Cultural Artifact In The Film 'Pans Labyrinth'

    Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.

Films are also treasures of culture, filled with clues and insights into the attitudes and perceptions of the people of the day. While documentary films obviously present a historical record of people and events, dramatic fictional movies can also reveal the same. Comparing the main characters in Hitchcock's 1934

Society tends to associate propaganda films with issues such as Nazi Germany and their film messages for their country; however, it is also possible for small independent companies, groups of like-minded people and individuals to use the media of film to incorporate messages for our society (The Independent, 2010). These messages are often in relation to changes that individuals should make in order to improve the standards by which they live their lives and changes to everyday habits that will benefit the individual, the individual’s family, a group of individuals or even a single person (Barnhisel and Turner, 2010).

Cinematic Language: The accepted systems, methods, or customs by which movies communicate. Cinematic conventions are flexible; they are not “rules”.

This movie had a lot of amazing characters that all together collaborated to make this movie possible. The major character was Ofelia as the Princess Moanna, a girl who comes to believe she was a reincarnation of a princess from the underworld. Captain Vidal, Ofelia’s new stepfather and a Falange officer. Mercedes, Vidal’s housekeeper. Carmen, Ofelia’s mother and Vidal’s wife. The Faun Pan, who tells her that she needs to complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality and go back to the world she belongs to. The minor characters were Doctor Ferreiro, a doctor in the service of Vidal’s, he was an anti-Francoist. Pedro, who was the brother of Mercedes and leader of the rebels. Garces, one of Vidal’s officer. Cerrano was other of Vidal’s officers. El Tarta, was one of Pedro’s rebels. El Tarta, was one of Pedro 's

In a sense, Vidal finds security in enforcing brutality to uphold his authoritative regime. It is his incessant obsession with order that perpetuates the suffering of the people, the annihilation of the foreign, and homogenous thought. He relishes in this sadistic display of power, unhesitatingly torturing the innocent to sustain assumed loyalty. Through the mise en scene of Vidal’s quarters, del Toro alludes to the large gears behind him, resembling clockwork as Vidal repairs his fathers watch. This dual motif echoes how he is bound by the past, where his father’s legacy looms over him and provokes his relentless actions of injustice and cruelty.

Ever since Thomas Edison invented the Kinetiscope in 1894, films have been reaching its way to the heart of American culture. Since the roaring twenties, where the United States began to see the first movie theaters to the 1960’s, where films are officially a source of leisure and escape from reality. Films influenced American culture between the 1920’s through 1960’s by becoming an increasingly popular form of leisure for years to come while causing scandals, riots, and movements about films or about the idea of films in general by displaying issues in society such as racism, forming a need for censorship laws. Films have also provided a fantasy world for their audiences by showing a film about someone in their perfect life using ethical

1. Movies have always been a way for a society to reflect their culture to an audience. In this class we watched a variety of movies that represented a variety of cultures from different time periods. One film that is really culturally significant is Casablanca. Because this is the oldest movie that we watched it is easy to see the cultural differences.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

The film Pan’s Labyrinth, has several common concepts with Joseph Campbell’s theory on heroes in Hero with a Thousand Faces. His theory emphasizes on tests that show their moral and basic instincts for the rite of passage to their threshold, in this case, the underworld. Campbell’s theory is a concept that surrounds an individual’s journey to heroism. This concept pertains to Ophelia due to her circumstances as a child who ventures out on thresholds, tests, and so forth. Campbell’s depiction relates to Ophelia as he describes the levels in which one must attain and accept as a female heroine. Furthermore, his theory exaggerates on the making of a hero to the resurrection in terms of physical and spiritual transformation. Ophelia’s

Genres of film generally possess certain traits that define our fundamental understanding of the genre’s structure. These are referred to a genre convention. The genre of drama within film lends itself to a few fundamental ideals (Grant, 2007:10). Firstly is the concept of a grounded and realistic setting, which in essence relates to characters dealing with conflicts that could be experienced in our reality. The second ideal presents itself through the characters dealing with their conflicts, both internal and external, in what is generally quite an emotional and intense manner (Grant, 2007:21). This can also feature a growth in character, as well as a shift in status or power dynamics between characters in a film. Finally, another important ideal of the drama genre is the way in which addresses a social issue that is prevalent in society (Right Direction, 2014), such as abuse, addiction and

754). In terms of ideology in cinema, a film has the ability to influence the way in which individuals depict things in their minds, influencing images of themselves and of the world around them (Casetti, 1999, p. 187). Ideology’s representations form a wide and cohesive picture. All the elements that are included in a film such as subjects, styles, forms and meanings, duplicate this general ideological discourse (Casetti, 1999, p. 190). However, once we realize that it is in-fact the “nature of the system to turn the cinema into an instrument of ideology”, then we can see that the filmmaker’s initial task is to show up the “cinema’s depiction of reality” (Klinger, 1984, p. 32).

Pop culture is everything. Movies, of course, are the ultimate in pop culture is a combination of almost every known art form turned into a powerful fury of sound and image that impact everything from t-shirt sales to politics to how we see ourselves as men, women and Americans. Some movies damage our culture. Some have no discernible impact. Some have a positive impact.

In this paper, I will be analyzing an artifact and explaining how it relates to the course theme of “Rhetoric of Information”. The artifact which I have selected is the movie Summer Magic, which was produced by Walt Disney and it basically focuses on the topic of femininity. I found this artifact one day when I was searching for the movies and I thought that it is a movie that I have seen before. It was actually a Disney movie which was released in 1963.

All this is included in this article. And not only religion but also other areas like culture, rituals, customs, traditions, family, etc is shown through movies and all these are also as important as religion and which play a significant role in movies…