The Indiana-born actor, best known for working under heavy prosthetics and makeup, had worked with del Toro on Hellboy and Mimic and was the director's first choice to play the Faun and the Pale Man.
The only problem: Jones didn't speak Spanish. Del Toro said they could dub his voice, but Jones wanted to give a full performance. Then del Toro said he could learn his Spanish lines phonetically, but Jones thought that would be harder to memorize than the actual words.
Fortunately, he had five hours in the makeup chair every day, giving him plenty of time to practice. And then? Turns out it still wasn't good enough. Del Toro replaced Jones's voice with that of a Spanish theater actor, who was able to make his delivery match Jones's facial expressions and lip movements. The faun is a mythological creature, half man and half goat, who represents nature it's where the word "fauna" comes from and is neutral toward humans. View All. Fall TV. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage.
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How did you buy your ticket? View All Videos 1. View All Photos Movie Info. While exploring an ancient maze, Ofelia encounters the faun Pan, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess and must complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality. Fantasy, War, Drama. Guillermo del Toro. Dec 29, limited. May 15, In the movie, Ofelia is a "princess who forgot who she was and where she came from", who progresses through the labyrinth to emerge as a promise that gives children the chance never to know the name of their father - the fascist.
It's something that has intrigued me since Cronos, through Hellboy and now to Pan's Labyrinth: the way your choices define you. And I thought it would be great to counterpoint an institutional lack of choice, which is fascism, with the chance to choose, which the girl takes in this movie.
Del Toro's faun is just one of the film's menagerie of fantastical creatures and monsters, drawn from sources that range from Goya's paintings to Clive Barker's Books of Blood. As always, the director sketched each character in the notebooks that are his constant companions, extraordinary documents of his mind at work and his obsessive attention to detail. Here we find the original drawings for the 'vegetable baby' which Ofelia places beneath her mother's bed, nurtured with milk and magic, and the terrifying 'pale man' whose ire she arouses by stealing from his table.
The original design was just an old man who seemed to have lost a lot of weight and was covered in loose skin. Then I removed the face, so it became part of the personality of the institution. But then, what to do about the eyes? So I decided to place stigmata on the hands and shove the eyes into the stigmata.
Having done that, I thought it would be great to make the fingers like peacock feathers that fluff and open. That's how that figure evolved. The idea was to make him very masculine, not aggressively so, just sinuous.
I remember talking to Doug Jones [who plays both the faun and the pale man] when he first started working on the role and saying, "More Mick Jagger, less David Bowie! Everything about the faun and his personality needed to be masculine because you had to pit the female energy of the girl against something monolithic. The movie received extraordinary critical acclaim and was a solid box office hit. It's one of the best, most thematically substantive fantasy films of the last twenty years -- and possibly of all-time.
The captivating visuals and rich storytelling ensure that you can watch Pan's Labyrinth again and again, seeing something new each time. Few films can boast that. Because we here at Screen Rant are huge fans, we now present some trivia about this amazing movie that we hope you will enjoy hearing about. Pan is a famous figure in Greek mythology. He is the god of the wild, notable for being half-human, possessing horns and legs similar to those of a goat, and hanging out with Nymphs.
Perhaps somewhat obviously, he can also play a pretty mean pan flute. As if that didn't make him fascinating enough, Pan achieved some renown for his sexual prowess. The faun who appears in Pan's Labyrinth is not Pan, though. He is named, appropriately, Faun. So what's the deal with Pan, then? The answer is that Faun, or "Fauno" as he's referred to in the Spanish-language film, isn't really a name that has a lot of connotations for American audiences. Pan, on the other hand, at least calls to mind some basic qualities that the movie's character has.
That's why America is one of the very few places where the picture is titled Pan's Labyrinth. France also used the Pan reference. It provides an inkling of what the story will involve in a way that registers with viewers on our shores. The actual title is El Laberinto Del Fauno a. Faun's Labyrinth. Almost every other country where the movie was released used Fauno. Imagine pouring years of work into a project, only to lose it in a freak accident.
That nearly happened to del Toro. The filmmaker has scores and scores of notebooks in which he writes notes about his projects and draws sketches of visual ideas for them. They are the heart and soul of his work. For Pan's Labyrinth , he had one such journal, which he nearly lost.
The director was riding in a British cab. He hopped out, unknowingly leaving the notebook, which had four years' worth of detailed plot and character information, in the back seat.
Realizing his error as the cab was pulling away, he tried and failed to catch up with it. Luckily for him -- and us -- the cab driver found the journal, as well as the piece of stationary from a local hotel that had been tucked inside. The cabbie took the book to the hotel, where management was able to determine its rightful owner. A grateful del Toro gave the driver a nice fat tip for his kindness.
It's a highly layered part that would challenge any seasoned performer because it requires the display of many very intense emotions, as well as the need to convey thoughts and feelings that the character is hiding.
The amazing thing is that Baquero, who totally nails these requirements, was only eleven years old when she portrayed Ofelia. Her casting was essentially an accident. Guillermo del Toro was actually looking to cast a younger actress, probably one who was about eight. When Baquero, who was ten at the time, showed up to audition, she blew away the director and his pre-production crew. Del Toro was so impressed by her talent — and he wanted her for the role so badly — that he re-wrote the screenplay to make Ofelia a couple of years older than she was initially intended to be.
The rest, as they say, is history. Doug Jones has a rather unique resume. As an actor and contortionist, his ability to move in weird, unusual ways got him cast as a zombie in Disney's Hocus Pocus and as a clown in Tim Burton's Batman Returns before teaming up with del Toro for Mimic and Hellboy the latter of which cast him as fishman Abe Sapien, the role for which he's best known.
With Pan's Labyrinth containing some creepy creatures, the director knew he needed to have Jones come on board the project to play both the Faun and the Pale Man.
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