Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro

Author:Guillermo Del Toro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Ofelia’s descent into the fantastical fig tree.

The task and temptation that awaits Ofelia in the Pale Man’s lair.

WHEN THE FAUN GIVES Ofelia the Book of Crossroads she officially begins the three tests required to regain her fairy-tale throne. It is a magical book—when she first opens it in the labyrinth, there are only blank pages; but when she is ready to embark on her quest and opens the book at the mill, the first task magically appears on a blank page. In fairy-tale language and imagery, a story is recounted of a time when the local woods were young and home to magical creatures that protected one another and slept in the shadows of the gigantic fig tree that grew on a hill near the mill. But now the branches are dried and the trunk is old and withered, because a monstrous toad has settled within the tree and won’t let it thrive. To complete her task and allow the tree to live again, Ofelia must put three magic stones into the toad’s mouth and retrieve a key from inside its belly.

The tree on the hill is one of the film’s iconic images, its shape echoing the Faun’s horns and even the curvature of Fallopian tubes. As del Toro once scribbled in his notebook: “The fantasy world should feel UTERINE, INTERIOR, like the subconscious of the girl . . .”2 Arriving to her first test, Ofelia wears the dress her mother has made for her that purposefully recalls the one worn by Alice when she tumbled down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.

The art department’s design of the tree began with a del Toro notebook drawing and took form as a physical set of plaster and molds, dressed with real branches and CG touches by CafeFX. “What I really liked about Pan’s Labyrinth is we built it in a very beautiful way, using the mix of traditional ways of construction with top-of-the-line visual effects to complete the whole puzzle,” Caballero explains.

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