Evaluation (pans labyrinth)

After reading the key features of evaluations in the Lunsford book, made me think in my head that the movie Pans Labyrinth the 3 time award winner is great movie because it's really unique on what it shows in the movie, but the really wierd thing is its not really known at all. How everything changes so much, and there are a lot scenes that gives you hints on whats going to happen next. Such as the lighting, the disobedience and what the girl had to do for missions to help the family problems and she never had a problem doing so.

What I mean by there are a lot of things in the movie Pans Labyrinth that is really unique is by how they show the lighting going to dark, which you know something not so good or evil is going to happen and when the lights go on or gets lighter that shows that something good is going to happen. For an example whenever the captain was about to do something the coloring of the movie went to dark because something cruel was about to happen.

Del Toro, the director of the movie makes all his movies in really exciting ways, very adventurous with a lot of action. The cool thing that he does is, it seems that he grabs sceens from other movies and connects them into his movie. Such as the lord of the rings, batman where the man looked like the joker when the side of his mouth was cut open. Also alice in the wonderland connects a lot to this movie. In the movie Ofelia did a lot of exploring and things that are away from her mother, and I feel that she should have spent more time with her mother and listened to her more than she did. The reason why I say that is if you know your mother is dying and having a hard time because she is pregnant, you only have one mother in your life and you should spend a lot of time with her.

One of the things that I noticed when the movie came to an end, during the movie Ofelia had a lot of moods and they changed so much by going bad to good. She also was not very comfortable living around with the captain, but when she went to the underworld when she was killed by the captain everything about her changed, she died but her soul was still alive and the lights became really bright and she became happy which was really different to see. Part of the reason why she was happy again was because she accomplished all those missions that were set for and most of all she was able to see her father for the first time.

This family had a lot to go through such as, the mother trying to get Ofelia calm to live with her and the general. The general was a really mean person, by killing a lot of people for no reason and killing people in ways that are really harsh. It was really unfair for Ofelia because she really couldnt do anything with her mother because she was always sick and she didnt like the captain at all because he was being really fierce to Ofelias mother. The captain didnt want Ofelias mother, what he really wanted was the baby which is really sad, because he didnt want to have anything to do with Ofelias mother in the future after the baby was born.

Purdue OWL

In the Purdue OWL presentation where they showed all the formats of APA on how to write a paper, it was really interesting to see. Purdue really showed what you really needed to do onto write a paper because before I really didnt have that great of an idea of writing a APA format paper.

My favorite pages were numbers two and three because it showed information on how you cite your references the right way. Before I had no clue how to cite my references the right way because in my highschool they didnt mainly focus on that point of the paper. They made sure you did the topic, thesis statement right, the body pages and the conclusion right. So really this Citation part of the paper is somewhat new to me which is a crazy thing to hear. I learned that when you site whatever you use for a reference, for an example citing an author. You have to write down authors full name, last and first, what their topic is, the title and the date that it was issued on what he or she did. There are many other ways on how to site your reference points, like auther, website, dictionary, book, article and etc.
My opinion on having a page on citation is one of the most important pages to have in your essay because it shows where you got the information from, that makes it easier for the teachers to check your work and how it will show if you did it in your own work. Teachers now a days look for plagiarism which means did you copy information off of someone elses work.

I really wish in highschool that I got taught more onto making a citation page because it would have made my life so much more easier here at college. The reason why is I would have known that it was one of the more important pages to have so it could prove that I didnt plagiarise and I used my own work throughout the essay. Thank you Purdue on making this anatomy on arguement because I learned a lot just by reading the information. Now I know what I need to put in for information on my essays, also how to use citation to show that my work is true.

Pans Labyrinth

Last week I saw one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, the name of the movie was called "Pans Labyrinth". It was made by Del Toro, and all his movies are actually really interesting to watch! He really thinks deeply into his plays and connects it to other movies that are made.

My opinion on this movie was that it was a really great show to watch, I thought that it was going to be a movie that was going to be boring and ohhh man I really have to watch this. But when it first started it made my eyes get locked to the screen and I was actually really interested in seeing it. It was a really interesting movie on how it was acted, it had a lot of slaughter, scary, sickness and really cool points in the movie. My least favorite parts of the movie was when the captain was acting in the show, it was almost like everytime he was part of the movie something aweful was going to happen to someone, for an example there was two people that got caught and it was a father and a son. They were both trying to kill rabits for someone that really needed food and that was sick, the captian didnt believe them because he thought they were part of the other group that was trying to kill them, so he beat his son up with a glass bottle to his face and shot his father with a gun multiple times for no reason. After they were both dead they figured that they were telling the truth because they found a dead rabit in their bag that they were hunting for. He is really way to strict on things and he was a sick man because he killed many people for no reason and the way killed people was painfull to watch. My favorite part of this movie was when the girl went on a lof of missions for this faun that ordered her to do, try to help her mother and become imortal. Her father died long time ago and it seemed throughout this movie that he wanted to see Ofelia again so he made here go on these missions to try to accomplish to see him again. I also liked the part on how she really believed in fairy's and a lot of others didn't and one day those little fairys like tinkerbell started flying around in the movie.

There was a lot of disobedience in this movie on how it showed, the fairys really ugly looking by how they looked like little demons and usually they are all good looking. How many sceens seemed to connect to other movies for me. Like when the captain got his lip cut, first thing I noticed was he looked just like the joker on batman which I thought that was really cool.
Overall this movie was a good movie to watch, in my opinion I would recommend people to watch this movie. I really like how its acted and how it connects to other movies. I really would like to watch this movie one more time and watch it more carefully on how it is played.