"Macario"

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This paper compares and contrasts the literary elements in Galvadon's movie, "Macario," and the Grimm tale, "Godfather Death". The paper looks at the similarities and differences in both stories' theme, structure, style, symbolism, and plot.

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"Fairy tales offer rich imagery, symbolism, and archetypes on which longer, more complex works can be based. Roberto Galvadon's 1960 film Macario is one of those works, an enchanting black-and-white Mexican production that shares several structural elements in common with the Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm tale "Godfather Death." In the movie and the fairy tale, a destitute man with a large family encounters three apparitions: God, the Devil, and Death. He ignores the first two on principle: the Devil because he is a trickster and God because he permits the rich to feed off the poor; but the man embraces Death as a friend because the Grim Reaper takes the lives of the rich and the poor. In return, Death offers the man a magical healing potion that restores life to the dying. In order to use it properly, however, the man must follow specific instructions."

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