The Rattle Inside my Head

If I had to draw a picture of what is inside my head, it would look something like a large network of lines and topics that are connected. So when you go to the movie section of my brain you will see a long list of actors, directors, studios, and writers.  Additionally you will se a long list of movies and television shows.  There are lines that connect each person to the project they worked on. 

So last night Tom told me that the director of  La Cité des enfants perdus and El Laberinto del Fauno were the same person.  Now at first this didn’t make sense, my mind didn’t have those connections. They were two seperate people.  I thought about it did the following calculations.  Ron Perlman is in  La Cité des enfants perdus and in Alien: Resurrection which I know are both by the same director.  Additionally, I know that Rom Perlman is in Hellboy and in Blade II, and I know that Guillermo del Toro directed those three movies.  I also know that directors have people they like to work with.  

But that’s not enough I need more.  I know that the director of  La Cité des enfants perdus had done a lot of great work, and at the time that it came out a lot of actors were trying to get into his projects.  This is why Winona Ryder was in such a stinker.  That doesn’t give me any more information about the director, but it might explain why all of a sudden there is a break in my mind with the director of La Cité des enfants perdus career and then I finally put a name to the guy.  But this still isn’t enough.

I look at the movies La Cité des enfants perdus and Alien: Resurrection both have young females that act as the hero who overcomes some rather adult problems.  Additionally El Laberinto del Fauno features a young female dealing with very real adult problems.   Additionally both are fairy tales centered on a theme of rescuing the younger brother from the “belly of the beast.”  Ron Perlman in La Cité des enfants perdus and the Faun from El Laberinto del Fauno play the same character mythically speaking. 

Finally I am willing to accept this, but my problems still linger.  Why did the director go from doing French films to Spanish films?  Also Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain and Un long dimanche de fiançailles  do not fit into a schedule that allows for Hellboy and Blade II. 

So all night I kept saying “I can’t believe that they are the same people.”  I must have said it at least ten times.  But I qualified my acceptance that I would check IMDB and lay the matter to rest.