![]() (That’s the age at which Casters, what they call witches in this story, come of age with a “Claiming” - when they turn to the Light or the Dark.) When a window breaks during a class while she’s being teased by the other students, Ethan begins to sense her powers, and he’s intrigued, not scared.īut he and Lena can’t really be together without injuring or potentially killing him. ![]() She also has an ever-changing number written on her hand, counting down the days until she turns 16. She writes poetry, wears Gothic clothing, and has a strange charm necklace festooned with things like soda-can tabs, buttons, string, and sea glass. Needless to say, Lena is not like any of the other girls in Gatlin (especially the peppy blonde cheerleaders). Strangely, Ethan and Lena have already been dreaming about each other before they’ve even met, and they share a telepathic connection. Now, in the months leading up to her 16th birthday, Lena Duchannes (played by Alice Englert) has come to stay with her uncle Macon Ravenwood (played by Jeremy Irons), a shut-in who owns most of Gatlin. Ethan is named after one of his ancestors, a Civil War defector (a badge of pride in his family), and his liberal parents often butted heads with the rest of the town of Gatlin. (Vampires and werewolves? Is that all you got?) But since any Mortal visiting this world might find all of this a little confusing, we enlisted the help of the books’ co-authors, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, and the webmasters for the official fansite, Caster Girls, to break it down.Įthan Wate (played in the movie by Alden Ehrenreich) is a teenager whose mother has recently died and whose father has become a recluse. By comparison, the Twilight mythology looks pretty thin. It’s a southern Gothic tale, replete with Civil War reenactments, voodoo, demons, and a curse that has lasted for centuries. The series is told from the point of view of a male Mortal who falls for the new girl in his sleepy South Carolina town and learns the truth behind her mysterious, dangerous abilities. You might call the characters witches, but they call themselves “Casters,” as in Spell Casters. If the central metaphor of the Twilight books was abstinence, the Caster Chronicles are about self-empowerment, and that power is (mostly) female. ![]() Pictures release.Īny supernatural romance with star-crossed lovers spawned from a young-adult franchise is bound to be blessed (or cursed) as “the next Twilight.” But in the case of Beautiful Creatures (the first of the Caster Chronicles series to be adapted to film), we are going to dispel that notion right away. (L-r) EILEEN ATKINS as Gramma, ALICE ENGLERT as Lena Duchannes and JEREMY IRONS as Macon Ravenwood in Alcon Entertainment’s supernatural love story “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES,” a Warner Bros.
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