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Nutcracker four realms5/30/2023 So the realms are somewhere within Drosselmeyer’s house, and one sequence in the movie implies that they exist inside his grandfather clock.Ĭlara’s mother! Or, at least, Clara’s mother found her way into Drosselmeyer’s clock, and then remade the realms as she pleased. Clara follows hers through a Narnia-esque hidden passageway and ends up in the realms. Anyway, she still has to go to a Christmas party held by the inventor Drosselmeyer (Morgan Freeman), and because Drosselmeyer has nothing better to do, he sends all the children off on an elaborate treasure hunt to find their gifts by following pieces of string around his house. When the movie starts, Clara’s mother has died and Clara is very sad, especially since her mother left her a locked egg-shaped device for Christmas that she can’t open. This is where we bring in the movie’s main character: Clara Stahlbaum, played by Mackenzie Foy. That, however, is a story with four nations, not realms, and I’m sure a Disney lawyer would remind you that those are two very different kinds of geographical entities. This, from what I understand, is remarkably similar to the plot of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Mirren’s character, Mother Ginger, used to run this realm back when it was full of amusements, but she turned evil and the other realms united against her. The Fourth Realm, however, is a little different from the others, in that it has fallen into disrepair and is currently occupied by a bunch of dead trees, mushrooms, and mice - and a circus tent capped with a giant robotic Helen Mirren. As you might guess, the Land of the Sweets is filled with candy, the Land of the Flowers is filled with flowers, and the Land of the Snowflakes is hella cold. Hoffman story), which includes a waltz of the snowflakes, a waltz of the flowers, and whole set of dances in the land of the sweets. The realms are pretty much a riff on a few of the dances in The Nutcracker ballet (itself based on an E.T.A. If you, much like the audience observing the curtain before a performance of Wicked, need a map to follow all this, Entertainment Weekly has one. They are all connected by a big, Russian-style palace with turnip turrets, even though the movie’s set in London. The realms, which the film occasionally and inconsistently refers to as “lands,” are: The Land of Sweets, the Land of Snowflakes, the Land of Flowers, and the Fourth Realm - previously known as The Land of Amusements. It’s the ballet they always do at Christmas! It’s Tchaikovsky! There’s the whole thing where the girl falls asleep at a Christmas party and then dreams up adventures with a handsome Nutcracker who is always extremely buff and who sparks - personally speaking - a sexual awakening.īut then there’s the other half of the title: What, exactly, are the Four Realms? Why are there four of them? Are you currently living in one of those realms? Do they have nuts that need to be cracked? Fear not, for we at Vulture have seen the movie and are here to answer every question you could possibly have about the realms - and more. You have probably heard of The Nutcracker. Midway through the title of the movie The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, you arrive in an uncertain place, much like Dante at the beginning of The Inferno. Photo: Laurie Sparham/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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