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    Pans labyrinth is an intense movie of a young girl struggles to break free of the restraints of being a child and the cruelties of living through Spanish fascism. Pans labyrinth is anything but your ordinary ‘time filling’ movie. It has great depth and an intricate web of occult and archetypal symbols. Guillermo del Toro‚ the director‚ does not shy away from exposing the harshness of reality and the intertwined fantasy. This one of a kind movie gives you a rare moment to see the world with a different

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    * Pan’s Labyrinth: A Depiction of Post-Civil War Spain * The film “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a cinematic masterpiece of 2006‚ directed and written by Guillermo del Toro. Although the film is considered partly within the fantasy genre‚ several of the themes within the film reflect certain historical realities of post-civil war Spain. Themes of reality versus fantasy‚ gender roles‚ and children and war are developed within the film. Pan’s Labyrinth takes place during the Francoist period of 1944

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    The Antagonist is the bad guy in any story. He/She tries to get what they want. For example‚ in Peter Pan Captain Hook tries to kill Peter Pan and the lost boys. Of course Captain Hook never succeeds. He’s ether eaten by a giant octopus or a crocodile. The book I will be using for an example the book series Eragon. These books are mostly about about a boy named Eragon. Eragon has a poor family and has to hunt in the Spine for food. Eragon is chasing a deer and trips over a rock. A few chapters

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    integrate different storylines in a film you have studied. Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guellermo Del Toro is set in Spain 1944. Captain Vidal‚ the leading commander at the Mill is fighting the resistance‚ who fight for a Spain where people in power do not rule over the people. Captain Vidal’s pregnant wife Carmen is introduced with her daughter Ofelia. Del Toro has built the movie by balancing the brutal storyline of Captain Vidal and the fantasy that consumes Ofelia’s. Lighting‚ symbolism and editing

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    In “Pan’s Labyrinth” it showed a labyrinth in which the Ofelia had to take to meet the Faun. The Labyrinth in this story tells me that our lives today are like that. Like we don’t know where to go and/or not sure to turn‚ because it might be the wrong path. If it was the wrong path it means to us in the real life that we made a wrong decision and we’ve gotten farther away from our destination. But if we made the right turn then we made a right decision in the world and are getting closer to what

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    Pan’s Labyrinth ENG4UI-05 Mr. Amoroso September 29 2014 Billy McPherson Pan’s Labyrinth An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype is how the dictionary defines an archetype. In the movie Pan’s Labyrinth it characterizes strong elements of both romance and irony. When analyzing the plot‚ characters‚ symbols‚ and scenes of the movie‚ it shows these element throughout the whole duration. Ofelia‚ our archetypal hero shows how the movie has both a romance

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    1 “Fantasy and Myth in Pan’s Labyrinth: Analysis of Guillermo del Toro´s Symbolic Imagery.” The ancient myth of Cronus (or “Saturn” for the Romans). is at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). Del Toro revealed that a major inspiration for the creation of the supernatural creatures in the film was painter Francisco de Goya. In fact the scene were the Pale Man bites the fairies in half and gobbles them up is a direct reference to one of Goya’s most famous Black Paintings: “Saturn

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    are several postmodern elements in the film Pan’s Labyrinth. Two of the most prominent are the concepts of intertextuality and hyperreality. Intertextuality exists in the film’s heavy references to Greek mythology and mythological figures. The concept of hyperreality on the other hand exists in the film’s premise of the existence of a so called fanstasy world that transcends the normal bounds of reality. 2)  Ofelia - As one of the leading characters‚ Ofelia is a child that is a reincarnation of a

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    the work. For “Pan’s labyrinth”‚ an outstanding cinema work rich in symbols‚ details and meaning‚ it is even more essential for us to take the underlying context into serious consideration The external setting of this work consisted of 3 element: time‚ place and social environment. In 2006‚ the movie was filmed in a Scots Pine forest situated in the Guadarrama mountain range‚ Central Spain by the talented Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. The idea for Pan’s Labyrinth came from Guillermo del

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    Kondracke and Vidal Evaluation In the article‚ “Don’t Legalize Drugs” by Morton M. Kondracke‚ writes on the pros and cons of the legalization of drugs in a convincing way to help the reader understand the ultimate downfall of our society if the legalization of drugs does come into effect. His convincing tone is brought together by his logical‚ outside resources‚ and predictions from credible doctors. His use of pathos also helps the reader have a deeper understanding of the serious problems of

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