“As a king I could pay you a lot of gold, as a
father I will never be able to pay you back…” This line from the movie Jack The
Giant Slayer (I can’t remember the exact words, actually, but the meaning was
the same) was one of the many things in this
old-story-told-in-a-better-modern-way that would make any fan realize motion
pictures could improve and develop the old fairy-tales and be much better, wiser
or even funnier than the one-time adventures our parents used to put us to bed
with.
I guess many fantasy fans and critics would say the
movie is too naive and childish, yet everyone should agree it’s a fairy-tale
and everything there should be much different than our everyday boring routine.
That’s why any critic should admire the good job the movie crew have done
creating the breath-taking plot, the amazing fairy-tale creatures, the brave
deeds or some characters’ wise thoughts. Motion pictures like Jack The Giant
Slayer could really inspire any fantasy fan to show some brave actions, to look
not only for the amazing special effects in such movies but for wise thoughts
and quotes too, and to have such fun in the movie hall as it could never happen
with another story about our modern life…
Actually, if you’ve seen The Hobbit before Jack The
Giant Slayer, you wouldn’t be so impressed by the special effects in the
fairy-tale with the magical beans. At moments, the giants are as “good-looking”
as some of the orcs, yet as a whole the costumes and the horrible creatures
from Bilbo Baggins’ story were more impressive. It doesn’t mean, of course,
that the other qualities of Jack’s story are not good enough. A friend of mine
from UK
said it was a typical English movie, showing some good sides of monarchy too (noble
thoughts and actions of kings and princesses, their compassion and honorable
behavior, etc). I guess this motion picture could become another reason for
English people to love their queen?
Jack, The Giant Slayer includes some horrible scenes,
I have to admit, and though we are accustomed to such violence in movies
already (it couldn’t be put in a row with real horror motion pictures, of course,
like Friday 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, etc), some people with
faint hearts should close their eyes at some of the dreadful moments… Anyway,
the excellent crew is another plus for the movie: Nicholas Hoult as Jack is a typical hero from most fairy-tales we’ve
read, Eleanor Tomlinson is amazing and not typical princess from most of the
stories form our childhood, Ewan McGregor is a great guardian and soldier, Stanley Tucci is perfect as a traitor, Bill Nighy is one of the nastiest and most cunning giants you’d
ever see, Ian McShane is a king many countries would be proud of, etc…
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