Ultimately subverted, verging on Beauty Is Bad, in the case of the actual villain Sugar Plum, who brags to Clara that she is far more beautiful - nay, perfect - than she is, while Mother Ginger is a good, brave woman framed. Beauty Equals Goodness: The intact three realms and their people are amazingly lovely, especially compared to the Amusement Park of Doom that is the Fourth Realm, ruled over by the now-broken traitor Mother Ginger.Mother Ginger (Brawn) - Tough heroic rebel who carries around a whip.Clara (Brains) - Strategic, scientifically skilled, book smart, and uses her wits.Sugar Plum (Beauty) - Bubbly, feminine and regent of the Land of Sweets.Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Between the main female characters of this movie:.Another such sequence is part of the Creative Closing Credits.
Ballet: This is used to present the Backstory of the Magical Land to Clara, with Misty Copeland appearing as the lead dancer.Award-Bait Song: "Fall on Me" is performed by Andrea Bocelli (who's had experience with this trope going back 20 years to Quest for Camelot's "The Prayer") and his son Matteo.And Starring: As seen above on the poster, Helen Mirren gets the With credit and Morgan Freeman the And credit.Amusement Park of Doom: The Fourth Realm was the Land of Amusements.All There in the Manual: Additional Backstory appears in the Novelization The Secret of the Realms.Despite this, Clara briefly mourns for the loss of villainous Sugar Plum, who wasn't only one of mother's favorite toys, but also a friend who felt hurt by her mother's supposed abandonment. Alas, Poor Villain: In the end, the actual Big Bad Sugar Plum was turned back into a lifeless porcelain doll as punishment for the crimes of attempted takeover of the Four Realms and treason against Clara and the other regents.Adapted Out: A lot - the Mouse Queen and almost everyone related to the backstory of Princess Pirlipat are eliminated.Played straight with the actual villain - The Sugar Plum Fairy!.She's a sort of Composite Character, with the role of the Mouse Queen of the novella merged in hers, and on top of that it's subverted as she's Good All Along. Mother Ginger is a cheery woman with many children in the ballet, while here she's a tyrant and the main villain.Oddly, no character names are changed to reflect this the family is still named Stahlbaum. Adaptational Nationality: Where the original novella takes place in Germany and was published in 1816, and the ballet version takes place in Russia, this version's "real world" scenes are set in Victorian London.Fritz does not fight with Clara over the nutcracker toy and damage it.The mice and Mother Ginger once it's revealed that the latter was framed.Action Girl: Clara and Mother Ginger are quite tough fighters in the final battle.
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms contains examples of: Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.
It's there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key-which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. Dancers such as Misty Copeland of the American Ballet Theatre perform the dance numbers.Īll the young Clara (Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift from her late mother. It stars Mackenzie Foy, Morgan Freeman, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jayden Fowora-Knight, and Richard E. It is directed by Lasse Hallström and written by Ashleigh Powell, with reshoots handled by Joe Johnston. Hoffmann's novella The Nutcracker and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's eponymous ballet as originally staged by Marius Petipa. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a Walt Disney Pictures fantasy film and a live-action adaptation of E.
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