Is it just me, or does anyone else wish the studios would produce a "Practical Magic 2" already?!!! I absolutely LOVED the first one and Sandra and Nicole are huge stars that enjoy working together. What gives? Not to sound like Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, but "I want it NOW!"
I love how 'natural' this film felt, and how realistic their craft actually IS! Though our spells might not end with our ingredients twirly-swirling/levitating out of our cauldrons, traveling vast distances, only to find a Bowie-eyed cowboy riding backwards on a pony,...but otherwise it was all pretty legit! I don't know about you but I don't think we're too far away for zombies, and since I don't dabble personally in dark arts, and necromancy is such a "known" term, perhaps waking the death PHYSICALLY is already happening?
This film did a great job portraying very real aspects of practical magic: herbalism, ritual and communal celebrations, spell-weaving, Grimoires being passed down generation to generation, bullying, how damaging curses can be for both the recipient and caster, helping other people come to terms with witches living amongst those who don't identify as such, the powers of manifestation and believing in oneself, and how "there's a little witch in all of us!"
Most movie/tv-lovers are unaware how most sci-fi/fantasy films/shows are based in real practices and magic existing RIGHT NOW TODAY! Screenwriters pass things off as entertainment, but are writing either from personal experience or through a few degrees of separation from one who experienced their story. That is what I'm most excited about sharing in this blog category, is pointing out and calling-out what's REAL from the films and shows we see, that seem fantastical but are actually things you can learn to do here and now....
What was your experience of this film? If they made a Practical Magic 2, what would you want the plot to be about?...and yes, there IS a book about this already, but if you could make the plot by about anything, what would it be.
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