SciFiGhetto because they're not "serious" fantastical films]].
--->''People say, you know, "I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal", and I go "Fuck, you're wrong!" ''Hellboy'' is as personal to me as ''Pan's Labyrinth''. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other -- the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.''
** [[https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/like-his-blue-collar-demon-hero-hellboy-guillermo-del-toro-has-a-few-issues-with-authority-1-1085769 Guillermo del Toro is known to have a life-long fascination with drawing twisted monsters]]. This fascination brought him trouble with his strict Catholic family, with some of his relatives literally throwing vials of holy water at him when they caught his "evil creature" drawings. Things eventually got better when his parents chose his high school; they were looking for a Catholic high school, and ended up choosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus the liberal Jesuit high school]] [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_de_Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias]], whose teachers and authorities didn't have issue with Guillermo scrawling monsters on his notebooks or in the bathroom stalls. Eventually, his literature teacher took notice of the creative genius that lied beneath his stories and depictions of monsters and he encouraged his creativity, and he was left with a life-long desire to freely express his creations before the world.
** Many of his films are passion projects. He's turned down or postponed high-profile films to work on smaller ones that he has a personal connection to. He's even taken significant budget cuts rather than cave to ExecutiveMeddling. He ''especially'' doesn't like it when people assume ''Film/PacificRim'' or ''Film/Hellboy2004'' aren't deeply personal [[SciFiGhetto because they're not "serious" fantastical films]].
--->''People say, you know, "I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal", and I go "Fuck, you're wrong!" ''Hellboy'' is as personal to me as ''Pan's Labyrinth''. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other -- the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.''
** [[https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/like-his-blue-collar-demon-hero-hellboy-guillermo-del-toro-has-a-few-issues-with-authority-1-1085769 Guillermo del Toro is known to have a life-long fascination with drawing twisted monsters]]. This fascination brought him trouble with his strict Catholic family, with some of his relatives literally throwing vials of holy water at him when they caught his "evil creature" drawings. Things eventually got better when his parents chose his high school; they were looking for a Catholic high school, and ended up choosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus the liberal Jesuit high school]] [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_de_Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias]], whose teachers and authorities didn't have issue with Guillermo scrawling monsters on his notebooks or in the bathroom stalls. Eventually, his literature teacher took notice of the creative genius that lied beneath his stories and depictions of monsters and he encouraged his creativity, and he was left with a life-long desire to freely express his creations before the world.
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**DoingItForTheArt: Many of his films are passion projects. He's turned down or postponed high-profile films to work on smaller ones that he has a personal connection to. He's even taken significant budget cuts rather than cave to ExecutiveMeddling. He ''especially'' doesn't like it when people assume ''Film/PacificRim'' or ''Film/Hellboy2004'' aren't deeply personal [[SciFiGhetto because they're not "serious" fantastical films]].
--->''People -->''People say, you know, "I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal", and I go "Fuck, you're wrong!" ''Hellboy'' is as personal to me as ''Pan's Labyrinth''. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other -- the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.''
** [[https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/like-his-blue-collar-demon-hero-hellboy-guillermo-del-toro-has-a-few-issues-with-authority-1-1085769 Guillermo del Toro is known to have a life-long fascination with drawing twisted monsters]]. This fascination brought him trouble with his strict Catholic family, with some of his relatives literally throwing vials of holy water at him when they caught his "evil creature" drawings. Things eventually got better when his parents chose his high school; they were looking for a Catholic high school, and ended up choosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus the liberal Jesuit high school]] [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_de_Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias]], whose teachers and authorities didn't have issue with Guillermo scrawling monsters on his notebooks or in the bathroom stalls. Eventually, his literature teacher took notice of the creative genius that lied beneath his stories and depictions of monsters and he encouraged his creativity, and he was left with a life-long desire to freely express his creations before the world.''
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** [[https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/like-his-blue-collar-demon-hero-hellboy-guillermo-del-toro-has-a-few-issues-with-authority-1-1085769 Guillermo del Toro is known to have a life-long fascination with drawing twisted monsters]]. This fascination brought him trouble with his strict Catholic family, with some of his relatives literally throwing vials of holy water at him when they caught his "evil creature" drawings. Things eventually got better when his parents chose his high school; they were looking for a Catholic high school, and ended up choosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus the liberal Jesuit high school]] [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_de_Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias]], whose teachers and authorities didn't have issue with Guillermo scrawling monsters on his notebooks or in the bathroom stalls. Eventually, his literature teacher took notice of the creative genius that lied beneath his stories and depictions of monsters and he encouraged his creativity, and he was left with a life-long desire to freely express his creations before the world.
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* DevilButNoGod: Del Toro identifies as an atheist (albit one deeply fascinated with the aesthetics of Catholicism), but does believe in the supernatural.
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* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Del Toro gave up on directing ''Film/TheHobbit'' because he was involved in way too many things, with his schedule filled up until 2017. Among the projects are a new ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', a remake of ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'', adaptations of ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'', and ''Literature/{{Drood}}'', a third ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', and a ''Film/PacificRim'' sequel movie and prequel cartoon (and that's just the ones he'll direct!). And as of 2020 (save for the ''Pacific Rim'' sequel which he produced rather than directed) precisely ''none'' of them have so much as entered production.
* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Del Toro gave up on directing ''Film/TheHobbit'' because he was involved in way too many things, with his schedule filled up until 2017. Among the projects are a new ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', a remake of ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'', adaptations of ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'', and ''Literature/{{Drood}}'', a third ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', and a ''Film/PacificRim'' sequel movie and prequel cartoon (and that's just the ones he'll direct!). And as of 2020 (save for the ''Pacific Rim'' sequel which he produced rather than directed) precisely ''none'' of them have so much as entered production.
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** Many of his films are passion projects. He's turned down or postponed high-profile films to work on smaller ones that he has a personal connection to. He's even taken significant budget cuts rather than cave to ExecutiveMeddling. He ''especially'' doesn't like it when people assume ''Film/PacificRim'' or ''Film/Hellboy2004'' aren't deeply personal [[SciFiGhetto because they're not "serious" fantastical films]].
--->''People say, you know, "I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal", and I go "Fuck, you're wrong!" ''Hellboy'' is as personal to me as ''Pan's Labyrinth''. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other -- the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.''
** [[https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/like-his-blue-collar-demon-hero-hellboy-guillermo-del-toro-has-a-few-issues-with-authority-1-1085769 Guillermo del Toro is known to have a life-long fascination with drawing twisted monsters]]. This fascination brought him trouble with his strict Catholic family, with some of his relatives literally throwing vials of holy water at him when they caught his "evil creature" drawings. Things eventually got better when his parents chose his high school; they were looking for a Catholic high school, and ended up choosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus the liberal Jesuit high school]] [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_de_Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias]], whose teachers and authorities didn't have issue with Guillermo scrawling monsters on his notebooks or in the bathroom stalls. Eventually, his literature teacher took notice of the creative genius that lied beneath his stories and depictions of monsters and he encouraged his creativity, and he was left with a life-long desire to freely express his creations before the world.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Guillermo often wrestles with this; his second film ''Mimic'' was equated to "having a beautiful daughter and watching her arms get cut off". The studios have fought with him at other points (for example, they wanted ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' to [[SmallReferencePools take place in Nazi Germany instead of Franco's Spain]]) but his additional clout has allowed him to be more successful in staying true to his vision nowadays.
** Many of his films are passion projects. He's turned down or postponed high-profile films to work on smaller ones that he has a personal connection to. He's even taken significant budget cuts rather than cave to ExecutiveMeddling. He ''especially'' doesn't like it when people assume ''Film/PacificRim'' or ''Film/Hellboy2004'' aren't deeply personal [[SciFiGhetto because they're not "serious" fantastical films]].
--->''People say, you know, "I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal", and I go "Fuck, you're wrong!" ''Hellboy'' is as personal to me as ''Pan's Labyrinth''. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other -- the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.''
** [[https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/like-his-blue-collar-demon-hero-hellboy-guillermo-del-toro-has-a-few-issues-with-authority-1-1085769 Guillermo del Toro is known to have a life-long fascination with drawing twisted monsters]]. This fascination brought him trouble with his strict Catholic family, with some of his relatives literally throwing vials of holy water at him when they caught his "evil creature" drawings. Things eventually got better when his parents chose his high school; they were looking for a Catholic high school, and ended up choosing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus the liberal Jesuit high school]] [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_de_Ciencias Instituto de Ciencias]], whose teachers and authorities didn't have issue with Guillermo scrawling monsters on his notebooks or in the bathroom stalls. Eventually, his literature teacher took notice of the creative genius that lied beneath his stories and depictions of monsters and he encouraged his creativity, and he was left with a life-long desire to freely express his creations before the world.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Guillermo often wrestles with this; his second film ''Mimic'' was equated to "having a beautiful daughter and watching her arms get cut off". The studios have fought with him at other points (for example, they wanted ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' to [[SmallReferencePools take place in Nazi Germany instead of Franco's Spain]]) but his additional clout has allowed him to be more successful in staying true to his vision nowadays.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was rumored that he was approached to direct the ''Godzilla'' [[Film/{{Godzilla2014}} remake]] (which was actually directed by Creator/GarethEdwards), though Guillermo has since debunked those rumors.
** He ''was'' offered the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies (specifically ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' and ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'') but turned them down since he felt the movies didn't jibe with his dark vision of the Potterverse. He is a fan of the books however, and was the one who encouraged Creator/AlfonsoCuaron to direct ''[=PoA=]''.
** He also submitted a script for the film version of ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueDark'' with its tentative title, ''Dark Universe'' to Warner Bros. and was waiting for the project to be greenlit. However, with the announcement that all Creator/VertigoComics adaptions would be Distributed by Creator/NewLineCinema, [[http://www.slashfilm.com/del-toro-off-justice-league-dark/ it seem's that he has left the film Project altogether]]. When it's revealed that WB liked the script and planned to shoot it which coincides the production of ''Pacific Rim 2'', [[http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Guillermo-del-Toro-Dropped-Justice-League-Dark-72664.html del Toro had to make a difficult choice]]. So, he chose ''Pacific Rim 2'' instead since he's already made schedules for the filming which would happen on late 2015.
** He had ''two video games'' in the works: A game known as ''inSANE'' which was cancelled due to production being halted by THQ, who went out of business afterwards. And then there's the most infamous, ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' which was cancelled after Creator/{{Konami}} went bonkers and fired Creator/HideoKojima.
** He was in talks to direct a ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' movie, which would have been co-written by Creator/NeilGaiman. Del Toro was also considered for ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
** ''Hellboy 3'' became this with the announcement that it "100% will not happen". The series was eventually [[Film/Hellboy2019 rebooted without his involvement]].
** He ''was'' offered the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies (specifically ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' and ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'') but turned them down since he felt the movies didn't jibe with his dark vision of the Potterverse. He is a fan of the books however, and was the one who encouraged Creator/AlfonsoCuaron to direct ''[=PoA=]''.
** He also submitted a script for the film version of ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueDark'' with its tentative title, ''Dark Universe'' to Warner Bros. and was waiting for the project to be greenlit. However, with the announcement that all Creator/VertigoComics adaptions would be Distributed by Creator/NewLineCinema, [[http://www.slashfilm.com/del-toro-off-justice-league-dark/ it seem's that he has left the film Project altogether]]. When it's revealed that WB liked the script and planned to shoot it which coincides the production of ''Pacific Rim 2'', [[http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Guillermo-del-Toro-Dropped-Justice-League-Dark-72664.html del Toro had to make a difficult choice]]. So, he chose ''Pacific Rim 2'' instead since he's already made schedules for the filming which would happen on late 2015.
** He had ''two video games'' in the works: A game known as ''inSANE'' which was cancelled due to production being halted by THQ, who went out of business afterwards. And then there's the most infamous, ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' which was cancelled after Creator/{{Konami}} went bonkers and fired Creator/HideoKojima.
** He was in talks to direct a ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' movie, which would have been co-written by Creator/NeilGaiman. Del Toro was also considered for ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
** ''Hellboy 3'' became this with the announcement that it "100% will not happen". The series was eventually [[Film/Hellboy2019 rebooted without his involvement]].
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* BookEnds: Several of his films, like ''The Devil's Backbone'', ''Pan's Labyrinth'', ''Hellboy'' and ''The Shape of Water'', usually start with an opening narration that comes back in the ending to nicely tie everything together in a fairy tale-like fashion.
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a critically acclaimed Mexican filmmaker and author, widely known for his work on the SpeculativeFiction genre. He is perhaps best recognized by moviegoers as director of the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' film duology and ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', as well as the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.
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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a critically acclaimed Mexican filmmaker and author, widely known for his work on the SpeculativeFiction genre.works. He is perhaps best recognized by moviegoers as director of the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' film duology and ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', as well as the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winning ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.
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** Del Toro clearly has strong opinions about fascism, too, with overtly-fascist villains showing up in three of his films (Nazis in ''Hellboy'', Francoists in ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and Italian fascists in ''Pinocchio'') and fascist-sympathetic villains in two more (''The Devil's Backbone'' and ''The Shape of Water'').
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** Del Toro clearly has strong opinions about fascism, fascism too, with overtly-fascist villains showing up in three of his films (Nazis in ''Hellboy'', Francoists in ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and Italian fascists in ''Pinocchio'') and fascist-sympathetic villains in two more (''The Devil's Backbone'' and ''The Shape of Water'').Water''). In other mediums, Eichorst in ''Literature/TheStrain'' is a Nazi and Nick in del Toro's contribution to ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities'', "Lot 36", is extremely right-wing [[spoiler: and the monster of the episode is a demon summoned by a Nazi to infest his own sister's body]].
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His pet project is adapting Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' for the big screen. Despite backing from Creator/JamesCameron and tentative agreement by Creator/TomCruise to star, the project was [[ExecutiveMeddling cancelled by Universal]]: partly because they thought it unlikely for a CosmicHorrorStory film to make money at the box office, and partly because del Toro refused to [[{{Bowdlerise}} tone down some of its elements so that it would likely be rated PG-13]] (his proposed script would definitely catch an R). He has also adamantly refused to include a TokenRomance. He made attempts to find financing with 20th Century Fox, but more recently stated that he wished to put the project on hold due to its similarity to Creator/{{Ridley Scott}}'s ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. The latest news concerning the project seems to indicate that Legendary is open to funding the film and he has compromised on his desire for an R-rating.
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His pet project is adapting Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' for the big screen. Despite backing from Creator/JamesCameron and tentative agreement by Creator/TomCruise to star, the project was [[ExecutiveMeddling cancelled by Universal]]: partly because they thought it unlikely for a CosmicHorrorStory film to make money at the box office, and partly because del Toro refused to [[{{Bowdlerise}} tone down some of its elements so that it would likely be rated PG-13]] (his proposed script would definitely catch an R). He has also adamantly refused to include a TokenRomance. He made attempts to find financing with 20th Century Fox, but more recently stated that he wished to put the project on hold due to its similarity to Creator/{{Ridley Scott}}'s ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''. The latest news concerning the project seems to indicate that Legendary is open to funding the film and he has compromised on his desire for an R-rating.
** A lot of his characters collect things, with heroic elderly antique dealers showing up in ''Cronos'' and ''The Strain'' (and are both mirrored by [[EvilOldFolks elderly villains]] who keep their discarded organs around like Howard Hughes' jars of urine), all the weird things on display at the BPRD offices in the ''Hellboy'' movies, the collection of clockwork toys in ''Crimson Peak'', and the above-mentioned pickled fetuses. This also extends to Del Toro himself, who [[https://www.kpcc.org/show/the-frame/2016-07-22/bleak-house-a-tour-inside-guillermo-del-toros-creative-man-cave bought a second house just to house all the weird things he had collected]], or even the simple fact that he named his anthology horror series ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities''.
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** Part of the reason his family left Mexico was that his dad got kidnapped and held for ransom. The loss of a father is a big motif in his work - [[Film/PansLabyrinth Ofelia]] and [[WesternAnimation/TrollHunters Jim]] are both fatherless, [[Film/Hellboy2004 Hellboy]] and [[Film/CrimsonPeak Edith]] both [[YouKilledMyFather lose their fathers]] (the latter in a truly brutal scene), and ''Film/{{Cronos}}'' is ultimately about a little girl saying goodbye to her grandfather. On the other hand, evil father figures show up pretty often as well - most overtly with the WickedStepfather [[Film/PansLabyrinth Cpt. Vidal]] and the deconstructed StandardFiftiesFather that is [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Richard Strickland]], and the [[Film/CrimsonPeak Sharpe siblings']] father is said to have been [[DomesticAbuse a drunken abuser]].
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** Part of the reason his family left Mexico was that his dad got kidnapped and held for ransom. The loss of a father is a big motif in his work - [[Film/PansLabyrinth Ofelia]] Ofelia]], [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Elisa]], and [[WesternAnimation/TrollHunters Jim]] are both all fatherless, [[Film/Hellboy2004 Hellboy]] and [[Film/CrimsonPeak Edith]] both [[YouKilledMyFather lose their fathers]] (the latter in a truly brutal scene), [[Film/NightmareAlley2021 Stan Carlisle]] [[spoiler: kills his own father]], and ''Film/{{Cronos}}'' is ultimately about a little girl saying goodbye to her grandfather.grandfather. His version of ''[[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio Pinocchio]]'' is all about the complex relationship between the title character and his father, [[spoiler: and the movie ends with Gepetto dying of old age]]. On the other hand, evil father figures show up pretty often as well - most overtly with the WickedStepfather [[Film/PansLabyrinth Cpt. Vidal]] and the deconstructed StandardFiftiesFather that is [[Film/TheShapeOfWater Richard Strickland]], and the [[Film/CrimsonPeak Sharpe siblings']] father is said to have been [[DomesticAbuse a drunken abuser]].abuser]].
** Del Toro clearly has strong opinions about fascism, too, with overtly-fascist villains showing up in three of his films (Nazis in ''Hellboy'', Francoists in ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and Italian fascists in ''Pinocchio'') and fascist-sympathetic villains in two more (''The Devil's Backbone'' and ''The Shape of Water'').
** Related to his enmity towards fascism is his opposition to the idea of perfection. His villains are usually in pursuit of some kind of perfection, from Rasputin and his followers in ''Hellboy'' trying to create "a new Eden", ''Cronos'' and ''The Strain'' both feature evil billionaires obsessed with a kind of biological perfection, compulsively replacing their own internal organs to try to live for ever, and the villains of ''Pan's Labyrinth'' and ''The Shape of Water'' are both obsessed with living up to the expectations of what they think a man is supposed to be, and the Podesta's goal is to mold Pinocchio and Candlewick into "perfect" soldiers. This relates to his tendency towards ClockPunk imagery, which usually symbolizes a villain's desire for perfect, regulated order. Conversely his heroes are - or learn to be - [[BeYourself more accepting of their own faults and those of others]], which Agent Myers from ''Hellboy'' sums up thus:
-->We like people in spite of their flaws, but we love people because of them.
* BeastAndBeauty: Most obvious in the full-on [[InterspeciesRelationship monsterfucker]] love story that is ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', but we can also see it in the ''Hellboy'' movies, with a romantic arc between the BigRedDevil hero and his human girlfriend, Liz. In the second ''Hellboy'', the [[FishPeople fishman]] Abe also has a romantic arc with an elven princess who appears much more human that he does.
* BeYourself: A big theme of his films is we need to accept that we, and those around us, are flawed. For example, in ''The Shape of Water'', CuteMute Elisa becomes attracted to the Amphibian Man because "he doesn't see how I am incomplete, he sees me as I am", and ''Pinocchio'' is about how Gepetto needs to accept that his son is a roughly-hewn chunk of wood, rather than expecting him to be a "real boy".
** Del Toro clearly has strong opinions about fascism, too, with overtly-fascist villains showing up in three of his films (Nazis in ''Hellboy'', Francoists in ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and Italian fascists in ''Pinocchio'') and fascist-sympathetic villains in two more (''The Devil's Backbone'' and ''The Shape of Water'').
** Related to his enmity towards fascism is his opposition to the idea of perfection. His villains are usually in pursuit of some kind of perfection, from Rasputin and his followers in ''Hellboy'' trying to create "a new Eden", ''Cronos'' and ''The Strain'' both feature evil billionaires obsessed with a kind of biological perfection, compulsively replacing their own internal organs to try to live for ever, and the villains of ''Pan's Labyrinth'' and ''The Shape of Water'' are both obsessed with living up to the expectations of what they think a man is supposed to be, and the Podesta's goal is to mold Pinocchio and Candlewick into "perfect" soldiers. This relates to his tendency towards ClockPunk imagery, which usually symbolizes a villain's desire for perfect, regulated order. Conversely his heroes are - or learn to be - [[BeYourself more accepting of their own faults and those of others]], which Agent Myers from ''Hellboy'' sums up thus:
-->We like people in spite of their flaws, but we love people because of them.
* BeastAndBeauty: Most obvious in the full-on [[InterspeciesRelationship monsterfucker]] love story that is ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', but we can also see it in the ''Hellboy'' movies, with a romantic arc between the BigRedDevil hero and his human girlfriend, Liz. In the second ''Hellboy'', the [[FishPeople fishman]] Abe also has a romantic arc with an elven princess who appears much more human that he does.
* BeYourself: A big theme of his films is we need to accept that we, and those around us, are flawed. For example, in ''The Shape of Water'', CuteMute Elisa becomes attracted to the Amphibian Man because "he doesn't see how I am incomplete, he sees me as I am", and ''Pinocchio'' is about how Gepetto needs to accept that his son is a roughly-hewn chunk of wood, rather than expecting him to be a "real boy".
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: In many of his films, there’s a clear distinction on who’s good and who’s bad.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: In many of his films, there’s there's a clear distinction on who’s who's good and who’s bad.who's bad, though his good characters are still allowed to be flawed.
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* FracturedFairyTale: ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' and ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' are a dark, twisted, fantastical adventure and a romance, respectively.
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* FracturedFairyTale: ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' and ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' are a dark, twisted, fantastical adventure and a romance, respectively. Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', which is a fairly dark and subversive take on the classic story, but still more or less kid-friendly.
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* KidHero: In ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'', ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', and the ''Franchise/TalesOfArcadia'' universe. His adult heroes tend to have be somewhat childlike as well.
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* KidHero: In ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'', ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'', and the ''Franchise/TalesOfArcadia'' universe. His adult heroes tend to have be somewhat childlike as well.
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* PeriodPiece: Most of his films are set prior to the 1970s, with the 1940s being a favourite decade (''The Devil's Backbone'', ''Pan's Labyrinth'', ''Nightmare Alley'', ''Pinocchio''). ''Crimson Peak'' is mostly set in 1901, and ''The Shape of Water'' is set in the early '60s, during the Kennedy administration.
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** He ''loves'' monsters, generally with slime, prehensile throat appendages (seriously, this appears in five of his film), things in jars (often PeopleJars), and supernatural stuff.
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** He ''loves'' monsters, generally with slime, prehensile throat appendages (seriously, this appears in five of his film), copious EyesDoNotBelongThere, insects, things in jars (often PeopleJars), and supernatural stuff.
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* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'' (Starring Creator/MiaWasikowska, Creator/TomHiddleston, and Creator/JimBeaver.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: His works tend to have lots of these. Reaches its height at ''Pacific Rim'', where almost every named character has an impossibly cool name (probably an homage to ''Gundam's'' unusual character names).
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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' (actor, as Pappy McPoyle)
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* ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities'' (Creator, writer, executive producer, and host)
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio Pinocchio]]'' (co-director and co-writer)
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* ''VideoGame/HellboyTheScienceOfEvil'', a video game based on the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' film series which was published by Creator/{{Konami}}. (Writer)
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio Pinocchio]]'' (co-director and co-writer)
