Guillermo del Toro - director's filmography

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The statement about talented people in everything suits Guillermo del Toro. His filmography deserves attention. He was born on October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. The well-known producer proved himself as a screenwriter, as well as a director and an actor.

Biography

The future celebrity, whose full name is Guillermo del Toro Gomez, was brought up by her grandmother. She was distinguished by her religiosity and was an ultra-conservative Catholic. The guy studied at the Institute of Sciences. Cinema attracted him from his youth. The first experiments - the film "Miscalculation", which was filmed by him at the age of 21, in 1985. The director is married, has two daughters. Now he lives in the USA in the state of California, the city of Los Angeles.

Creative baggage

Most of all, Guillermo del Toro loves to make films. The list of works in the creation of which he took part as a director has twelve items. By sixteen he was writing scripts, at twenty-eight he was producing. He has written scripts for twenty-two films.

In ten works he was noted as an actor. And among the films there is a series,popular. Its title is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". It is filmed in the style of a sitcom, heavily flavored with black humor.

Career start

Working in the cinema attracted the future celebrity from a young age. But Guillermo began his career as a make-up artist. Moreover, he studied with Dick Smith, who participated in the creation of special effects for such films as "Scanners", "The Exorcist", "Hunger". Already in the 1980s, the aspiring director created his own film company, which he called Necropia. At the same time, he became involved in journalism and lectured on cinematography. As a writer, he distinguished himself by writing screenplays for films. Published a book dedicated to the work of Alfred Hitchcock. He began making films in his homeland, in Mexico City. As a director, Guillermo del Toro created the film Chronos in 1993 and deserved its success. This is a modern interpretation of the vampire story. At this time, the director collaborated with actor Ron Perlman, whom they later met on the set of Blade 2 and Hellboy. The film was awarded nine awards in Mexico City. On the wave of popularity, the director was able to go to Hollywood, where he shot the film "Mutants" in 1997.

The picture is about humanoid cockroaches. At home, the director opened the Tequila Gang film company and became the founder of the Mexican Film Festival in Guadalajara. This was the beginning of Guillermo del Toro's path to success. His filmography at the moment contains interesting and high-quality works. Mostly fantasy and thrillers. But the master himself says that he does not count themlow genre. After all, cinema was born precisely from fantasy plots. And they were always presented as dramatic stories. According to the director, fantasy and horror help to escape from reality and get closer to poetry.

Best movies

The beginning of success was laid not even in Mexico, but in Spain, where in 2001 Guillermo del Toro received an offer to work. The director's best films are, first of all, "The Devil's Backbone" - a horror film he shot at that time. This picture met with good reviews from critics and received many awards. Then the director moved to Hollywood. Here he filmed the sequel to the popular movie about vampires "Blade" - "Blade-2". The film received a good box office and became popular with the public. The following works were just as successful. In 2004, his film "Hellboy: Hero from Hell" was shown in cinemas. The director impressed the audience in 2006 with the film "Pan's Labyrinth", and 2 years later, in 2008, "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army" appeared.

In Russia, Guillermo del Toro, whose filmography at that time was already quite rich, became famous in 2006 thanks to his film "Pan's Labyrinth". This gloomy, but in its own way attractive tale conveys the features of the master's handwriting. The director is a fan of horror and fantasy. His favorite writers are Borges and Lovecraft. In his works, del Toro combines reality and fantastic images. Two worlds were opposed in the "Labyrinth": the horrors of fascist Spain during the Civil War and a fairy tale inhabited by monsters. This movie waswell received by both the public and critics, was awarded an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. The film won the Nebula Award. At the moment, there are several more interesting works by Guillermo del Toro, his filmography has been replenished with new films. So, for example, the film "Pacific Rim" appeared, which was shown in 2013. Scripts based on the works of Tolkien were written. The result was two films that were very well received by the public.

Creative plans

Guillermo del Toro is not going to rest on his laurels. Films, the list of which continues to grow, will still make you talk about yourself. The master has new plans. In 2014, the television series "The Strain" was released, which he creates based on his own book. It will talk about the vampirism virus. A group of people enters the battle with him, whose success is hard to believe at first. The project is scheduled to start in July. This year, the premiere of the continuation film about the adventures of the hobbit is also scheduled.