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Guillermo Del Torro is best known for his famous horror films. In his movies, he uses monsters to express his feelings toward monsters and he identify his films by using monsters because of his deep passion towards them. He also tries to give others a creative side and unique imagination. Del Toro creates these monsters to emphasize the reality of his work. As a child Del Toro had many thoughts and dreams of monsters, which now greatly has an affect on his work.

In the Devil's Backbone Del Toro used an orphanage as a building of gothic romance and used the ghost story to prove the same thing that he wanted to prove in Pan's Labyrinth, that is the only real monsters are human. In the Devil's Backbone,emphasized on the true definition of a ghost because a ghost is a tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again and something dead that still seems to be alive. His intentions were to express to viewers that his reason for using ghosts were to show othere hat the ghost are not what they are afraid of and that what they are really afraid of are people.

In Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo Del Torro used the pale man for the viewers to find his work more appealing. When he use these effects thaey are only tools to make his work look less like a fairytale and more realistic.

From my point of view I would say that Guillermo Del Toro has a significant relationship with monsters and treat his monsters as if they are real people.

The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well was the first film to be produced under Akira Kirosawa's production company. In this particular film Kirosawa combines elements from Shakespaere's play Hamlet, which is Akira Kirosawa's favorite play.Kurosawa’s film has far more r, realism. On the other hand, Shakespeare's play reflects more upon poetry instead of drama. This movie is mainly about Koichi Nishi, who is a young executive wants revenge for his father's death and decides to search for the killer himself.

Although this was not one of my favorite movies, I noticed how creative Kirosawa was when he did this movie. For instance the sound, and the ay he used the lighting. Everything was done in black and whit photography. He also had great focus camera work. On the action scenes in this movie the camera was very focused when it captured things, especially the movement.

As far as the costumes in the movie, I would have to say that they were fine because they were definitely apart of the Japanese culture.

The Conversation

The title of the movie basically explains what the movie is all about. The movie revolves around Harry Caul, a surveillance expert that finds a conversation between a woman and a man in a courtyard quiute interesting. With the devices that he built himself, he realizes that he may have put the two people in danger by recording their conversation. Although this was not the first time that this occurred, Harry was very paranoid and almost delusional because he feared that he was being watched. This explains why his apartment have several locks on the door. I can say that this movie was suspenseful because you didn't know what was going to occur next because something strange would suddenly happen. For instance, the part when Harry ws in the hotel and he stepped on the balcony after hearing screaming from the next room and a bloody hand appears on the glass. It affects him because he hides under the cover and goes crazy, you would think he was trying to think nothing ever happened. In this film, I would have to say that I really didn't care for the sound. It really annoyed me because it sounded as if someone was talking in a microphone with stuffed paper of some kind in their mouths the majority of the time. The costumes in this film were okay but I was aware of the raincoat that Harry wore after it was pointed out and I couldn't understand why someone would decide to do such a thing for without a purpose, being that it was dry outside. The setting of the film mainly took place in the courtyard, at his office, and in the hotel. Overall I would say that this was a film that you definitely had to pay close attention to in order to understand what was going on and I found it pretty much interesting.