Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
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1 min readJul 25, 2017

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5 part series on the 2007 Oscar nominated screenplay.

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 GITS week-long discussion and analysis:

General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue

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.

For all of the other screenplays and commentary in the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series, go here.

For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.

For links to over 100 free and legal script downloads, go here.

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