Sarandos, Tony
Professor Erica Aguero
10-17-15
Evil In All Forms
The Devils Back Bone - Pan’s Labyrinth
“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.” This iconic opening monologue of The Devils Backbone (Dir. Del toro) sets the dark undertone of the rest of the movie. Much like the opening monologue of Pan’s Labyrinth (Dir. Del toro), “…She forgot who she was and where she came from. Her body suffered cold, sickness, and pain. Eventually, she died. However, her father, the King, always knew that the Princess' soul would return,
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They are both depicted as “good guys” at the beginning of each of the films, but throughout the entirety of both movies they slowly get more and more evil. This is seen in the beginning of Pan’s Labyrinth, when Ophileia goes to shake General Vidal’s hand and he grabs it, clearly hurting her. This shows his evilness. It for shadows that things are not going to go well for him. Throughout the film General Vidal gets more and more violent. Eventually leading to the death of Ophelia. This can also be seen in The Devils Backbone with Jacino. In the beginning of the film we are to believe that Jacino is the nice caretaker of the boys and he actually cares for them, but later we figure out that he was just after the gold at the orphanage the whole time, and that he even killed a boy because he saw him trying to get in the safe. That boy was named Santi. He's has been haunting the orphanage since the day he was killed. The only thing he wanted was Jacino dead. Both of these characters are egotistical maniacs. General Vidal thrives for power and control, and his son. He doesn't care about the well being for anyone else not even Ophelia's mother. Which explains that when she dies, he doesn't even shed a tear. Jacino plays everyone by making them think he cares for the orphans and the orphanage, but all that he wanted was the gold. He would kill anyone …show more content…
In The Devils Backbone, The main colors used are: grey, blue, and brown. But when Santi appears multiple times throughout the movie the color palette slightly shifts to a more blended: Red, White, and Grey. This is very similar to Pan’s Labyrinth. By that I mean when we see the real world, the colors consist of: blue, grey, and brown, But once we are taken to the fantasy world that Ophelia has constructed, the color pallet changes from blue, grey, and brown to red, gold, and brown. This gives a subtle indication that reality has changed to the magical world that the adolescence have created. I believe that Guillermo del Toro has mastered color correction and using a very specific color pallet to express a subtle message in his movies. Both of the films color pallets are dark. I believe that this implied the dark undertone of each
Dystopian Complications- Anthem VS. The Maze Runner “ And if you 're not needed by you brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies…”(Rand, 1.20) Dystopian literature is a type of genre that is dark and like everything has just lost all common sense. Teens are going into the dystopian fandom because it 's like the music the listen too. “Against the rules.
Pan’s Labyrinth is unique such that the film’s storyline is based on a fairytale: it is parable; a simplified story of a greater spiritual or moral
We see Ophelia torn between her desire to be near Hamlet or pleasing her father and her brother. This clearly represents a massive internal conflict to Ophelia. Especially when she has been ordered by her father to stay away from Hamlet. Then, He ordered again to be the bait for Cladius who 's want to snoop on her conversation with Hamlet. Hence, Ophelia placed for the second time in a difficult choice, She must choose between her loyalty to her father or her loyalty to her lover
The mind of a child would be expected to be composed of surplus imagination, filled with joy and fiction. But Antonio is a separate situation. “A putrid, rotting smell was everywhere. There was disease and filth throughout. In the end no one was left, and the she-goats and the he-goats returned from the hills whence they had fled, and they looked in innocence at the death camp of the people.”
Of course, with Mannerism, an unrealistic palette is one of the many characteristics that goes with it. I think that the scene portrayed is quite sad and emotional, and the colors don’t really reflect that but instead steers that emotion away by giving you colors that represent a different emotion. Although the palette is not as off putting as Jacopo Pontormo’s Descent from the Cross, you can still see a similarity on the way Fontana didn’t execute the color selection properly. The blue used for the sky in the background seems a little vibrant along with the rest of colors throughout the piece, besides earth tones. The piece seems to be a bit on the cool tone side, but it is mixed with some warm tones as well, maybe by adding more warmth in to it we would’ve gotten a better tone
Del Toro, additionally, contrasts the real world and the fantasy world through the use of colors, shapes, and varying levels of organization and cleanliness. Furthermore, he places objects of the real world into the fantasy one to draw relations between the two. Through these three singular parallels, Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth explores the realities of fascism in Franco-Era
The Giver and The Maze Runner share some similarities and differences. They both are dystopian societies and are set in the future. But in the Giver, people aren’t trapped in their world; they can get out if they wanted to. In the Maze Runner, people are trapped without consent and it is only through immense hard work, they can get out into the real
What differences and similarities occur between a story of a society that extremely same and everything is controlled by government, and a society that inequality, differences rise and government only controls the outcome? The Giver and Hunger Games are popular novels that are first book of their series. While Hunger Games is a novel based on a society that problems occur from inequality and differences, focuses on the survival and which the main character Katniss stands out as a leader, and The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel based on a society that problems occur from being too perfect and same, focuses on the importance of memory and past and which the main character Jonas stands out as a rebel for himself and very few people; both texts share similarities such as being dystopian novels which symbols used and one teenager stands out from a society and rebels. On the one hand, Hunger Games and The Giver contrast in many ways. Comparing the societies of these novels based on; while Hunger Games has a story of a society which has inequalities and differences, The Giver has a society that is too perfect, emotionless and same.
Hamlet knows he is quick-tempered and dangerous, but takes it a step further by warning them that he is upset over Ophelia dying and will take his anger out on them. Hamlet knew his own inner evils, and distanced himself from her due to
This movie explores the time-honored plot of good versus evil though a haunting intermingling of fantasy and reality. Pan’s Labyrinth is clearly Guillermo del Toro’s magnum
Ophelia’s character went through quite a large transformation. In the play her father tells her that she is to stay away from Hamlet and she readily agrees. In the movie Ophelia doesn’t disagree with her father but she also doesn’t agree just to please him. This shows that Ophelia isn’t easily persuaded, even by her own father. Despite her father’s warning about Hamlet, Ophelia met with him in secret at her apartment until her father found out.
INTRO I have done it. I have brought upon the death of another man! I have blood upon my hands. For that I feel I should have changed but desperation has replaced the sorrow I feel for my actions.
Alienation is an experience of being isolated from a group or a society. It is something that affects people everyday at school, work or any social events. The theme of alienation is showed in The Lego Movie when the character tries very hard to meet society’s standards. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 alienation is showed when no one listens or pays attention to the protagonist. The Lego Movie and Fahrenheit 451 does a good job demonstrating the theme of alienation with the usage of character emotions, feelings and society’s standards and labels throughout the movie and the novel.
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a gorgeously realised tale of fantasy and horror, set against the backdrop of post-Civil War Spain. The story follows a young girl, Ofelia, who travels to the countryside with her ill mother to live with her new stepfather, Vidal, a captain in Franco’s Fascist army. The film explores how Ofelia uses her imagination as a copying mechanism to deal with the monstrosities of her reality as well as to interpret the horrific events unfolding around her. Del Toro employs a number of cinematic devices including cinematography, sound and editing to effectively draw parallels between Ofelia’s reality and imagination, ultimately creating a powerful film that condemns the nature of Fascism.
Therefore, the color can give audiences totally different feeling when the director use different type of color in different moments because the colors can present characters’ emotions even the characters do not need any