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Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk first appeared as The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean in 1734. Featured iIllustrations are by Arthur Rackham, 1918 edition of English Fairy Tales retold by Flora Annie Steel.
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Once upon a time there lived a poor widow and her son Jack. One day, Jack’s mother told him to sell their only cow. Jack went to the market and on the way he met a man who wanted to buy his cow. Jack asked, “What will you give me in return for my cow?” The man answered, “I will give you five magic beans!” Jack took the magic beans and gave the man the cow. But when he reached home, Jack’s mother was very angry. She said, “You fool! He took away your cow and gave you some beans!” She threw the beans out of the window. Jack was very sad and went to sleep without dinner.

The next day, when Jack woke up in the morning and looked out of the window, he saw that a huge beanstalk had grown from his magic beans! He climbed up the beanstalk and reached a kingdom in the sky. There lived a giant and his wife. Jack went inside the house and found the giant’s wife in the kitchen. Jack said, “Could you please give me something to eat? I am so hungry!” The kind wife gave him bread and some milk.

While he was eating, the giant came home. The giant was very big and looked very fearsome. Jack was terrified and went and hid inside. The giant cried, “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!” The wife said, “There is no boy in here!” So, the giant ate his food and then went to his room. He took out his sacks of gold coins, counted them and kept them aside. Then he went to sleep. In the night, Jack crept out of his hiding place, took one sack of gold coins and climbed down the beanstalk. At home, he gave the coins to his mother. His mother was very happy and they lived well for sometime.

Climbed the beanstalk and went to the giant’s house again. Once again, Jack asked the giant’s wife for food, but while he was eating the giant returned. Jack leapt up in fright and went and hid under the bed. The giant cried, “Fee-fifo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!” The wife said, “There is no boy in here!” The giant ate his food and went to his room. There, he took out a hen. He shouted, “Lay!” and the hen laid a golden egg. When the giant fell asleep, Jack took the hen and climbed down the beanstalk. Jack’s mother was very happy with him.

After some days, Jack once again climbed the beanstalk and went to the giant’s castle. For the third time, Jack met the giant’s wife and asked for some food. Once again, the giant’s wife gave him bread and milk. But while Jack was eating, the giant came home. “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!” cried the giant. “Don’t be silly! There is no boy in here!” said his wife.

The giant had a magical harp that could play beautiful songs. While the giant slept, Jack took the harp and was about to leave. Suddenly, the magic harp cried, “Help master! A boy is stealing me!” The giant woke up and saw Jack with the harp. Furious, he ran after Jack. But Jack was too fast for him. He ran down the beanstalk and reached home. The giant followed him down. Jack quickly ran inside his house and fetched an axe. He began to chop the beanstalk. The giant fell and died.

Jack and his mother were now very rich and they lived happily ever after.

You might enjoy reading Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem inspired by this fairy tale, The Bean-Stalk.

The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Old English Fairy Tale - version written and illustrated by Leanne Guenther

Once upon a time, there lived a widow woman and her son, Jack, on their small farm in the country.

Every day, Jack would help his mother with the chores - chopping the wood, weeding the garden and milking the cow.   But despite all their hard work, Jack and his mother were very poor with barely enough money to keep themselves fed.

"What shall we do, what shall we do?" said the widow, one spring day.  "We don't have enough money to buy seed for the farm this year!  We must sell our cow, Old Bess, and with the money buy enough seed to plant a good crop."

"All right, mother," said Jack, "it's market-day today.  I'll go into town and sell Bessy."

So Jack took the cow's halter in his hand, walked through the garden gate and headed off toward town.  He hadn't gone far when he met a funny-looking, old man who said to him, "Good morning, Jack."

"Good morning to you," said Jack, wondering how the little, old man knew his name.

"Where are you off to this fine morning?" asked the man.

"I'm going to market to sell our cow, Bessy."

"Well what a helpful son you are!" exclaimed the man, "I have a special deal for such a good boy like you. "

The little, old man looked around to make sure no one was watching and then opened his hand to show Jack what he held.

"Beans?" asked Jack, looking a little confused.

"Three magical bean seeds to be exact, young man.  One, two, three!  So magical are they, that if you plant them over-night, by morning they grow right up to the sky," promised the funny little man.  "And because you're such a good boy, they're all yours in trade for that old milking cow."

"Really?" said Jack, "and you're quite sure they're magical?"

"I am indeed!  And if it doesn't turn out to be true you can have your cow back."

"Well that sounds fair," said Jack, as he handed over Bessy's halter, pocketed the beans and headed back home to show his mother.

"Back already, Jack?" asked his mother; "I see you haven't got Old Bess -- you've sold her so quickly.  How much did you get for her?"

Jack smiled and reached into his pocket, "Just look at these beans, mother; they're magical, plant them over-night and----"

"What!" cried Jack's mother.   "Oh, silly boy!  How could you give away our milking cow for three measly beans."  And with that she did the worst thing Jack had ever seen her do - she burst into tears.

Jack ran upstairs to his little room in the attic, so sorry he was, and threw the beans angrily out the window thinking, "How could I have been so foolish - I've broken my mother's heart."  After much tossing and turning, at last Jack dropped off to sleep.

When Jack woke up the next morning, his room looked strange.  The sun was shining into part of it like it normally did, and yet all the rest was quite dark and shady.  So Jack jumped up and dressed himself and went to the window.  And what do you think he saw?  Why, the beans he had thrown out of the window into the garden had sprung up into a big beanstalk which went up and up and up until it reached the sky.

Using the leaves and twisty vines like the rungs of a ladder, Jack climbed and climbed until at last, he reached the sky.   And when he got there he found a long, broad road winding its way through the clouds to a tall, square castle off in the distance.

Jack ran up the road toward the castle and just as he reached it, the door swung open to reveal a horrible lady giant, with one great eye in the middle of her forehead.

As soon as Jack saw her he turned to run away, but she caught him, and dragged him into the castle.

"Don't be in such a hurry, I'm sure a growing boy like you would like a nice, big breakfast," said the great, big, tall woman, "It's been so long since I got to make breakfast for a boy."

Well, the lady giant wasn't such a bad sort, after all -- even if she was a bit odd.  She took Jack into the kitchen, and gave him a chunk of cheese and a glass of milk.  But Jack had only taken a few bites when thump! thump! thump! the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone coming.

"Goodness gracious me!  It's my husband," said the giant woman, wringing her hands, "what on earth shall I do?  There's nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast and I haven't any bread left.   Oh dear, I never should have let you stay for breakfast.  Here, come quick and jump in here."  And she hurried Jack into a large copper pot sitting beside the stove just as her husband, the giant, came in.

He ducked inside the kitchen and said, "I'm ready for my breakfast -- I'm so hungry I could eat three cows.  Ah, what's this I smell?

Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive, or be he dead
I'll have his bones to grind my bread.

"Nonsense, dear," said his wife, "we haven't had a boy for breakfast in years.  Now you go and wash up and by the time you come back your breakfast'll be ready for you."

So the giant went off to tidy up -- Jack was about to make a run for it when the woman stopped him.  "Wait until he's asleep," she said, "he always has a little snooze after breakfast."

Jack peeked out of the copper pot just as the giant returned to the kitchen carrying a basket filled with golden eggs and a sickly-looking, white hen.   The giant poked the hen and growled, "Lay" and the hen laid an egg made of gold which the giant added to the basket.

After his breakfast, the giant went to the closet and pulled out a golden harp with the face of a sad, young girl.  The giant poked the harp and growled, "Play" and the harp began to play a gentle tune while her lovely face sang a lullaby.  Then the giant began to nod his head and to snore until the house shook.

When he was quite sure the giant was asleep, Jack crept out of the copper pot and began to tiptoe out of the kitchen.  Just as he was about to leave, he heard the sound of the harp-girl weeping.  Jack bit his lip, sighed and returned to the kitchen.  He grabbed the sickly hen and the singing harp, and began to tiptoe back out.  But this time the hen gave a cackle which woke the giant, and just as Jack got out of the house he heard him calling, "Wife, wife, what have you done with my white hen and my golden harp?"

Jack ran as fast as he could and the giant, realizing he had been tricked, came rushing after - away from the castle and down the broad, winding road.   When he got to the beanstalk the giant was only twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear - confused, the giant peered through the clouds and saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life.  The giant stomped his foot and roared angrily.

Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive, or be he dead
I'll have his bones to grind my bread.

The giant swung himself down onto the beanstalk which shook with his weight.  Jack slipped, slid and climbed down the beanstalk as quickly as he could, and after him climbed the giant.

As he neared the bottom, Jack called out, "Mother! Please! Hurry, bring me an axe, bring me an axe."  And his mother came rushing out with Jack's wood chopping axe in her hand, but when she came to the enormous beanstalk she stood stock still with fright.

Jack jumped down, got hold of the axe and began to chop away at the beanstalk.  Luckily, because of all the chores he'd done over the years, he'd become quite good at chopping and it didn't take long for him to chop through enough of the beanstalk that it began to teeter.   The giant felt the beanstalk shake and quiver so he stopped to see what was the matter.  Then Jack gave one last big chop with the axe, and the beanstalk began to topple over.  Then the giant fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.

The singing harp thanked Jack for rescuing her from the giant - she had hated being locked up in the closet all day and night and wanted nothing more than to sit in the farmhouse window and sing to the birds and the butterflies in the sunshine.

With a bit of patience and his mother's help, it didn't take long for Jack to get the sickly hen back in good health and the grateful hen continued to lay a fresh golden egg every day.

Jack used the money from selling the golden eggs to buy back Old Bess, purchase seed for the spring crop and to fix up his mother's farm.  He even had enough left over to invite every one of his neighbours over for a nice meal, complete with music from the singing harp.

And so Jack, his mother, Old Bess, the golden harp and the white hen lived happy ever after.
 

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All reviews of the movie "Jack the Giant Slayer" (USA, 2013) - Afisha-Kino

All reviews of the movie

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013, USA), IMDb: 6.

Choice "Afisha"

6.5

On the film Constitudes (74) similar the legend says: once the monks decided to find a god and enchanted the beans, from which trees grow right up to heaven. Instead of a god in the sky, there was an island of giants who descended to earth and made chaos. Then the monks forged a crown from a giant's heart - the person who put it on became the master of all the giants. The land was saved, and King Eric the Great, who had freed his possessions from the invaders, ordered to bury himself with a crown and beans - so that there would be no trouble. A few hundred years later, royal confidant Roderick (Tucci) sets out to ravage the grave with dreams of world domination, farmer's son Jack (Holt) sells a horse to a monk for a handful of beans, and an overly curious princess (Tomlinson) escapes the palace in search of adventure. Beans inadvertently sprout, the princess will be somewhere in the clouds, the king gathers a rescue party.

The craze for revisionist adaptations of classic fairy tales has reached two classic English stories - about Jack finding giants in Wales, and about Jack exchanging a cow for beans, from which a tree grew, leading to the house of a giant and his wife. Singer, who seems to have consciously turned to the genre of children's fairy tales for the first time, shoots battle scenes with rapture, uses the possibilities of 3D with noticeable pleasure, awkwardly tries to joke - and does all this with enviable thoroughness. Stanley Tucci is an exemplary villain, Ewan McGregor has a fashionable mustache, the scatty protagonist mumbles, is afraid of heights and generally hardly draws on a hero, but a princess - princesses are needed for beauty. The best thing about Jack is thirty minutes on the island of giants: they are big, scary and eat pigs in dough. Everything else happens as if by itself: the characters are lost along the way as unnecessary, the storylines flow into each other wherever they please, the air feels the dreary expectation of an inevitable happy ending, from which the viewer is separated by a set of battle scenes inspired by The Lord of the Rings. About "Jack" it is impossible to say anything radically bad, and nothing radically good - it is a noisy, fussy and very expensive movie, the only problem of which is the same as that of the giant: they both have a stone heart.

March 19, 2013

The best reviews about the movie "Jack - Walker Giants"

• • Dmitry Bortnikov

    469 reviews, 494 estimates, rating 2128

    9,0003

    of how many Giants did you kill?

    There, between clouds and clouds, the land of giants - Gantua (s)

    How are legends born? Often after events that people cannot understand and explain. For many years and centuries, people retell such stories to each other, and gradually they acquire more and more details and characters.

    Simple guy Jack works on his uncle's land, and the only joy in his life is the books that his parents left him. The hero is sent to the city to sell a horse and a cart so that the dilapidated house could be repaired with the proceeds, but the young man, taking pity on the monk, gives him the horse, in return receiving a few beans. The uncle does not want to listen to his nephew's excuses and goes to the city to get at least some money, because of bad weather, Princess Isabelle, who escaped from her father, gets into Jack's house, and the bean that accidentally fell on the ground begins to grow. The princess is carried upstairs, being locked in the house, and Jack goes after her, accompanied by the king's subjects.

    Bryan Singer is one of a small group of directors who are not afraid to experiment. Each of his new films is a kind of test that he throws himself. A variety of genres, time frames, budgets, casts - his forte. The director succeeds in various styles, all his projects are expected and never go unnoticed.

    His like-minded screenwriters have written an interesting story based on a classic plot. Thanks to complete mutual understanding and unanimity, the authors managed to create a new world that is inhabited not only by people, but also by giants. The characters are well developed, which adds to the storyline.

    Nicholas Hoult and Eleanor Tomlinson play their erratic parts on the level, but lose heavily to the supporting characters.

    Ewan McGregor did his best and created one of his best heroes, complementing the extravagant image invented by the artists.

    Stanley Tucci, as always, is good in his small but important role for the picture.

    Ian McShane portrayed the king, who can be envied by many, because of the ambivalent attitude towards him, the actor managed to create a deep image.

    Due to the postponement of the release to a later date, the creators managed to refine the special effects and bring them to an impressive level. Each giant is unique, the huge stalk is realistic, and the country in the sky is beautifully designed and varied. The naked eye can see the scale and volume of the production.

    3D added to create a more realistic and realistic picture.

    The music used for the painting sets the mood, recalls the genre and adds a fairy tale to everything that happens.

    "Jack the Giant Slayer" - a picture that returns all viewers to childhood. The classic variation on the theme of the hero growing up is presented correctly, and in general this fairy tale looks like a breath of fresh air, against the backdrop of what the movie screens are full of.

    March 15, 2013

  • Sangryl

    768 reviews, 9012 ratings, rating 2107

    5

    The casting turned out to be the most attractive for me in this film - and not because it is especially pleasant to look at Nicholas Hoult but he suits the role of the peasant who snatched off the royal daughter well.
    The film was very disappointing - the trailer was good and self-sufficient, there was no point in stretching such a nice trailer for 114 minutes.
    And for the kids in some places too cruel.
    did not like it (

    April 7, 2013

  • Artur Sumarokov

    714, 3005 estimates, rating 949

    5

    From the young age of the kingdom Kloaster Jack heard the history of the giants from the Others' kingdom of the gyntom to conquer the firmament of the earth and its inhabitants.But as the years passed, Jack grew up and, by the will of a fateful accident, he had to see for himself the veracity of the ancient legends about giants. 0003

    American director and producer Bryan Singer, who achieved some success in the thriller genre with his films "The Usual Suspects" and "Able Student" and film adaptations of comics, taking on "X-Men", in 2013 turned to the most popular fantasy genre among all age categories, based on the famous Old English tale of Jack and the Beanstalk as the basis of his new directorial work with an impressive budget of about $ 200 million. Nevertheless, with an abundance of good intentions and creative imagination regarding the tape, the main plot of which underwent a certain modernization, the film "Jack the Giant Slayer" became one of the biggest box office failures of the current film season, despite the fact that such a depressing result looks not very well deserved in in relation to a completely watchable, albeit disposable, tape. Of course, the film, in all artistic parameters, is built on archetypes: here we have a noble, poor and young Jack, here is Princess Isabelle, not prone to excessive aristocracy, here are both good and evil nobles, weaving intrigues, and here are giants, terrible and vile and unencumbered by the mind. Bryan Singer deftly manages these archetypes without complicating the characters and the plot; everything is moderately dynamic, somewhat gloomy in places, but on the whole interesting and easily presented, although the influence of Hallmark's high-budget productions is strongly felt right up to the finale, which projects a fictional reality into an existing reality and clearly suggests further continuation.

    The work of Newton's cinematographer Thomas Siegel is very restrained and atmospheric, and mostly built on visual contrast. The giants themselves and their kingdom are created with vivid realism and individual style.

    However, a huge and visible minus of the film was the obvious absence of charismatic characters for all their genre archetypes. Nicholas Hoult in the role of Jack looks good, but nothing more than Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane and Bill Nighy, who are on the sidelines, simply do not stand out due to the faded features of the characters created by the writers, because the only interesting characters were giants, distinguished by vile cannibal addictions and no less colorful appearance.

    The soundtrack by composer John Ottman, with its unobtrusive epicness in the spirit of many blockbusters, fits perfectly into the structure of the film, although you can’t call it too bright either.

    So, "Jack the Giant Slayer" is a purely disposable, full of simple and unobtrusive truths for most viewers, a film in the adventure fantasy genre. Explicit disappointment, as well as wild delight is not guaranteed.
    

    July 31, 2014

  • Alex Jace

    102 reviews, 133 ratings, rating 709

    7Avenging Giants

    The new fantasy action game "Jack the Giant Slayer" (2013) has become another strength test for director Bryan Singer. The picture with a bloated budget failed at the box office, barely getting close to the level of fees that pay off half the cost of production. As it turned out, aiming at the widest audience with a rating of "12+" does not at all guarantee that all viewers in this age range will immediately go to watch the next adaptation of folklore, which mixes the ideas of the legends about Jack, giants and beanstalks.

    Not so long ago, the authors of the cartoon "Puss in Boots" (2011) used the same story about the forbidden kingdom in the clouds. Now the main character has become an indecisive farmer Jack (Nicholas Hoult), who is afraid of heights, but dreams of adventure. In a country ruled by King Bramwell, played by Ian McShane ("Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", "Snow White and the Huntsman"), Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) is being married off as a traitorous minister, Roderick (Stanley Tucci).

    The latter does not want to wait for the wedding and unearths an old legend about the crown of the conqueror of giants and magic beans that connect the earthly and cloudy worlds. Such a stem is accidentally grown by Jack when Isabelle, bored from the palace life, visited him. After this meeting, the farmer will have to go to the realm of giants to save her, along with a detachment of knights, led by Ewan McGregor ("Impossible") and Eddie Marsan ("Misfits", "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows", "War Horse", "Snow White and the Huntsman ").

    However, the giants above are not averse to descending to earth themselves in order to seize the kingdom and take revenge on the people who once defeated them. A small rescue expedition after a while leads to a small-town battle to defend the monarch's castle from the attack of embittered giants. Holt and Tomlinson continue to be responsible for the naïve love story, McGregor appears as a reckless brave, reminiscent of one of the knights of "Jeanne D'Arc" (1999), and Tucci took on the type of comedic villain.

    The picture turned out to be much more dynamic and spectacular than Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) or even Witch Hunters (2013), although it is still far from the level of graphic detailing of the fairy-tale world of the history of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) . The creators focused their main efforts on the appearance of the giants, where Bill Nighy ("Hotel Marigold: The Best of the Exotic", "Wrath of the Titans", "Total Recall") voiced the big head of the giant Fallon. John Ottman's music fits the dreamlike mood, with bravura anthems, romantic themes, and less interesting melodies for tense moments.

    Verdict: Bryan Singer with the film "Jack the Giant Slayer" managed to create a colorful and action-packed action, where they added a lot of humor, but not everywhere successful and appropriate. Behind all the artistic qualities and 3D effects, where there are surprisingly few “jumping out” of the screen, the authors of the picture lost sight of the scenario, the story of which looks rather primitive, without particularly bothering to develop the characters of the characters.

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    9March 20, 2013 translation. The film "Jack the Giant Slayer" is a synthesis of this fairy tale and a couple of old English legends, made in an undoubtedly expensive and high-quality, but slightly soulless performance.
    The title character Jack (Nicholas Hoult), a rustic peasant lad, by chance, must climb into the sky - the place of residence of the giants and save the eccentric princess Isabella (Eleanor Tomlinson) from there. In the process of the rescue operation, he is helped by the moderately noble and elegant head of the royal guard Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and the hypocritical and ironic Lord Roderick (Stanley Tucci), who has his own villainous plans for both the princess and the giants, is putting a spoke in the wheels with might and main.
    Filmed beautifully - no doubt. In something, but in special effects, camera work and battle scenes, overseas studios are unmatched and their professionalism is developed to automatism here. Beautiful old English landscapes, carefully built palaces and huts, shining armor and bright costumes. Especially noteworthy is the island of giants with the inhabitants painstakingly drawn using computer graphics. But what to do - in such a carefully and beautifully built fairy-tale world, as in most modern fantasy works, the ears of The Lord of the Rings peek out in places - a sample of the genre and an unattainable bar so far.
    The cast isn't bad either - McGregor got a dandy mustache and dainty armor, Tucci is as charming as always as an anti-hero, and Bill Nighy as the two-headed leader of the giants is simply incomparable. A certain bewilderment is caused only by the choice of a pair of main characters - Holt's character, albeit brave, is too unsightly and ridiculous even for a children's fairy tale, and Tomlinson as a princess is simply beautiful, but nothing more.
    The plot is slightly more complex than the original children's stories. A clear happy ending is inexorably approaching, and neither, in places, sagging storylines, nor characters that randomly appear and just as randomly drop out of the frame can prevent it. The impression that you are going by bus through an expensive amusement park - everything is first class, only it is known and scheduled in advance.
    On the one hand, this simplicity and two-dimensionality of the narration has a plus - in the face of attracting young viewers, and on the other hand, in our age of psychological cinema, when they strive to squeeze deep meanings even into the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, this way of telling seems outdated. Although there is always the opportunity to sit back in a chair and forget, just following with your eyes the next miracle of 3D graphics or a giant battle, fortunately they are in abundance here.

    March 20, 2013

  • Sergey Romanov

    154 reviews, 215 ratings, rating 294

    7

    MultFilm is good.
    Sane scenario. Great combination of film and animation. Sound level.
    A fly in the ointment was added by farting and some burping of giants, however, without this, not a single practically cartoon or film of American production can do.
    And so I recommend. Take the kids to a good cartoon!!!
    All health.

    March 21, 2013

  • Alexey Markov

    77 reviews, 140 ratings, rating 200

    5

    Of course, no self-respecting person can miss a movie with the word SLAYER in the title. By the way, our Russian Jack - let's call him "Zhenya" - is not a murderer. Zhenya is a conqueror. Seducer. Ripper (oh, by the way!). Trickster. Notifier. Speaker. And - at the end of the story - the royal son-in-law, how could it be otherwise? A good take on the fairy bean story that I never understood. Well, beans and beans, grow to the sky, then what?

    It turns out that further along the miracle pods from the sky, giants from hell wildly descend, for example. At this time, people are in great need of the most fashionable Zhenya "Slayer". Zhenya goes to sell the horse, but he is lucky: for a worthless animal, he receives a handful of miracle beans from a monk, saves a prodigal prodigal princess from impudent ones, whom, of course, he meets again a little later, because. the girl decides to suddenly spend the night wildly with him, they say, taschemta. But! The wife does not get the slightest chance to calmly fuck with the princess (the wildest fiasco!), because. he catastrophically spills the magic beans into a puddle. And beans, they are like mantu: you can’t wet them, otherwise hell and the Holocaust will come.

    Further adventures lead, as usual, to the altar. The siege of castles, the burning of ditches, the shots of automatic crossbows, the throwing of wildly burning trees from hell, the pulling of the bridge by introducing ropes into it, the betrayal of the duke, the green snot of giants. Everything is as it should be.

    Good scary story for children.
    Do you like Slayer? Take your child to Zhenya the killer!

    2 April 2013

  • Serega Anikeev

    68 reviews, 90 ratings, rating 198

    7

    I have some ambiguous impression about this fairy tale movie. It seems to be based on fairy tales that I like, but something didn’t work out!
    A little underplayed, not enough. Although the quality of the film seems to be good, the voice acting and shooting are pleasant. But I can't say that it turned out great.
    Although for a weekend and a one-time viewing by the whole family, it will do.

    March 22, 2013

  • Aleksey Dvoeglazov

    143 reviews, 153 ratings, rating 179

    5Twenty-Foot Gopota

    3D Hollywood blockbuster Jack the Giant Slayer convincingly talks about the advantages of a slingshot over a crossbow, and how princesses are not only beautiful, but also tasty (as a roast), although the countesses are meaty.

    Director Bryan Singer, best known for his films Able Pupil, The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns, based on the medieval legend of a bean seed that grew a stalk to the sky. Further - more: giants live in the sky, they descended the stalk to the ground and began to terrorize the local population. The program is classic: robberies, murders, arson. Rape is excluded, as it is physically impossible - the giants are big, but cannibalism is included to expand the program. Why robberies are needed is not clear. In their own heaven, the giants live by subsistence farming and dump the jewels into a common heap, to which they never fit for the entire film. Giants are commonplace gopota about twenty feet tall. In the metric system, this is a little more than six meters, but it takes place in England, and there are their own measures ... Read in full on the website StrangeFilm.org

    March 26, 2013

  • Fedor Medvedev

    68 reviews, 517 ratings, rating 171

    7

    Colorful Fantasy Legend. terrible creatures that rampaged on earth, descending from a heavenly island along a vine of magic beans. Magic beans were brought out by the monks, thinking to come to God in heaven along the vine, but no, there were terrible creatures there ... They found a council on them, in the form of a crown, made again by the monks with the help of witchcraft and the heart of a giant. All the Giants were returned back to their island, somewhere in the sky. ... There were a few magic beans and that same crown, and all this was buried along with the ruler of that time, King Eric the Great. So that no one gets these terrible artifacts .. and there is no more chance for the giants to descend to earth. This is a legend ... Well, longer, the children grew up, and by chance they found beans .... (or not by chance ..)
    Fantasy, somewhere scary, creepy, stinking from these giants, on a large scale. Interesting. Fabulous.
    The age limit, nevertheless, is correctly set 12+.
    Too scary Giants to break the child's psyche. Parents of little kids, go see a movie without them...

    March 22, 2013

  • litz

    121 reviews, 131 ratings, rating 160

    7

    Good old Jack and the Beanstalk! Cute giants are a beautiful tree, do not expect something great from the film!

    March 23, 2013

  • tratatak

    64 reviews, 99 ratings, rating 155

    7

    Suddenly a good movie. The trailer did not promise anything out of the ordinary, except for special effects, but I unexpectedly liked it. Beautiful battle scenes, good humor, a lot of action, in general, everything that a good fantasy film should consist of.

    Of course, there is more than enough pathos, but who does not sin with this now. But the actor in the title role is wildly charming.

    April 2, 2013

  • vi_almighty

    74 reviews, 200 ratings, rating 154

    5

    McGregor as the head of the royal guard (oh, he's a handsome man with a haircut and a goatee) and Stanley Tucci as a villain. Oh yes! Cute face Nicholas Hoult)

    March 23, 2013

  • Rina Komarova

    66 reviews, 84 ratings, rating 144

    7

    Everything new is well forgotten old. And despite the fact that many still remember the fairy tale about the bean seed, which grows like a loach to the very heavens, by reworking it a little, you can get the old story in a new way. Exactly what Bryan Singer did.
    A rustic boy named Jack (who fits in perfectly with the role of N. Holt) dreams of adventure all his life. And whoever seeks, as they say, always finds. And one fine day, all magical things happen to Jack at once: he meets the princess, gets into the mess of an ancient legend, and, in the end, thanks to him, a huge bean sprout goes into the sky.
    Singer did not try to be too smart and filmed the most ordinary fairy tale with the most usual intricacies of a fairy tale plot. And even the author's ideas and moves invented by the screenwriters in no way save from the legends of antiquity. Those looking for something new in "Jack" are likely to be disappointed. This film is a classic of the genre. Here the main character is opposed by the main villain, and the reward for courage, as usual, is a future wedding with a beautiful princess. And it doesn’t matter at what moments and which of the heroes takes the decisive step, the result will still remain the same fabulous finale. But you still need to live to the last, because there are many dangers on the way to the desired happiness, which, according to the same good old tradition, are overcome by friendship and love.
    If you do not demand some sophistication and novelty from Singer's brainchild, then the director's spectacle will not leave you indifferent. In the host of horror stories and social dramas that the cinema is full of, it is sometimes nice to find the most seemingly ordinary fairy tale and, surrendering to the power of a long-familiar plot, just relive the adventures that most dreamed of in childhood. As a bonus, Singer will throw action, good special effects and 3D into the piggy bank of his film. So he will end up with a story as ancient as the world itself, wrapped in a beautiful modern package. Here, as they say, the fairy tale is over, because for that it is a classic, which no longer requires any discussion.

    March 27, 2013

  • Tamara Ivanova

    48 reviews, 135 ratings, rating 114

    7

    And I liked it)) A little unfinished, but overall not bad! I love fairy tales and was glad that this film was made based on fairy tales. It seems that the actors are good, but something was still missing a little! But for me it was interesting, maybe I’ll go with friends too. Solid "good"

    March 23, 2013

  • Sergey Krasikov

    114 reviews, 153 ratings, rating 110

    1Singer again took a kind of standard

    . This time not a crime thriller, which really was The Suspicious Persons, but a film adaptation of a folk tale. It took a little to create: a little less than two hundred million US dollars and the desire to appeal to both children and teenage audiences.

    The latter determined the choice of actors for the main roles. Jack was embellished a little: a dull and cowardly peasant booby was given a fashionable hair. The main character after that began to resemble a dull and cowardly glamor face of a fashionable orientation. The princess was chosen to match him: an inconspicuous young lady from the village disco. Here the concessions regarding the adult part of the audience ended: kings, generals, traitors, etc., the characters were created according to the patterns of children's cinema fifty years ago - caricatured, corresponding to the established canon. It remains only to dilute the orcs, renaming them into giants and rewrite the script so that there is no doubt that the director took up this business out of desperation and did not remain at all.
    I would like to hope that the wave of a new "twilight zone" ("Snow White and the Huntsman", "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White: Revenge of the Dwarves") will subside after the investment has ceased to pay off.
    For to look at all this for yourself and see how the children drag it into your mouth, you already have no strength. Finally.

    June 3, 2013

  • Lustrix Ru

    22 reviews, 45 ratings, rating 83

    7

    The film will be a wonderful pastime for the whole family. An excellent storytelling. And from a fairy tale, you don’t expect any special frills of the plot. In the picture, of course, far from the Lord of the Rings, and in soulfulness to our fairy tales of Row, but it's nice to watch. The last fight scene was even exciting.

    March 21, 2013

  • Lyudmila Chalykh

    35 reviews, 59 ratings, rating 83

    9

    An excellent film for my taste. Complete rehabilitation of Hollywood in this genre, after a series of indistinct fairy tale adaptations. The perfect balance of live acting and special effects, which, although present in abundance, nevertheless do not disturb the feeling of the reality of what is happening and do not look like "cartoons". A lot of humor, passion, energy. Actors McGregor, Tucci are simply magnificent, and even the protagonist and heroine, inexpressive at first glance, somehow fit into the general rapid rhythm of the picture. There are practically no comments, I put five

    March 21, 2013

  • Vlad Lesnich

    45 reviews, 291 ratings, rating 80

    5

    From heaven to earth

    Both “Oz the Great and Powerful” and “Jack the Giant Slayer”, despite the bright prospects, turned out to be a passable, one-time movie that is qualitatively cobbled together, but lacks charm. Usually from such projects you expect epic, spectacular, colorful and trembling in the voice from overwhelming emotions. But, unfortunately, the latest film by Bryan Singer, who gave the world "X-Men" with a chic study, caused annoyance. First, the project is too formulaic. Secondly, cool bosses did not even bother to put any sense into it. Bottom line: a promising idea turned out to be another love epic that nothing saves: neither the game of Holt, Tucci and McGregor, nor the scope of locations, nor giants, nor computer graphics.

    Yielding to the fashion of adapting famous fairy tales and stories, the creators ran into a big mine, not having thought through the concept of storytelling to the end. If in last year's "Snow White" the heroine comes to the fore (and in two parts), then in "Jack the Giant Slayer" and Jack is not particularly observed. The absence of a nominal character does not have the best effect on the film as a whole. If you have not seen Holt in non-Hollywood projects before, then it may seem that his youth is different. However, this is not at all the case, the guy showed the makings of a good actor in the first two seasons of the popular series "Skins", and in the film "My Boy" he showed himself on the good side. Apparently, the big bosses decided to play on his romanticism, which was appreciated by the female half of humanity in "The Warmth of Our Bodies."

    It feels a bit better than Clash of the Titans, but much worse than The Hobbit.
    

    April 15, 2013

  • Kristina Moon

    22 reviews, 23 ratings, rating 77

    7

    Today we decided to go to the cinema. My husband did not want to go to Croods, I did not want to go to OZ, Jack remained. I watched the trailer in advance, was not thrilled, but went. The result surprised: both my husband and I liked the film, such a good, strong 4-chka! Only the end was a little disappointing, it happened somehow suddenly and quickly, but where the crown ended up today caused a lot of laughter))) the boy at the end of the film looks like Prince Charles))))

    March 30, 2013

  • SKO

    48 Reviews, 64 ratings, rating 72

    7 -Consious film "X -Men"

    
    Knowing the sad fate of Singer's failed creation, you can think that you have a complete cummer and not go in the movie theaters.
    However, I advise you to ignore the rumors and still have a look.
    1. He is not boring. The story, which you know everything in advance, is presented quite funny, I won’t say that it’s completely brilliant, but it looks rather tense and with interest.
    2. I don't understand some commentators of the film. - What does it mean - "there are no special effects"? They are, don't trust anyone.
    3. What is really missing, or rather "whom", is the main characters. Surprisingly uninteresting heroine, and I can not say that the same uninteresting hero, no. Just something is not right.
    4. Terrible giants. and funny. Of course, not naturalistic, and this is the second blunder of the film. With such a budget, they could have done more impressive.
    5. Filmed well. Particularly interesting are the battle scenes.
    6. There are no loose ends and tightness, so fashionable now. Started and away we go...
    7. I won't say anything about the "three DEs", I saw it in the usual format. I had quite enough.
    8. The spirit of the film reminded me a bit of the old movie hit "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" - only it lacks adventures and dangers for the heroes. But the romantic and fabulous notes are very strong here.
    

    March 30, 2013

  • Adelina Tryasoruk

    7 reviews, 14 ratings, rating 65

    3

    Crap filmets however. Yes, even what!
    This time, on the advice of my friends, I decided to diversify my diet. This time I took not popcorn, not nachos, but fried dumplings . They told me that they are great for me, who fell in love with Heineken beer. Well, I was in for a huge disappointment! Fried dumplings are served in such small boxes that only a five-year-old child will have enough to eat. And they stand at the same time, almost like a bucket of popcorn. Well, what to do, I had to spend money - I took three of these boxes for myself, and a couple of liters of beer. Thank God I took a bag with me then - otherwise I wouldn’t have carried everything to the hall. But everything goes wrong with these dumplings, I will never experiment with food again: already in the hall I found that one of the boxes in my purse was crushed along with dumplings, and I smeared everything inside with this crap.
    The seats in the hall this time turned out to be anywhere! Springy, elastic, ah, how nice. The back reclines well, far. True, something was swearing from behind, but oh well, the main thing is that I feel comfortable ...
    From Bryan Singer, to be honest, one could expect more. After all, his films were, though not masterpieces, but not bad, but it was quite possible to call them.
    Here, full ass, in a word.
    First of all, looking at Nicholas Hoult's nasty face for the whole session is not a pleasant pleasure, you can trust me.
    Secondly, some fat pig-like woman from the back row took off her shoes and socks and put her stinky heels on the back of the seat next to me. Not a pleasant feeling, trust me! And I’m sitting, drinking beer, crunching dumplings, and this stench of sore fat feet reaches my nose. You turn to take a glass of beer - and you see her red heel, stinking all over the hall. Well, I just didn’t seem to have any other choice, I had to pour a glass of beer on her filthy pork legs .. It’s a pity, of course, it was a pity to spend money on such a creature with such wonderful beer, but there’s nothing to do . .. This woman, of course, immediately began to resent, to which I answered her with a quote from the Pirates - “To beat off the stench” and moved to another row, because the stench, oddly enough, only got worse, and I was tired of listening to her indignation.
    Thirdly, in this work of art, we can observe absolutely crazy jokes in the style of Disney literally every five minutes of the film, which incredibly spoils the epic and seriousness of the picture. And when I moved. Next to me was a group of zombified teenagers who literally laughed at every joke.
    Fourthly, the theme of this film is extremely stale, apparently Singer has run out of all his fantasy...
    Fifthly, the film is shown in 3D format, while the 3D there is so crappy that you can even watch without glasses... The only thing I noticed in 3D format is the fucking heel , which bothered me for half the movie .. So I think this format is used here only to sell tickets at a higher price.
    To sum up - this film is a direct example of dull shit, and to put it more precisely and effectively SHIT!
    Don't go for it, don't waste your money, don't be fooled!
    

    March 3, 2013

  • Svetlana Anoshina

    48 reviews, 89ratings, rating 63

    9

    For those who like to immerse themselves in a fairy tale. .. Who is ready to sit for two hours and not think, not analyze and not look for a connection.... Definitely go and watch!

    March 22, 2013

  • o_sanina

    26 reviews, 87 ratings, rating 57

    7

    Ewan McGregor and his anodized aluminum suit.

    Runs briskly around the castle grounds, gymnastically correctly raising his knees, which would be impossible in armor. He admires manners, witty scenes of his participation and, in general, the absolute non-negligence of his character, the only likely goal of which is to be a familiar, pleasant face against the background of minor characters who somehow need to be passed off as main ones.

    March 26, 2013

Jack and the beanstalk summary. Fairy tale "Jack and the beanstalk"

Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack. His father died a long time ago, and he and his mother were left alone. They were very poor. More precisely, they had nothing but a single cow that gave them milk.

But, alas, the day came when the cow stopped being milked, and Jack's mother decided that it was better to sell her then. She ordered to take the cow to the nearest town and sell it there at the fair. “Yes, to make it as expensive as possible,” she strictly punished. Jack set off. But as soon as he walked a couple of miles, he saw a strange little old man, barely reaching his shoulder, walking along the road towards him.
- Hello boy! Sell ​​me your cow, the old man suggested. “And in payment I will give you five beans. If you plant them in the ground, they will soon make you rich.
Before Jack had time to utter a word in response, the old man disappeared with the cow, as if he did not exist at all. Jack wondered if he had done the right thing by agreeing to such an exchange. What will the mother say to that? But the deed was done, and with a heavy heart he went back home.
- How? Why are you back so soon? - the mother was surprised. - Well, how many coins did you sell the cow for?
- For five beans.
- What a dumbass you are! We need money so much, there is nothing in the house! the mother yelled at Jack. “And how could you come up with such a thing!”

She grabbed the beans and threw them out the window and sent Jack to bed hungry. When Jack woke up the next morning, he couldn't recognize his little room. She was bathed in a pleasant greenish light. Jack went to the window and saw an amazing picture - the beans that his mother threw out of the window yesterday sprouted overnight, their shoots intertwined into a huge stalk that went up high, high into the very sky.
Jack dressed carefully so as not to wake his sleeping mother, climbed over the window sill right onto the stalk and began to climb it. He was simply sure that the wealth that the old man had told him about was waiting for him up there.
Jack climbed higher and higher. He looked down - the ground was so far away that he was afraid, his head was spinning, and Jack almost broke and fell. He decided not to look down any longer and stubbornly climbed up. Finally, he hit the clouds, climbed a little higher and saw a long road.

Jack started down the road and soon saw a huge castle ahead. He walked up to the castle gate and knocked. Soon a huge woman opened the door for him.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jack and the beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk ) is an English folk tale about a brave boy Jack who defeats a giant.

Plot

A widow forced to sell her cow sends her son Jack to the market. On the way, Jack meets an old man who offers to exchange the cow for magic beans, from which the stalk will supposedly grow to the sky. An angry mother, having learned about this deal, throws the beans out the window. The next morning, Jack sees that the old man was telling the truth. The curious boy climbs the stem until he finds a road leading to a house. At the house, Jack meets a giantess and asks her to feed him. A kind woman fulfills his request. But then the owner of the house, the cannibal giant, returns home. The giantess hides Jack in the stove. The giant who enters says:

When the giant falls asleep, Jack goes home. However, he then returns to steal the bag of gold and the goose that lays golden eggs. The ogre gives chase, but Jack, cutting down the stem, defeats the giant.

In books

The tale is known in different versions. It first appeared in print in 1807 in an adaptation by Benjamin Tabart, in which the author introduces a new character - a fairy who explains the moral of the tale to Jack.

Joseph Jacobs version Russian 1890 year is the most popular.

Cultural influence

• The first film based on the tale appeared in 1902: Jack and the Beanstalk, a silent short film by George Fleming and Edwin Stanton Porter.
• In the USA, the fairy tale was filmed twice - in 1962 and 2013 (the second time - under the title "Jack the Giant Slayer").
• Based on the plot of this fairy tale, a Japanese full-length anime film "Jack in Wonderland" was staged.
• In the cartoon Puss in Boots, part of the storyline is based on this fairy tale.
• In the cartoon "Merry and Carefree", the second part is a free retelling of the tale, in which the role of the giant is played by Willy the Giant, and the role of Jack is Mickey Mouse.
• In the computer game Dizzy 3: Fantasy World Dizzy, released in October 1989 by Codemasters, the main character, an egg named Dizzy, rescues his beloved Daisy, who has been placed by a wizard in a castle in the clouds. According to the plot, Dizzy trades a small horse with a merchant in the market for a magic bean, plants it in manure and climbs up into the clouds along the grown stalk.
• In Family Guy season 12 episode 10 Peter tells Stewie 3 stories, the first is about Jack and the magic beans.
• The plot of the fairy tale is used in the musical feature film "Into the Woods," directed by Rob Marshall and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

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“It's all sort of a fronding mania,” he continued. - And before whom? And all because we want to ape stupid Moscow delights, ”said Prince Vasily, confused for a moment and forgetting that Helen had to laugh at Moscow delights, while Anna Pavlovna had to admire them. But he immediately recovered. - Well, is it proper for Count Kutuzov, the oldest general in Russia, to sit in the chamber, et il en restera pour sa peine! [His troubles will be in vain!] Is it possible to appoint a man who cannot sit on horseback, falls asleep at the council, a man of the most bad morals! He proved himself well in Bucarest! I'm not talking about his qualities as a general, but is it possible at such a moment to appoint a decrepit and blind person, just blind? The blind general will be good! He doesn't see anything. Play blind man's blind man. .. sees absolutely nothing!
No one objected to this.
July 24th it was absolutely right. But on July 29, Kutuzov was granted the princely dignity. Princely dignity could also mean that they wanted to get rid of him - and therefore the judgment of Prince Vasily continued to be correct, although he was in no hurry to express it now. But on August 8, a committee was assembled from General Field Marshal Saltykov, Arakcheev, Vyazmitinov, Lopukhin and Kochubey to discuss the affairs of the war. The committee decided that the failures were due to differences of command, and, despite the fact that the persons who made up the committee knew the sovereign's dislike for Kutuzov, the committee, after a short meeting, proposed appointing Kutuzov commander in chief. And on the same day, Kutuzov was appointed plenipotentiary commander of the armies and the entire region occupied by the troops.
On August 9, Prince Vasily met again at Anna Pavlovna's with l "homme de beaucoup de merite [a person of great dignity]. L" homme de beaucoup de merite courted Anna Pavlovna on the occasion of the desire to appoint Empress Maria Feodorovna as a trustee of the women's educational institution. Prince Vasily entered the room with the air of a happy winner, a man who had achieved the goal of his desires.
- Eh bien, vous savez la grande nouvelle? Le prince Koutouzoff est marechal. [Well s, you know the great news? Kutuzov - field marshal.] All disagreements are over. I'm so happy, so glad! - said Prince Vasily. – Enfin voila un homme, [Finally, this is a man.] – he said, significantly and sternly looking around at everyone in the living room. L "homme de beaucoup de merite, despite his desire to get a place, could not help but remind Prince Vasily of his previous judgment. (This was impolite both in front of Prince Vasily in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room, and in front of Anna Pavlovna, who was just as joyfully received the news; but he could not resist.)
- Mais on dit qu "il est aveugle, mon prince? [But they say he is blind?] - he said, reminding Prince Vasily of his own words.
- Allez donc, il y voit assez, [Eh, nonsense, he is enough sees, believe me.] - said Prince Vasily in his bassy, ​​quick voice with a cough, that voice and cough with which he resolved all difficulties. - Allez, il y voit assez, - he repeated. - And what I'm glad about, - he continued "This is the fact that the sovereign gave him complete power over all the armies, over the entire region, - a power that no commander in chief has ever had. This is another autocrat," he concluded with a victorious smile.

Once upon a time there lived a poor widow, and she had only one son, Jack, and a cow, Belyanka. The cow gave milk every morning, and the mother and son sold it in the bazaar - they lived on this. But one time Belyanka did not give milk, and they simply did not know what to do.

How can we be? How to be? - repeated the mother, wringing her hands.

Cheer up, mother! Jack said. - I'll get someone to work with.

You've already tried to get hired, but no one hires you, - answered the mother. - No, apparently, we will have to sell our Belyanka and open a shop with the proceeds or do some other business.

All right, Mom, Jack agreed. - Today is just a market day, and I will quickly sell Belyanka. And then we'll decide what to do.

And so Jack took the reins in his hands and led the cow to the market. But he did not have time to go far, as he met with some wonderful old man.

Good morning, Jack! - said the old man.

Good morning to you too! - answered Jack, and he himself is surprised: how does the old man know his name?

Well, Jack, where are you going? - asked the old man.

To the market, to sell a cow.

Yes, yes! Who should trade cows if not you! the old man laughed. “Tell me, how many beans does it take to make five?”

Exactly two in each hand and one in your mouth! - answered Jack: he was not a small mistake.

That's right! - said the old man. - Look, here they are, these same beans! - and the old man pulled out a handful of some outlandish beans from his pocket. “And since you’re so smart,” the old man continued, “I’m not averse to swapping with you - beans for you, a cow for me!”

Go on your way! Jack got angry. - That would be better!

Uh, you don't know what beans are, said the old man. - Plant them in the evening, and by morning they will grow to the sky.

Huh? Truth? Jack was surprised.

True truth! And if not, take your cow back.

Okay! - Jack agreed: he gave the old man Belyanka, and put the beans in his pocket.

Jack turned back and came home early - it was not yet dark.

How! Are you back yet, Jack? - mother was surprised. - I see Belyanka is not with you, so you sold her? How much did they give you for it?

You'll never guess, mom! Jack replied.

Huh? Oh my good! Five pounds? Ten? Fifteen? Well, twenty something would not give!

I said you can't guess! What can you say about these beans? They are magical. Plant them in the evening and...

What?! cried Jack's mother. “Are you really such a fool, such a blockhead, such an ass, that you gave away my Belyanka, the most dairy cow in the whole district, and besides, smooth, well-fed, for a handful of some bad beans?” It is for you! It is for you! It is for you! And your precious beans - get them out the window! .. Well, now you can sleep well! And don’t ask for food - you still won’t get a sip or a piece!

And then Jack went up to his attic, to his little room, sad, very sad: he felt sorry for his mother, and he himself was left without supper.

Finally he did fall asleep.

And when I woke up, I barely recognized my room. The sun illuminated only one corner, and around it was dark, dark.

Jack jumped out of bed, got dressed and went to the window. And what did he see? Yes, something like a big tree. And it's his beans that sprouted. In the evening, Jack's mother threw them out of the window into the garden, they sprouted, and the huge stalk stretched and stretched up and up until it grew to the very sky. It turns out that the old man spoke the truth!

The beanstalk grew right next to Jack's window. Here Jack opened the window, jumped on the stalk and climbed up as if on a ladder. And he kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and climbing, and climbing, until, finally, he reached the very sky. There he saw a long and wide road, as straight as an arrow. I went along this road, and kept walking, and walking, and walking, until I came to a huge, huge tall house. And at the threshold of this house stood a huge, enormous, tall woman.

Good morning ma'am! Jack said very politely. - Be so kind as to give me something to eat, please!

After all, Jack went to bed without supper and was now hungry as a wolf.

Would you like to have breakfast? - said a huge, enormous, tall woman. - Yes, you yourself will get another for breakfast if you don’t get out of here! My husband is a cannibal, and his favorite food is boys fried in breadcrumbs. You'd better leave while you're safe, otherwise he'll be back soon.

Oh, ma'am, I beg you, give me something to eat! Jack didn't hesitate. - I haven't had a crumb in my mouth since yesterday morning. I speak the true truth. And does it matter if they fry me or I will die of hunger?

I must say that the cannibal was a good woman. She took Jack into the kitchen and gave him a piece of bread and cheese and a pitcher of milk. But before Jack had time to eat even half of breakfast, when suddenly - top! top! top! - the whole house shook from someone's steps.

Oh my god! Yes, that's my old man! gasped the cannibal. - What to do? Quickly jump here!

And just as she pushed Jack into the furnace, the ogre himself entered.

Well, he was great - a mountain-mountain! Three calves were dangling from his belt, tied by the legs. The cannibal untied them, threw them on the table and said:

Come on, wife, fry me a couple for breakfast! Wow! What does it smell like here?
Fi-fi-fo-fam,
I smell the spirit of the British there.
Dead or alive, -
Will get to my breakfast.

What are you, hubby? his wife told him. - You got it wrong. Or maybe it still smells like that little boy that we had yesterday for dinner - remember, he came to your taste. Come on, wash your face and change, and in the meantime I will prepare breakfast.

The ogre came out, and Jack was about to get out of the oven and run away, but the ogre did not let him in.

Wait until he falls asleep, she said. - After breakfast, he always goes to sleep.

And so the ogre had breakfast, then went up to a huge chest, took out two sacks of gold and sat down to count the coins. He counted, counted, finally began to nod off and began to snore, so much so that again the whole house began to shake.

Then Jack slowly got out of the furnace, tiptoed past the ogre, grabbed one bag of gold and God bless! - rushed to the beanstalk. He threw the bag down, right into the garden, and he himself began to go down the stem, lower and lower, until, at last, he found himself at his house.

Jack told his mother about everything that happened to him, handed her a bag of gold and said:

Well, mother, did I tell the truth about my beans? You see, they are really magical!

And so Jack and his mother began to live on the money that was in the bag. But in the end, the bag was empty, and Jack decided to try his luck at the top of the beanstalk one more time. One fine morning he got up early and climbed the beanstalk and climbed, and climbed, and climbed, and climbed, and climbed, and climbed, until finally he found himself on a familiar road and reached along it to a huge, enormous tall at home. Like last time, a huge, enormous, tall woman was standing at the threshold.

Good morning, ma'am, Jack told her as if nothing had happened. - Be so kind as to give me something to eat, please!

Get out of here, little boy! the giantess replied. - Otherwise, my husband will eat you at breakfast. Uh, no, wait a minute - aren't you the same boy that came here recently? You know, on that very day my husband lost a bag of gold.

What a miracle, ma'am! Jack says. “I could really say something about this, but I’m so hungry that until I eat at least a piece, I won’t be able to utter a word.

The giantess was so curious that she let Jack in and gave him something to eat. And Jack deliberately began to chew as slowly as possible. But suddenly - top! top! top! - the steps of the giant were heard, and the giantess again hid Jack in the furnace.

Then everything was like last time: the ogre came in, said: "Fi-fi-fo-fam..." and so on, had breakfast with three fried bulls, and then ordered his wife:

Wife, bring me a chicken - the one that lays golden eggs!

The giantess brought it, and the ogre said to the hen: "Rush!" - and she laid a golden egg. Then the cannibal began to nod and began to snore so that the whole house shook.

Then Jack slowly got out of the oven, grabbed the golden hen and fled in an instant. But then the hen cackled and woke up the ogre. And just as Jack was running out of the house, the giant's voice was heard:

Wife, hey, wife, don't touch my golden hen!

And his wife answered him:

What did it seem to you, hubby?

That was all Jack heard. He rushed with all his might to the beanstalk and almost flew down it.

Jack returned home, showed his mother the miracle chicken and shouted:

And the goose laid a golden egg. Since then, every time Jack told her to “go!”, the hen laid a golden egg.

That's it. But this was not enough for Jack, and soon he again decided to try his luck at the top of the beanstalk. One fine morning he got up early and climbed the beanstalk and climbed and climbed and climbed and climbed until he reached the very top. True, this time he was careful not to immediately enter the cannibals' house, but crept up to him slowly and hid in the bushes. He waited until the giantess went with a bucket for water, and - sniffed into the house! Climbed into the copper cauldron and waits. He did not wait long; suddenly hears the familiar “top! top! top!” And now the ogre and his wife enter the room.

Fi-fi-fo-fam, I smell a British spirit there! - shouted the cannibal. - I can smell it, wife!

Can you really hear it, hubby? says the giantess. - Well, if this is the tomboy who stole your gold and a chicken with golden eggs, he certainly is sitting in the stove!

And both rushed to the stove. Good thing Jack didn't hide in it!

You are always with your “fi-fi-fo-fam!” - said the cannibal. - Yes, it smells like the boy you caught yesterday. I just fried it for you for breakfast. Well, I have a memory! Yes, and you are good too - for so many years you have not learned to distinguish a living spirit from a dead one!

Finally the ogre sat down at the table to have breakfast. But he muttered every now and then:

Yes, but still I can swear that ... - and getting up from the table, he searched the pantry, and chests, and supplies ... He searched all the corners and nooks and crannies, only I didn’t think to look into the copper cauldron.

But then the ogre had breakfast and shouted:

Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp! The wife brought the harp and placed it on the table in front of him.

Sing! - ordered the giant to the harp.

And the golden harp sang so well that you will hear it! And she sang and sang until the ogre fell asleep and began to snore: and he snored so loudly that it seemed like thunder was rumbling.

Here Jack lightly lifted the lid of the cauldron. He got out of it quietly, quietly, like a mouse, and crawled on all fours to the very table. He climbed onto the table, grabbed the golden harp, and rushed to the door.

But the harp called loudly:

Master! Master!

The ogre woke up and saw Jack running away with his harp.

Jack ran headlong, and the ogre followed him and, of course, would have caught him, but Jack was the first to rush to the door; besides, he knew the road well. Here he jumped on the beanstalk, and the cannibal catches up. But suddenly Jack disappeared somewhere. The cannibal ran to the end of the road, he sees Jack already below - from the last strength he is in a hurry. The giant was afraid to step on a shaky stalk, stopped, stands, and Jack went down even lower. But then the harp called again:

Master! Master!

The giant stepped on the beanstalk and the beanstalk shook under his weight.

Here Jack goes down and down, and the ogre behind him. And when Jack got to the roof of his house, he shouted:

Mom! Mother! Bring the axe, bring the axe! Mother ran out with an ax in her hands, rushed to the beanstalk, and froze in horror: after all, upstairs the giant had already pierced the clouds with his legs. Finally, Jack jumped down to the ground, grabbed an ax and slashed at the beanstalk so hard that he almost cut it in half.

The man-eater felt that the stalk was swaying violently and stopped. "What happened?" - thinks. Here Jack strikes with an ax again - he completely cut the beanstalk. The stalk swayed and collapsed, and the ogre fell to the ground and twisted his neck.

Jack showed his mother a golden harp, and then they began to show it for money, and also sell golden eggs. And when they got rich, Jack married the princess and lived happily ever after.

Composer Randy Miller Mounting Andrew Cohen Operator Brian Bough Screenwriters Flip Kobler , Cindy Marcus Painters Julia Shklar , Michael Walsh

Did you know that

• In the original fairy tale, what was sold for beans was not a video game cow, but a real animal.
• The harp maker goes by the name of Very Sadius, which plays on his emotional state: "very sad".
• Pillow fight - the invention of the director, who is a fan of martial arts, to make the clash come to the children's category of the film, this was the "weapon" of the ninja.
• A lumberjack who claims he would like to work in a pet supply store is a reference to the Monty Python episode about the dead parrot, where the situation is exactly the opposite.
• Christopher Lloyd, as a teacher, works in a classroom where there is a drawing of Doc Brown's time travel device from the famous film "Back to the Future" - the actor played this character in 1985.

More facts (+2)

Mistakes in the movie

• Jack's computer toy is with the teacher during the lesson, but after class the boy takes it out of his desk.
• The food shelf in Jack's house has been empty for a very long time, it is covered with dust and cobwebs, and the boy is surprised by this, as if he had just learned that there is no food.
• In the ninja pillow fight scene, the white warrior is presented as Chloe Moretz, but in shots lasting two seconds or more, it is clear that the person fighting is of Asian appearance and is much taller.

Plot

Warning, the text may contain spoilers!

In a chic noir atmosphere, a little boy pursues a villain in a metropolis at night and rescues a beautiful girl from captivity. But these are just fantasies: in reality, schoolboy Jack is sitting at the most ordinary lesson in an ordinary school for fairy-tale characters.

A strict teacher threatens to leave him for the second year, because the negligent student did not dare to do a real feat.

Confused Jack gets beans by chance. One of them is eaten by Grace's pet goose and becomes magical, the rest grow into giant stems.

The boy and the goose go up into the clouds and meet the girl Gillian. Together they must free her friend, who has been turned into a harp by an evil giant. A new acquaintance turns out to be a traitor and leads them straight into the clutches of a giant.

The villain confesses that he manipulated the girl, so she goes over to Jack's side, this time for good. Children learn the truth about their own fathers, who languished in the giant's dungeon, the common pain brings them together.

Meanwhile, Jack's mother is doing everything possible to prevent the town authorities from cutting down the mysterious stems: she understands that this is the only way home from heaven for her son.

Together, the children kidnap the harp and release it from the spell, then descend to the ground. Goose Grayson retains his magical abilities and demands that the stern teacher Jack count the school year. A just wish is granted and the boy accepts congratulations from his friends.

A long time ago, or rather, I don't remember when, there lived a poor widow with her son. There was nowhere for them to wait for help, so they fell into such need that sometimes there was not even a handful of flour in the house, not even a patch of hay for a cow.

One day a mother says:

Apparently, there's nothing to do, Jack, we'll have to sell the cow.

Why? Jack asked.

He also asks why! Yes, to buy bread to feed, your stupid head!

All right, - Jack agreed. - Tomorrow morning I will take Buruya to the market. I'll take a good price for it, don't worry.

The next day, early in the morning, Jack got up, got ready and drove the cow to the market. The path was not close, and Jack often turned off the dusty road to rest himself in the shade and let the cow nibble on the fresh grass.

That's how he sits under a tree and suddenly sees: some wonderful short man is wandering towards him with a skinny knapsack on his back.

Good afternoon, Jack! - said the wonderful short man and stopped beside him. - Where are you going?

Good afternoon, I don't know your name, Jack said. I'm going to the market to sell a cow.

Sell it to me and be done with it, the little man suggested.

With pleasure, said Jack. Anything is better than stomping back and forth in the heat. How much will you give for it?

So much that you never dreamed!

Come on! - Jack laughed. - What I dreamed about, I only know about.

Meanwhile, the little man took off his knapsack from his shoulder, rummaged through it, took out five simple beans and handed them to Jack:

Hold. Let's count.

What is it? - Jack was amazed. - Five beans for a whole cow?

Five beans, the little man confirmed importantly. But what beans! Plant in the evening - by morning they will grow to the very sky.

Impossible! - exclaimed Jack, looking at the beans. - And when they grow to the sky, then what?

All right, deal with it! Jack agreed.

He was tired from walking and from the heat and was glad to be home. In addition, his curiosity dismantled: what kind of curiosity is this?

He took the beans and gave the shorty a cow. But where he drove her, in which direction, Jack did not notice.

It seems that they were just standing next to each other and suddenly disappeared - neither a cow nor a wonderful passer-by.

Jack returned home and said to his mother:

I sold the cow. Look what a wonderful price they gave me for it.” And he showed her five beans.

The next morning Jack woke up not in the old way. Usually the sun woke him up with its bright light in his face, but now the room was in twilight. "Rain in the yard, or what?" - thought Jack, jumped out of bed and looked out the window.

What miracles! A whole forest of stems, leaves and fresh green shoots swayed before his very eyes. During the night the bean sprouts grew to the sky; an unfamiliar wonderful staircase rose in front of Jack: wide, powerful, green, sparkling in the sun.

"Well, well," said Jack to himself. "

And then he remembered the words of yesterday's little man: "And then see for yourself."

I'll see, Jack decided.

He climbed out of the window and began to climb up the beanstalk.

He climbed higher and higher, higher and higher. It is terrible to think how high he had to climb before he finally reached the sky. A wide white road lay before him. He went along this road and soon saw a huge house, and a huge woman was standing on the threshold of this huge house.

What a wonderful morning! - Jack greeted her. - And what a wonderful house you have, mistress!

What do you want? grumbled the giantess, eyeing the boy suspiciously.

Good hostess! answered Jack. “I haven’t had a crumb in my mouth since yesterday, and yesterday I didn’t have supper. Will you give me just a tiny piece for breakfast?

For breakfast! The giantess smiled. “Know that if you don’t get out of here right now, you’ll become breakfast yourself. ”

How is it? Jack asked.

And so my husband is a giant who eats these boys. He's out for a walk now, but if he comes back and sees you, he'll cook his own breakfast right away.

Anyone would be frightened by such words, but not Jack. His hunger was greater than fear. He so begged and begged the giantess to give him at least something to eat, that she finally took pity, let him into the kitchen and gave him some bread, cheese and milk. But as soon as he had swallowed his breakfast, the heavy steps of a giant were heard outside the window: boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Oh, my kindness will go sideways! - the giantess was alarmed. - Hurry up and get into the stove!

And she quickly shoved Jack into the huge cold oven and covered it with a damper. At the same moment the door swung open and a terrible man-eating giant burst into the kitchen.

He sniffed the air, puffed loudly like bellows, and bellowed:

Pah! Phew! Phew! Wow!

I smell the human spirit!

Whether dead or alive -

It will be glorious to me!

Apparently, you're getting older, hubby, and your scent has become dull, - his wife objected to him.

The giant did not like being reminded of his old age. Grumbling and grumbling, he sat down at the table and gloomily ate everything that the hostess served him. After that, he told her to bring her bags of gold - he had a habit of counting them after meals for better digestion.

The giantess brought the gold, put it on the table, and herself went out to look after the cattle. After all, all the work in the house was on her, and the giant did nothing - he only ate and slept. And now - as soon as he began to count his gold, he was tired, dropped his head on a pile of coins and began to snore. So much so that the whole house shook and shook.

Then Jack quietly got out of the oven, climbed up the leg of the table, grabbed one of the giant bags - the one that was closer - and took off with it - out the door and over the threshold and running along the wide white road until he ran to the top your beanstalk.

There he put the sack in his bosom, descended to the ground, returned home and gave the sack of gold to his mother. This time she did not scold him, did not give cuffs, but on the contrary, she kissed him and called him a fine fellow.

How long, how short they lived on the gold that Jack brought, but now it all came out, and they became the same poor as before.

What to do? Of course, the mother did not want to hear about letting Jack go to the giant again, but he himself decided otherwise. And then one morning, secretly from his mother, he climbed up the beanstalk - higher and higher, higher and higher, all the way to the sky - and stepped onto a wide white road. Along that wide white road he came to the giant's house, boldly opened the door and found himself in the kitchen, where the giant's wife was preparing breakfast.

Good morning, mistress! Jack greeted her.

Ah, it's you! - said the giantess and leaned over to get a better look at the guest. - And where is the bag of gold?

If only I knew! - answered Jack. - Gold always disappears somewhere, just miracles with it!

Miracles? - doubted the giantess. - So you don't have it?

Judge for yourself, hostess, would I come to you to ask for a crust of bread, if I had a bag of gold?

Perhaps you are right, she agreed and handed Jack a piece of bread.

And suddenly - boom! boom! boom! boom! - the house shuddered from the steps of the cannibal. The hostess barely had time to push Jack into the stove and cover it with a damper, as the ogre stumbled into the kitchen.

Ugh! Phew! Phew! Wow!

I smell the human spirit!

Whether dead or alive,

It will be glorious to me! roared the giant.

But his wife, like the last time, began to reproach him: they say that he doesn't smell like a human spirit, it's just that his scent has become dull from old age. The giant did not like such talk. He ate his breakfast gloomily and said:

Wife! Bring me the goose that lays the golden eggs.

The giantess brought him a chicken, and she herself went out to look after the cattle.

Take it! - ordered the giant, and the hen immediately laid a golden egg.

Put it on! he ordered again, and she laid a second golden egg.

This was repeated many times, until finally the giant got tired of this fun. He dropped his head on the table and snored deafeningly. Then Jack got out of the stove, grabbed the magic hen and ran away. But when he ran across the yard, the hen cackled, and the giant's wife set off in pursuit - she scolded loudly and shook her fist at Jack. Luckily, she got tangled in her long skirt and fell, so that Jack just in time to reach the beanstalk and climb down.

Look what I brought, mother!

Jack put the chicken on the table and said, "Put it in!" - and the golden egg rolled across the table. "Lay!" - and the second golden egg appeared. And the third and fourth...

Since then, Jack and his mother could not be afraid of need, because the magic hen would always give them as much gold as they wish. So the mother took an ax and wanted to cut down the beanstalk. But Jack opposed it. He said that this was his stem, and he himself would cut it down when needed. In fact, he decided to once again go to the giant. And Jack's mother planned to cut down the stalk another time, quietly from Jack, so she hid the ax near the beans so that it would be at hand at the right time. And you will soon find out how it came in handy!

Jack decided to visit the giant's house again. But this time he did not immediately go into the kitchen, fearing that the giant's wife would not break his neck in revenge for the stolen chicken. He hid in the garden behind a bush, waited for the hostess to leave the house - she went to fetch water in a bucket - made his way to the kitchen and hid in a chest with flour.

Soon the giantess came back and began to cook breakfast, and there her man-eating husband - boom! boom! boom! boom! - Complained from a walk.

He inhaled noisily through his nostrils and yelled terribly:

Wife! I smell the human spirit! I hear thunder strike me! I hear it, I hear it!!!

This is probably the thief who stole the chicken, - the wife answered. - He is probably in the stove.

But there was no one in the oven. They searched the entire kitchen, but did not think to look into the chest with flour. After all, it would never occur to anyone to look for a boy in flour!

Eh, anger understands! - said the giant after breakfast. - Bring me, wife, my golden harp - it will console me.

The hostess put the harp on the table and went out to look after the cattle.

Sing, harp! - said the giant.

And the harp sang, and so sweetly and consolingly, like the birds of the forest do not sing. The giant listened and listened and soon began to nod. A minute and he was already snoring with his head on the table.

Then Jack got out of the flour chest, climbed up the leg of the table, grabbed the harp and ran away. But when he jumped over the threshold, the harp rang loudly and called: "Master! Master!" The giant woke up and looked out the door.

He saw how Jack fled along the wide white road with a harp in his hands, roared and gave chase. Jack raced like a hare saving his life, and the giant rushed after him with huge leaps and filled the whole sky with a wild roar.

However, if he had roared less and saved more strength, he probably would have caught up with Jack. But the stupid giant was out of breath and hesitated. He had already stretched out his hand on the run to grab the boy, but he still managed to run to the beanstalk and began to climb quickly, quickly, without letting go of the harp from his hands.

The giant stopped at the edge of the sky and thought about it. He touched and even shook the beanstalk, wondering if it could bear its weight. But at that moment the harp called him once more from below: "Master! Master!" - and he made up his mind: he grabbed the stalk with both hands and began to climb down. Leaves and fragments of branches flew like rain from above, the whole huge green staircase bent and swayed. Jack looked up and saw that the giant was overtaking him.

Mom! Mother! he shouted.

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