Inspired by the book, “The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda,” by Christianna Brand and Edward Ardizzone, the film “Nanny McPhee (2005),” directed by Kirk Jones, embeds the laboring trials a nanny, a person who is employed to take care of a child, goes through to establish valuable lesson into the minds of their charge. The film came to life with the expertises of great actress and actor who starred in the film: Emma Thompson (who played magical Nanny McPhee), Colin Firth (who play Mr. Cedric Brown, the father of a family of seven), Kelly Macdonald, (who plays the role of Evangeline, a maid who is uneducated and a romanist), Thomas Sangster (who plays as the oldest son, and the head of the six children, Simon Brown), Eliza Bennett (who plays
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The type of transportation and the unique items of the 19th century materialized in the film brought in an emphasized on the characterization of each character. What I like most about this film, just like any other film, is their exceptionally timing with the background music and sound effects. While in comparison to one liking the angle cut in the scenes, I personally think that a small tune can make a great different due to the fact that it brought out the magical twist to the main character, Nanny Mcphee. The elements of magic this film puts in were similar to the stereotypes that most supernatural film possess. For instance, witches are often characterized it's the wooden stick, the warty face, the out of line teethes, the nonstructural hat and their creepy personality. The tapping of the stick, in the film, represent a strong area of magic, as well as the disappearing of warts and others features of her face. Magic was embedded as kind of an accepted matter. When Nanny Mcphee randomly transport herself (said she “knocked,” when she really did not) or when she announced each children names they, the family, either thought of it as witchcraft, magic or something unexplainable (a hypnotist) but they did not act upon
The type of transportation and the unique items of the 19th century materialized in the film brought in an emphasized on the characterization of each character. What I like most about this film, just like any other film, is their exceptionally timing with the background music and sound effects. While in comparison to one liking the angle cut in the scenes, I personally think that a small tune can make a great different due to the fact that it brought out the magical twist to the main character, Nanny Mcphee. The elements of magic this film puts in were similar to the stereotypes that most supernatural film possess. For instance, witches are often characterized it's the wooden stick, the warty face, the out of line teethes, the nonstructural hat and their creepy personality. The tapping of the stick, in the film, represent a strong area of magic, as well as the disappearing of warts and others features of her face. Magic was embedded as kind of an accepted matter. When Nanny Mcphee randomly transport herself (said she “knocked,” when she really did not) or when she announced each children names they, the family, either thought of it as witchcraft, magic or something unexplainable (a hypnotist) but they did not act upon