Guillermo del Toro - Cabinet of Curiosities

The wings against the light, blocking the sun with “Flare”

* Someone scratches or breaks the glass in a window that they’re going to open when they remember that it’s the 9th floor!!!

* Reinforce or change the Billboard Fight A III

* Wings with layered colors or uniformly steel black, “blued” like a gun.

* Rusty pendulum clocks hanging from a sheet on the roof

Step over a cross at the b.o/ritual.

Could be of Shadow/Light.

* Lottie goes to St. Lazarus, a feather falls out, the beating of enormous wings is heard.

* White, milky eyes zombified… “Harryhausenly” Everyone looks at the same place.

* The apparition of Joey with computer “ripple” like intensely colored little flames and like the halo of a fire virgin.

* Joey with CGI crash marks.

* Mollusk. “Spanish Shawl” (NUDIBRANCH)

* Voice-activated light dimmer in his APT

* “I’ll race you little Faust…”

* Spanky has tentacle-like “legs” that “open up” into two parts .

* IF/STOP but for a MONITOR with a magazine dummy.

* Sometimes we trick people this way or the other but sometimes… truth is the tool to use, as simple as that”

* You’re a couple of years 2 late.

* Whole new ball game pal.

* Y’re like me, You are… X.

* Spanky: “Jus’ Call me a therapist”

* “Martyn, I haven’t been all bad 2 U have I?”

The texture of Spanky’s skin is “in motion. ”

SQUISH!!

* Fear: the wretched thing… it’ll die soon…

* One of the A.R.C. from “List”

* No one else’s Fingerprints at the crime scene.

* The cops in the hospital/family life or “Gimme a break pal I have X’

* The guy is thrown from the tenth story, he crashes, they scream at him “It was a mistake, go hack upstairs, but please… use the service stairs ”

* Credit card SPANKY ZZIP-PFFT SPUT!!

* “You are not just an observer MARTYN”

* Bolas ZZUCK! tumble, fire (Burning Man)

* They hired a TOY MAKER for A.R.C.

* We open the tape with the Doyle-like professor on which he speaks to us of his vision and shows us a model of a human eye. They have jute beneath the porcelain.

* Take note, Sparks: “IS this Masonic? “Cause I’m a Catholic.”

* Sparks tries not to speak about his brother…

* Martyn calls or observes Lottie on CHRISTMAS DAY or he sees her with a ♥

* Hanging from the Billboard S.

GDT: The List of Seven was based on the novel by Mark Frost. He also wrote the screenplay and produced a draft that I really like. It’s a fantastic steampunk adventure.

The story is about Arthur Conan Doyle before he writes his first Sherlock Holmes story. He gets tangled up with an occult society in Victorian London that is planning to assassinate Queen Victoria and substitute an automaton for Prince Eddy. The society is building sort of a doomsday machine in a castle in the north of the United Kingdom. And I wanted to create these Caspar David Friedrich-type ruins and Piranesian spaces.

Mark is a very good writer of characters, so Conan Doyle was a really great personality in the screenplay. I love Conan Doyle and know his biography well, so I wanted to include details like the fact that he was an ophthalmologist. And the idea was that he succeeds in the movie only when he includes Holmes as a character, which is based on a secret agent for Queen Victoria named Jack Sparks, who is like a James Bond in Victorian times with all the accoutrements and the gadgets.

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes had a lot of the energy, which is similar to what I wanted to do with the Holmes character in The List of Seven. What I kept saying to Universal was that we didn’t need to shoot Holmes boringly. We needed to shoot him to suit the adventure. We are so used to having a passive intellectual—a guy who lives a monastic life. But for me, Holmes is a guy who is pensive and immobile for long periods—like, literally, he could stay in the same pose on a sofa for days, not even eating—but then, when he says, “Come with me, old chap,” he comes alive and it is an adventure.

* SIDE VIEW List of 7 “Doomsday Machine”

* “You are going to regret this…” He leaves

* “After all that I’ve done for you, you refuse me a simple favor” Spanky in the library.

* The owner of the house/ severed head in a package: “I won’t allow anyone to bring that “thing” near me. It’s in the cupboard. ”

* “Holmes” examines the cord, the newspapers, and the paper that’s wrapped around the package with the head in it.

* When he sees her from the roof he cries because “she’s too beautiful ”

* A motorcycle built to be driven in the drainage pipes at the M/M.

* “Scouting in the trash dumpsters for pieces.

* Dad receives a letter “Mom’s dead” from there , downhill.

* Hard to know where the hand begins…

GDT: The Left Hand of Darkness was an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo I did with Kit Carson. We started in ’94, and it took us about two years to write the screenplay. And then when my dad was kidnapped in ’97, I rewrote it. And all the anger I had about the kidnapping went into the Monte Cristo character. There’s a great deal of personal grief in it, and I think it’s the best screenplay I’ve ever written.

The Left Hand of Darkness is a story about vengeance, which I’m fascinated by because it is an empty act. There’s this old saying, “When you seek revenge, dig two graves—one for your enemy, and one for yourself.” I think revenge, when you enact it, ultimately leaves you empty. It makes you feel dirty afterward. And that was the choice we faced after the kidnapping. And we chose not to enact revenge.

But I thought an interesting way to personify vengeance would be to give the Count a mechanical hand that is not good for anything but killing. And he would say, “It’s hard to know where the hand begins and the gun ends.” They fuse. And the mechanical hand was solid gold and had a glass window in it so you could see the gears. This hand turned into the best part of Kroenen in Hellboy. There’s a natural evolution.