A commonly held idea about the dark night is that is that its meant to reflect a bush america, eg post 9/11 and the war on terror. For instance we have been presented with a villain that isn’t afraid of death and that doesnt want money or power but only to cause chaos, much like the terrorists that committed the 9/11 atrocities .

after 9/11 the patriot act was brought  in this was used to tap phones look at online data ect, batman does something drastically similar with Lucius Fox, where in he hacks hundreds if not thousands of mobile phones and uses it like sonar to see through walls, like the american government batman hacked the general public’s phones because he felt it necessary.

extraordinary rendition is something the american government did so to prosecute terrorists,  it is the act of taking someone out of there country into another so to punish them and was used fairly regularly during the war on terror  and batman does it in the dark night. when one of the gangsters flees to Hong Kong batman essentially kidnaps him and brigns him back to america so that he can be prosecuted by an american jury.

The Americans where also on multiple occasions accused of torturing prisoners and suspected terrorists in an effort to get them to talk batman uses a similar technique when trying to interrogate the joker.

Turner, P. (2013). Dark Knight Dark Ideas. Media magazine, (april 2013), pp.37,38,39,40,41. 

(2014).Directed by J. Green. youtube: CrashCourse.

class analysis of how well pan’s fits the fanatsy genra

similarities

1. The main character is given tasks to complete in order to achieve a goal

2.mystical creatures like the faun or faeries and the pale man

3. A strong villain that controls an evil army

4.a naive main character that is unsure how to navigate there journey with out help from a wise assistant

5.”magic” like how the mandrake in milk starts to heal Ofelias mother

diffrences

1.there is allot of war iconography and narative no common in fantasy films

2.the mentor faun chracters is untrustworthy

3.there are brutal torture scenes not usually common in jaunty fantasy films

4.the civil war as a historical event in the film being portrayed is uncommon in fantasy films (made up universe real world events)

Del toro clearly had allot of fun with mixing up the genres in this film, experimenting with fresh versions of old characters within a enthralling story. I believe that del toro mixed everything up on account of the fact films typically get made the same way until that genera dies and becomes post modern, the way del toro has mixed in elements of other films throughout means a similar film would be incredibly difficult to make and i find it hard to believe that enough films similar to this could be made to over saturate the genre witch is why pans labyrinth continues to be new and interesting.

the warm elements mixing with the fantasy give amazing opportunities to cut away at opportune moments to give incredible juxtaposing moments that keep one story from getting stale.

mise en scene is a french term that refers to that everything gin the scene has some meaning to influence the scene i was asked to look at the two sisters and the preist, these characters are meant to be high class individuals of spain that support the fascist nation. These characters are there. In this scene all of characters are wearing dark and drab cloaths (browns and blacks) this may represent death or how a classic villain archetype is to wear black and dark colours, this also allows said characters to blend into the background this is probably because they are not incredibly important characters not affecting the plot all that mutch and acting only for exposure for the plot.. This is the movie not so subtlety telling the audience that these arnt nice people and this is clearly supported by the subtext of there lines. They act quite statically not moving much and less expression in there face speaking with very dry tones this is again most likely due to the fact there not important this means more attention is being portrayed to the captian the lighting also heavily hints at this witch the preist and the isters only expirencing warm light over there head witch makes them seem allot less powerfull than the captain whos pictured with a roraing fire behind him. These factors all together clearly show the relationships between these charatcers quite clearly and show the audience very clearly whos incharge.