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In a better world, Beautiful Creatures may have been the next Twilight.
Ok, so it’s not about teenage girl who falls long and hard for a vampire. It’s about a teenage boy who falls long and hard for a witch.
A boy named Ethan Wate has a strange recurring dream that haunts his sleep, but he prefers anything to his waking life, stuck in a small, conservative Southern town with his with his withdrawn father. To me, that kind of sounds a lot like To Kill a Mocking Bird.
An unwilling new arrival in the small South Carolina town of Gatlin, Lena is one surly girlie. To be near her when she's really in a bad mood can be downright dangerous.
Thunder and lightning can be summoned in an instant. Windows can shatter. Time, itself, can be turned inside out.
It takes some explaining to get to the bottom of what is going on. All you really need to know is Lena is host to a set of supernatural powers she is yet to properly harness.
However, once she turns 16 - only a matter of months away as the film begins - Lena will become a fully-fledged "Caster" (a witch-like being with spells that can control every situation).
While most Casters live in the open in the mortal world, they are forbidden from forming romantic attachments to mere humans.
Which is where Ethan comes in. An off-the-wall thinker and in-over-his head romantic, this good ol' Southern boy is not about to let some ancient paranormal rules dictate who he should be dating. Particularly after working so diligently to break through the many force fields (metaphorical and literal) to get to know the real Lena.
The boy-meets-girl-means-trouble stuff in Beautiful Creatures is handled very craftily by writer-director Richard LaGravenese. Yes, it is a little bit corny, but it is also fun thanks to a wily, sarcastic undercurrent of humour that exerts a powerful pull on the screenplay.
When the overall vibe of Beautiful Creatures suddenly switches from compelling to camp - which it does a few times - the film will still
Ok, so it’s not about teenage girl who falls long and hard for a vampire. It’s about a teenage boy who falls long and hard for a witch.
A boy named Ethan Wate has a strange recurring dream that haunts his sleep, but he prefers anything to his waking life, stuck in a small, conservative Southern town with his with his withdrawn father. To me, that kind of sounds a lot like To Kill a Mocking Bird.
An unwilling new arrival in the small South Carolina town of Gatlin, Lena is one surly girlie. To be near her when she's really in a bad mood can be downright dangerous.
Thunder and lightning can be summoned in an instant. Windows can shatter. Time, itself, can be turned inside out.
It takes some explaining to get to the bottom of what is going on. All you really need to know is Lena is host to a set of supernatural powers she is yet to properly harness.
However, once she turns 16 - only a matter of months away as the film begins - Lena will become a fully-fledged "Caster" (a witch-like being with spells that can control every situation).
While most Casters live in the open in the mortal world, they are forbidden from forming romantic attachments to mere humans.
Which is where Ethan comes in. An off-the-wall thinker and in-over-his head romantic, this good ol' Southern boy is not about to let some ancient paranormal rules dictate who he should be dating. Particularly after working so diligently to break through the many force fields (metaphorical and literal) to get to know the real Lena.
The boy-meets-girl-means-trouble stuff in Beautiful Creatures is handled very craftily by writer-director Richard LaGravenese. Yes, it is a little bit corny, but it is also fun thanks to a wily, sarcastic undercurrent of humour that exerts a powerful pull on the screenplay.
When the overall vibe of Beautiful Creatures suddenly switches from compelling to camp - which it does a few times - the film will still