Perhaps, she can summon sweets with a twirl. Honestly, I’m a sucker for a good magic system, and since The Nutcracker is already a fantasy story, why not throw some more magic in there? What would be interesting is if Clara’s dancing could translate into sword fighting and/or a type of summoning power. And what of his mirror, the Rat King? Why does he have to be complete evil? Why not make him much more interesting than the flat character he is? Does he come back? Does he know the Nutcracker? We should ask those questions to make the characters more meaningful. Has he failed at doing the honorable thing? Most likely. Did he ever have to make a difficult choice? He’s a soldier-one would think that he would have at some point. One could even make the character, the Nutcracker, multi-faceted. Even Barbie’s version of The Nutcracker, where we are supposed to have Barbie as a herald for girl power, has Clara sit back and watch as others do the fighting for her. Why did Drosselmeyer choose her to send on this adventure, and why is she there? She saves the Nutcracker, but after, she slinks back into maiden mode, never to do anything heroic ever again. Instead of painting Clara as a helpless unresponsive watcher, have Clara actually be the protagonist of the story. While we have plenty of fairy tale retellings that usher in a wealth of well-rounded main characters, The Nutcracker retellings, sadly, do not. What most retellings often lack, at least in regards to The Nutcracker, is character depth. Read on to understand the features that would make any future Nutcracker retelling tremendously better. However, the retellings I’ve seen lately have usually resulted in either a carbon copy of the ballet, with barely enough flavor to grow into their own, or those that attempt to diverge from the original and instead wind up losing the magic. It’s reached countless people and excited the holiday spirit for young and old. Now, every single person I’ve met has at least heard about it.
#RAT KING NUTCRACKER FOUR REALMS MOVIE#
I haven’t seen it yet, but whether the movie is popcorn-stuffing enticing or can’t-bear-it horrid, it’s an attempt to pay homage to the captivating, mystical story of The Nutcracker.įor whatever reason, the original production of The Nutcracker did not touch audiences like today. With The Nutcracker and the Four Realms already out in theaters, we have another rehash of the classic short story “ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King ” and its musical counterpart. It’s Nutcracker season again, and with it comes Nutcracker retellings.
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