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Guillermo del toro the fall5/13/2023 That’s probably why the protagonist of del Toro’s quite excellent 1993 vampire film Cronos also deals in antiques. It makes sense to me that they make Setrakian, their septuagenarian Van Helsing, a pawnbroker who sifts through mountains of ancient junk, occasionally finding an essential grimoire or a silver-backed mirror, since that’s essentially what they’re doing picking and choosing their favorite bits from dusty tales and putting them to new use. To me what earns del Toro a spot on my list of Awesomest People Ever-a list I actually keep taped to the head of my bed so that I can get a taste of awesomeness each morning I wake up-is the fact that he transforms his subject matter through his sheer exuberance for it. They aren’t the most literary vampire books ever written, but they have something that most modern bloodsucker fiction lacks: A love of the myth.
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