The film Pan’s Labyrinth, by the very famous and talented Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, has transcended and surpassed many records in the film industry. The film contains many peculiar aspects that pertain to realism and to fantasy that make it so the film is distinct from other films. The protagonist of the Ofelia displays certain characteristics and other aspects that in turn gives the film that sort of special charm that differentiates this film from other films. The main character Ofelia and the structure/form of the story are what make the film, Pan’s Labyrinth, truly unique and special. One of the most important aspects of Pan’s Labyrinth is the form of the story. The film gets its structure from fairy tales. Although many films
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In Jennifer Orme’s “Narrative Desire and Disobedience in Pan’s Labyrinth”, Orme agrees that del Toro’s film is “an original cinematic fairy tale that makes clear visual and verbal references to oral, literary, and cinematic fairy-tale traditions” (Orme 220). During the course of the film there are instances that showcase Orme’s view. For example, in the beginning in the film, Ofelia is reading a fairy tale from one of the many books she has, and another example is when Ofelia is telling a fairy tale to her unborn brother. In Pan’s Labyrinth, there are references to fairy tales when the film itself is a sort of fairytale of its own. This makes the film unique when compared to other films. Another way that the story of Pan’s Labyrinth is distinctive is that the film “intertwines distinct stories and story lines; engages the genres of both the fairy tale and the historic political resistance film” (Orme 223). The film contains that fairy tale aspect with the …show more content…
What del Toro does should be taken note of as he is incorporating these real life situations with his film that is essentially a fairy tale movie. Usually with a fairy tale movie there is that common expectation that the film is kid friendly with little to no violence, but with the film displaying the conflict and the bloodshed during post-civil war Spain, that common perspective that the audience has of a fairy tale movie is not present. This only displays the idea that the form and contents of the story present in del Toro’s movie make the movie itself a unique experience that other movies do not do. In Laura Hubner’s “Pan’s Labyrinth, Fear and the Fairy Tale”, Hubner discusses that scenes in the film are “close engagement with specific acts of violence to capture the horrors of Franco’s regime makes Pan’s Labyrinth distinctive within contemporary cinema” (Hubner 47). There are scenes in the film that are sincerely brutal. There is the scene with the father and son, who are hunting rabbits for their family, getting slaughtered by Captain Vidal who believed that they were fighting for the Resistance. Another scene is when the audience is shown the fighter who stutters after he was inhumanely tortured. These “horrors of Franco’s regime” in this fairy tale film are part of what makes this movie truly “distinctive within contemporary
In Jennifer Orme’s “Narrative Desire and Disobedience in Pan’s Labyrinth”, Orme agrees that del Toro’s film is “an original cinematic fairy tale that makes clear visual and verbal references to oral, literary, and cinematic fairy-tale traditions” (Orme 220). During the course of the film there are instances that showcase Orme’s view. For example, in the beginning in the film, Ofelia is reading a fairy tale from one of the many books she has, and another example is when Ofelia is telling a fairy tale to her unborn brother. In Pan’s Labyrinth, there are references to fairy tales when the film itself is a sort of fairytale of its own. This makes the film unique when compared to other films. Another way that the story of Pan’s Labyrinth is distinctive is that the film “intertwines distinct stories and story lines; engages the genres of both the fairy tale and the historic political resistance film” (Orme 223). The film contains that fairy tale aspect with the …show more content…
What del Toro does should be taken note of as he is incorporating these real life situations with his film that is essentially a fairy tale movie. Usually with a fairy tale movie there is that common expectation that the film is kid friendly with little to no violence, but with the film displaying the conflict and the bloodshed during post-civil war Spain, that common perspective that the audience has of a fairy tale movie is not present. This only displays the idea that the form and contents of the story present in del Toro’s movie make the movie itself a unique experience that other movies do not do. In Laura Hubner’s “Pan’s Labyrinth, Fear and the Fairy Tale”, Hubner discusses that scenes in the film are “close engagement with specific acts of violence to capture the horrors of Franco’s regime makes Pan’s Labyrinth distinctive within contemporary cinema” (Hubner 47). There are scenes in the film that are sincerely brutal. There is the scene with the father and son, who are hunting rabbits for their family, getting slaughtered by Captain Vidal who believed that they were fighting for the Resistance. Another scene is when the audience is shown the fighter who stutters after he was inhumanely tortured. These “horrors of Franco’s regime” in this fairy tale film are part of what makes this movie truly “distinctive within contemporary