Hello Dr. Wood’s class readers,
The movie Pan’s Labyrinth directed by the fabulous Del Toro captured millions of people all over the world. Del Toro gave all of us an image that we have never witnessed before, breaking thousand and thousands of rules. Making this film, Del Toro stepped out of the common standard movies in this world and made it exotic and addictive for many.
Del Toro did not just stop when the movie got too gruesome, but continued and made it very hard to take your eyes off the television even though you’re cringing at the sight of the violence. In the part where the captain hit one man’s nose repeatedly with a bottle of wine, I wanted to take my eyes off that scene so bad. But, it was too captivating for me to take my eyes off the television.
Don’t believe me that the movie was complete out of the box? I’m not worried because I have every proof that it was. Pan’s Labyrinth got so much attention that it had to be nominated for an Academy Award. It is one of the biggest recognition you can get in the film world. Pan’s Labyrinth won Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Art Direction and Best Achievement in Makeup. I do not need to say more. It was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, and Original Score. It was nominated for seven statues and it walked away with three statues. It is even already a big honor to be even nominated, and for Pan’s Labyrinth to walk away with three statues is a big BIG honor.
“I knew that it was almost impossible for Pan's Labyrinth not to walk away without at least one statue but to come away as the second biggest winner of the night is pretty big…. It is not very
often that we get the spotlight shone on films in our genre [horror]. But a man as talented a Guillermo del Toro was bound to have a film that won some awards.”
Critics was not surprised to see that Pan’s Labyrinth has achieved a lot of things, because the director did not stop at original idea of most movies, but stepped outside of box bringing something NO one has seen before. I mean winning an academy award says a lot of things. A must see movie.
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Why did del Toro receive so much recognition? What film rules did he break? What did he do that was so 'outside the box?'
ReplyDeleteI think you should have included more detailed examples.
But overall, Pan's Labyrinth deserved every one of those awards!
Del Toro actually made the movie to be out of the box but where is the evidence. can you present more evidence relating the "out of the box"? but i like your explanation how the people felt the impact from the movie and felt when the movie became so famous and won some oscars.
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