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PAN'S LABYRINTH - PALE MAN SCENE - Coggle Diagram
PAN'S LABYRINTH - PALE MAN SCENE
CINNAMONTOGRAPHY
Tracking shot of Ofelia behind the feast
Shadow self (unseen eyes watching her)
She is being watched by someone but she doesn't know that yet
After seeing the PM for the first time, every reaction shot of Ofelia has the PM behind him blurred out
The PM can represent Ofelia's worries and anxieties about the future, and these reaction shots can represent how even though Ofelia doesn't care about her future just yet, she will soon enough
Fluid, moving camera
The camera and the audience are their own character, following Ofelia
video game style???
through the lair
The camera abandons Ofelia after she eats the grape
The camera has far more understanding and awareness of what's happening
MISE EN SCENE / PERFORMANCE
Ofelia is alone and isolated in the first part of the scene
Perfect time to do the task
Represents how she and other women are treated in the real world
Cold blues - aesthetic of reality
The book is filled with life around the monster
Continues GDT's theme of being "friends with the monsters"
A series of rules to follow - her
bible
Pale man makes yonic symbols
The insides of the lair look like a human's body
Ribcage in the hallway
Fire where the heart should be
Represents how both worlds are as alive, and how each are disgusting and vile as one another
The feast
He remains blind to the feast, and starves, but when Ofelia takes a single grape, he then decides she must die
A few mintues earlier there was a scene with Vidal and his colleagues discussing taxing the poor with a massive feast in front of them
Represents how the fascists and the monster are one in the same
Blood reds - period, coming of age film
Biblical imagery
The frescoes on the wall celebrating (?) the pale man
The lair resembling a Catholic church (specifically the Sagrada Familia
The priest appears at the feast scene from earlier, showing his support for the fascists
GDT is saying that the fascists, the monsters and the church are one in the same
He apparently had a "Morbid" upbringing
The pale man resembles St Lucia, the patron saint of the BLIND
In the bible her EYES were ripped out and then put on a PLATE, but later healed by God. There is a FEAST day named after her
Ofelia DISOBEYS what the fairies tell her to do, and she makes the right choice in the end
Proves her rebellious instinct, which comes in handy in the climax of the film
Knives out
The knife that Ofelia pulls out of the chest is double sided
While Vidal's knife has just one single blade
Represents how Ofelia will have to choose between order or disobedience when growing up
(what the film is about !!!!1!!1!)
The hourglass
She was taking her time throughout the task that she ignored the impending horror she was unaware of
Childhood innocence is running out
The chalk got her out of her predicament
Chalk can symbolise imagination and creativity, representing how her imagination was an escape from the horrors of the real world
The design of the pale man
Lots of excess skin, like he was something larger and more fat but is now recessing
Despite the massive buffet, he's still starving - power + excess
Based on "Saturn devouring his son" by Goya
He saw the
pain
and the
anguish
of the monster
Pile of baby's shoes
Holocaust imagery
Finally seeing the scale of the monster's destruction
Tempted into eating the grape
Like Eve in the bible, who after eating the forbidden fruit releases evil upon themselves
SOUND / MUSIC
The chalk makes an unpleasant, hissing acid sound
Danger / warning
Breathing sound when Ofelia enters the lair
INTO THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Breathing stops when she sees the pale man
Gasp of shock
The location has it's own sense of agency and it's own mind
The hole makes flesh sounds when the key is inserted
Like a knife stabbing through flesh, enforcing the idea that this place is alive
When Ofelia reaches inside for the knife, she's disgusted by what she feels in there, enforcing the "whole place is alive" idea
Further emphasised through the knife making a ringing sound like being a knife being unsheathed
Harp sound when Ofelia sees the grape
Put under a spell
TEMPTED to eat the grape - bible reference
Mechanical, rustic sounds and staggered breathing when the PM awakens
He sounds like he's in pain
GDT's intended "sympathy for the monsters"
A combination of sounds like knives and twigs - a combination of predator AND prey
Drumming sound when Ofelia escapes in the nick of time
Represents our heartbeat when watching
EDITING
Fade-in when Ofelia enters the lair
Blurring of space and time - she's crossing realities
Cut backs to the hourglass
Emphasises it's importance and builds tension because of it
Parallel edit in the chase scene
Faster cuts = a faster pace scene with more tension and stress
The PM makes a nazi salute in that frame - holocaust imagery
A gory jump cut in the reality scene before the fantasy scene
Ofelia's fantasy world and the real world are just as violent and brutal as each other
