elanabrooklyn:

flippyspoon:

sityourfivedollarassdown:

“Does the rotting house have anything to do with the way that people of that period, that whole aristocracy fell apart?

DEL TORO: Yes. This is not Downton Abbey. This is … I don’t like what I call “class porn,” where everybody’s all gooey over, “If only the aristocracy was still in charge, life would be so civilized.” Fuck that. It’s not true. It was never true.” x

I love Guillermo del Toro

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Yes! I’ve been calling it that too

An excellent point – it’s not an accident that Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downtown Abbey, is a Tory member of the House of Lords.