Modern Day Witch Movie Analysis

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Real and Fake Witches: How Witches Portrayed in Media and Real Life Movies, shows about witches and witchcraft were not a foreign subject for everyone, there are endless titles of stories that are based of the little ancient idea of witchcraft. What most people don’t know of is the fact that there is a portion of the population of this planet still believes in witches and and torture the so-called witch sometimes to death. The violence and cruelty of the torture is like something that came out of a very bloody horror movie scene, which is a pretty contrast between the movies about witches that mostly shows how the amazing lives of being a witch and less torturing witches. Although witches is very familiar to children to adult stories, there …show more content…

For instance, Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters- a twist on a German fairy tale where two siblings were abandoned in the forest by their stepmother and found a house made out of cake. There they would be stuffed with food by a witch and would eat them; in the end of the story, they would escape from the cake-house and the witch. In the movie, the witches are frightening which is a trick that they use to make the audience feel terrified and lead them to the atmosphere that they wanted the viewers to be in. A movie that uses good-looking witches is a drama, fantasy and romance of Beautiful Creatures based on a book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The story tells about the troubles of blooming relationship between a human boy and a witch. These kinds of stories use the human-looking witches because they want the audience to easily accept with the foreign idea of a witch and like the character by having them similar characteristics as a human. Witches used to be the the reason for every tragedy they have been through and someone else’s luck on success that can be explained by science and research that this century have the answers for. Now regardless their access on good education, there are people who still believes on witchcrafts and some were accused and tortured because of the accusation. This mostly happens in developing countries and areas and less likely to happen in more developing countries like United States, United Kingdom, and many

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