Pan's Labyrinths Analysis Essay

Timothy Adams

Theater 220

Tracy Sunderland

November 10, 2015

Analysis of Pans Labyrinths Cinematography

Pan’s Labyrinths was one of the better movies I’ve seen all year I’m really glad a chose it out of the list to watch. I think I’m going to check out more Guillermo del Toro films. The overall plot of this movie is about a little girl named Ofelia and her struggle within the battle of good and evil she has been surrounded by. She arrives at a military outpost in Spain that is occupied by a Spanish army trying to eradicate the non-pure Spaniards. They are there because her mother married and is pregnant with the captain of the outpost child. This man is a cruel and evil character the show no mercy to anyone around him. Her mother is sick the

I first realized this when she opens the book to find blood filling the page and then in real life shortly she hears a ruckus outside and runs into her room to find her mother bleeding profusely due to pregnancy complications. Ofelia is the only character in her imaginary world. At the beginning of the movie she finds a large insect in a statue and assumes it to be a fairy due to its human-like behavior. The fairy later appears to her in her bed and transforms into a more fairy-like appearance. The fair then wants Ofelia to follow it somewhere. She is very curious so she gets out of bed and follows the fairy into the forest to find the labyrinth she had checked out earlier in the movie. In the middle of the labyrinth, she is greeted by a faun. This faun lets her know she was not born of this earth and she was a princess in some other world, but she had to pass some test here on earth in order for her to earn her spot next to her real father and mother. She is to complete three tasks to earn this

She needs to avoid eating from his table while retrieving a dagger from a locked box. The room was filled with bright colors and the light appeared bright amber or gold. Crimson, orange, and purple colors were obviously made to pop and add to the contrast of the fantasy world. The pale man’s feast on the table looked like the most joyous feast you could imagine with the colors. I feel the choice to make the man pale was a good one he was evil and wanted to kill Ofelia. I believe this had a connection to her real life that she was running away from, a world that was dark gray and