6/19/2023 0 Comments The shape of water daniel kraus![]() As reported, there is actually a third short film based on similar ideas, The Space Between Us made in 2015. Ideas remain free for all to use as only the expression of ideas can be protected under copyright law. Zindel died in 2003 and it is not yet clear whether his estate intends to pursue the issue in the courts. ![]() Fast forward to 2017 and Shape of Water also takes place in the 1960s, features an introverted female character working as a janitor in a research lab and revolves around saving a sea creature about to be killed due to lack of cooperation during lab experiments.Īccording to the film’s director, Guillermo del Toro, on the website Written By, the idea of creating a movie about a “janitor that kidnaps an amphibian-man from a secret government facility” came from working with associate producer Daniel Kraus, who said he had been toying with the idea for some time. ![]() In 1969, Zindel wrote a play, Let Me Hear You Whisper, about a female janitor working in a secret government-owned laboratory in the 1960s who eventually attempts to rescue a sea creature from being killed after the creature’s refusal to cooperate with the researchers. The Shape of Water is currently leading the Oscar nominations with no less than 13 Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay – so accusations that its plot was stolen from Pulitzer-winning playwright Paul Zindel could not come at a worse time. ![]()
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