![]() ![]() Both works use a motif of a “romantic vintage song playing on a record player inside the laboratory”, the suit says. In both stories, scientists are studying the creature’s advanced abilities for military applications and use electrodes to incite reactions. ![]() ![]() Both protagonists are unmarried and introverted cleaning women who work graveyard shifts at the labs, the suit continues, adding that there are parallel characters, including a co-worker friend, their supervisor, a scientist and the aquatic creature. The complaint – which seeks damages and references the film’s earnings of more than $70m at the box office – notes that both works take place during the 1960s during the cold war in a secret laboratory that conducts experiments for military purposes. “The tells a story that is substantially similar, and in many ways identical, to that of the play,” Zindel’s lawyers wrote in the complaint, alleging “overwhelming similarities” that are “too egregious to ignore”. Let Me Hear You Whisper, which aired as a TV production nearly 50 years ago, is also about a female janitor in a laboratory who bonds with a sea creature whom she attempts to save. ![]() The Shape of Water, co-written by Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, tells the story of a 1960s Baltimore laboratory cleaner who falls in love with a sea creature whom she tries to rescue. The suit, filed less than two weeks before the Academy Awards on 4 March, outlines similarities in concept, characters, themes and plot points. ![]()
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