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nazgulwears and I saw 'Pan's Labyrinth' today. I loved it to bits. It was shock-full of interesting archetypes, and deeply rooted  in ancient myth and bloody 20th century history at the same time, apart fro the part where it skilfully juggled elements from popular culture.

Anything you could desire, really.

I can't  say whether I think the fantasy world of the little girl real or not. ( Spoilers! )

One thing I can say, though. Why did 'El Laberinto del Fauno' turn into 'Pan's Labyrinth'? It's not the Great God Pan, it's just a pan. It a faun, really - well, half faun, half Ent, the way he's done in that movie, but a very well designed creature. Fauns aren't satyrs; they lack the constant randiness (to put it mildly) and Pan? Isn't a faun nor a satyr. There can be many of those, but only one Pan - he's the Greco-Roman version of the Horned God. I suspect that in the movie's title, he turned into Pan from just a faun when the producers looked for an English version and didn't trust people to sufficiently distinguish a faun from a fawn - even the Wikipedia article on fauns starts its disambiguation with the words "For the young deer, see fawn'.

Obviously, confusing the Great God Pan and a frying pan was not considered a potential issue...