Name: The Shape of Water (Film)
Price: 568.00 ZAR
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Author: Guillermo del Toro
ISBN: 9781250302588

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Physical Book

Author

Guillermo del Toro

Publisher

Macmillan (S&S)

Synopsis "The Shape of Water (Film) "

It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito-mute her whole life, orphaned as a child-is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn't know how she'd make it through the day. Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center's most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions... and Elisa can't keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa's sole reason to live. But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming. Developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release-one story interpreted by two artists in the independent mediums of literature and film-The Shape of Water is unlike anything you've ever read or seen.

Guillermo del Toro

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The visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and renowned author Daniel Kraus combine their formidable talent in a love story as touching as it is fascinating. "The Shape of Water" is set in the city of Baltimore during the Cold War, at the Occam aerospace research center, where an extraordinary and potentially valuable being has recently arrived: an amphibious man captured in the Amazon. What follows is an emotional love story between this being and one of the cleaning women at Occam, who is mute and communicates with the creature through sign language. Developed from the outset as a groundbreaking simultaneous release --the same story recreated by two artists in the independent mediums of literature and film--, "The Shape of Water" weaves fantasy, horror, and the romantic genre to create a narrative that is as thrilling on paper as it is on the big screen. Get ready for an experience unlike anything you have read or seen.

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