{"id":10744,"date":"2015-01-30T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2015-01-30T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:14:54","slug":"strange-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/strange-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"STRANGE MAGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRANGE MUSIC is music to my heart! Think an animated &#8220;Moulin Rouge!&#8221; that embraces the George Lucas ideals of dark &amp; light, finding beauty and love in the darkest places, experiencing incredible new worlds, and all set in another kind of galaxy far, far away, this one comprised of The Fairy Kingdom and The Dark Forest.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 George Lucas.\u00a0 The man behind the mythical worlds of The Fairy Kingdom and The Dark Forest (also the man behind The Empire and The Force) has a soft side, an animated side, a side of him that loves love stories and musicals.\u00a0 And with that in mind, and Lucas\u2019 vision at its core, that\u2019s exactly what director Gary Rydstrom brings to life with STRANGE MAGIC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10690\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4-400x170.jpg\" alt=\"STRANGE MAGIC\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4-400x170.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4-1024x436.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4-1400x596.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/strange-magic-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marianne is a fairy princess sworn off love while her sister Dawn is as giggly as a teenager with every male creature she meets.\u00a0 Roland is a less than charming Prince who only has eyes for the throne of The Fairy Kingdom and determines to take it no matter who or what he uses to get there.\u00a0 Sunny is an easy-going happy little gnome deeply in love with his best friend Dawn.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s The Dark Forest.\u00a0 Presided over by the Bog King, love is a word never to be uttered and its inhabitants live in fear of his wrath.\u00a0 Imprisoned by the Bog King is Sugar Plum Fairy who has a penchant for making love potions, while joining in the fun within both kingdoms is a bevy of adorable little pixies, fairies, sprites, birds, bugs, woodland creatures and one mischievous little Imp.\u00a0 Always separate worlds merely divided by a path of primrose, what happens when love and deceit rear their ugly heads and the worlds collide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-9.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10694\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-9-400x164.png\" alt=\"sm - 9\" width=\"400\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-9-400x164.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-9-1024x421.png 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-9-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-9.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While infused with Shakespearean notes harkening to \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d, noteworthy is that the core ethos, messaging and story design of STRANGE MAGIC, is easily analogized and paralleled to the constructs of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d franchise; Luke Skywalker walking into the cantina with Obi Wan, or saw the strength in Marianne that mirrors that of Princess Leia, or the dark side of Darth Vader as here seen in the Bog King.\u00a0 There is no doubt that the origins of STRANGE MAGIC lie within George Lucas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10150\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic-11-400x170.jpg\" alt=\"STRANGE MAGIC\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic-11-400x170.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic-11-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic-11.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rydstrom, seven time Academy Award winner for Best Sound and\/or Best Sound Effects Editing who, while having previously directed the English dub of \u201cThe Secret of Arrietty\u201d, had yet to actually direct a film, now marks STRANGE MAGIC as not only his first feature direction, but first animated feature direction, and a musical at that, presenting lots of new experiences and challenges on a myriad of fronts, starting with the music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-6.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10691\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-6-400x162.png\" alt=\"sm - 6\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-6-400x162.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-6-1024x416.png 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-6-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-6.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music is key and calling on songs spanning the past 60 years, Marius De Vries, the same music supervisor Baz Luhrmann looked to for &#8220;Moulin Rouge!&#8221;, STRANGE MAGIC director Gary Rydstrom now turns to and as a result, achieves the same joyous musical experience.\u00a0\u00a0 Written by David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi and Rydstrom from a story by George Lucas, story and animation bloom from the music and the songs.\u00a0 One of the structural musical high points of the film is not only the cohesiveness with the song selections and their appropriateness for emotion and character which is then mirrored by the visual animation and tonal bandwidth, but the seamless haunting undercurrent of a song leading up to a full on song.\u00a0 A careful collaboration between De Vries and director Rydstrom, for Rydstrom, he \u201cespecially loved how to figure out how to get in and out of songs and structure it so they don\u2019t slam in and surprise you in a way that sometimes you can do in musicals. \u2018\u201cWhoa!\u00a0 We\u2019re singing!!\u2019\u00a0 That was a fun thing to try to figure out how to weave the singing of the dialogue from head to tail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10697\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-2-400x162.png\" alt=\"sm - 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-2-400x162.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-2-1024x414.png 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-2-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technically, the animation is glorious, particularly the use of color.\u00a0 A beautiful blend of photorealism with both forests which just leap off the page almost with a three-dimensional element to them, added to that are elements of whimsy and fantasy through the creatures themselves and how they\u2019re created.\u00a0 Two very distinct looks, yet they marry beautifully; much like the fairy forest and the dark forest and embracing that typical George Lucas, black &amp; white, good &amp; evil.\u00a0 According to Rydstrom, \u201c[The animation] has this live action DNA to it.\u00a0 The richness and the detail and the grittiness of it comes from a live action sensibility and then we do animation within it which is really nice to do.\u00a0 If you think that the theme of the movie is to find beauty in unexpected places, in things that might seem strange or ugly on the outside, so you need that level of detail and grittiness and organic natural feel to it.\u00a0 Th world is full of great little details but so are the characters.\u00a0 The characters fit their worlds and they\u2019re full of great little details in their clothing and their faces and the hair.\u00a0 They are wonderfully detailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to cinematography and lighting for creating mood and texture, as well as providing its own layers of storytelling, the work is meticulously designed and executed, in many cases harkening back to the styling of Old Hollywood and the days of film noir, citing references of lighting Barbara Stanwyck and Boris Karloff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-bog-marianne-close.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10701\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-bog-marianne-close-400x168.png\" alt=\"sm - bog &amp; marianne close\" width=\"400\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-bog-marianne-close-400x168.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-bog-marianne-close-1024x430.png 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-bog-marianne-close-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-bog-marianne-close.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A key component to the design of STRANGE MAGIC is movement.\u00a0 It\u2019s rare that we see Marianne ever stop moving, or, other than when sitting on his throne, the Bog King.\u00a0 Wings are always moving, wings are always fluttering.\u00a0 The little feet are even fluttering in the air.\u00a0\u00a0 For Rydstrom, designing that movement was \u201ca big challenge.\u00a0 The animators did a lot of studies of how butterflies and other creatures flew.\u00a0 To look at them in reality, they\u2019re very stiff, the wings are very stiff.\u00a0 We ended up loosening our fairy wings to have the softer look to it.\u00a0 But we wanted it to be believable, we wanted you to believe that they were flying.\u00a0 Part of the coolness of a character like Marianne is that she can fly, and that\u2019s amazing!\u00a0 The very first shot of her in the movie is the long shot of her flying through her world.\u00a0 The wings became part of the animation &#8211; when does she flap them, when does she get nervous and flap them quicker, when does she slow down without losing altitude.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of times where she kind of slows down her wing flaps to think about something and you\u2019ll see her lose altitude a little bit and she has to get a little more airborne. [laughing] I thought it was like an animator having a dog tail to animate to.\u00a0 It\u2019s another aspect to the personality to get across and how she is using her wings to tell us what she\u2019s thinking.\u00a0 Plus, it\u2019s just damn beautiful!\u00a0 And the lighting of it, you can backlight them, you can get a little bit of light through the wings.\u00a0 I start to see them like Tiffany windows.\u201d\u00a0 The result is a breathtaking opalescence translucence which Rydstrom finds important with STRANGE MAGIC \u201cto have those breaths of classically breathtaking shots on the Fairy Kingdom side and beauty in the way that we\u2019re used to seeing it because the movie really is about them seeing beauty in everything in the Dark Forest and the Bog King himself which is not classically beautiful, and then make that look beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-moonlight.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10698\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-moonlight-400x237.png\" alt=\"sm - moonlight\" width=\"400\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-moonlight-400x237.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-moonlight-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-moonlight.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While outwardly surprising, the voice casting and its diversity hits all the right notes both in musicality and character personality.\u00a0\u00a0 Key is that all the singing is done by the actors cast.\u00a0 Notable are the performances by Alan Cumming as The Bog King, Evan Rachel Wood\u00a0 as Marianne and who, according to Rydstrom \u201ccan sing soft ballads all the way through hard rock\u201d, Alfred Molina as The Fairy King, Maya Rudolph as Bog King\u2019s mother Griselda and Kristin Chenoweth as Sugar Plum Fairy who is not only operatic in her vocal range and an amazing singer overall, but for Rydstrom, \u201cshe\u2019s really funny and that character, she kind of tore into it in terms of the craziness and fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-4.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10696\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-4-400x170.png\" alt=\"sm - 4\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-4-400x170.png 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-4-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-4-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sm-4.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although not for everyone, STRANGE MAGIC is, again, very much akin to an animated &#8220;Moulin Rouge!&#8221; with its construct.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun.\u00a0 It&#8217;s whimsical.\u00a0 It screams George Lucas with the subtext, symbolism and messaging.\u00a0 It\u2019s a joyous movie-going experience. Sometimes you just need flights of fancy to remind us of the hidden joy and beauty of the world of wonder.\u00a0 STRANGE MAGIC makes my heart sing!<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Gary Rydstrom<br \/>\nWritten by David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi and Rydstrom from a story by George Lucas<br \/>\nVoice Cast:\u00a0\u00a0 Allan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Sam Palladio, Elijah Kelley, Alfred Molina, Peter Stormare<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fcJDfu35\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10152\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3-400x170.jpg\" alt=\"STRANGE MAGIC\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3-400x170.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3-1024x435.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3-1400x595.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/strange-magic-3.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRANGE MUSIC is music to my heart! 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