Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: Pan’s Labyrinth
We’ve had a successful relaunch of the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series. I say relaunch because we have done this type of thing before. For the next month, I will be spotlighting previous movie scripts we have studied.
Today: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Written by Guillermo del Toro
IMDb plot summary: In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Links to the entire October 2011 series:
General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.
Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.
Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.