![]() In the commentary track for Cronos, del Toro says that he wanted the Catholic image of the archangel to hold inside itself the promise of a “more prosaic, more tangible eternal life.” 3 It’s the first time that del Toro juxtaposes insects with Catholic imagery in his films, but it won’t be the last. This similarity is only underscored by del Toro’s choice to first reveal the Device hidden inside the base of an archangel statue. The titular Cronos Device is a small, golden mechanism in the shape of an insect-with a living insect trapped inside-that grants its user eternal life by transforming them into something that we would recognize as a vampire.ĭel Toro has said that his design of the Cronos Device was inspired by the jewel-encrusted Maquech Beetles that were popular as living jewelry when he was growing up in Mexico 2, but the Device also bears an obvious similarity to a reliquary, used to house the remains of saints. 1 Shot when he was only twenty-nine, it is the director’s first feature film, and also the one that lays the groundwork for many of the insect themes that will appear later in his oeuvre. “ Cronos is about immortality,” Guillermo del Toro says in Cabinet of Curiosities. In several of his films, insects take on a more thematically dense role, their presence assuming an almost religious significance, with connections to divinity, the underworld, and eternal life. Most of the time, these insects serve a primarily visual role, lending verisimilitude to a creature design or inspiring a monster’s behavior patterns, but del Toro’s inclination toward the insect doesn’t end with aesthetic appreciation. Even Hellboy 2 and Pacific Rim prominently featured swarming tooth fairies and kaiju skin parasites, respectively. Insects and insect imagery play a major role in just about every movie in his filmography, from the fly-in-amber ghosts of The Devil’s Backbone to the Reapers of Blade 2 and the vampires of The Strain, with their hive-like social structures and insectile proboscises. ![]() ![]() If you care about this project, save its life, please! I would submit that that is ground breaking enough.It’s no secret that Guillermo del Toro loves bugs. Cameron said in an interview that he would only come in to direct and write an episode if it could be ground breaking enough and something that had not been done before on TV. Can we get rid of it? It is the biggest cliche on TV right now. the hunted theme: we've already had this in The Fugitive, The Incredible Hulk, The Pretender, to some extend in The Profiler, and probably others that I haven't even heard of. The other thing that bothers me about Dark Angel is the hunter vs. bad cop episodic plots to the back burner.Of course this would mean, one suspects, that at some point the series would be over, because the main plot would be solved. In order for these types of series to succeed, the producers, in my humble opinion, need to tie the various subplots at some point to THE main plot of the show and relegate the good cop vs. bad guy stuff while continuing to build up on the subplots with no discernable solution to the questions the subplots are raising. I think that this show suffers from the same problems that the PRETENDER suffered from: it just keeps recycling the same good guy(girl) vs. ![]() Unless James Cameron takes a more hands-on approach and start doing some of the writing and/or directing himself, this will be another one of those short lived TV series that will be rerun on either TNT, SCI-FI, or FX cable channels ad-infinitum. This show started with much promise, but I think it is fading fast.
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