Pan's Labyrinth

bull helmet with barbed wire, whereas in the myth it is half man half bull. The things done throughout the labyrinth scenes are also a little off. Theseus cuts his leg and uses his blood to find his way out of the labyrinth instead of string and he kills the Minotaur with the Bow of Epirus instead of his sword. The labyrinth is also a tomb in the case of the movie instead of being a real labyrinth. However, the two most deceiving parts of the entire movie are Hyperion and Phaedra as character in…

“This just in we hear that NASA is trying to make contacts with an object that supposedly has life in it.” “This is just getting way to weird for me now.” murmured the waitress at Le Anne Jemima The man sitting next to us interrupted her saying “there ain't no way that it's true this is Fake.” Once me and my friend finish off our burgers after discussing if we should be worried about these possible life forms heading towards us. We decided we should just pay for our bill and not take any…

King Minos was the king of Crete. He ruled over many lands and one of the lands was Athens. Whatever the king wished, it was granted. He could tell the people to do anything and they would do it. The only reason that the people continued to follow orders is because they did not want to go to war. The king had a palace and in the middle of the palace was a half human, half bull monster in the center of a maze. Routinely, every year each king of every land shall send 14 tributes to go through the…

“She became the mother of the monster, the Minotaur, and second the maze.” In this version, Daedalus has already perished and the labyrinth is dying. “She didn’t know how Pasiphae planned to “deal” with them,… but she straightened her back and tried to look confident.” (Page 539) After her first test, she had used very little magic and she almost passed out. She knew she had to use…

Rating On a scale from 1 to 5, I give The House of Hades a rating of 4. There were many interesting parts and there were some parts that I tried not to fall asleep on. Some of the interesting parts were when Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase were in Tartarus fighting monsters, slowly dying. They are met with past enemies and make unforeseen alliances. In the Prophecy of Seven, one of the lines say, “And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death”. Their foes in the story are Bob the Titan, AKA…

Rick Riordan’s children’s fantasy novel The House of Hades (2013) caused controversy when it was released for the explicit inclusion of the first queer child, Nico di Angelo, in mainstream children’s fantasy. Though Nico had been present in six instalments beforehand, in The House of Hades Nico came out as having feelings for Percy Jackson. Since The House of Hades, Riordan’s novels have featured gay, bisexual, and transgender characters. While queer themes may not be explicit in the rest of his…

I just got done with my shift to protect Camp Half-Blood feeling very tired and stressed. With the camp’s protection being down and most of the campers going back to their families for the summer, this meant that there were very few of us to guard our safe haven. Not to mention I was still recovering from my broken ankle. I decided to take a walk down to the beach near the camp. Lately, I’ve found the sound of crashing waves, wind brushing through my hair, and the slight smell of salt hitting my…

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” This quote is from the first book of the Percy Jackson series, The Lightning Thief, created by Rick Riordan. Like most books, it became popular and was created into a movie. However, the movie and the book share an abundance of differences, but there are also aspects that the movie and the book share. Percy, a demigod, finds out that his father is Poseidon, god of the sea, and he has to leave…

Even though multiple campers had heard the voices apollo herd in the forest, and gotten mysteriously taken, they decide the most dangerous place for the race to be was in the Labyrinth, which just happened to be under the forest. During the race, Apollo met someone who called themselves the beast, who had control over a monster that was stopping the flow of prophecies from getting to the demigods. This is a problem because without…

The Devil’s Backbone (2001) Devil's Backbone (2001) - source: Sony Pictures Classics The Devil's Backbone (2001) - source: Sony Pictures Classics Del Toro's next film is The Devil's Backbone, a dense and politically charged ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War, features one of the most haunting opening sequences in modern cinema: Fade in. The camera moves toward a darkened doorway. "What is a ghost?" a voice asks. "A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?" We enter the…