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Geena | 30s | Blackity-Black | Sagittarius | Writer | Commie | Professional Heel. | Formerly everyleaffallstoosoon and vemeer-mark-iv | writing blog: @geenawrites Personal blog for my personal likes and interests. I rarely tag things anymore, so check out my archive for old tags to use for navigation. Not a spoiler-free zone. This blog contains blood, gore, and body horror. Not suitable for anyone under eighteen. Don’t follow me if you aren’t 18+. Thanks for visiting. Bye.
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“The villain was this tech guy that had invented basically sort of the internet 2.0. And then they realized that all his patents came to him one morning. And so little by little, they started putting together this and they said, ‘Oh, he got them from the precursors.’ The guys that control the Kaiju. And then we found out that the precursors are us thousands of years in the future,” del Toro explained. “They’re trying to terraform, trying to re-harvest the earth to survive. Wow. And that we were in exo-bio-suits that looked alien, but they were not. We were inside. And it was a really interesting paradox.” (x)

del Toro and co. have spent the last eight years talking about their disparate story ideas for PacRim 2, none of which come together to create a cohesive story. This might be the most off-the-wall idea they've talked about yet, because he's effectively saying the efforts of the first film amounted to nothing.

Or rather, humanity fails to (prevent their own end at the hands of climate devastation to) such a degree that they end up cannibalizing/informing their own past to try and save their dead/dying future. That's literally the plot of Quantum Break wrapped in cosmic horror.

“To me, the hero was Mako Mori. I wanted her not only to live, I wanted her to be one of the main characters in the second movie,” del Toro said.

"Mako-Mori-as-protagonist/hero" in his sequel's story might've conjured a pretty compelling [dramatic] arc (given the pyrrhic vibes of the plot). Esp. in light of what he ended up doing with his post-PacRim female protagonists in Shape of Water and Crimson Peak.

But it also reinforces what I always thought from the beginning. Pacific Rim didn't need a sequel. It was a good one-off movie (that really can't sustain franchise syndrome).

#pacific rim 2#pacific rim#guillermo del toro#legendary entertainment#mako mori#time travel
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Pacific Rim: Steel Warriors was the (apparent) working title for the animated series that would've covered the history of the oft mentioned Rangers (and their Jaegers) of yore, explored the Drift, and introduced (and primarily focused on) cadet characters that would've appeared in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim 2. The series was in pre-production stages in 2014 (according to some file names). Concept art and illustrations by Tommy Lee Edwards (ArtStation), posted circa 2017 (ish).
#concept art#character design#guillermo del toro#kaiju#mako mori#pacific rim#pacific rim steel warriors
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every word out of guillermo del toro’s mouth is the most hardcore thing i’ve ever heard and he says it all so casually like he doesn’t even realize how much of a gothic visionary he is 

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“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing”

I STILL THINK ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE

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Yo okie Guillermo has some of the best quotes and lines I’ve ever heard, here are just a few of his quotes that have me questioning life:

“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.”

“I knew that monsters were far more gentle and more desirable than the monsters living inside ‘nice people.’ Accepting that you are a monster gives you the leeway to not behave like one. When you deny being a monster, you behave like one.”

“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can’t go back to normal… I think that that’s the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared”

“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls”

“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…”

And the last but certainly not the least:

“In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.”

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Guillermo Del Toro grew up promising to be a friend to monsters because he didn’t want to be afraid of them. Guillermo Del Toro saw violence in the streets and worked at a morgue and saw fetuses in the back dumpster.

Guillermo Del Toro is the director I love the most because the speaks the language of the Catholic Spanish colonised taking back their identity through folklore and myth with the trappings of Hollywood and the story of underdogs and monsters, knowing that monsters are both symbolic and exactly what they appear to be. I want to meet him one day. And even if I don’t, his stories resonate so deeply with me, a Filipino raised Catholic who fell in love with monsters so I’d stop fearing them, and who takes back her cultural identity through folklore and myth. 

#long post#Guillermo Del Toro#writing#fantasy#meta