Pan’s Labyrinth Flashcards
a fan of
“all things horror”
the film’s “images
become the grammar of the story”
Navarro
Mercedes is “full
of force”
each prop
represents the personality of the character
amniotic
fluids
much of the “fantasy she d
reams of his a return to the belly of her mother”
navarro
the devil’s backbone
2001
close-ups of unborn babies in jars
franco’s death
1975
spanish civil war
1936- 1939
goya
1819 painting ‘Saturn Devouring his son’
- to retain power
what was the role of the roman catholic church?
legitimized franco’s regime
after the fall of the fascist regime?
pacto de olvido
ending, carmen says:
sit by your father’s side
he is both the individual
patriarch and the chief of repression
sanchez
fantasy “recombines and
inverts the real, but it foes not escape it” Jackson
pans labyrinth presents a realistic
and violent story and parallels it to an equally dark and vicious fairy tale
Lukasiewicz
pits the monologic
monovocality of capitan visal and fascism against the deialogic multivocality of Ofelia, Mercedes and the fairytale
orme
del toro says he wanted to create a fantasy world that
was as “real and as dangerous” as the real world
god has already saved
their souls. what happens to their bodies hardly matters to him
you need vile
matter for magic to flourish
shes only a woman
that’s why i was able to get away with it
grimms
disney
19th century
20th century
1969
juan carlos- restoration of monarchy
his appropiation of the child and
of the child’s mother by a forceful submission to his tyrannical law is equivalent to his persecution of democratic fighters
sanchez
uses fantastical
elements to explore history
men in power are the real monsters
not the fantastical ones
snow white and the seven dwarfs
1937 Disney
for Zipes, Disney fails by
” retain[ing] key ideological features of the Grimm’s fairy tale that reinforce nineteenth century patriarchal notions”
willed
infidelity to the text
kotecki
contamination
process
del toro’s deviation
from the text gives his fairytale protagonist, Ophelia, greater possibilities
kotecki
to obey
just for the sake of obey, that’s only something you can do, Capitan
the pale man represents
all institutional evil… it is no accident that he is a) pale and b) a man
let the fairies guide you
don’t drink or eat anything during your stay