The Decaying Nutcracker

Cathrine 2022-01-15 08:03:07

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The gorgeous and exquisite costumes can’t give the characters depth, and the gorgeous and beautiful base colors can’t create the stunning storytelling. Although the classic adaptation of "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" has a good-looking skin, this time Disney didn’t. How much novelty can be brought to the story, and the weak and old-fashioned plot makes the movie seem empty and boring in the end.

In fact, Disney’s live-action movies have never been as surprising as its animated movies. Although there are many novels such as "Maleficent", many film works based on fairy tales have also received mediocre response. For "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", the film did not think about summarizing the various problems that have appeared before Disney's live-action fairy tale movies. It still only uses a gorgeous and sweet style to attract the audience, but for adults, even if it can Temporarily bewildered by the gorgeous appearance of the movie, but unable to truly be immersed in such fairy tales.

The film adaptation of "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" actually has a serious inherent problem, that is, it did not fill in many of the original logical flaws in the original work. For example, as a fairy tale, the film must be set for itself Under the garb of pseudoscience, looking at this worldview based on the science it has established, you will find that many things are completely unjustified, not to mention the countless logical criticisms in the movie. These problems make the movie not only unable to take it. Anything fresh to attract the audience, even compared to the "Alice in Wonderland" a few years ago, is inferior.

As a fairy tale film, perhaps many people think that the logic of the story should not be exacted, but apart from logic, the criticism of "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" lies in the impoverishment of the movie's own imagination and the out-of-control rhythm. Throughout the whole film, there is almost no one that can be remembered. The most intuitive feeling of the whole main story is that it is inadequate, whether it is the emotion of the protagonist or the role setting of the villain. People have a step-by-step feeling that they can't bring in emotions, and the gorgeous special effects just make the movie appear fancy, this kind of gorgeousness actually makes people visually weak in the middle of the movie.

As a fairy tale that has been hundreds of years away, even though the film has a core of growth, it is impossible to stage a phenomenon in the world of light and shadow to turn corruption into magic by relying on water injection for a long time. Miracle.

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms quotes

  • Shiver: [shows Clara Marie's old throne room] This is your mother's throne, Your Grace.

    Sugar Plum: Have you come to save us, Clara?

    Clara: No.

    [the regents look disappointed]

    Clara: I'm sorry. I didn't even know this place existed before today. You see, I was looking for a Christmas present from my godfather.

    Hawthorne: [delighted] Oh, I love Christmas!

    [to Sugar Plum and Shiver; lost]

    Hawthorne: What's Christmas?

    Clara: Then I ran into this homeless mouse.

    Shiver: [concerned] Mouse?

    Clara: And that's when I met the captain.

    Philip: [enters the throne room] We barely escaped Mother Ginger. And the Mouse King.

    Sugar Plum: [gasps] You met Mother Ginger? Oh my dear Clara, you're lucky to be alive!

    Hawthorne: You must promise never to go back to the Land of Amusements, Clara.

    Sugar Plum: [frustrated] Hawthorne!

    Shiver: [also frustrated] Its title has been restricted.

    Hawthorne: Oh, of course. I meant the Fourth Realm.

    [to Sugar Plum and Shiver]

    Hawthorne: Apologies. I'm just so upset.

    [to Clara]

    Hawthorne: Forget I ever mentioned the Land of Amusements.

    [Sugar Plum and Shiver silence him]

  • Sugar Plum: [to Clara] The ballet tells the story of the Four Realms. How your mother discovered our world.