One the things that has always amused me is that while my best friend and her girlfriend are huge fans of David Bowie's Labyrinth, I was rather unimpressed with the film (though not David Bowie's hard-to-ignore codpiece). However, I (artsy fartsy film nerd that I am) love Pan's Labyrinth, yet I'm positive I could never get them to watch it.
Obviously, one is best recognized as a star vehicle pop piece and the other as an artistic comment on a number of different issues/conflicts (chief among them the living under Francisco Franco), I'm curious what people think are the similarities. There's a lot of superficial visual cues, but they also have the same basic plot framework: Baby Brother is held hostage in some way and Plucky Older Sister must face down a fantastic authority figure to get him back.
Thoughts?
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