Pan's Labyrinth Evalutation

Del Toro presented Pan’s Labyrinth to viewers because Del Toro wanted to show the viewers that the movie was against Hollywood movie rules. Del Toro challenged the Hollywood critics with his kind of style and perspective of Pan. His style was to express his emotions through fantasy. His perspective was dealing with the reality by showing abstract and you have to figure out what Del Toro meant. Most of Hollywood tended to show real things and you just see and understand. In Pan, Del Toro wanted you to see, think, figure, and understand. Pan’s Labyrinth is a lot real than other fantasy movies like Alice in the Wonderland because Pan does have meanings in each character and acts they done.
Director’s Note in Pan’s Labyrinth movie, Del Toro told the audience that he was really fell inside the movie and he almost killed himself because he had sleepless nights and blur days. He actually worked the movie out himself. Pan’s Labyrinth became so famous because of Del Toro and his inner feelings into the movie. Del Toro disobeyed Hollywood’s standard movie rules and added his meanings and true horrors in the movie. The movie branded all the audience’s minds. Pan’s Labyrinth showed the audience where all of the viewers actually living on, a land full of violence and blood.
The movie is so unusual than other movies because the movie showed completely full show of violence, killing the miracle worker-the doctor, and the huge impact is a child died in the end. Most of the viewers feel the impact from the movie is a child dying, blood dripping out her little mouth, she was shot by a huge man, and many more. In other way, Del Toro disobeyed the general movie rules because there were SO FEW movies which did showed a child dying. He felt that he have to show the main character, Ofelia dying because it will make the movie to stand out than other movies. The movie has a positive credibility because of its director and producers.
Del Toro showed the movie out of his heart because he wanted to show the audience that where they are living on right now. He wanted to make the audience to think and figure out what Del Toro’s abstracts meant. He stood the movie out because he gave the most horror thing has happened in the movie, the main character a young girl will die in the end. He hated to have this event to happen in the movie but it s only one thing to make the audience to feel the huge impact from the movie and think of this movie rest of their lives.

PU OWL, GU n Blog Rubrics

Every paper, I have to manage between Gallaudet University’s writing rubric, Dr. Pajka-West blog rubric, and some resources from books or websites such like Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL). Gallaudet University writing rubric is a material for GU students who write papers for GU English Teachers. The students are supposed to follow this rubric to suit the teachers’ expectations. Dr. Pajka-West blog rubric is for only students who use blogs instead essays. This rubric is little altered than GU writing rubric because the points are specified for blogs. Helpful resources such like Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) only helps students who have difficulty to write a paper with strong words and statements. Most of students have their own weakness such like creating a thesis; OWL is specified to help students with those weaknesses. The Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab is very resourceful for Gallaudet University students and Dr. Wood’s students because the OWL does fit GU writing rubric and Dr. Pajka-West’s blog rubric.
GU writing rubric is somewhat flawed but useful in some ways. The rubric has some valuable points like required fluidity, central point, proper word choice, and correct citation. Fluidity, the paper have to be fit in smoothly, once one paragraph is off point than other paragraphs, and the piece may be a turn off. Also proper choice of words is part of fluidity because the word choice changes your feelings with the paper. If the choice is kiddy and the topic is serious, you may feel conflicted with negativity from the piece. Also the thesis is the main idea of the paper and it is part of the fluidity because if your main point is way off from the supporting ideas in the body and then your paper may not fitting for the teacher. The citations are required for the essays and are required to add on the bottom of paper.
Dr. Pajka-West’s blog rubric is the other side of GU writing rubric because the blog rubric kept GU’s important areas but refine them to fit the blogs. The blogs are different than real essays because it contains your own questions, thoughts, and personal engagements. Also the blogs can include other students’ ideas which most of teachers encouraged students to do that. The blog rubric required thesis, fluidity, and word choice which it is similar to GU rubric. Other areas are different because the blogs are more linked to the student. The blog want to have the student’s personal engagement. A personal engagement is the student’s motivation and jumping in the blog. If the student actually did the personal engagement and the blog may be powerful because the student spoke from their heart and head.
One helpful resource, PU OWL, it is very helpful for the students who are struggling with creating thesis statement, presenting arguments with evidence and reasons, proper APA citation, how to make a paper fluid, and many more. Dr. Wood’s presentation about OWL and how OWL is huge with helpful information relating to Lunsford such like structuring an argument. OWL provides different ways of citation, style of writing (creative, tutorial, social sciences, engineering, etc), and writing in different orders. Also it teaches the students how to make a best outline paper which the students could follow with no struggles. One main thing of OWL, it does provide different styles of thesis. Also it shows you how to make a good thesis that hit many points without explaining with hundreds of words.
OWL is so helpful with me when I was in high school, I learned how to write outlines, and I used this method ever since. My high school English teacher encouraged us to play around in OWL so I did and I ended up learning many things such like prewriting, creating introduction, body, and conclusion and weaving together into one piece, and using proper kind of citation for each resource I used. I When I came to Gallaudet University and Dr. Wood gave me two rubrics, Gallaudet University writing rubric and Dr. Pajka-West blog rubric. I had been juggling between those two rubrics and helpful resources such like OWL. I am surprised that I actually survived to middle of semester and I am so ready for more. I don’t think I would pass this class without having helpful resources like OWL. Both rubrics and resources (OWL, etc) are so helpful, you have to figure out the puzzle to fit all resources to figure your paper out. When you pick the important points from those resources and you can make the paper almost perfect. Fluidity, very clear thesis, complete introduction, body, and conclusion, strong reasons/evidence, huge personal engagement, and proper citation will make your piece almost perfect. If you want to have a great piece, you have to juggle between both rubrics and some helpful resources like OWL to get A plus!

Pan's Labyrinth impressions

When I watched Pan’s Labyrinth for the first time, I had a bad impression from the movie because of its complexion and detailed gore. In addition, I was offended with showing dying of a child. It was distressing to see Ofelia’s eyes flickered out and blood oozed down her lips. But, when my brother pleaded me to watch the movie with him again so I sat down and watched all over from the beginning. I discovered many abstract things and the meanings behind them. I realized that there is a lot more behind the gore. I brought the movie and watched the movie many times and kept finding different things. I kept changing my inner version of this movie every time when the flower bloomed in the end.

The positivity of the movie is the beginning and the end. The beginning with Ofelia reading fairy tales, a fairy tale means a plot with love at first sight nor happily ever after. The hint of Ofelia reading a fairy tale told me that this movie will end happily. Actually, Del Toro gave out a complex point of this hint because the sad part is Ofelia dying but the happiness is the flower blooming. At the first, I believed that the movie will end with a smile branded on my face, I didn’t smile. But after watching the movie more than few times, now I can smile at the end because I realized that Del Toro is trying to tell me that the point of end is not with Ofelia dying but the blooming flower. Also the positivity is by the colors of the beginning and the end. The beginning and end included warm colors such like ruby red, sky blue, olive green, sunny yellow, and many more. In the between the beginning and the end, there is so dark colors such like black, gray, navy blue, etc. But in the end of the movie, the warm colors were brought back. The most positive thing in the movie is the white- purity blooming flower in the end.

The negativity of the movie is the middle. The middle is completely dark and gruesomely. The darkening point started when Ofelia entered in the tree and encountered the frog king. The negativity hit me when the captain reshaped the peasant’s face, torn a rebel’s hand into half, shot the doctor with loads of bullets, and shot Ofelia with no feelings. Also the word of disobedience turned me off. Ofelia ignored the three fairies by eating a grape in the monster’s dungeon, mother refused to believe Ofelia with her imaginary world, Mercedes hid her secrets away the Captain, the doctor gave painkillers to the Rebels while helping the Captain at the same time, and Ofelia told the Faun no to kill her half brother. The most negative thing in the movie is the captain killing Ofelia with no regret.