Hansel and Gretel witch hunt now

Jeremy Renner has been a frenetic year after acting in several franchises and drive sometimes its revitalization, as has happened in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), and The Bourne Legacy. He has also participated in The Avengers (The Avengers), and has signed up to participate in the second part. In short, Jeremy Renner is building a filmography founded in action movies where the hero plays faultless masculinity (albeit with a greater sensitivity than classical man). Not surprisingly, the interpretation is planning Steve McQueen in a biopic about her figure. And now, will be devoted to hunting witches in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

In fact, this work would be confined to oblivion if not for its incorporation as lead actor, playing Hansel. Filmed last year, was relegated to the undercard of 2012 because nobody trusted her. And now, with the rise to fame of this actor for this 2012, Paramount Pictures producer decided to give it a boost, hence runs released its latest trailer, showing a mixture of medieval and contemporary weapons environments, configuring one aesthetic anachronism:

And is that doubts about its operation are understandable as part of a totally bizarre argument: Hansel and Gretel, 15 years after killing the witch who was performing an act of cannibalism with their bodies, engage in any witch killing gets in his way. In Augsburg is taking a massive disappearance of children abducted by witches in the forest, and the suspects are being tried without proof: well, the mayor will hire Hansel and Gretel to deliver them from the threat.

It is directed by Norwegian Tommy Wirkola, specializes in gore and horror comedies as seen in Nazi Zombies (2009), and will be released in 3-D. The responsible will play Gretel Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace).

The plot reveals a strong inconsistency with respect to the original story of Hansel and Gretel. The film aims to be a continuation of the story, but the problem is that the figure of the witch has no objective existence in the original story by the Brothers Grimm: is actually a projection made ​​by children in dangerous space and unfathomable forest.

Remember the story: siblings Hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their parents in the forest it impossible to feed them, so that the story becomes a story about the passage to adulthood, while the forest is a metaphor for adolescence , that stage fraught with difficulties and doubts. Follow the archetypal narrative of most of these stories, it must also Riding Hood through the forest to get to her grandmother's house, to adulthood: again, adolescence understood as a way of testing.

Anyway, Hansel and Gretel encounter the witch's house made of food, precisely the element that was missing at home. And there lives a witch who intends to eat them, a mother's unconscious instinct lacking food in the Middle Ages. So, the witch is actually the embodiment of hatred toward the mother, whose figure becomes an obstacle to the release of adolescence, and his death is a metaphor for the detachment of the child's meaning system of parents. Witch only exists in the minds of children, and evil is a transformation of the figure of the mother failed in their duties. It is no coincidence that, on returning home, the mother also died: children have abolished the maternal influence on them.

Thus, only a witch in the forest witch chocolate house, the witch of her imagination. So Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, if you wanted to build in a continuation of the story, is completely removed from the universe of the story, as it takes the witches as a real element, and populates the woods with this archetype. This is a postmodern revision and unfaithful to the work. But its purpose is subversion, gore, melt the terror with humor, so he has no intention of respecting the original story: it's crazy pictures made. Therefore, it can be refreshing to see a transformation of mythical figures of children in a more aggressive personality and disenchanted. In January 2013 opens in March in the U.S. and in Spain.

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