Since we love Halloween motion pictures a lot, we’re doing one other consolation rewatch. This week it’s Sensible Magic, directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Plus, we’re doing our e book report on Sensible Magic by Alice Hoffman.
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Present Notes:
Decor inspiration
Aunt’s home – The proper home as a result of:
- It’s by the ocean
- Has a white picket fence
- Black fencing on roof
- Large lovely cozy kitchen with an island that results in a greenroom
- Rose bushes outdoors
- Cozy unfinished attic with beds
Different cozy inspiration (trend, meals, drink or something?)-
Chocolate Tipsy Cake
Midnight Margaritas
Aunts’ Outfits
Charge the Film from 0-5 Whip Cream Cans
Elsie – 5
Emma – 5 or 6
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Episode 205 Transcript:
Emma: You’re listening to the Lovely Mess Podcast, your cozy consolation pay attention. Since we love Halloween motion pictures a lot, we’re doing one other consolation rewatch. And this week, it’s Sensible Magic, directed by Griffin Dunn and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Plus, we’re doing our e book report on Sensible Magic by Alice Hoffman. A complete Sensible magic present!
Elsie: I’m so enthusiastic about this. Yeah, I simply completed my Sensible Magic, all of the books, 4 in a row. So I really feel like I’m in my Sensible Magic period proper now. And it’s coming at an excellent time.
Emma: Yeah, I’ve solely learn the Sensible Magic first one. It’s within the e book membership. However yeah, it has two sequels.
Elsie: It has two prequels and a sequel.
Emma: Two prequels and a sequel. That’s loopy.
Elsie: So earlier than we bounce in, I assumed you may need to inform me about your first flight abroad with a toddler since that’s an expertise that you just’ve simply conquered.
Emma: Sure, it was on my Halloween bucket checklist, or perhaps it was an autumn bucket checklist. I assume not Halloween. It’s autumn bucket checklist was we have been going to Costa Rica as a household, and it’s the primary time Oscar used his passport. The primary time he went on a flight, his little child image, and the primary time he went to the seaside. So inform you concerning the flight. So to Costa Rica from the place we stay is 2 flights, and the primary one’s like an hour and a half, after which the second’s like two and a half hours. And we had a reasonably quick layover, type of the right quantity the place, like, sweating a tiny bit to catch the aircraft, you realize, you’re like, we’ve no time to get a snack or go to the toilet. But additionally, that type of labored, as a result of I really feel like loads of time in an airport with a child is type of robust, as a result of they only need to contact all the things and purchase all the things in all of the retailers, as a result of I did that on the way in which dwelling. Anyway, his first flight was actually cute. I like, filmed his response because the aircraft was taking off. He was like, sitting in my lap. He had his personal seat. He’s like, at an age the place it’s like, he does sit in my lap rather a lot, however we did purchase his personal seat. Trigger he’s like, at an age the place you possibly can do a lap child. Anyway, he was sitting in my lap by the window and he was watching the aircraft take off. And I really feel like he simply had his typical Oscar response, which is simply type of frowning, which I believe is simply him pondering and like actually observing. He’s a really observing child and typically you assume he doesn’t actually know what’s happening after which he’ll repeat one thing later the place you’re like, Oh wow, you actually like have been tuned in on that. I didn’t notice it.
Elsie: That’s a really cute, like critical face, like a concentrating face. It’s type of his default setting.
Emma: Yeah, it’s his default setting. So, he did that, and it was actually cute, and he was simply actually nice for the flights. I truly had, on the way in which there, we had two, like, random strangers inform us how nice he was on the flight, and considered one of them was like, you guys are nice mother and father, he was so nice, or, you realize, simply, simply being good. And on the way in which dwelling, I had a type of too, the place they have been like, he did so good, he didn’t actually fuss in any respect. And, in fact, it’s actually not a metric of goodness. I believe when you do fuss on a flight if you’re a child, that’s additionally regular and positive. However I believe that they have been simply making an attempt to be encouraging, which I believe was good. And, you realize, I used to be anxious about him having a meltdown, and he didn’t. And likewise, if he had, that will have been okay too, however it wouldn’t have been enjoyable for me. However yeah, he was actually good. He did get to look at extra Paw Patrol than we usually let him watch, however that’s okay. It was a journey day, however he additionally had these reusable stickers that have been like pumpkins and bats and he put them all around the seat, however they have been just like the reusable sorts of, they peel off very easy. So there’s no like ruining the seat or something. And he would stick them on me. I had my emergency field of band-aids, as you advised me, however we didn’t find yourself needing them. However I had them stuffed means down in his backpack and I used to be like, if issues hit the wall, get these band-aids out. However issues went fairly nicely. So it was actually cute to look at him simply observe all the things. And he actually was a delight and straightforward and I acquired actually fortunate.
Elsie: Oh, that’s good. That’s the universe being like, e book extra journey. That’s nice.
Emma: After I acquired dwelling, I advised Elsie, I used to be like, I really feel like I might need used up loads of karma, so I have to be trying round for alternatives to love to do good issues as a result of I really feel just like the universe was like, No delays, no issues in any respect. Your baggage didn’t get, you realize, like all of the little issues that occur if you journey, like nothing dangerous occurred. All the things was no diarrhea for him or him. And it was simply nice. So I used to be like, okay, I really feel like I used up some karma. I have to be searching for alternatives. That’s what that is. So yeah, it was an excellent time although. It was very particular and candy. And naturally, as all mother and father know, there are arduous moments touring with a child, a toddler. And there was all that too, however truthfully, all of that’s already fading from my reminiscence, and I’m identical to, oh, he was so cute on the aircraft. Oh, he was so cute on the seaside. Like, you understand how you do, you identical to, flip the entire thing into rose-colored reminiscences, which I believe is an effective option to like, undergo life. I’m like, I’m not going to recollect any of the robust components. Overlook that half.
Elsie: I believe it’s a mandatory a part of like, how our parenting brains work.
Emma: I believe so too. It’s a really survival. You realize, in any other case, I don’t know if folks would have second or third children, you realize, since you’d be like, no, no can do. However anyway, in order that was nice.
Elsie: Yay. Effectively, I’m pleased for you. That’s great. So we’re speaking about sensible magic, the film on this episode, after which we will even speak concerning the books and even the e book collection, it’s its personal little universe, and I’m so pleased to be part of it. So, for these of you who haven’t seen Sensible Magic, it’s a film from 1998. We undoubtedly advocate it, it’s an incredible film to look at throughout the spooky season. So that is the premise. Two witch sisters raised by their eccentric aunts in a small city face closed-minded prejudice and a curse that threatens to stop them from ever discovering lasting love. It’s so good. It’s undoubtedly my favourite witch story that I’ve learn, and the film is so cozy. So we’ll speak rather a lot about the home. Okay, so reminiscences from if you first watched the film. My first time to look at it was truly fairly not too long ago, it was a time once I lived in Nashville and Emma came visiting. And I do not forget that it wasn’t Halloween in any respect. It was like a special time of yr, however you have been like, you haven’t seen sensible magic. Let’s watch it proper now.
Emma: Yeah, I used to be so shocked you hadn’t seen it. And so I used to be excited to indicate you one thing. Trigger I really feel such as you’ve at all times like seen all the things, you realize? So I used to be excited.
Elsie: So it was very not too long ago for me. After which I’ve undoubtedly watched it yearly because it’s considered one of my kitchen motion pictures. Cozy vibes, and flicks, undoubtedly match into that. Do you bear in mind your first time to look at it?
Emma: I don’t. It was in all probability highschool or faculty. I’m an enormous Sandra Bullock fan. Like, I believe she’s hilarious and I additionally love romantic comedies and he or she’s in loads of romantic comedies. Her and Jennifer Aniston to me are type of like comparable vibes as actresses the place they’re actually humorous and actually lovely and sometimes they’ve like love curiosity tales. So anyway, I really feel like I’ve seen most of her motion pictures. Like if I’m simply on my own or looking for a film and I don’t need to prefer it. Scroll by way of all the things or I simply need one thing that’s like straightforward and light-weight. I don’t need to watch the newest artwork factor. You realize, then I’m like, what Sandra Bullock film have I not seen? So at this level, I really feel like I’ve seen all of them, however that’s in all probability how I found it was identical to, Oh, a Sandra Bullock film. Oh, it’s witches. Fascinating.
Elsie: Within the period of Blockbuster movies, Emma was strolling by way of. Scanning for Sandra Bullock’s face.
Emma: Yeah, I’m like, excuse me, child behind the counter, the place’s your Sandra Bullock motion pictures?
Elsie: And this, I’ve seen the film cowl, like the image, is sort of a actually cute portrait of Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman with like a candle or one thing?
Emma: Yeah, I really feel prefer it’s making an attempt, it nearly makes it look like it’s going to be scary, however it’s truly not a scary film actually in any respect, I wouldn’t say.
Elsie: The title Sensible Magic makes, you realize, it’s going to be like just a little bit candy. Like, I don’t know. It doesn’t look like a spooky.
Emma: And there was this entire period the place issues have been popping out with witches. Like, I really feel just like the craft was an enormous one, which is extra of like a highschool drama. And this one’s extra like adults. It’s not likely about highschool or something. They’re children within the film after which they develop up, however principally I believe it takes place of their twenties or thirties. So anyway, yeah, of all of the like, which motion pictures of that point of the nineties, this was simply my favourite and it’s very excessive on the checklist so far as like motion pictures that I’ve rewatched many occasions. This one’s in all probability up there, like proper below the Harry Potter. Which can be about magic now that I’m fascinated by it. Perhaps I identical to magic. I don’t know.
Elsie: For positive. Okay, so the home on this film is without doubt one of the final film homes of all time. I do know that we’ve talked about it on the podcast in all probability greater than 100 occasions in our 200 episodes or no matter. However yeah, I used to be studying just a little bit about this morning and So this typically occurs, and it’s arduous to just accept, however this is without doubt one of the heartbreakers, identical to the home from the vacation, the cottage, the place it isn’t and was by no means an actual home. It was a prop. It was a, like, shell of a home the place they constructed the outside, they filmed the film after which they instantly tore it down within the nineties. So, I’ve seen folks submit on-line the ground plan of the home and kind of attempt to wish to make it, like type it into an actual, I believe it might be the final word dollhouse when you’re if anybody’s a dollhouse particular person they usually need to do a tiny recreation.
Emma: Oh, it might be a ravishing dollhouse. It may have just a little rosebush on the surface.
Elsie: However yeah, it was just a little heartbreaking to me. I believe that the design of it although, was nonetheless an actual home that was designed, I imply, though it’s for a film, it was actually constructed as, we will have a look at footage, we will admire it. So they are saying that it was designed as like a cross between a Victorian dwelling, clearly, after which additionally a lighthouse as a result of it’s a coastal home. It’s proper on the water and it does have very distinctive, type of lighthouse developing like a unicorn horn, it has unicorn horn. Yeah, so I really like that about it. I believe it’s undoubtedly a stunning dwelling. If any of our listeners, is I’m a billionaire and also you’re trying to recreate one thing. I believe that this is able to be the one to recreate. I’d undoubtedly come and spend the weekend with you, have some midnight margaritas, and somebody please do it. Can we not all create a GoFundMe and make this into an Airbnb or one thing?
Emma: I do know. Yeah, I believe what makes it like partially so romantic is it’s proper by the water. So I believe any home that, like, you’ll be able to see water, whether or not it’s an enormous lake or the ocean, that to me simply feels so serene, like, so peaceable and calm. It’s very romantic to me. Perhaps that’s as a result of I’m from Missouri and we’re landlocked. We do have massive lakes, however I don’t stay on the lake. I really like It. At one level the children like steal this syrup that’s been type of like poisoned they usually run down simply not very removed from the home and there’s like rocky, rocky, it’s not likely like a seaside like sand however like rocks the place the waves hit up on it they usually pour the syrup into the ocean and it’s identical to proper there.
Elsie: Yeah, it’s speculated to be New England.
Emma: You could possibly go drink your espresso on the market within the morning, you realize, that’s the dream, however yeah, the home appears to be like very type of like a lighthouse, however undoubtedly identical to a home. I believe a part of the story within the film and I believe it’s additionally within the e book is that one of many elders which’s is from generations in the past was banished and so she was on this type of small island space by herself. And so this was like the place she settled and the home over time acquired constructed. So it’s in this type of particular spot as a result of she acquired banished away from all people else as a result of she was a witch, however yeah, I believe perhaps my favourite half is the kitchen which appears to type of spill out into this nearly like greenhouse room of all these vegetation. Which is once more so romantic in that you just assume like, oh you possibly can simply stroll into that little Sunroom And choose your herbs after which stroll again into the kitchen and end making your spaghetti sauce with recent basil or no matter, you realize, prefer it simply appears so particular and enjoyable and like close to civilization but in addition tucked away. However yeah, the kitchen has this actually fascinating hood. I don’t know the best way to describe it. It’s like pretty massive over the, like, range vary. And there are parts to the kitchen that really feel very witchy, like at one level they’re stirring this big pot as a result of they’re making some type of spell as a result of they’re making an attempt to banish this dangerous spirit. And there’s simply loads of issues that really feel like, not like a industrial kitchen, however like an old-timey kitchen the place perhaps they used to entertain or they didn’t have the expertise that we’ve now. You realize, prefer it looks like a really mixture of excessive, and low, like outdated homes have.
Elsie: I believe it feels very very similar to a Nineties Martha Stewart slash Ingar kitchen. Prefer it’s useful, however it’s additionally skilled.
Emma: Nevertheless it nonetheless feels cozy and like in a house, not like a restaurant. ’trigger there’s not like a ton of chrome steel all over the place or something like that. It’s not the Jurassic Park kitchen.
Elsie: No, it’s a ravishing, cozy kitchen with an island, I believe has loads of cabinetry and it has type of this cool, I don’t know what you name it, like an arched opening from the eating room to the kitchen that’s type of identical to a, I don’t know, watch if you’re watching the film, it’s an ornamental function that’s type of like built-in with the cabinetry. That’s actually fairly, and it’s very distinctive. I believe it might be an incredible reproduction kitchen. Someplace on the earth, there’s an individual whose rework would match this completely.
Emma: Yeah, after which different components of the home, different than simply the gorgeous kitchen, they’ve this like, attic room that’s the place I believe each ladies keep every time like, Jillian comes again to city. And it simply has bedrooms in there, like beds in there. Nevertheless it appears to be like like, type of like an open attic. So it nearly feels in a means like unfinished, however it additionally feels very cozy in the way in which of like there are rugs and there’s type of like I believe some like type of these wall tapestries are type of like hung. So it’s a really like, once more, I really feel like the home feels very lived in. These set designers did such an incredible job. It felt like an actual place, however it additionally didn’t really feel too polished. It didn’t really feel like, oh yeah, it is a bed room and it’s an ideal catalog bed room. It’s like, it doesn’t really feel like that in any respect.
Elsie: It feels very lived in and like an actual home. I agree. Okay, a few of my favourite moments of the home. I imply, I really like the backyard. I really like that it has a picket fence proper by the ocean. Trigger that’s simply very distinctive, and it matches this home completely. Okay, so an enormous factor from the books is there’s a portrait of Maria Owens on the stairway and when you find yourself watching the film, you’ll see there’s like a ton of witch portraits on the stairways, which is tremendous cool. I really like outdated portraits and I believe it’s simply such a cool assortment. Each outdated dwelling ought to have some Victorian portraits.
Emma: I imply, one can dream. Sure, completely. Yeah. Bonus factors if it’s family. However, you realize, I’ll take something.
Elsie: And I clearly just like the greenhouse is all the things. It’s like probably the most attractive Harry Potter little greenhouse.
Emma: Greenhouses are at all times, I believe, very photogenic trying as a result of they normally have a lot glass and a lot gentle. So I really feel like they’re at all times an incredible place for like a setting in a film or in a photograph as a result of they only are actually fairly. One of many type of characters on this film is a person who’s been half killed, however then they type of half convey him again to life. It’s magic gone awry, however he kind of like turns into a spirit. He type of embodies loads of totally different parts, together with this kind of rosebush that retains rising up they usually like minimize it again and minimize it again, however it’s nonetheless rising up. And I don’t know this film to me just like the Rose Bush is nearly like a personality within the film the place it’s like menacing, but in addition type of lovely, which I believe was type of what that man was like when he was alive as a result of she was in love with him, however he was an ass and beat her. Yeah, his boots type of come up out of the bottom after they bury him.
Elsie: He received’t keep lifeless.
Emma: Ugh. Simply received’t depart you alone.
Elsie: Eager to hang-out you. My favourite factor from the e book that I need to make this for the weblog is that it’s like in all of the books, rather a lot, I don’t know if it’s within the film, is the chocolate tipsy cake. Have you ever heard of that?
Emma: Yeah. I Googled it instantly after trigger I used to be like, and it’s actually not like a well-known recipe.
Elsie: I believe it’s a film recipe as a result of rum cake is a well-known recipe. That is particularly a chocolate cake with a ton of rum in it. So it’s its personal class of cake I believe and I used to be pondering I need to make one perhaps for Thanksgiving or for Christmas or like make it a household custom in our household as a result of I believe it’s so cute.
Emma: Perhaps we should always have a cocktail party that’s like all film meals and drinks. You realize what I imply? That may be enjoyable, proper? Come on. And we may have like, you realize, some pictures up or posters up of the totally different motion pictures or I don’t know. However this is able to clearly be the dessert.
Elsie: An concept is born. That may be a nice get together concept. I prefer it.
Emma: A film banquet.
Elsie: After which additionally within the film she has a store, proper? So it’s a comfortable little store. And it type of jogs my memory of David Rose’s, Schitt’s Creek store, you realize?
Emma: It does. Proper? I really feel like he noticed the film, his character, and was like, that’s what this city wants.
Elsie: I imply I may watch this film each autumn till I die, and I in all probability will.
Emma: The city is basically cute, too. And I don’t know if it’s an actual city, I assume it in all probability is. They in all probability didn’t construct the entire city. Nevertheless it appears to be like very small city, however actually cute. And it feels very coastal, and really, like, northeast, though I’m not an knowledgeable on the northeast. Oh, and in addition, we didn’t point out this about the home, on the highest of their roof they’ve this like type of black fencing, it’s like type of spiky trying, and on the finish of the film they’re all dressed as witches, like with the witch hats, basic witch trying, they usually all bounce off and fly. However they type of simply float down, however it’s undoubtedly like they’re flying as a result of they’re actually floating off of a roof. And it’s simply actually cute as a result of the fencing there may be like very menacing trying, however it’s this type of cute second the place the city has accepted them as witches within the film. That’s in all probability why witch tales are so good is simply because it’s like, what the best option to spotlight prejudice, which is like, you realize, current in type of like all of our lives on a regular basis. Nevertheless it’s like however in a extra enjoyable means.
Elsie: Yeah, I believe loads of occasions, which is the lore of it or no matter, you realize, the fantasy of it’s used to focus on the facility of like feminine friendships and counting on people who find themselves not your romantic companion, however they’re your companion in different methods. The sisters and loads of fantasy books, like not simply this one, however many different, you realize, fables about them is that they’ll’t fall in love, their husbands at all times die. Not each single e book has this, however there are rather a lot the place that’s kind of a factor. So it makes it in order that the witches should depend on one another. That at all times must be their household as a result of they’re not likely in a position to hold romantic companions. Not that each witch is straight, however in loads of books that I’ve learn, that’s been the lore up to now. And yeah, I believe that’s type of an fascinating system to make use of, and I believe it makes you look at love and household otherwise, which I like. I believe it’s an excellent train.
Emma: So another cozy inspiration? I stated the chocolate tipsy cake and midnight margaritas are for positive the greenhouse. We had completed the ant’s outfits, within the film are fairly epic. It’s all the things you need in an ant.
Elsie: It truly is. I’m like, at what age ought to we begin dressing like this? Fairly quickly, proper? Like 50? I don’t know.
Emma: I believe it simply appears to be like cozy too. It’s like a special model of yoga pants. It’s acquired a greater model. A number of scarves. A number of massive solar hats, which I’m like, yeah, you don’t need the solar if you’re outdoors within the backyard all day.
Elsie: It’s great. I really like how the tip of the e book, Sensible Magic, is the very same monologue that the film opens with, the place she says the factor about like, rising rosemary and throwing salt. It’s so cute. It’s lovable.
Emma: Yeah, as a result of I really feel like too, that is within the e book as nicely, however they’re type of making an attempt to flee their id which is like, I believe it type of haunts them as Youngsters as a result of their city doesn’t settle for them. They get picked on as a result of they’re which is or as a result of they’re totally different within the e book. I believe it’s much less express that they’re what are than within the film. After which by the tip, it’s like they’ve discovered that folks have accepted them. They’ve come collectively and completed magic with them to banish that abusive boyfriend. And I believe they’ve additionally come to just accept themselves and type of rejoice this a part of themselves that they used to detest, which I additionally assume, once more is a superb system for us to type of study accepting the issues about us that scare us, that make us totally different which may scare different folks. And it truly could be, these could be our strengths. These could be like among the most lovely components of ourselves, you realize, however it takes typically time and life and circumstances to assist us see that. Yeah, and that’s what occurs on this story.
Elsie: Being regular is boring, mom fucker.
Emma: Regular sucks. No, when you’re regular, that’s cool, however none of us actually are.
Elsie: Okay, so let’s do some trivia. Sensible magic trivia. So the primary one is all the home was a specifically constructed architectural shell that was torn down after filming. It was constructed on rented land and even the blossoms and the bushes are faux product of silk. I don’t need to know, erasing that reality from my thoughts, by no means pondering of it once more. It’s an actual home in my thoughts.
Emma: It does communicate once more to the set designer’s expertise although, since you simply need to stay on this home. You need to go to this place and it feels actual, like I don’t even bear in mind pondering like, oh that appears faux. That appears like a silk flower I actually don’t bear in mind I’ve seen this film rather a lot. So I’m like these set designers and just like the cinematographers and whoever else, you realize introduced this to life did an incredible job. So I’m such as you completely fooled me. I’m like on the earth and that is actual to me.
Elsie: Oh, wait, I ought to in all probability say this. That is that type of trivia, however the manufacturing designer’s title is Robin Standifer, and I learn this lovely little article from when the film first got here out, I believe, the place Alice Hoffman says that when she visited the units, she felt just like the set designer was a novelist simply as a lot as she was due to how a lot they introduced it to life. It was very lovely.
Emma: She may see she was storytelling her model of artwork. Yeah. That’s lovely. That’s a ravishing factor to say about another person’s work. I additionally love the title Robin. I believe it’s an incredible title. For a boy or a lady. However, yeah. Okay, subsequent trivia. Aunt Frances and Aunt Jett continuously put on clothes and types that have been fashionable within the early twentieth century, suggesting that they have been actually a lot older than they seem. The solid stated they felt supernatural parts of the home began to have an effect on them. Each the solid and crew claimed they heard supernatural noises whereas filming the coven scene on the finish of the movie. I really feel like this type of factor comes up rather a lot in motion pictures which are about witches or the supernatural or horror motion pictures. I really feel like there’s at all times one thing that occurs on the set that’s like, nicely, that was bizarre. You realize?
Elsie: I find it irresistible. I imply, it does sound like they have been filming at the least the outside of the house in a really distant place. So I imply I may see it. Okay, so an enormous half from the books is just like the black cleaning soap like they’re at all times making this black cleaning soap and utilizing it that like retains you trying younger. I would like it to be actual so dangerous. I’m so mad. If anybody is aware of the place you should buy some actual witch black cleaning soap, ship it to me for my Christmas reward. That’s the one factor I would like.
Emma: I imply, there may be black cleaning soap, however does it have magic? I don’t know.
Elsie: I don’t need charcoal, I would like magic. Like, there’s a distinction, proper? Anyway, I believe it’s actually cute, like, all of the stuff, however yeah, they’re carrying outdated clothes as a result of they’re.
From that point or perhaps even like issues may very well be handed down. You understand how households like simply hold issues just like the portraits in the home.
That’s true, too. I imply for the reason that home has been handed down by way of many generations then that additionally is sensible. That, you realize, they type of have a revolving wardrobe in there.
Emma: You could have our grandmother’s like a swimsuit from her honeymoon. There are issues that may final a very long time, however I do really feel like the garments they’re carrying them like rather a lot, you realize, like a marriage costume I really feel like is simpler to cross down as a result of it doesn’t get worn always.
Elsie: For positive. Okay. After the film got here out, manufacturing acquired a name from Barbra Streisand. Oh, I really like Barbara, okay, who wished to purchase the home, don’t all of us? As a result of the home was constructed on parkland and had Native American heritage. No digging was allowed, which was the true motive that the house was solely a shelf. This was additionally the explanation that the home, which was solely a set, was torn down as quickly as they completed filming. So initially, it’s a tragedy. However second of all, Barbara, you’ve the money. Construct it. Should you construct it, they are going to come. Like, I would like it to be actual so dangerous. I’ll beg.
Emma: I assumed too, like, once I first learn this, that she was calling to be like, Why wasn’t I on this film?
Elsie: Actually, good query additionally.
Emma: May there be a 3rd aunt? I don’t understand how outdated she would have been when this got here out. Perhaps she’d be simply one of many sisters. I don’t know.
Elsie: The aunts do have a brother. Okay, I desperately need them to make a sequel of Sensible Magic. One of many little women Emma identified was Evan Rachel Wooden or Evan Rachel Wooden.
Emma: She was then and he or she is now.
Elsie: And yeah, there’s a entire nother e book. There’s a lot extra story for all of those characters. It could be wonderful if they’d make one other one quickly, ahead of later. Put that on my want checklist, too, with loads of stuff.
Emma: Pricey universe, please, please, please. Yeah, I agree. For the ultimate scene with all of the townspeople on the Owens dwelling, all the inhabitants of the city the place filming came about was invited to indicate up in costume and seem as townsfolk.
Elsie: I really like that.
Emma: Yeah, I find it irresistible a lot.
Elsie: That’s the dream.
Emma: Yeah, plus, like, are you able to think about getting some name that’s like, Hey, we’re filming a film round right here with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. If you wish to present up dressed for Halloween, come on down. I’d be like, sure, what time can we have to be there?
Elsie: Yeah. Emma has been additional earlier than in actual motion pictures and TV exhibits and stuff. I’ve by no means completed it and I’ve a chip on my shoulder about it and I need to do it so dangerous. Like so dangerous. Particularly Hocus Pocus 3.
Emma: Oh yeah. I really feel like although, loads of occasions if you’re doing it if you stay there, you don’t get to be in motion pictures that you just’re essentially enthusiastic about. It’s simply random, so it’s such as you may get to be in one thing that you just’re excited to look at time and again, however you may simply be in, who is aware of? You realize? Anyway, that will’ve been enjoyable, and that’s actually cute.
Elsie: Yeah, I do know. It’s not the purpose of being an additional.
Emma: Effectively, hopefully, they paid them, however I imply, no matter. I don’t actually know what occurred with that.
Elsie: Okay. The black canine that adopted Sally’s husband, Michael, to the day of his dying, was no accident, in accordance with a number of cultural traditions, primarily these of the British Isles and Latin America, an indication of impending dying can take the type of black dots. In addition they have, within the books, a dying watch beetle.
Emma: That’s within the motion pictures, for positive.
Elsie: It’s superior. It’s like at all times coming round, like one week earlier than you die, making a bunch of noise.
Emma: Which in a means, there is part of me that’s like, You realize, I wouldn’t thoughts getting a heads up the week that I used to be gonna die. I additionally type of wouldn’t thoughts simply realizing typically.
Elsie: That’s true.
Emma: As a result of then I really feel like you possibly can plan so nicely.
Elsie: It doesn’t inform you who it’s for within the dwelling although, which is type of anxious.
Emma: Yeah, since you’d be like, is it my child?
Elsie: As a result of it’s not at all times apparent.
Emma: Yeah, if somebody was sick, you’ll in all probability assume, oh, okay, it’s in all probability them. But when like nobody’s sick, you’d be like, oh no, somebody’s about to die. I don’t know who it’s.
Elsie: I’m glad they’re not actual.
Emma: Oh, I had a factor for this. So we’re ranking the film, and I used to be like, let’s charge it from zero to 5 whipped cream cans.
Elsie: What’s, wait, what’s that from?
Emma: Effectively, within the film, they, after they’re making an attempt to convey the man again to life as a result of they’ve by chance killed him, they should make, draw a star on his chest. That’s a part of the spell. They usually’re like, oh, what can we use? What can we use? They usually’re identical to trying round within the kitchen they usually simply pull out a whipped cream can. Spray this with the star on it. After which she, like, takes a chunk of it as a result of she’s simply hungry.
Elsie: Oh my gosh.
Emma: It’s a humorous scene. I really feel like there’s loads of memes on the market now that’s like, you realize, everybody talks about lady dinner, which simply means, like, a bunch of snacks, I assume. And it’s like, right here’s a lady dinner, and it simply exhibits a photograph of them with the whipped cream they usually’re doing their spell, you realize? Anyway.
Elsie: That’s cute. Okay. 5 for positive.
Emma: Yeah. 5 or 6. Love this film a lot. Okay, nicely, let’s speak concerning the e book Sensible Magic. We’ve talked about it just a little bit all through this episode, however now we are going to dive just a little deeper into simply the e book itself. And you may speak about the entire collection when you like, as a result of I do know you simply learn all of them and it in all probability is tough to maintain them separate when you’ve seen the entire, you realize, story unfold.
Elsie: Yeah. Okay. Let me clarify what all of them are and what the premises are. One of many important questions that I’ve heard folks ask is like, what order is it finest to learn them in? So now that I’m an skilled skilled, I’ll inform you. I truthfully assume they are often learn in any order. I don’t assume it issues. It’s simply not that kind of factor. There aren’t any spoilers. And the order I learn them in was from prequel one, prequel two, Sensible Magic, after which the sequel, which ought to be the right order, however I type of, in the long run, I used to be like, it wouldn’t, it wouldn’t have mattered in any respect. Anyway, okay, so the prequel one is named Magic Lesson, and it’s the story of Maria Owen, so the like, unique witch who makes the curse that nobody within the Owens household could be in love, or her lover is doomed.
Emma: She’s the one who nearly will get hanged, however then the rope breaks, they usually simply banish her.
Elsie: Sure. So that’s her story, after which prequel two, It’s referred to as The Guidelines of Magic, and it’s just about the aunt’s origin story, they usually have a brother, a magical brother. It’s like, very cute homosexual brother, very lovable character, and, yeah, it’s actually good, I’d say it was considered one of my high, after which Sensible Magic, everyone knows, is the primary e book, what the film is known as after. After which the sequel is named The E-book of Magic. And most of the people in my DMS stated that that’s the perfect one. I type of truthfully thought they have been all fairly equal. I assumed they have been all good. I’d say just like the worst one, perhaps it was sensible magic, though it’s so good. It was in all probability simply because it was the primary one and the opposite ones have far more historical past and crossover and stuff, which is type of good. However yeah, they’re all winners.
Emma: I’ve solely learn Sensible Magic. I’ve learn different Alice Hoffman books, however nothing else from the collection. So yeah, the opposite Alice Hoffman I’ve learn is Right here on Earth, which was actually good. Nevertheless it was a very long time in the past that I learn it. However yeah, she’s a type of authors who’s written rather a lot and I really feel like her stuff is commonly well-known or on a bestseller or it’ll be in like Oprah’s e book membership or issues like that. So she’s fairly well-known and I do assume her writing is basically beautiful. I beloved Sensible Magic. I listened to it as an audiobook and it was a delight for these days that I used to be listening to it. It’s not tremendous lengthy both. I need to say it was a reasonably fast, hearken to a reasonably fast learn, and so far as like when you’ve seen the film and also you’re like, will I nonetheless benefit from the e book? I do assume it’s fairly totally different so far as the issues they deal with and it’s additionally clearly rather a lot longer, you’ve much more time to get to know characters and to see issues occur in a e book versus a film. They’ve a lot much less time to inform you a narrative in a film. And I simply really feel like they deal with various things. There’s much more about Sally’s children within the e book like what they’re as much as and what their life is like. And I actually loved attending to study extra about them as a result of they’re not enormous characters within the motion pictures. And what else? I additionally really feel like, okay, so this, I need to know what you concentrate on this. I really feel like within the e book, and I didn’t learn the entire story, so simply Sensible Magic, I really feel prefer it’s not as express because the film about magic. I really feel such as you do know that they’re witches and you realize that they do magic and also you get that the city is type of uncomfortable with them because of this, however additionally they come to them with their love issues as a result of the ants type of have the aspect enterprise the place they are going to provide help to together with your love issues by way of magic. It’s in there, however I felt like within the e book, it’s rather more like, nearly like how folks speak about important oils. Prefer it’s simply rather more like myths and like, what do they name them? Like outdated wives’ tales or like that sort of like, Oh, I went to the physician and that didn’t work. So now I’m going to ask my grandma for what spices she would put in her soup. You realize what I imply? Like, it’s extra like that type of vibe. It’s not fairly like Harry Potter. I’m going to solid a spell with a wand. Like I don’t really feel like that occurs within the e book as a lot in any respect.
Elsie: Yeah, I’d undoubtedly agree with that. I believe it’s as a result of the ants are like legit witches. And Sally and Jillian are extra like, Sally is denying, like, her place as a witch, she’s type of like, I’d relatively be regular, and Jillian is like, not discovering her energy but. So I believe that that’s in all probability a part of it, however I like that, I like that they’re not identical to merely, you realize, abracadabra, I believe it’s very nice. Like numerous human tales, they’re undoubtedly consolation reads. We have been speaking about Sally’s love curiosity, the one which occurs with, like, the police or the detective man within the film, how she was saying by the tip of, it is a spoiler, massive time.
Emma: Yeah, I believe it’s okay. It’s been a very long time.
Elsie: She was like saying, you realize, they have been type of simply attending to know one another. And I used to be like, okay, nicely, I hate to inform you this, however within the subsequent e book after that, he’s identical to immediately lifeless. Like Alice Hoffman shouldn’t be into love scenes. Like these intercourse scenes are so tiny. There’s nothing, it’s not romantic. It’s truthfully extra concerning the sisters and the aunts and the feminine relationship with the daughters, which I really like too. In order that’s undoubtedly her vibe.
Emma: Yeah, I don’t really feel like I count on romance from Alice Hoffman. It’s simply not what she’s writing.
Elsie: On the newer witch books, you type of count on it to at all times be identical to a fundamental romantic like enemies to lovers with witches, and that is very totally different from that. So I assume that’s what I’m making an attempt to say is like, I admire how totally different it’s. I’ve been making an attempt to learn each e book I can get my arms on for 2 years and loads of them usually are not that enjoyable high for me. Fairly boring and this was like very fascinating. It’s its personal entire world You may go down. I’m undoubtedly an excellent fan now I purchased crimson footwear. I purchased I planted a magnolia tree in my yard good, and I’m undoubtedly making the chocolate tipsy muffins.
Emma: Oh yeah, we’re gonna have the banquet. Yeah, I believe too, I just like the remedy of magic within the e book rather a lot as a result of I believe it feels extra like actual life. As a result of if you do learn a witch e book or a magical e book the place you’ll be able to solid spells with a wand and all the things’s fastened, It type of makes it, I believe, tougher, at the least for the writer, to create rigidity. Since you’re like, why don’t you simply wave your wand? Whereas, on this e book, I really feel like Alice Hoffman made a world the place magic can’t do all the things. Actually, it could do numerous fairly fantastical issues, however there’s rather a lot it could’t do. And particularly for the characters who’re denied.
Elsie: And typically it messes issues up worse. And it could’t be modified again. So, like, loads of occasions that’s what the spells find yourself doing. Yeah. It’s worse than initially.
Emma: They’ve penalties and trade-offs, which once more, feels very very similar to life, you realize? Like, you make a alternative, and also you get one thing that you just wished, and one thing else occurs that you just didn’t essentially need, however that’s simply type of, you realize, the alternatives that you’ve. So, yeah, I believe it’s actually fairly. And, yeah, as we have been speaking about earlier, there’s not loads of, romantic sexual love. It’s much more about ladies counting on one another, which I believe is basically enjoyable and makes you concentrate on household otherwise and it’s simply actually lovely. It made me assume rather a lot about you and like us getting older collectively, and the way a lot I’ve relied on you in my life to date and the way a lot I’ll in all probability proceed to depend on you, and clearly we don’t have a romantic love, we’ve a sister love, you realize, we’re sisters. And I believe different folks have that with an excellent pal. You don’t should be sisters, however we’re. And yeah, I simply assume that type of love is particular as a result of it’s one thing that I find out about. It’s one thing from my life. So once I see it in literature or motion pictures, I assume I really feel type of seen and it makes me really feel grateful for the issues that I’ve in my life, such as you.
Elsie: Aww. Love you.
Emma: I want I may do magic, however alas.
Elsie: Me too. Perhaps sooner or later.
Emma: You by no means know.
Elsie: Yeah. Okay. Effectively, let’s go now to our spooky joke and a reality with Nova.
Elsie: Hey Nova, what do you’ve for us this week?
Nova: I’ve a meditation.
Elsie: What sort of meditation?
Nova:A halloween spooky meditation.
Elsie: Oh, excellent. Okay, I’m closing my eyes.
Nova: Think about you have been strolling down a avenue searching for sweet. Then all of the sudden, come to a spooky home. The door creaks open. You go inside. You then meet a cheerful skeleton. After which, you say hello, you stroll on. You then see a lightweight flash. You go into the room and also you see a witch making spells. You say, wow, perhaps I may attempt. And so that you attempt. And then you definitely go on to the highest, to the balcony, and you may see all the things. You then spot a ghost needing assist. You go and assist him. He says thanks. You then see a vampire. He says greetings. Hey. You then keep for a couple of minutes, speaking and ingesting, and having a enjoyable time. However then, you see it’s time to go. So that you hop onto a bus and it takes you dwelling. You then noticed one thing. You noticed that the witch, the ghost, and all of your different associates gave you a gift. You have been fast to seize it. You then confirmed your mother and pa. They stated wow. After which they stated time for mattress. And so that you hop in mattress and dream about your folks. Now open your eyes and earlier than it’s completed, take deep breaths in, and deep breaths out, and really feel how your physique feels. Do you’re feeling good? Do you’re feeling relaxed? Okay. Bye!
Elsie: We hope you loved this episode. Please proceed to ship us your consolation rewatches. We will likely be again once more subsequent week with my Halloween favourite film, Rosemary’s Child. It was Emma’s first time to look at it, so yeah, we’ll see you subsequent week.
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