In Once More, With Feeling, we are faced with a demon that makes people go into musical world without knowing. When people start to talk, it just transitions into singing and dancing seamlessly. When the Scooby gang got nervous with this unknown demon, Buffy comes the group down through singing out her faith in the gang. When Giles talks about his feelings about Buffy, he just started to sing it out. The transition to the musical world is very smooth; where as the audience I had no trouble from one to the other. Because the transitions are so smooth and we are traveling back and forth between two worlds, to gets blurred sometimes. But, we can figure out when we are in the musical world if we just stay a bit longer and wait for the dramatic movements or the singing, which are cues for the musical world. Similarly, in the Nutcracker, Marie is able to move back and forth between the world that Nutcracker lives and the world where her family is in. The narrator moves between the fantasy and the reality seemly. However, this time, the two worlds are a lot more blurred than in Buffy, at times it is hard to know whether we are in fantasy or reality. We are seeing evidence of fantasy in reality (mouse king’s crown). We are seeing evidence of reality in fantasy (the clockmaker).
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