Pan's Labyrinth
What happens when make-believe believes it's real?
Country
Production
Budget
$19 000 000
Revenue
$83 258 226
Director
Actors
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo, Roger Casamajor, Manolo Solo, César Vea, Iván Massagué
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco, Guillermo del Toro, Álvaro Augustin, Bertha Navarro, Elena Manrique, Belén Atienza, O.D. Welch
Operator
Composer
Javier Navarrete
Artist
Eugenio Caballero, Angie Jones, Carlos Zaragoza
Audition
Sara Bilbatúa, Cristina Perales
Editing
Short description
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
What's left behind the scenes
- After a week of screenings in Mexico, cinemas were forced to add warnings about the film's violence to its posters, so that parents would not allow their young children to attend showings.
- At the Cannes Film Festival, the film was awarded 22 minutes of applause.
- In 2007, the film became one of the few fantasy films in the entire history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
- The film was banned in Malaysia for failing censorship due to scenes containing violence.
- Doug Jones was the only American involved on the set and the only one who didn't speak Spanish at all.
- Doug Jones had to memorize not only his own lines in Spanish (a language he doesn't speak at all), but also Ophelia's lines, so he would know when to say his next words.
- The Faun's legs were not created on a computer. Guillermo del Toro's discovery was that the real legs of the actor, removed digitally, were replaced with puppet legs.
- Ivana Baquero, who played the girl, was too old to play her character, originally created as an 8-year-old girl. But Del Toro was so inspired by her performance that he decided to adapt the script for an 11-year-old actress.
- The ruined city shown at the beginning of the film is actually called Belchite. It was also used as a location for Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988). Belchite was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and has never been rebuilt since.
- Guillermo del Toro is known to keep notebooks where he sketches and jots down ideas for future films. Once, he left a notebook containing ideas for "Pan's Labyrinth," which he had been developing for years, in the back of a taxi and thought the project was lost. However, when the driver found the notebook, he immediately realized how important it was to the director and tracked down Guillermo to return the notes. Del Toro considered this a divine blessing.
- After the film had been in release for a week in Mexico, cinemas were forced to place warnings about violence on the movie posters to prevent parents from bringing their small children to the screenings.
- At the Cannes Film Festival, the film was honored with a 22-minute standing ovation.
- In 2007, the film became one of the few fantasy films in the history of the Oscars to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
- The ruined city shown at the beginning of the film is actually called Belchite. It was also used as a filming location for Terry Gilliam's 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' (1988). Belchite was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and has never been reconstructed since.
- Guillermo del Toro is known for keeping notebooks where he records his ideas through drawings and notes to be later implemented in his films. He once left a notebook containing ideas for 'Pan's Labyrinth', which he had been developing for years, on the back seat of a taxi and thought the project was dead. However, when the driver found the book, he immediately realized how important it was to the director and tracked down Guillermo to return the notes. Del Toro viewed this as a divine blessing.
- Doug Jones was the only American involved on set and the only person who did not speak Spanish at all.
- Doug Jones had to memorize not only his own lines in Spanish (a language he does not speak at all), but also Ophelia's lines, so he would know exactly when to deliver his next words.
- The Faun's legs were not computer-generated. Guillermo del Toro's discovery was that the actor's real legs, removed digitally, were replaced by puppet legs.
- Ivana Baquero, who played the girl, was too old for the role of her character, who was originally envisioned as an 8-year-old girl. However, del Toro was so inspired by her performance that he decided to adapt the script for the 11-year-old actress.
- It took actor Doug Jones four hours to get into the Pale Man costume. Jones had to look through the nostrils of his character, as the character's face has no eyes.
- In one of his interviews, Guillermo del Toro hinted that, in his conception, both the Pale Man and the Toad are incarnations of the Faun, who guides Ofelia through a series of trials to reveal her moral integrity. A hint to this in the film is that all three fairies appear at the end of the fairy-tale sequence, two of whom had supposedly perished at the hands of the Pale Man.
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