Pan's Labyrinth

How Guillermo Del Toro treats the creation of monsters in his movie "Pan's Labyrinth", was by making Pan's Labyrinth a dark fairy tale that distills his distinctive mix of fact and fantasy, poetry, politics, pain, and pleasure. It's an epic, poetic vision in which the grim realities of war are matched and mirrored by a descent into an underworld populated by fearsomely beautiful monsters - a trans-formative, life-affirming nightmare. He was also trying to uncover a common thread between the "real world" and the "imaginary world" through one of the seminal concerns of fairy tales: choice. It's something that has intrigued him since Cronos, through Hellboy and now to Pan's Labyrinth: "it's the way your choices define you" he said.

He wanted to represent political power within the creatures, he wanted to make them otherworldly, believable, possibly very human like 'Del Toro says. 'There was a particular character or monster in this film that somehow came to represent the church and the devouring of children, the original design was just an old man who seemed to have lost a lot of weight and was covered in loose skin, then Del Toro removed the face, so it became part of the personality of the institution. But then, what to do about the eyes? So he decided to place stigmata on the hands and shove the eyes into the stigmata, having done that he thought it would be great to make the fingers like peacock feathers that fluff and open, and that's how that figure evolved. He also "I try to give the fantastic a very mundane feeling, he said monsters exist to represent heroes' fears and problems, fairy tales exteriorize conflicts and matters that are intrinsically human and interior".

I feel like Guillmero Del Toro treated the creations of monsters in this film just like any other character in this film, and maybe even more with special treatments. Del Toro wanted to make the monsters as real, and scary as possible by adding special effects, and even animations. The monsters got the same amount of camera time just as the human character, each scene with the monsters in them were extra vibrant, gritty, grim, gut wrenching, and exuberant. I feel like the monsters in this film made the film what it is, without the monsters, i don't think the film would be as great as it is. There was a scene that i liked in this film, when the mandrake was moving the exact same way Ofelia's mother was moving. Del Toro treated the creation of monsters in this film with care, time-detailing, directions, and delicate. He tried to make make everything detailed as possible, and also perfect as possible, I feel like the monsters in this film were very important, and Del Toro treated them with respect.