9/15/2023 0 Comments Nutcracker four realms party scene![]() But in historical chronological order, the Nutcracker came before all these things. Hoffmann and realizing that there were going to be visual similarities to other fantasy worlds we’ve seen. Hoffmann story was written a long time ago, and subsequently inspired famous books like “Alice in Wonderland” and later, “The Chronicles of Narnia.” So here I am trying to recreate the world of E.T.A. What was your inspiration for the overall look of the four realms? Mackenzie Foy is Clara in THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS. They allowed our director of photography to get his crane over the top of our snowy forests. We were actually the first production in there. There’s a new part of Pinewood Studios, nicknamed Pinewood east, built on the other side of the road. When you see Clara running and chasing the mouse, all of that is a real stage. ![]() But obviously, things like the large establishing shots of Drosselmeyer’s home were practical. If we had wide shots of the lands of snowflakes, sweets, and flowers, that was visual effects with foreground set pieces, because of the expanse of the world. If we had extremely wide shots of the palace, that was absolutely visual effects’ responsibility. Then, visual effects, and the great work by Max, was used largely as a support to the environment. Because we had a lot of young performers, it felt very necessary to surround them in color and texture, so they could immerse themselves in this world. This was not a preference of his, it was sort of a necessity. We spoke with production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas about putting it all together.Ĭan you tell me a bit about the breakdown between locations, sets, and visual effects used in the film?įrom Disney and from Lasse’s standpoint, there was a strong directive to try and keep as much as we could practical. Throughout Clara’s hunt for her key and, effectively, herself (a testament to the new style of Disney princess: Clara is ready to go to war for what she believes in and is also very good at science), both her real life in London and her princess life in the four realms are set against unsparing backdrops Drosselmeyer’s castle ball manifests all things Christmas, while the non-scorched magical realms are an arresting, lovely pastiche that hints at Oz, Wonka’s workshop, and Belle’s hometown in the last big Disney princess live-action take, Beauty and the Beast. Both the realms and London are a lavish mix of locations, sets, and CGI, while Copeland’s performance setting is a bit of a meta-take-a ballet delivered on a formal stage setting, within a fantasy successor story to another traditional ballet. The film nods to its source material when Clara is given a history lesson of the world she’s inherited from her mother, delivered en pointe by Misty Copeland, a principal ballerina of American Ballet Theatre. Over at the castle, we meet Sugar Plum (a seemingly daffy, falsetto-voiced Keira Knightley) and the rulers of the luscious flower, sweets, and snow realms. ![]() In The Four Realms, Mother Ginger the structure is home to Mother Ginger the banished person (Helen Mirren) and some nightmarish clown decoys who act as her guards. ![]() Together the two enter the scorched earth of one of the four realms, overtaken by rodents and Mother Ginger, whom the ballet’s devotees will recognize as a more menacing if an otherwise faithful replica of the dance prop that traditionally hides a cache of children. In pursuit, she links up with Phillip the Nutcracker (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a faithful bridge guard who tips Clara off to her princess status in this part of the world. Passing from Drosselmeyer’s palatial digs and into the Christmas Tree Forest (a snowy land that’s just what it sounds like), Clara locates her key and then immediately loses it to a charmingly adept CGI mouse. Hoffmann story and subsequent classical children’s ballet, Morgan Freeman plays Drosselmeyer, giver of enchanted gifts and leader of a star-studded cast that kicks off in picture-perfect Victorian London, giving way to the magical realms where Clara (Mackenzie Foy) hunts for a key to open a final bequest from her late mother: a filigree silver egg that obviously possesses significance beyond knickknackery and sentiment. In The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Disney’s live-action re-creation of the E.T.A. ![]()
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