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Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story is a 2001 American television miniseries. It was directed by Brian Henson and was a co-production of Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company. It is based on the classic Englishfairy taleJack and the Beanstalk. The story was considerably reworked to reflect what Henson believed to be a more ethical, humanist view. The cast includes Matthew Modine (as the modern-day descendant of Jack), Mia Sara (as a mysterious woman attempting to bring him to justice for the murder of a giant), Jon Voight (as the descendant's greedy manager intending to inherit the company), and Vanessa Redgrave (an elderly relative of the descendant). Richard Attenborough, Daryl Hannah, and a young James Corden play giants.

Among the other giants in the film are beings from the mythology of various cultures including Hebrew, Buddhist, and Nordic.

Plot[edit]

In 2001, Jack Robinson (Matthew Modine) is the rich CEO of a large company. Throughout his family's past, no Robinson male has lived to be over 40, and Jack keeps having a dream about his father and an angry giant. He tries very hard to stay healthy with the help of his Albanian butler Dussan (Jonathan Hyde). The manager of his business affairs, Siegfried 'Siggy' Mannheim (Jon Voight), convinces him to turn down a project, headed by Vidas Merlinis (Anton Lesser), involving alternative food supplies of genetically-engineered plants to feed the Third World, and also to build a casino complex around his ancestral castle in a small town to which the locals greatly object.

During construction, the workers discover the skeleton of a giant. A strange young woman called Ondine (Mia Sara) then appears and accuses Jack of being 'a thief and a murderer' before vanishing in a flash of light. That night, a man sneaks into Jack's house and takes him to see an old woman whom Jack recognizes as a great-aunt who he believed was dead. The old woman tells him the traditional version of the fairytale 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in which the giant is portrayed as a selfish, gluttonous plot brute who cared for nothing and no one, subsequently giving him the last magic bean (the original Jack was given five beans but only four grew into the beanstalk, the fifth one landing on rock instead of earth), suggesting that the tale that she has told him may not be the truth, and that the answers he seeks about recent events may be found at the other end of the beanstalk.

Jack plants the bean in the forest near the location where the giant was discovered, and the bean grows into a huge beanstalk leading Jack into the world of the giants, a magical world where a single day passes for every year that passes on the ground below. Jack is left stranded in the giant world after the beanstalk dissolves, apparently cut down by someone back on Earth, and discovers that the giant Thunderdell (Bill Barretta) was an extremely benevolent person: kind, honest, and a loving friend and father who had also adopted Ondine and raised her as his own daughter. The protagonist of this film is portrayed as being 'the fifteenth descendant of' the original Jack. In 1611, Jack obtained the beans, climbed the beanstalk, only to betray Thunderdell and Ondine's trust by stealing the singing Harp of Harmony and the golden Goose of Prosperity, and his mother killed Thunderdell. Jack's descendants grew rich, at the cost of Thunderdell's world being subjected to a curse where 'no crops will grow; we will never see spring again' as the giant world slowly dies over time. Only with the death of the Robinson family would the magic be restored, hence the Robinson family curse. Despite her doubts about Jack after what happened when she fell for his ancestor - due to the different flow of time between the worlds only around one year has passed in the Land of the Giants as opposed to centuries here - Ondine recognizes that Jack is not the man his ancestor was (all the other giants are aware of this, but they still want to kill him as only his death can break their curse), and transports him back to Earth to help her find the 'sacred treasures'.

When they arrive, Jack realizes that during his week-long stay in the giant world, seven years has passed on Earth and due to his disappearance he has been declared legally dead. During their search, Jack also learns that his 'great-aunt' Wilhelmina is hiding several secrets. 'The poor, misguided boy who climbed the beanstalk in 1611 was my son. My crime was perhaps the greatest of them all,' she tells the pair, and this immoral act is revealed to be her murder of Thunderdell. Wilhelmina relates how the Robinson Curse 'has many ugly tentacles. My curse was to see my son die before his time, and his son, and his son. One after another, they died. And I am alive'.

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Jack's manager is also revealed to have known the truth all along and was entrusted to tell Jack when 'he was ready' by Jack's father but instead encouraged Jack to care about nothing but his work and never marry so that when he died, Siggy would inherit the company. He also admits to having cut down the beanstalk and leaving Jack stranded in the giant world. Siggy tries to kill Jack and Ondine, but some of the giants suddenly intervene - having teleported down from their kingdom, although the differing time flow means that what took them a few minutes took a few hours back on Earth - and knock him out.

With the return of the Goose and Harp, the Giants' world is restored, and the Giants thank Jack for undoing his ancestors' mistakes. After returning to his world, Jack saves the company's reputation by supporting the project of genetically-engineered plants that he previously rejected (after having discovered its effects during his stay in the Giants' prison), while Siggy is revealed in a newspaper headline to have been committed to an insane asylum after claiming that he is being hunted by giants. Finally, due to the curse being lifted, the 450-year-old Wilhelmina dies peacefully, with Jack and Dussan by her side.

At the end of the film, Ondine requests Jack to stay in her world which Jack finally refuses as he says he has to 'right the wrong' many things in his world. After the arrival of Jack to his own world he realizes that he truly loved Ondine (and she too) and decides to spend his money for the well being of children and the starving nations being the chairman of Robinson International (which is a business with 200 billion capital by this time). After three months (six giant hours) Ondine returns to Jack, where she is allowed to spend one Giant week (seven years in our world) with him, and it is hinted that at the end of this time, they may have children (as Jack says, 'a whole bunch of little Robinsons') accompanying them back.

Cast[edit]

• Matthew Modine as Jack Robinson, the fifteenth generation descendant of the original Jack. Unlike his ancestor, this Jack is a good and honest man.
• Mia Sara as Ondine, a woman who was taken in by Thunderdell and raised as his own child after losing her parents to disease. A kind and loving young woman, Ondine's heart became hard and her demeanor sour after the original Jack betrayed her and broke her heart.
• Vanessa Redgrave as Countess Wilhelmina, the original Jack's mother and Thunderdell's actual murderer. Unlike the rest of her family, Wilhelmina was cursed for her crimes by becoming immortal, never aging one day, only to see all her descendants grow old and die, claimed by the Robinson Curse, and her family wither away.
• Daryl Hannah - Thespee, a female giant once worshiped as a goddess by the Norse people. A beautiful woman with pale skin and blonde hair, Thespee is the kindest and most reasonable of the giants' council.
• Jon Voight as Sigfriend 'Siggy' Mannheim, Jack's unscrupulous second-in-command in his business dealings. The model of a corrupt businessman, all Siggy cares about is making money and gaining power.
• Anton Lesser as Vidas Merlinis, a research scientist for Jack Robinson's family business. Vidas had a strong desire to see an appropriate amount of the Robinson fortune used for the noble effort to stop world hunger. Instead, after the disappearance of Jack, Mannheim employs Vidas to manage the production of golden eggs. In the end, Vidas tells the media that the Robinson fortune would be spent to help feed the starving nations of the world.
• Richard Attenborough as Magog, the wisest and most ancient of all giants. Magog is the leader of their council.
• Bill Barretta as Thunderdell, the original guardian of the Harp of Harmony and the Goose of Prosperity. Radically different from most of his portrayals in fairy tales, Thunderdell was a kind and loving man.
• Jim Carter as Odin, a one-eyed giant with blue hair who was worshiped by the Vikings as the king of their gods. Hot-tempered and accusatory, Odin shows no remorse towards judging Jack based on crimes committed by an ancestor who has been dead for almost 400 years.
• James Corden as Bran, Thunderdell's son and Ondine's best friend during their childhood. Bran tried heroically to save his father from falling to his death, but failed; a guilt that has haunted him ever since. When the treasures are returned, Bran takes his father's position as their guardian, wearing the Harp's golden box around his neck and close to his heart, just as Thunderdell once did.
• Jonathan Hyde as Dussan, Jack's butler and aide-de-camp.
• Nicholas Beveney as Cernos, a dark-skinned giant with the head of a stag. Cernos was worshiped as the god of forests by the ancient Celtic people of western Europe. Cernos watches over the plants and animals of the giants' world. His anger at Jack is great, for it is the wildlife of his world that has suffered most from the loss of Galaga and Harmonia.
• Roger Blake as Thor, Odin's son. A large, heavily muscled giant with a bushy red beard who wields a huge hammer called Mjolnir as a weapon. Was worshiped by the Vikings as their god of storms.
• Hon Ping Tang as Mahacalla, a blue-skinned giant with four arms. Mahacalla is still worshiped to this day by the Hindu peoples of the Indian subcontinent.
• Denise Worme as Nimna, a solidly built, dark-skinned female giant who wears her hair in long dreadlocks, Nimna is worshipped as a goddess of fertility and childbirth by many tribes in central Africa.
• Mak Wilson - Galaga (performer)
• Brian Henson - Galaga (voice)

Origin[edit]

When CBS executive Michael Wright originally proposed the idea of a Jack and the Beanstalk TV miniseries, Henson originally refused, but reconsidered when he was told he would be allowed to alter the original story. He then worked on the story with screenwriter James V. Hart, who had previously collaborated with Henson on Muppet Treasure Island. Henson later declared that during that time he came to hate the original story. “It's a fairy tale that became part of British culture during a time when empire building and conquering other cultures was heroic”, he said. “No matter how bad you say the giant was and all of that, the morality really stinks.”

Ultimately, the story ended up taking place in the present time, with Jack Robinson, the head of a large company journeying to the land of the giants to right the wrongs of his family's past. “Again, it returns thematically to how we all should be sharing in the responsibility to bring balance to the Force..' states Henson.

These changes resulted in a darker story. “It's not particularly a piece that kids should watch on their own, but it's a great piece for adults to watch with their children” said Henson on that subject.

Production[edit]

To create the special and visual effects in the film, Jim Henson's Creature Shop was given the task of branching out into computer animation, compositing and matte painting, as well as creating animatronic characters. 'It made sense to use The Creature Shop not only from a financial perspective but also for the benefits of having everyone working under one roof. The same group that conceived the characters and visual effects were also responsible for their creation, resulting in a unified, consistent look,' said Henson. With 400 plus effects shots, the film includes many fantasy elements, but Henson described it as having more human characters and more reality than many of his other fantasy and science-fiction projects, which he said was refreshing.

In order to create the giant beanstalk, which, in the film, shoots up out of the forest floor and into the sky, there was an extensive use of CGI, However, a practical, 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) section was built for actor Matthew Modine to climb.

The Creature Shop working with Visual Effects Supervisor Julian Parry also created an entirely computer-generated character. Harmonia is a human-like, animated, talking statue that is part of the Golden Harp (one of the giant's original treasures). Originally, Henson and his team considered using a live-action actress, because Henson wanted the character to be very lifelike. However, the decision was made to instead try to achieve such an effect with computer animation. “… If we had used an actress, she wouldn't have looked magical - she would have simply looked like a person with gold paint hugging a harp,” said Sean Feeney, Creature shop visual effects producer for the film.

Several animatronic characters were also created, including a puppeteered goose (Galaga) and an animatronic head for the giant Cernos. All of the giants in the film are played by regular-sized actors and actresses composited into the film so that they appear to be much larger. Their movements were also slowed down.^{[citation needed]}

“In each instance, we tried to use the most appropriate technique, whether it was through animatronics, puppetry, prosthetics, CGI, or hybrids,” said Feeney.

Sources[edit]

• Joe Nazzaro, Back to the Beanstalk, Starlog Fantasy Worlds (magazine), February 2002, pages 56–59
• Karen Moltenbrey, A Twisted Tale: Artists use digital effects to give a modern-day slant to a classic fairy tale, Computer Graphics World (magazine), January 2002, Volume 25, Number 1, pages 24–27

External links[edit]

• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story on IMDb
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story at AllMovie
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story at Rotten Tomatoes

Jack and the Beanstalk is a 2009 low-budget live-action adaptation of the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk directed by Gary J. Tunnicliffe.

Plot[edit]

Jack Thatcher (Colin Ford) must perform a heroic deed or flunk out of fairy tale school. He sells a valuable possession for magic beans that grow into a giant beanstalk overnight. He climbs the enchanted beanstalk and enters a magical and dangerous world to rescue Destiny (Madison Davenport), a little girl who has been transformed into a harp by an evil giant.

This version of the tale includes references to other fairy tale characters as well as contemporary elements.

Cast[edit]

• Colin Ford as Jack
• Chloë Grace Moretz as Damsel in Distress / Jillian Squarejaw
• Gilbert Gottfried as Grayson
• James Earl Jones as The Giant (voice)
• William Brent as Prince Charming
• Emily Rose Everhard as Red Riding Hood
• Sadie Ebeyer-Deist as Sleeping Beauty
• Victoria Atilano as Ugly Step Sister
• Atalaya Atilano as Mean Step Sister
• Anthony Skillman as Hansel
• Sammi Hanratty as Gretel
• Daniel Roebuck as Mayor Lichfield
• Wallace Shawn as Broker / Booker / Lancelot Squarejaw
• Katey Sagal as Jack's Mother
• Adair Tishler as Rapunzel
• James Karen as Verri Saddius
• Madison Davenport as Destiny
• David Mattey as The Giant

• Jeff L. Deist as Dobbytok
• Gary J. Tunnicliffe as Dobbytok (voice)
• Frank Payne as Sergeant Who
• Kevin Schon as Officer What
• Hal B. Klein as Officer Where
• Chevy Chase as General Antipode
• Alan Gray as Muckity Muck
• Brian Peck as The Emperor

Production and release[edit]

The film was originally produced for theatrical release in 2009.^[1] It was shown at the Newport Beach International Film Festival on April 24, 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Home media release[edit]

The film was released on home video in the United States by Screen Media Films on May 11, 2010.

Reception[edit]

Tracy Moore of Common Sense Media called the film 'goofy fun' and gave it 3/5 stars.^[2]

In an otherwise positive review, MovieGuide wrote, 'The sets and costumes are occasionally hokey. Also, the occasional toilet humor and slapstick comedy sometimes detracts from the movie’s natural charm.' Nevertheless, MovieGuide gave the film 3/4 stars.^[3]

Sloan Freer of Radio Times called it a 'charmless take on the classic fairy tale' and later lamented that 'James Earl Jones wastes his rich tone as the voice of the underwhelming goliath.'^[4]

Jason Best of What's on TV wrote that Jack and the Beanstalk 'seeks to emulate the playful wit of the wondrous The Princess Bride but falls woefully short.'^[5] He went on to note that 'Christopher Lloyd, Wallace Shawn and Chevy Chase are also involved, so you’d expect the film to be a lot funnier than it is, but Gary J Tunnicliffe’s flat direction doesn’t give anyone a chance to shine.'^[5]

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Donna Rolfe of The Dove Foundation wrote, 'This is a charming fairy tale with encouraging values and colorful characters who will entertain the entire family.'^[6]

The Netflix company DVD.com called it a 'family-friendly comedy' and gave it 3^1/3 out of 5 stars.^[7]

References[edit]

The Real Story Of Jack And The Beanstalk

1. ^'Jack and the beanstalk: an adventure of gigantic proportions'. 28 March 2018 – via Open WorldCat.
2. ^'Jack and the Beanstalk - Movie Review'.
3. ^'JACK AND THE BEANSTALK - Movieguide - Movie Reviews for Christians'. 20 September 2016.
4. ^'Jack and the Beanstalk – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online'. Radio Times.
5. ^ ^ab'Film review - Jack and the Beanstalk - A less-than-enchanting fairy-tale flop - Movie Talk - What's on TV'. 24 February 2012.
6. ^'Jack and the Beanstalk - Dove Family Friendly Movie Reviews'.
7. ^'Rent Jack and the Beanstalk (2009) on DVD and Blu-ray - DVD Netflix'. dvd.netflix.com.

External links[edit]

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• Jack and the Beanstalk on IMDb

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