Pan's Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth, the 3 winning movie awards but its not well known. Pan’s Labyrinth was written and directed by del Toro. The movie itself is nothing but full of relation to the real world or the film world: disobedience, religion parallel, light and color, the characters and fairy tale world story plot.

Throughout the movie disobedience was the main point of this movie.  Almost every scene had disobedience in it. For example between the Ofeila and her mother, Ofeila and the captain, Ofeila and the faun, Captain and the rebels and so on.   One part in the movie that disobedience happens between the captain and Ofeila is when Ofelia arrived at the captain’s home on the mountain. Ofeila met her new stepfather for the first time they met Captain told Ofeila to not go through the Pan’s Labyrinth but later Ofeila still disobeyed and was curious and went through the Pan’s Labyrinth. This is only one example of disobedience in the movie.

However disobedience wasn’t only in the characters, it was also in the film itself for example light and color. Light and color was base on the characters. But del Toro broke the film industry rule of light and color. Through the movie on some characters for example the captain, it was hard to see. This was because the light and color on the captain was dark, dull and murky. Light was another disobedience in this movie that del Toro did. In some scene the light would on something not important for example the dinner scene the brightest light was on the table filled with food. In that scene the food was not important, the people around the table were important but del Toro broke the rules of the film making industry.

            But that not all the disobedience that happen in the movie, del Toro also broke the rules of common fairy tale movies, for example Snow White, Cinderella and many more. Common Fairy Tale plot, girl suffers then prince charming saves them and they live happily ever after. But in Pan’s Labyrinth was opposite because the main character Ofeila died, Yes, she did become a princess of the underworld but she was not a moral. Another thing that is related to Fairly Tales but also light and color is during Fairy Tales movies the light and color tend to be bright and beautiful. In Pan’s Labyrinth the color was dark and ugly

Pan’s Labyrinth is one of the most jumbled movie ever with lot of analyzing involved. There is also so much to analyze like disobedience, religion parallel, light and color, the characters and fairy tale story plot. 

Owl at Purdue

APA formatting is a common use in college for citation for different subjects and classes. The Owl at Purdue is one of the best APA sources according to Gallaudet’s library staff.  As I read the website I realized all the APA formats from other websites I been doing it wrong.  If students follow the Owl at Purdue website our essays and Reaction/Reflection blogs will be supported better with the right citation.

Using the Owl at Purdue will set credibility in our papers because we use the right citation.  With the right citation, we will have the right information’s and facts to prove what we are trying to prove. APA citation can cite almost any kind of information from books to Internet to graphs.

However Owl at Purde doesn’t only teaches how to cite work at the end of the essay. It also teaches how to do footnotes and endnotes.  I myself never really done footnotes in my high school career so I don’t really know how. I have seen footnotes in books, etc but done it myself never.  After reading owl in Purdue I understand how to do and use footnotes.

Another thing that is nice about Purdue owl website they also included avoiding Bias. This part is what fantasized me the most. The use of pronoun base on gender should be avoided. You always want to be clear about the sex identity of the contributor involved in your paper.  For example owl at Purdue recommend to not use he, she, his or her in your writing. Its better to use like they, their. Owl doesn’t only explain bias for gender but also disabilities, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity

Therefore using all the information on Owl at Purdue website will help set credibility with the audience using the right citation and the proper bias to get the reader to understand out point without feeling offended. Having the right citation and the proper information will help convince your reader to choose your side of the argument.

Lastly I would recommend that people who need to find how to do the proper citation to use Owl at Purdue. The reason is because this website is really resourceful and helpful. It is also very clear of how to do the proper citation for whatever kind of cited work you need. Books, Internet and many more, this website has it all. For future reference citation, I know I will use this website for help if needed.

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006  Spanish language film written and directed by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced by a Mexican film company Esperanto Films. This movie also won three awards  Academy Awards, the Ariel Award for the Best Picture and the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. In my opinion, I’m shocked that Pan Labyrinth won three awards after I saw the movie. The strange plot, characters, everything sure made me puzzled about how did del Toro come up with it. I do have some parts of the movie that I like and hate.

Lets start with what I like, there wasn’t lot of parts I liked but the one part I liked was Ofelia didn’t sacrifice her brother when the fawn told her to. At first I thought that Ofelia would give her brother to the fawn. When she said “No.” My fast beating heart slowed down back to normal. During the movie I just had a gut feeling that the fawn was a “bad guy” but I was wrong, he was suppose to do that, he had to play the part to see if Ofelia could pass the test.

However the antonym of like is hate, and I dislike a lot of parts in the movie. Since Pan Labyrinth wasn’t one of my favorite movies so I have a long list of what parts I hated in the movie, I’ll list a few. One of the parts that I hated most was when the caption killed two innocents because he thought they were lying when they said they had guns because they were hunting for rabbits. The way the Caption killed the first man was just plain awful. I think every scene with the caption in it was awful. So in simple terms all the scene with the caption in it, I didn’t like that part.

Through out the movie, there was a lot of disobedience, that was the movie Pan Labyrinth was mostly about to stand up for one-self. There was disobedience in almost every scene. Disobedience between the girl and the caption, the girl and her mother, the fawn and the girl, caption vs. sociality. Even the part I liked that I explained earlier in this passage was a sign of disobedience.

Aside from which parts I liked, hated and which part had disobedience in it. The movie overall was very strange. It made me think about a lot of thing. The discussion after the movie and in between really cleared things up and it was interesting to hear other people’s opinion about the movie and what they thought about it. I would suggest people who like to analyze, movies that have a double meaning to watch Pan’s Labyrinth.