Tring!!!Tring!!!Movie-time!!! INTO THE WOODS (2014) Into the Woods is a 2014 American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall, and adapted to the screen by James Lapine from his and Stephen Sondheims Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name. It features an ensemble cast that includes Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, and Johnny Depp. Inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel, the film is a fantasy genre crossover centered on a childless couple, who set out to end a curse placed on them by a vengeful witch. Ultimately though, the characters are forced to rectify the consequences of their actions. After several unsuccessful attempts by other studios and producers of adapting Into the Woods to film, Walt Disney Pictures announced in 2012 that it was producing an adaptation of the musical, with Marshall directing and John DeLuca serving as producer. Principal photography commenced in September 2013, and took place entirely in London, including at Shepperton Studios. Into the Woods held its world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 8, 2014, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 25, 2014.The film was both critically and commercially successful; it grossed over $140 million worldwide and received praise for its cast, tone, and production merits.Into the Woods received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Streep, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, as well as three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Actress for Blunt, and Best Supporting Actress for Streep. PLOT: A Baker and his Wife wish for a child but suffer under a curse laid upon the Bakers family by a Witch who found the Bakers father robbing her garden when his mother was pregnant. The Witch offers to lift the curse, but only if the Baker and his Wife obtain four critical items for her: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold. The Witchs demands eventually bring the Baker and his Wife into contact with Jack, who is selling his beloved cow Milky White and to whom the Baker offers magic beans left him by his father (which were stolen from the Witch) which grow into a large beanstalk; with Red Riding Hood, whose ruby cape the couple notices when she stops to buy sweets on her way to grandmothers house; with Rapunzel, the Witchs adopted daughter whose tower the Bakers Wife passes in the woods; and with Cinderella, who also runs into the Bakers Wife while fleeing from the pursuing Prince. After a series of failed attempts and misadventures, the Baker and his Wife finally are able to gather the items necessary to break the spell. Meanwhile, each of the other characters receive their happy endings: Cinderella and Rapunzel marry their Princes; Jack provides for his mother by stealing riches from the Giant in the sky, and kills the pursuing Giant by cutting down the beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother are saved from the Big Bad Wolf by the Baker; and the Witch regains her youth and beauty after drinking the potion. However, each of the characters learns their happily ever after is not so happy: the Baker is worried he is a poor father to his newborn baby; Cinderella is disenchanted by royal life; and the Witch learns that she has lost her powers with her restored youth. The growth of a second beanstalk from the last remaining magic bean allows the Giants Wife to climb down and threaten the kingdom and its inhabitants if they do not deliver Jack in retribution for killing her husband. Meanwhile, what the characters did to achieve their happy endings continue to haunt them: the Bakers Wife kisses Cinderellas Prince and dies soon after when she falls off a cliff while fleeing the Giants Wife; The Witch loses Rapunzel forever when she runs off with her prince in spite; Cinderella and the Prince break up after she hears of his infidelity with the Bakers Wife; and Red Riding Hoods Mother and Grandmother, along with Jacks Mother, are killed in the Giants Wifes rampage. In the aftermath, the surviving characters debate the morality of handing Jack over, and soon quickly blame each other for their individual actions that led to the tragedy, ultimately blaming the Witch. She throws away her remaining beans, reenacting her mothers curse and regaining her powers. The Witch then curses the others for their inability to accept their individual responsibility and disappears. The Baker, Cinderella, Jack and Red Riding Hood resolve to kill the threatening Giants Wife, though Cinderella and the Baker try to explain to the distraught Red Riding Hood and Jack the complicated morality of retribution and revenge. The Giants Wife is killed, and the characters move forward with their ruined lives: the Baker, thinking of his Wife, is determined to be a good father; Cinderella leaves the Prince and decides to help the Baker; and Jack and Red Riding Hood, now orphans, live with the Baker and Cinderella. The Baker begins to tell their story to his son—Once upon a time... HOWS THAT: Dont ask me..i was watchin for Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt & obviously The Johnny Depp.. :) Courtesy: Wikipedia, IMDb..
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:43:00 +0000
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