It’s a delightful fact that jewelry boxes have been featured in movies, plays, and books. They have been central to several Hollywood movies. There are many movies that have a jewelry box as an important part of their theme.
‘The Black Swan’ is one example in which actress Natalie Portman gave an Oscar-winning performance. In the film, when she went to bed each night with her toys, she would dream of a ballet dancer in a musical box.
Released in the seventies was a South Korean film ‘When A Woman Breaks Her Jewelry Box’, about a woman who breaks her jewelry box to find the truth about her mother. When the box was broken, the lady realized that her mother was still alive and not dead as she had thought. It was recognized as the best film and even won an award at the Blue Dragon Film Award ceremony.
Another riveting movie involving jewelry boxes was ‘What Lies Beneath’ starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Michelle finds a jewelry box behind their home on the lake and it turns out to be a clue that helps her solve a murder mystery. She is constantly bugged by a ghost that keeps appearing and the movie is an absolute must-see for its fantastic ending. Thrillers like the ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ series have also used treasure chests and jewelry boxes a lot.
The ‘Missing Bride’ was a play written by Dalton Moore, an administrator at the Swindon High School, in the 1980s. The students performed the play so convincingly that they won an inter-school competition as well. The play was about a bride who went missing from her own wedding reception. Guests at the reception were worried about the missing bride.
They looked all over the house until they came across an old jewelry chest and had to make an effort to open it. They found only the bride’s dress inside with no sign of her. Even though her body was missing, her gorgeous wedding dress was right there. There was complete silence in the audience as they were intrigued. In the end it turned out that the home the groom and bride bought was actually haunted.
Greek mythology speaks of Pandora’s box, one that was given to a beautiful girl by the Gods, with explicit instructions that it should not be opened. But she was curious and opened the box unleashing illness and disease all around the world.
Fairy tales have their share of jewelry boxes too. In ‘The Emperor’s Clothes’, the king’s clothes and riches were stored in highly decorative treasure chests. In the Harry Potter series, J K Rowling explains Harry’s wizardry and the money he inherits from his parents in the first book. All his gold was kept in jewelry chests at the Gringotts Wizarding Bank. ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ was the name of this movie. Everyone, from adults to children love the idea of stories that revolve around hidden treasure and jewelry boxes.
No matter if it is a book, movie, or a play, the whole family is bound to enjoy.
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