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El Laberinto Del Fauno
By Corvus | May 13, 2006
If you can forgive the fact that the Flash trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming movie Pan’s Labyrinth is stretched out and blocky, it’s well worth a watch (link).
Pan’s Labyrinth is, according to Guillermo himself:
“Pan’s Labyrinth” is the story of a young girl that travels with her mother and adoptive father to a rural area up North in Spain, 1944. After Franco´s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.
I want a games with themes like that!
May 13th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Hell, the fact that sometimes we actually get movies with themes like that is pretty amazing these days. It looks creepy and dark, and totally loaded with goodness. Why can’t North America produce this kind of stuff. It seems to have to come from Europe to be any good. Maybe this love of lore is more deeply engained in them.
But yes, games with themes like this would be nice.
May 13th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Nice. Proximente can’t get here soon enough.
May 14th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Actually, North America is producing this, I’m pretty sure. Guillermo Del Toro is Mexican.
May 14th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Yes, but he’s filming this in Spain, it’s certainly in Spanish and I believe it’s being paid for with Spanish money. Could be wrong on the last. Regardless, it’s not being produced by the Hollywood machine.