The Shape Of Water Spoilers

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The trivia items below may give away important plot points.

One of Octavia Spencer's favorite things about the screenplay was the fact that, by letting the main couple be mute, most of the dialogue comes from a black woman and a closeted gay man. In real life, they would both have experienced suppression during the 1960s setting of the film.

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The dance scene between the creature and Elisa is an homage to a dance scene between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet (1936). The unusual set piece is the same as the one seen when Fred sings Let's Face the Music and Dance.

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When she was offered the lead role in this film, Sally Hawkins herself was working on a script for a short film about a woman who turns into a fish.

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The top billed movie playing in the theatre over which Ella lives is The Story of Ruth. One would suggest that by choosing that film del Toro was slyly telegraphing the film's ending. In the Biblical Book of Ruth, young Ruth, just widowed, tells her mother-in-law, Naomi, "Wither thou goest, I will go. Wither thou lodgest, I will lodge." Precisely the final end of the film.

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Elisa's calendar shows the date of October 10th as the Rains/Docks date to release the creature, October 9th is shown briefly before ; which is director Guillermo's actual birthday.