Whether it’s Infinity War or the Olympics, my heart always leaps when Leslie Jones decides to live-tweet something. Over the weekend, the Saturday Night Live star decided to live-tweet her first viewing of the Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water. The Cold War fairytale from Guillermo del Toro was praised as a beautiful love story between a Sally Hawkins’s Elisa and Doug Jones’s “Amphibian Man.” It is known fondly around the world as “that movie where the girl has sex with a fish.”
The great part about Jones’s live-tweet is that she somehow managed to go in without knowing that Elisa and the fishman consummate their love (which, even if you know it’s happening, is still wild). This movie is rich, lovely, and saturated with lush colors, but also, the other day, someone reminded me that “I still got my thumb, my trigger, and pussy finger” is a real line of dialogue spoken by Michael Shannon in the Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water. There is so much ridiculous stuff happening, and I could not stop laughing when I got to Leslie Jones watching the sing/dance sequence and going, “So the fish is Fred Astaire now?!”
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