#116: (Pt. 1) The Shape of Water / The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Guillermo Del Toro has made clear that his new THE SHAPE OF WATER stems directly from his obsession with 1954’s THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, and his desire to see the “romance” between the monster and leading lady work out. We unpack that desire by revisiting Jack Arnold’s horror-sci-fi classic, to consider the film’s place in the Universal Monsters pantheon and mid-century sci-fi boom alike, ponder what makes the image of a screaming woman being spirited away by a monster so enduring, and pinpoint the Herzogian echoes in the film's ill-fated excursion to the Amazon. Plus, some feedback on our recent episodes on A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE and PHANTOM THREAD. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, SHAPE OF WATER, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: “Underwater Love” by Smoke City Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the rest.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.8	Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the Week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson here with. Retriever. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all
1:10.9	culture is more interesting in context.
1:12.9	So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it
1:16.9	relates to a current movie.
1:18.5	This week, we're wading into the deep, dark waters of the id for a couple of strange
1:22.3	romantic fantasies featuring fishmen.
1:24.6	Keith, you want to hook us up with some info about this week's pairing?
1:28.0	Only if you promise a reel in the fish pens.
1:31.3	Gear with Torto's romantic fantasy, the shape of water, opened in theaters in December 2017.
1:36.0	But like so many prestige films that first emerged around the holidays, it's had a long,
1:40.0	slow release and a slow build with audiences.
1:42.5	It's a bit of a hard sell as a movie, a swooning,
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