Guillermo del Toro - the filmography of the director

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

Biography

Education of the future celebrity, full namewhich Guillermo del Toro Gomez, was engaged in the grandmother. She was religious and was an ultra-conservative Catholic. The guy was studying at the Institute of Science. The cinema attracted him from his youth. The first experiments - the film "Miscalculation", which was shot by him at 21, in 1985. The director is married, there are two daughters. Now he lives in the USA in the state of California, the city of Los Angeles.

Creative luggage

Most likes to shoot Guillermo del Torofilms. The list of works, in the creation of which he took part as a director, totals twelve points. By sixteen he wrote scripts, at twenty-eight he was a producer. Scenarios he wrote to twenty-two films.

In ten works he was noted as an actor.And among the films there is a series that is popular. Its name "It's always sunny in Philadelphia". He was filmed in the style of the sitcom, strongly flavored with black humor.

Carier start

Working in the cinema attracted a future celebrity withyoung years. But Guillermo started his career as a make-up artist. And he studied with Dick Smith, who participated in the creation of special effects for such films as "Scanners", "Exorcist", "Hunger". Already in the 1980s, the beginning director created his own film company, which he called "Necropium." At the same time, he began to engage in journalism and gave lectures on cinematography. As a writer, he showed himself in writing scripts for films. He published a book on the work of Alfred Hitchcock. He started shooting movies in his homeland, in Mexico City. As director Guillermo del Toro in 1993 created the film "Chronos" and deserved success. This is a modern interpretation of the story of the vampire. At this time, there was a collaboration between the director and 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 a wave of popularity, the director was able to go to Hollywood, where he shot the film "Mutants" in 1997.

In the picture we are talking about cockroaches-humanoids.At home, the director opened the film company "Tequila Ganges" and became the founder of the Mexican film festival in Guadalajara. This was the beginning of the road to the success of Guillermo del Toro. His filmography at the moment contains interesting and high-quality work. Basically it's fantasy and thrillers. But the master himself says that he does not consider them a low genre. After all, the movie was born from fantasy stories. And they were always presented as dramatic stories. In the director's opinion, fantasy and horror help to distract from reality and approach poetry.

Top Movies

The beginning of success was laid not even in Mexico, butin Spain, where in 2001 he received a job offer for Guillermo del Toro. The best films of the director are first of all “Devil's Ridge” - a horror film made by him at this time. This picture met with good reviews from critics and received many awards. Then the director moved to Hollywood. Here they filmed a sequel to the popular vampire movie Blade - Blade 2. The film received a good box office and became popular with the public. The following works have become equally successful. In 2004 his movie “Hellboy: A Hero from Hell” was shown in cinemas. The director struck the public in 2006 with the painting The Labyrinth of the Faun, and after 2 years, in 2008, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army appeared.

In Russia, Guillermo del Toro, filmographywhich at that time was already quite rich, became known in 2006 thanks to his painting "The Labyrinth of the Faun." This gloomy, but in its own way attractive fairy tale conveys the features of the master's handwriting. The director is a fan of horror and fiction. His favorite writers are Borges and Lovecraft. In his works, del Toro combines reality and fantastic images. In the "Labyrinth" were opposed to two worlds: the horrors of fascist Spain during the civil war and a fairy tale inhabited by monsters. This film was well received by both the public and critics, was awarded an Oscar nomination for the script. Motion picture won the “Nebula” award. At the moment there are some more interesting works of Guillermo del Toro, his filmography was replenished with new motion pictures. For example, the Pacific Line film, which was shown in 2013, appeared. Scripts on works of Tolkien were written. As a result, two films were shot that were very well received by the public.

Creative plans

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