I am a big fan of Guillermo del Toro's films and I am interested in how his films deal indirectly with horrific real life stories (such as the Spanish Civil War and the fascist dictatorship of Franco) through a coded fairytale. Guillermo del Toro is interested at looking at the world through the eyes of a child. Even though his films have crazy monsters in them, the actual monsters in the stories are humans.
For my FMP I am interested in using this juxtaposition of imagined creatures with real life monsters, and imagined realities with horrific things that are going on in the real world through using current news stories and images.
"There are fairy tales that are created to instill fear in children, and there are fairy tales that are created to instill hope and magic in children. I like those. I like the anarchic ones. I like the crazy ones. And, I think that all of them have a huge quotient of darkness because the one thing that alchemy understands, and fairy tale lore understands, is that you need the vile matter for magic to flourish." Guillermo del Toro
You should watch 'The Devil's Backbone' it's an earlier Del Toro film so it deals very directly with the juxtaposition you mentioned, children's innocence vs brutality of war. The film is set during the Spanish civil war & it thrusts metaphors for inadequacy in the face of the viewer unapologetically. It contextualises the horror within our own history making it palatable. Genius.
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