Megan Jean Spanish 275 2-17-2015 The film Pan's Labyrinth, originally known in Spanish as El laberinto del fauno, referring to the fauns of Roman mythology, is a 2006 Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy film written and directed by Mexican Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro displays a love of darkness and stylized color, and a preference for letting the images carry the film's narrative. As According the the American Academy of Cinematographers this is not an uncommon approach of Del Toro’s; his fingerprint of darkness and stylized colors is displayed in many of his productions including Hellboy and The Devil’s Backbone. Del Toro used his cinematographic stylization in this film to tell a strongly emotional story of darkness and hatred and violence all …show more content…
An over-the-shoulder shot is defined as a medium shot that is often useful in dialogue scenes, in which one actor is photographed head-on from over the shoulder of another actor. Del Toro’s favoring of this shot could easily be out of his desire to make his viewers feel emotionally connected to the characters as if they are a part of the film themself. Some viewers may even notice the innate discomfort that this shot, especially in the high drama moments of this film can provoke. It gives one the sensation of actually being able to see through the subjects eyes and personally register the emotion of the face of the person being spoken to. Another cinematographic shot the Del Toro commonly and beautifully uses in Pan’s Labyrinth is a right horizontal pan, which in Lehman’s terms means a rotation of the camera horizontally to the right while the physical camera stays in one place. He uses this shot very beautifully as a transition from scene to scene. The audience is watching one scene, when Ofelia is walking through the woods, then the camera pans behind a tree and upon emerging from the other side the viewer is introduced to a new
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) written and directed by Guillermo del Toro is a dark fantasy film that uses fantasy and inspired true events of the after effects of the Spanish Civil War to create a symbolic parable that was influenced by fairy tales and myths. Even though this film is explicitly about the times during Franco it is also a film that can speak for any time period, past, present, and future. Through the use of phantasmagorical elements in the fantasy sequences del Toro uses doubling to reinforce the horrific events that have and can happen again in reality. The film takes place five years after the Spanish Civil War during Francisco Franco’s reign of terror. The story focuses on Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) as well as Ofelia’s evil stepfather, Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez). Both characters represent something bigger than they actually are; Ofelia is seen to represent Spain and the antifascists whereas Captain Vidal represents Franco and fascism. Ofelia has to complete three daunting tasks given to her by the Faun (Doug Jones) that is said to reunite her with her family, the King and Queen of the Underworld. Del Toro uses doubling of the mythical realm with the ‘real world’ throughout the film that emphasizes the underlying meaning of the film. The film also follows the story of the anti-fascists rebels that are hidden amongst the trees and mountains. The character Mercedes (Maribel Verdu) is able to fool Captain Vidal for most of the film and help the rebels. It is not until the near end of the film where Captain Vidal realizes that Mercedes has been helping the rebels the entire time and it is due partly because of his misogyny that he is unable to see her as a threat to his cause.
...ot where the camera follows a subject within a frame and motion of the subject or its surroundings is involved. In this movie Lee uses the double dolly shot which includes the camera dolly and the actor mounted on a second dolly so the actor is moving along with the camera. The double dolly shot signature move is one of Lee’s favorites and also plays into his technical competence for the movie. This shot stars Detective Keith Frazier and happens just seconds after a hostage is “allegedly” killed by the bank robbers. In this scene the camera tends to shake and Denzel facial expressions display feelings of sadness and anger. In addition, a small cameo of Sal’s Pizzeria pizza boxes are seen when the head bank robbers makes a deal with the officers to get food for the hostages. Lee has lots of these connections within his movies relating back to Do The Right Thing.
The scene of the Pale Man in the movie Pan’s Labyrinth is much like the feeling you get during a storm. The Pale Man remains asleep and all is clam in his dungeon until Ofelia eats the grapes, after she was given clear, strict rules to not eat anything on his table. Her leisurely curiosity leaves her blind to the awakened monster behind her, but once she realizes her impending doom, she quickly tries to find an escape. Some may believe it was Ofelia’s disobedience of
Many people take on missions for whatever reason, but one thing that all missions have and all people taking on missions are obligated to face: is the danger of getting out of their comfort zone. Bilbo Baggins, from The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien, and Ernesto Galarza, from “Barrio Boy” by Ernesto Galarza, had to tread in murky waters to accomplish their goals. Bilbo Baggins had to battle his fear and is trying to find a balance between his two sides while trying to fight a dragon and Ernesto Galarza had to overcome his lack of English vocabulary trying to accomplish his goal of becoming a good American. These goals all motivate these men into overcoming their obstacles they faced.
In Jim Henson’s Labyrinth the plot closely follows the narrative structure that is documented by Propp and described by Berger. Propp establishes a series of functions which all Russian fairy tales followed and which Berger finds easily applies to modern day narratives. When these functions are applied to Labyrinth, they fit easily into the movies story line. The protagonist, Sarah, is an adequate example of Propp’s hero with some gender norms reversed and Jareth fits into the archetype of the villain. Labyrinth presents an excellent example to Berger’s updated interpretation of Propp’s fairy tale theory of structure, while presenting important modernizations to the structure.
In another budgetary adaptation, the film crew, lacking the funds for cranes and dollies to do moving and panning shots, quickly switched between multiple shots for dynamic dialog, giving a certain frenzied feel to the dialog interactions (Hervey 38). The style this lends to th...
Cohen points to Cuaron 's fluid lensing, with its emphasis on single wide-angle shots, as a special challenge. "It makes (the effects) considerably harder, because the shots are so much longer, you 've got to think about so many more different elements. With quick cuts you can hide so many things” (A1). The whole move was a new experience not only for the actors, but also to the
...haracter's movement through the scene should look totally natural. As a scene shows us the basic setting and characters, it generally moves from a wide shot to a medium shot, and then to close-ups of the characters. This use of the space is then conserved by using a set of rules. The first rule is the 180-degree rule, or "not crossing the line." Meaning that the viewer is presented to a shot in which one person is on the right and a second person is on the left, the camera should not rotate beyond 180 degrees, because that would invert the relative positions of each person. The continuity style gave classical Hollywood films their rhythmic power. The spell that style enables the audience the wonder of being able to lose yourself in the world of the film depends on a how the director shows and gives you this new world, most notably done during Hollywood's Golden Age.
Guillermo del Toro was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico and was raised by his Catholic grandmother. He had an interest in filmmaking at a young age but learned about special effects and makeup first. In 1993, del Toro got his career break with Cronos after it won nine academy awards in Mexico (Guillermo del Toro). Soon after, del Toro created his first Hollywood film, Mimic. Unfortunately, del Toro describes Mimic as the worst film he has ever made and the hardest to work on due to constant interruptions by producers. He returned to Mexico in order to form his own production company, greatly disliking the demanding Hollywood studios (Guillermo del Toro). Del Toro is well known for his films in the horror genre and his love for dark beauty
When comparing the terms fantasy and reality, the adult mind categorizes the respective events of the two perspectives. Fantasy relates to the impractical while reality pertains to the facts and our experiences. In the mind of a child, there isn’t necessarily a distinction. Rather the lens in which children see through is an unrestricted view of the world that is not constrained by the rules of practicality. None better depicts the power to fantasize and imagine than the two films Beast of the Southern Wild and Pan’s Labyrinth.
Director Max Ophüls is known for his distinctive smooth camera movements (Liang, 2011, p. 2). Frame mobility keeps the audience focused on the subject (Bordwell and Thompson, 2008, p. 203), and this can be seen in this shot. Due to the camera tracking Lisa and Lieutenant Leopold after they enter the frame, the audience’s attention stays focused on Lisa and Lieutenant Leopold, even thoug...
Most of the film was shot with 50mm lenses on 35 mm cameras. This technique carefully lets the audience see the film as though watching a ‘live scene’. This has the effect of drawing the audience closer into the action.
Children of Men Movie that came out on December 25, 2006, directed by Alfonso Cuaron is one of the most famous Hispanic directors in the cinema world. Children of Men is based on a novel made by PD James and it is about apocalyptic future in which human beings have stopped being able to reproduce. Laboratories also cannot carry out the conception of human embryos and knowing the imminent end of their existence makes all the inhabitants of the planet behave in a chaotic way and live in eternal neglect. Immigrants are treated as high-level criminals and riots and urban guerrillas are the daily bread. This movie is good to criticize because is its plot, soundtrack, emotional impact, and cinematography because of these factors this movie is such
Perhaps the most absorbing and first-rate film of all time, Crimson Peak, was released in 2015. The film’s director, Guillermo Del Toro, selected the most talented and suitable actors for his characters. Toro’s renowned actors include familiar faces such as Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, and Charlie Hunnam. This film breaks the boundaries of classification, and sets the precedent for future films in its newly-crafted genre. The film is a clash of horror and romance, which is often not seen on the screen, and when it is, is not often popular.
For example, at the beginning, the camera pans around and through a frozen action scene. This is to emphasise the action that is taking place due to the close-up shots that are used on each part of the scene. The fact that the scene is frozen, mid-action allows the watcher to analyse each small element of the scene, including the tiny bullets being fired. The canted angle that is coupled with this panning enforces the fact that the scene is totally unrealistic due to the amount of things going on at once. The techniques used in this scene is common for this genre as many other superhero films use over/under cranking during a fast paced action scene, therefore allowing the watcher to absorb everything that is happening. Another example of this is the scene after the first when Deadpool is surrounded by enemies with guns on a bridge. In this fast paced action scene, a mid-shot paired with a canted angle makes the watcher feel as if they are really there which gives the watcher a dramatic view of Deadpool and his