USA: The creators and cast of the highly-acclaimed Oscar-nominated film "Pan's Labyrinth" meet the international press

Record ID: 807833

  • Title: USA: The creators and cast of the highly-acclaimed Oscar-nominated film "Pan's Labyrinth" meet the international press
  • Date: 28th February 2007
  • Summary: CUTAWAY SHOT OF THE BACK OF THE CREATORS AND CAST OF "PAN'S LABYRINTH" SITTING AT TABLE FOR PRESS CONFERENCE. CUTAWAY SHOT OF THE BACK OF THE CREATORS AND CAST OF "PAN'S LABYRINTH" SITTING AT TABLE FOR PRESS CONFERENCE. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) "PAN'S LABYRINTH" PRODUCER ALFONSO CUARON, SAYING: "'Labyrinth' which was, of the movies we made in common, it was at the beginning t
  • Embargoed: 15th March 2007 12:00
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVAAZOYG3VIHWGY0RPBFICU9894H
  • Story Text: The creators and cast of the highly-acclaimed Oscar-nominated film "Pan's Labyrinth" gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday to meet with members of the international press corps. Director Guillermo del Toro and colleagues held a press conference to answer questions about the movie and discuss the importance of the film being universally accepted by Spanish language countries from Mexico to Spain.
    The film, written and directed by Mexico's Guillermo del Toro, tells of a young girl who learns about good and evil from a faun in the Spanish forest.
    The tale takes place in 1944, just a few years after the Spanish Civil War when the Nazis helped fascist Gen. Francisco Franco win. Franco, now ruling his country with an iron fist, orders his army to destroy what remains of the resistance.
    Del Toro called fascism, which flourished in Europe before World War Two, the "ultimate horror" because its dictatorial system of government made uniformity the standard, and it "destroys individuality, imagination and a sense of self."'
    "Pan's Labyrinth" has been nominated for six Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.
    The film epitomizes imagination and individuality and focuses on the young heroine, named Ofelia, who is looking for a sense of who she is and where she fits into the world.
    "Pan's Labyrinth" is del Toro's sixth and most successful movie to date. It is set in 1944 Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
    In what is being called an adult fairytale, the underlying theme explores what del Toro calls the destructive nature of fascism, which flourished in Europe before World War II.
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