https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud Pan’s Labyrinth is an exemplar of neo-magical realism. It not only presents the audience with unfamiliar/ familiar environments throughout the course of its narrative but does so in a specific historical period. The film utilizes its unique archetypes and tropes to drive the narrative and utilizes those same factors to keep its audience engaged. Such an example can be how the faun in the film represents typical ‘guide’ tropes audiences may refer too from fairy tales, except, in Del Toros film, he seemingly can never be trusted. Above all, one should note how the neo-magical realism in this film is prevalent as it prevented the all things fantastical from crossing over into the real world – even the creature characters (like the pale man) knew they couldn’t cross over into the real world. en-us 2021-11-24 23:26:28 UTC 2025-11-18 09:49:12 UTC hello@padlet.com jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911434820  “The one thing that alchemy understands and fairy tale lore understands is that you need the vile matter for magic to flourish. You need lead to turn it into gold. You need the two things for the process" (61).]]> 2021-11-24 23:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911434820 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911438146 2021-11-24 23:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911438146 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911442938 To this literary theorist and philosopher, fantastic literature offers “a world which is indeed our world, the one we know, a world without devils, sylphides, or vampires, [where] there occurs an event which can- not be explained by the laws of this same familiar world,” producing the “hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event” (63).]]> 2021-11-24 23:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911442938 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911542467 "The fairies, for example, are not beautiful creatures but instead odd and dark with leaflike wings and bald heads with large ears and eyes.7 No cute, sparkly dust or glow emanates from the fairy’s body as she leads Ofelia down to the labyrinth that first night, and no happy lights or bright colors appear to guide her. These notable differ- ences between the fairies she sees in her books and those in the underworld do not seem to bother Ofelia in the least. She takes everything in stride, as content in this fantastical otherworld as she is out of place in the real one" (70).]]> 2021-11-25 01:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911542467 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911549604 "Neomagical realism prevents the fantastical from crossing over into the real, at least as given conscious valida- tion by other real-world characters. Conversely, some Pan’s Labyrinth’s fairy tale-world characters seem quite aware of what’s going on in both locations and can move between them. Others, like the creepy and dangerous Pale Man, cannot cross the border" (70).]]> 2021-11-25 01:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911549604 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911552050 2021-11-25 01:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911552050 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911566138 2021-11-25 01:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911566138 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911577717 2021-11-25 01:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911577717 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911581278 “two opposing ten- dencies: one towards the recording or documenting of external ‘reality’, the other towards the imaginative use of cinematic illusion” (Ibid., 2). It seems appropriate, then, that this divergence is often placed side by side in a single film, perhaps reaching a culmination in neomagical realism. Although the historicized story of Pan’s Labyrinth cannot be described as an exact repre- sentation or direct recording of reality—the film is by no means a docu- mentary—it is nonetheless based within a specific, historical time period. Yet despite these realist roots, Pan’s Labyrinth probably attracts its audience through its parallel story of fairy tale fantasy (77)."]]> 2021-11-25 01:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911581278 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911581673 2021-11-25 01:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911581673 jlleo004 https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911583313 2021-11-25 01:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jlleo004/j4y49vtwl041ouud/wish/1911583313