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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,866 --> 00:00:03,433 {\an8}HI, I'M JOHN MAUCERI. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:03,466 --> 00:00:05,833 {\an7}AND WELCOME TO "THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING." 4 00:00:05,866 --> 00:00:09,433 {\an7}I SUPPOSED EVERY ONE OF YOU KNOWS "THE NUTCRACKER" BALLET 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:09,466 --> 00:00:13,433 {\an7}AND ITS MAGNIFICENT SCORE, COMPLETED IN 1892 7 00:00:13,466 --> 00:00:15,233 BY PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY. 8 00:00:15,266 --> 00:00:17,866 {\an1}BUT THERE'S SOMETHING I LEARNED OVER THE YEARS. 9 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:20,033 TCHAIKOVSKY REALLY DIDN'T LIKE IT, 10 00:00:20,066 --> 00:00:22,033 {\an1}AND I NEVER QUITE KNEW WHY. 11 00:00:22,066 --> 00:00:24,366 {\an1}IT TURNS OUT THAT THE STORY HE WAS GIVEN 12 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,500 {\an1}WAS A VERY SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK 13 00:00:27,533 --> 00:00:32,933 {\an1}WRITTEN IN 1816 BY THE GERMAN WRITER E.T.A. HOFFMANN. 14 00:00:32,966 --> 00:00:34,433 {\an1}AND COME TO THINK OF IT, 15 00:00:34,466 --> 00:00:36,433 {\an1}THE STORY OF THE BALLET NEVER REALLY COMES 16 00:00:36,466 --> 00:00:37,900 {\an1}TO A SATISFACTORY END. 17 00:00:37,933 --> 00:00:40,266 I MEAN, WHO WAS THE MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER 18 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:42,233 {\an1}CALLED GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER? 19 00:00:42,266 --> 00:00:44,933 {\an1}AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT, HOW DID THAT YOUNG MAN 20 00:00:44,966 --> 00:00:47,666 {\an1}GET PUT INTO A NUTCRACKER IN THE FIRST PLACE? 21 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:49,866 THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS 22 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:52,366 {\an1}CAN BE FOUND IN THE STORY TCHAIKOVSKY LOVED. 23 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,233 AND SO I DECIDED TO GO BACK TO THE SOURCE, 24 00:00:55,266 --> 00:00:57,233 {\an1}THE WONDERFUL HOFFMANN STORY, 25 00:00:57,266 --> 00:00:59,500 AND CREATE A SCORE BY TCHAIKOVSKY 26 00:00:59,533 --> 00:01:01,833 THAT PRESERVES THE MELODIES WE ALL LOVE, 27 00:01:01,866 --> 00:01:06,300 {\an1}BUT ALSO INCLUDES MUSIC FROM HIS MANY LESSER-KNOWN WORKS. 28 00:01:06,333 --> 00:01:09,500 HOFFMANN'S NUTCRACKER STORY IS IN 3 PARTS. 29 00:01:09,533 --> 00:01:13,466 {\an1}THE FIRST TAKES PLACE WHEN ALL GREAT FAIRYTALES BEGIN... 30 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:14,966 THE MIDDLE AGES. 31 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,666 {\an1}BUT IT'S AN ANTI-FAIRYTALE, 32 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:20,366 ONE THAT IS FUNNY AND FANTASTICAL, 33 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:26,200 {\an1}BUT DEFINITELY DOES NOT END HAPPILY EVER AFTER. 34 00:01:26,233 --> 00:01:28,866 {\an1}ALL RIGHT, THEN, LET'S GO BACK A BIT IN TIME 35 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:32,100 TO DECEMBER 7, 2019, 36 00:01:32,133 --> 00:01:35,400 AND GLASGOW'S ROYAL CONCERT HALL IN SCOTLAND, 37 00:01:35,433 --> 00:01:38,300 THE LAND OF ANCIENT STANDING STONES, 38 00:01:38,333 --> 00:01:41,433 {\an1}WHERE THE NATIONAL ANIMAL IS THE UNICORN 39 00:01:41,466 --> 00:01:45,000 {\an1}AND THE ONE PLACE WHERE A DRAGON MIGHT STILL LURK 40 00:01:45,033 --> 00:01:48,533 IN THE BLACK WATERS OF LOCH NESS. 41 00:01:48,566 --> 00:01:49,933 [APPLAUSE] 42 00:01:49,966 --> 00:01:51,533 {\an1}THE ORCHESTRA HAS TUNED, 43 00:01:51,566 --> 00:01:54,300 AND APPLAUSE GREETS THE ENTRANCE OF THE CONDUCTOR. 44 00:01:54,333 --> 00:01:55,933 AND THERE HE IS. 45 00:01:55,966 --> 00:01:58,766 LOOKS FAMILIAR. 46 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,600 {\an1}AND KNOWING HIM AS I DO, 47 00:02:07,633 --> 00:02:11,333 HE PROBABLY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY. 48 00:02:16,766 --> 00:02:18,300 "THE NUTCRACKER." 49 00:02:18,333 --> 00:02:21,533 I SUSPECT THAT THERE AREN'T MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE 50 00:02:21,566 --> 00:02:24,500 {\an1}WHO KNOW THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY. 51 00:02:24,533 --> 00:02:28,100 WELL, HERE TO TELL THE GREAT EPIC STORY 52 00:02:28,133 --> 00:02:30,733 {\an1}WRITTEN BY E.T.A. HOFFMANN 53 00:02:30,766 --> 00:02:33,733 {\an1}WITH MUSIC COMPILED BY ME 54 00:02:33,766 --> 00:02:35,400 {\an1}OF THE MUSIC BY TCHAIKOVSKY, 55 00:02:35,433 --> 00:02:37,966 {\an1}INCLUDING ALL THE TUNES YOU LOVE FROM THE BALLET, 56 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,266 {\an1}HERE TO TELL THAT STORY, THE REAL STORY, 57 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:45,000 THE COMPLETE STORY, PLEASE WELCOME ALAN CUMMING. 58 00:02:45,033 --> 00:02:47,166 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 59 00:03:19,433 --> 00:03:21,966 IF I MAY, I KNOW YOU'RE READY FOR THIS, 60 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,133 BUT I'VE KNOWN ALAN SINCE THE MID-1980s 61 00:03:25,166 --> 00:03:27,733 WHEN I WAS MUSIC DIRECTOR OF SCOTTISH OPERA. 62 00:03:27,766 --> 00:03:28,733 {\an1}I WAS A CHILD. 63 00:03:28,766 --> 00:03:30,433 {\an1}HE WAS A CHILD. 64 00:03:30,466 --> 00:03:32,000 {\an1}HE WAS A WEE LAD. 65 00:03:32,033 --> 00:03:34,666 AND WE BECAME FRIENDS IN THOSE YEARS, 66 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:36,733 AND THEN HE CAME TO NEW YORK 67 00:03:36,766 --> 00:03:38,966 AND TOOK OVER THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 68 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,900 WHEN HE PLAYED IN "CABARET." 69 00:03:40,933 --> 00:03:43,866 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 70 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:45,633 AND THEN, IF I MAY, 71 00:03:45,666 --> 00:03:48,633 WHEN I WAS DIRECTOR OF THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA, 72 00:03:48,666 --> 00:03:52,300 I INVITED HIM TO MAKE HIS ORCHESTRAL DEBUT 73 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:55,300 ON THE WEEKEND IN WHICH WE PLAYED, 74 00:03:55,333 --> 00:03:59,233 AND HE SANG TO 54,000 PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES. 75 00:03:59,266 --> 00:04:01,400 THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO MAKE YOUR DEBUT. 76 00:04:01,433 --> 00:04:03,933 ANYWAY, WHEN I GAVE HIM THIS SCRIPT, 77 00:04:03,966 --> 00:04:06,500 HE SAID, [SCOTTISH ACCENT] "IT'S A HOOT." 78 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:12,266 SO WE'RE SO... I'M SO CHUFFED AS THEY SAY. 79 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,866 I'M SO PLEASED THAT ALAN WOULD PARTICIPATE 80 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:17,866 IN WHAT IS ACTUALLY THE WORLD PREMIERE 81 00:04:17,900 --> 00:04:19,866 LAST NIGHT AND TONIGHT OF THIS NEW WORK. 82 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:22,166 SO NOW WE'LL PLAY IT FOR YOU. 83 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,900 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 84 00:04:33,266 --> 00:04:41,266 ♪ 85 00:05:03,233 --> 00:05:11,233 ♪ 86 00:05:18,333 --> 00:05:26,333 ♪ 87 00:05:33,433 --> 00:05:41,433 ♪ 88 00:05:48,533 --> 00:05:56,533 ♪ 89 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:11,700 ♪ 90 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:26,800 ♪ 91 00:06:41,333 --> 00:06:47,300 {\an8}♪ 92 00:06:47,333 --> 00:06:55,333 ♪ 93 00:07:00,866 --> 00:07:03,900 {\an1}ONCE A VERY LONG TIME AGO, 94 00:07:03,933 --> 00:07:06,966 {\an1}WHEN THE GREAT STORIES WERE FIRST BEING TOLD 95 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,433 AND WHEN THE FLAP OF DRAGON WINGS 96 00:07:09,466 --> 00:07:10,966 {\an1}COULD BE HEARD IN THE SKY 97 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,466 AND TROLLS PROWLED THE FORESTS, 98 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:18,266 {\an1}RAINBOWS WERE SAID TO LEAD TO A KINGDOM BEYOND THE CLOUDS, 99 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:22,166 AND THERE WAS TALK OF AN ALL-POWERFUL SWORD, 100 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,700 {\an1}OR PERHAPS IT WAS A RING. 101 00:07:24,733 --> 00:07:28,333 {\an1}SOME EVEN CLAIM TO UNDERSTAND THE LONG-FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE 102 00:07:28,366 --> 00:07:30,366 OF THE ANIMALS. 103 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:35,166 {\an1}AND EVERY DAY, JUST AS THE EARTH TURNED ITS FACE TO THE SUN, 104 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,133 {\an1}AND THEN LIKE CLOCKWORK TURNED ITS BACK TO IT AT NIGHT, 105 00:07:40,166 --> 00:07:45,166 {\an1}THERE WAS MAGIC BOTH FOR GOOD AND FOR EVIL. 106 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,900 {\an1}IT WAS THEN THAT MANKIND FIRST LEARNED 107 00:07:47,933 --> 00:07:50,400 {\an1}THAT THE STRONGEST POWER IN THE UNIVERSE 108 00:07:50,433 --> 00:07:53,466 {\an1}WAS ALSO THE SIMPLEST. 109 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:57,733 ♪ 110 00:07:57,766 --> 00:08:01,833 {\an1}THIS IS WHERE WE BEGIN, 111 00:08:01,866 --> 00:08:06,100 {\an1}ON A PARTICULAR MORNING WHEN THE QUEEN WAS IN THE KITCHEN. 112 00:08:06,133 --> 00:08:08,666 SHE DIDN'T GO THERE VERY OFTEN. 113 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,333 {\an1}BUT THIS WAS A SPECIAL OCCASION... THE KING'S BIRTHDAY. 114 00:08:12,366 --> 00:08:16,066 {\an1}AND EVERY YEAR THE QUEEN MADE THE KING'S FAVORITE DISH, 115 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:20,500 SAUSAGE FROM A SECRET FAMILY RECIPE. 116 00:08:20,533 --> 00:08:24,466 AS SHE WAS COOKING, THE SMELL OF BACON AND HERBS 117 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:26,400 FILLED THE VAST ROOM. 118 00:08:26,433 --> 00:08:32,333 THAT'S WHEN SHE HEARD A VOICE SHE PREFERRED NOT TO RECOGNIZE. 119 00:08:32,366 --> 00:08:35,600 "SISTER, GIVE ME SOME OF THAT! 120 00:08:35,633 --> 00:08:37,833 {\an1}"I SMELL THE FAMILY SECRET. 121 00:08:37,866 --> 00:08:40,633 I AM, AFTER ALL, A QUEEN, TOO." 122 00:08:40,666 --> 00:08:44,700 {\an1}IT WAS QUEEN MOUSERINK WHO LIVED UNDERNEATH THE HEARTH 123 00:08:44,733 --> 00:08:47,000 WHERE SHE RULED ANOTHER KINGDOM, 124 00:08:47,033 --> 00:08:48,966 THE MOUSE KINGDOM. 125 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 {\an1}THE QUEEN KNEW THIS VOICE WELL, 126 00:08:51,033 --> 00:08:54,166 {\an1}AND WANTING NO TROUBLE FROM HER HALF SISTER, 127 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,766 OBLIGED. 128 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:02,400 {\an1}SUDDENLY, MOUSERINK'S FAMILY, INDEED THE ENTIRE MOUSE KINGDOM, 129 00:09:02,433 --> 00:09:04,700 SEEMED TO ERUPT ALL AROUND HER, 130 00:09:04,733 --> 00:09:07,133 {\an1}GORGING THEMSELVES ON THE BACON. 131 00:09:07,166 --> 00:09:09,066 {\an1}WHEN THEY WERE FINALLY DONE, 132 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:12,166 {\an1}THE QUEEN DID HER VERY BEST TO MAKE THE KING'S FAVORITE DISH 133 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,666 AND PRESENT IT TO HIM AT HIS BIRTHDAY FEAST. 134 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:23,700 ♪ 135 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,933 {\an8}UNFORTUNATELY, AT THE FIRST BITE OF SAUSAGE, 136 00:09:48,966 --> 00:09:51,833 {\an7}THE KING BECAME PALE AND PRACTICALLY FAINTED 137 00:09:51,866 --> 00:09:53,200 FROM DISAPPOINTMENT. 138 00:09:53,233 --> 00:09:56,433 "NOT ENOUGH BACON," HE BLUBBERED. 139 00:09:56,466 --> 00:09:58,500 THE QUEEN EXPLAINED WHAT HAD HAPPENED, 140 00:09:58,533 --> 00:10:02,166 {\an1}AND THE KING CALLED FOR THE COURT CLOCKMAKER AND WIZARD 141 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,533 {\an1}CHRISTIAN ELIAS DROSSELMEYER. 142 00:10:06,566 --> 00:10:12,933 ♪ 143 00:10:12,966 --> 00:10:15,333 {\an1}THE KING DEMANDED RETRIBUTION, 144 00:10:15,366 --> 00:10:19,600 {\an1}AND SO THE WIZARD DROSSELMEYER INVENTED THE MOUSETRAP 145 00:10:19,633 --> 00:10:23,500 {\an1}AND LURED QUEEN MOUSERINK'S FAMILY AND MUCH OF HER KINGDOM 146 00:10:23,533 --> 00:10:25,400 INTO THE TRAPS! 147 00:10:25,433 --> 00:10:33,433 ♪ 148 00:10:56,866 --> 00:10:59,166 QUEEN MOUSERINK, IN A FURY, 149 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,100 {\an1}APPEARED BEFORE THE QUEEN IN HER PRIVATE CHAMBERS. 150 00:11:02,133 --> 00:11:05,800 {\an1}HER RED EYES WERE GLOWING AND SHE HISSED. 151 00:11:05,833 --> 00:11:11,833 ♪ 152 00:11:11,866 --> 00:11:15,066 "SISTER, TAKE CARE! 153 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:17,600 "YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY FAMILY, 154 00:11:17,633 --> 00:11:20,700 {\an1}"AND I WILL RETURN AND PAY A LITTLE VISIT 155 00:11:20,733 --> 00:11:23,300 "TO YOUR FIRST BORN. 156 00:11:23,333 --> 00:11:25,400 TAKE CARE." 157 00:11:25,433 --> 00:11:29,433 {\an1}AND AT THAT, SHE DISAPPEARED BENEATH THE HEARTH. 158 00:11:31,466 --> 00:11:37,333 {\an8}♪ 159 00:11:37,366 --> 00:11:39,300 TIMED PASSED. 160 00:11:39,333 --> 00:11:41,133 AND WITH THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING, 161 00:11:41,166 --> 00:11:43,600 {\an1}THE CASTLE WAS FULL OF JOY. 162 00:11:43,633 --> 00:11:47,400 NOT ONLY HAD THE GRAY WINTER SKIES DEPARTED 163 00:11:47,433 --> 00:11:50,766 {\an1}AND THE LILACS AND WISTERIA WERE IN BLOOM, 164 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,000 BUT A YOUNG PRINCESS HAD BEEN BORN 165 00:11:53,033 --> 00:11:55,366 {\an1}TO THE KING AND QUEEN. 166 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,733 ♪ 167 00:11:58,766 --> 00:12:01,033 THEY BELIEVED PRINCESS PIRLIPAT 168 00:12:01,066 --> 00:12:03,933 {\an1}TO BE THE MOST PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL BABY 169 00:12:03,966 --> 00:12:06,133 THEY HAD EVER SEEN. 170 00:12:06,166 --> 00:12:09,366 ♪ 171 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,500 PERFECT SKIN, 172 00:12:12,533 --> 00:12:14,833 BRIGHT EYES, 173 00:12:14,866 --> 00:12:16,233 CURLY HAIR, 174 00:12:16,266 --> 00:12:18,433 AND, NOW THIS IS QUITE AMAZING, 175 00:12:18,466 --> 00:12:22,933 TWO ROWS OF PERFECTLY FORMED TEETH. 176 00:12:22,966 --> 00:12:27,133 [LAUGHTER] 177 00:12:27,166 --> 00:12:29,800 AND WHILE THE KING WAS OVERJOYED, 178 00:12:29,833 --> 00:12:31,866 ONE COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE 179 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:36,433 {\an1}THAT THE QUEEN SEEMED TROUBLED. 180 00:12:36,466 --> 00:12:39,133 AND YOU CERTAINLY CAN UNDERSTAND WHY. 181 00:12:39,166 --> 00:12:41,466 ♪ 182 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:45,000 SHE REMEMBERED HER HALF SISTER'S THREAT. 183 00:12:45,033 --> 00:12:53,033 ♪ 184 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:58,433 {\an1}SHE POSTED SENTRIES AT THE DOORS TO THE BABY'S ROOM, 185 00:12:58,466 --> 00:13:01,733 TWO LADIES IN WAITING NEXT TO THE CRADLE, 186 00:13:01,766 --> 00:13:04,066 AND 6 NURSES IN ATTENDANCE. 187 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:06,133 {\an1}AND NOT JUST 6 NURSES, 188 00:13:06,166 --> 00:13:11,500 BUT 6 TOMCATS SITTING ON THE LAPS OF THE 6 NURSES. 189 00:13:11,533 --> 00:13:18,400 ♪ 190 00:13:18,433 --> 00:13:22,466 {\an1}SURELY ALL WOULD BE WELL. 191 00:13:26,833 --> 00:13:29,766 {\an8}♪ 192 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,433 {\an7}ONE NIGHT, JUST AS THE CLOCK STRUCK 12, 193 00:13:33,466 --> 00:13:36,533 THE 6 NURSES, THE TWO LADIES IN WAITING, 194 00:13:36,566 --> 00:13:41,866 THE GUARDS, AND EVEN THE TOMCATS DISAPPEARED. 195 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:43,166 NO, THEY DIDN'T. 196 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,000 THEY WERE CAST INTO A DEEP SLEEP. 197 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,633 {\an1}IN A FLASH, QUEEN MOUSERINK APPEARED 198 00:13:47,666 --> 00:13:49,566 {\an1}AND JUMPED INTO THE CRIB. 199 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,500 ♪ 200 00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:59,166 {\an1}THE CRY OF PRINCESS PIRLIPAT AWAKENED THE ROOM. 201 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,066 "THANK GOODNESS SHE'S ALIVE," THEY ALL SAID, 202 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:05,866 {\an1}AS QUEEN MOUSERINK LEAPT OUT OF THE CRADLE 203 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:09,400 AND DISAPPEARED INTO A CRACK IN THE FLOOR. 204 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:11,133 WHAT HAD BEEN RELIEF 205 00:14:11,166 --> 00:14:14,100 TURNED INTO SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT 206 00:14:14,133 --> 00:14:19,366 {\an1}WHEN THE QUEEN AND THE COURT LOOKED INTO THE CRIB. 207 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:25,900 ♪ 208 00:14:25,933 --> 00:14:30,033 {\an1}YES, PRINCESS PIRLIPAT WAS ALIVE, 209 00:14:30,066 --> 00:14:33,033 {\an1}BUT SOME TERRIBLE CURSE HAD BEEN PLACED ON HER. 210 00:14:33,066 --> 00:14:37,266 AND INSTEAD OF BEING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BABY ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN, 211 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:42,033 {\an1}SHE HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT. 212 00:14:42,066 --> 00:14:44,466 {\an1}SHE HAD AN ENORMOUS HEAD 213 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:46,166 {\an1}WITH GREEN EYES AND A MOUTH 214 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,866 {\an1}THAT STRETCHED FROM ONE SIDE OF HER FACE TO ANOTHER. 215 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:54,666 SHE ALSO HAD A LITTLE WHITE BEARD. 216 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:56,233 THE QUEEN FAINTED, 217 00:14:56,266 --> 00:14:58,933 AND THE KING DEMANDED THAT DROSSELMEYER, 218 00:14:58,966 --> 00:15:01,566 {\an1}WHO HAD AFTER ALL INVENTED THE MOUSETRAP, 219 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,866 BREAK THE CURSE OR FORFEIT HIS LIFE. 220 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,800 {\an1}"CHRISTIAN ELIAS DROSSELMEYER, CURE THE PRINCESS 221 00:15:08,833 --> 00:15:11,933 OR YOU MUST DIE." 222 00:15:11,966 --> 00:15:14,000 DROSSELMEYER SWOONED, 223 00:15:14,033 --> 00:15:17,733 BUT LITTLE PRINCESS PIRLIPAT JUST SMILED 224 00:15:17,766 --> 00:15:19,933 AND CRACKED NUTS. 225 00:15:19,966 --> 00:15:21,800 [LAUGHTER] 226 00:15:21,833 --> 00:15:27,933 {\an1}AND WHEN THE WIZARD REALIZED HER UNUSUAL APPETITE FOR NUTS, 227 00:15:27,966 --> 00:15:30,700 HE VISITED HIS FRIEND THE COURT ASTRONOMER 228 00:15:30,733 --> 00:15:32,933 {\an1}WHO LIVED IN A GREAT TOWER. 229 00:15:32,966 --> 00:15:35,666 AS HE SADLY CLIMBED THE STAIRCASE, 230 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:37,833 {\an1}HE WONDERED IF THE CURSE 231 00:15:37,866 --> 00:15:43,000 {\an1}HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE PRINCESS' DESIRE TO CRACK NUTS. 232 00:15:43,033 --> 00:15:47,266 {\an1}PERHAPS HE AND THE ASTRONOMER COULD UNLOCK THE SECRET. 233 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:50,600 {\an1}TOGETHER THEY CONSULTED ANCIENT BOOKS, 234 00:15:50,633 --> 00:15:53,400 {\an1}FANTASTICAL MAPS, HOROSCOPES, 235 00:15:53,433 --> 00:15:56,500 {\an1}AND STUDIED THE MOVEMENT OF THE STARS. 236 00:15:56,533 --> 00:15:59,133 {\an1}AND AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION, 237 00:15:59,166 --> 00:16:01,700 {\an1}THEY BOTH SHOUTED, "EUREKA!" 238 00:16:01,733 --> 00:16:05,566 {\an1}THEY HAD DISCOVERED WHAT TO DO TO CRACK THE CASE 239 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,233 {\an1}AND RAN TO PRESENT THEIR FINDINGS TO THE KING. 240 00:16:09,266 --> 00:16:12,633 {\an1}"THE PRINCESS WOULD BE CURED AND THE CURSE LIFTED 241 00:16:12,666 --> 00:16:17,566 {\an1}ONLY WHEN SHE EATS THE FRUIT OF THE HARDEST NUT IN THE WORLD," 242 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,300 {\an1}EXPLAINED DROSSELMEYER. 243 00:16:19,333 --> 00:16:23,400 "THE KRAKATUK NUT," THE ASTRONOMER ADDED HELPFULLY. 244 00:16:23,433 --> 00:16:26,533 {\an1}"THE NUT MUST BE CRACKED IN THE PRINCESS' PRESENCE 245 00:16:26,566 --> 00:16:29,933 {\an1}"BY THE TEETH OF A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS NEVER SHAVED 246 00:16:29,966 --> 00:16:32,200 {\an1}"AND NEVER WORN BOOTS. 247 00:16:32,233 --> 00:16:35,233 {\an1}"HE MUST HAND HER THE KERNEL WITH HIS EYES CLOSED 248 00:16:35,266 --> 00:16:40,600 {\an1}"AND NOT OPEN THEM AGAIN UNTIL HE HAS TAKEN 7 STEPS BACKWARDS 249 00:16:40,633 --> 00:16:44,600 {\an1}BUT WITHOUT STUMBLING." 250 00:16:44,633 --> 00:16:48,500 {\an1}"ALL WELL AND GOOD," SAID THE DOWNCAST KING, 251 00:16:48,533 --> 00:16:51,666 "BUT WHO WILL FIND THIS KRAKATUK NUT 252 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:54,566 AND THE YOUNG MAN TO CRACK IT?" 253 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,500 A VERY GOOD QUESTION. 254 00:16:56,533 --> 00:16:59,433 {\an1}DROSSELMEYER SUGGESTED THAT ALL HE NEEDED 255 00:16:59,466 --> 00:17:02,566 {\an1}WAS 15 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS 256 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,333 {\an1}TO FIND BOTH THE KRAKATUK NUT AND THE YOUNG MAN, 257 00:17:06,366 --> 00:17:10,666 {\an1}BY WHICH TIME THE PRINCESS WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR MARRIAGE. 258 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,900 {\an1}AND SO WITH A HEAVY HEART, 259 00:17:13,933 --> 00:17:17,200 {\an1}THE KING SENT HIM ON HIS WAY TO FIND THE NUT 260 00:17:17,233 --> 00:17:20,566 {\an1}AND A YOUNG CRACKER OF NUTS. 261 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,466 [LAUGHTER] 262 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:28,333 {\an1}FOR 15 YEARS AND 5 MONTHS 263 00:17:28,366 --> 00:17:31,133 AND 3 WEEKS, 264 00:17:31,166 --> 00:17:33,800 DROSSELMEYER TRAVELED THE WORLD. 265 00:17:33,833 --> 00:17:36,100 HE WENT TO SPAIN. 266 00:17:36,133 --> 00:17:44,033 {\an8}♪ 267 00:17:44,066 --> 00:17:52,066 ♪ 268 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:20,000 {\an1}BUT IN SPAIN HE FOUND ONLY CHOCOLATE AND PEANUTS 269 00:18:20,033 --> 00:18:23,433 {\an1}BROUGHT FROM A PLACE THAT WAS CALLED THE NEW WORLD. 270 00:18:23,466 --> 00:18:27,800 {\an1}IN THE CENTRAL KINGDOM, KNOWN AS CHINA, 271 00:18:27,833 --> 00:18:31,133 HE DRANK TEA WITH A GREAT EMPEROR. 272 00:18:31,166 --> 00:18:39,166 ♪ 273 00:19:00,533 --> 00:19:05,033 {\an1}THE EMPEROR AND HIS COURT HAD HEARD OF THE KRAKATUK NUT, 274 00:19:05,066 --> 00:19:08,200 {\an1}BUT COULD ONLY SERVE HIM THE LYCHEE NUT. 275 00:19:08,233 --> 00:19:11,766 {\an1}THEN IT WAS A MAD DASH THROUGH RUSSIA. 276 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:19,800 ♪ 277 00:19:46,066 --> 00:19:54,066 ♪ 278 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:09,533 ♪ 279 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,366 ♪ 280 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,700 {\an1}BUT IN RUSSIA, HE ONLY FOUND SIBERIAN PINE NUTS. 281 00:20:25,733 --> 00:20:29,366 {\an1}IN ARABIA, HE DRANK COFFEE 282 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,766 AND FOUND ONLY ALMONDS AND DATES. 283 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,166 AND SO IT WENT. 284 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,633 {\an1}BREADNUTS, BRAZIL NUTS, 285 00:20:39,666 --> 00:20:44,033 {\an1}HAZELNUTS, CASHEW NUTS, 286 00:20:44,066 --> 00:20:47,600 MACADAMIA NUTS, 287 00:20:47,633 --> 00:20:49,500 COCONUTS, 288 00:20:49,533 --> 00:20:53,100 {\an1}AND THE RED BOBBLE NUT FROM AUSTRALIA. 289 00:20:53,133 --> 00:20:56,466 BUT NO KRAKATUK NUT. 290 00:20:56,500 --> 00:21:04,500 ♪ 291 00:21:13,433 --> 00:21:16,533 {\an1}DROSSELMEYER'S YELLOW CAPE HAD BEEN TORN TO SHREDS 292 00:21:16,566 --> 00:21:18,033 FROM THE JOURNEY. 293 00:21:18,066 --> 00:21:19,933 {\an1}HE LOST THE USE OF ONE EYE 294 00:21:19,966 --> 00:21:22,066 {\an1}HAVING BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF AN ARROW 295 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:24,166 {\an1}FROM A CARIBBEAN CHIEFTAIN. 296 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,000 {\an1}HIS HAIR HAD FALLEN OUT 297 00:21:26,033 --> 00:21:28,766 FROM TOO MUCH SUN IN THE SAHARA DESERT. 298 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,866 ♪ 299 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,866 AND NOW WITH NO KRAKATUK NUTS 300 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:38,166 {\an1}AND ONLY ONE WEEK TO GO, 301 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,500 {\an1}DROSSELMEYER THOUGHT TO SEE HIS HOMETOWN OF NUREMBERG 302 00:21:41,533 --> 00:21:44,133 ONE LAST TIME. 303 00:21:44,166 --> 00:21:52,166 ♪ 304 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,166 THERE HE PAID A VISIT TO HIS BROTHER 305 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,800 {\an1}WHO WAS THE PROPRIETOR OF AN ENCHANTED TOY SHOP. 306 00:22:00,833 --> 00:22:05,866 ♪ 307 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:07,866 {\an7}BROTHER ZACHARIAS DROSSELMEYER 308 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,966 {\an7}HARDLY RECOGNIZED HIS BROTHER CHRISTIAN 309 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,866 {\an7}AFTER HIS LONG JOURNEY, 310 00:22:11,900 --> 00:22:14,900 {\an7}BUT LISTENED INTENTLY TO THE ASTONISHING STORY 311 00:22:14,933 --> 00:22:17,633 OF PRINCESS PIRLIPAT, QUEEN MOUSERINK, 312 00:22:17,666 --> 00:22:20,100 AND THE HARD NUT. 313 00:22:20,133 --> 00:22:23,233 ♪ 314 00:22:23,266 --> 00:22:25,300 {\an1}ZACHARIAS BROKE INTO A JIG 315 00:22:25,333 --> 00:22:26,966 WHEN HE HEARD ABOUT THE KRAKATUK NUT 316 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,666 {\an1}BECAUSE MANY YEARS BEFORE, 317 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:30,466 ONCE UPON ANOTHER ONCE UPON A TIME, 318 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:33,300 {\an1}A VISITING NUT SALESMAN WAS KNOCKED DOWN IN THE STREET 319 00:22:33,333 --> 00:22:37,366 {\an1}BY A CART THAT CRACKED HIS SACK OF NUTS. 320 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,000 ALL BUT ONE, THAT IS. 321 00:22:39,033 --> 00:22:42,033 {\an1}BROTHER ZACHARIAS HAD SAVED IT IN HIS TOY SHOP. 322 00:22:42,066 --> 00:22:44,866 AND SURE ENOUGH, ENGRAVED ON ITS SHELL 323 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:49,666 {\an1}IN CHINESE WAS THE INSCRIPTION "KRAKATUK." 324 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,266 ♪ 325 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:55,833 {\an1}THE JOY OF THE TWO DROSSELMEYERS WAS HEIGHTENED 326 00:22:55,866 --> 00:22:58,333 WHEN ZACHARIAS' SON ENTERED THE TOY SHOP. 327 00:22:58,366 --> 00:23:00,700 HE WAS A NICE-LOOKING YOUNG MAN 328 00:23:00,733 --> 00:23:04,133 WHO HAD NEVER SHAVED AND NEVER WORN BOOTS. 329 00:23:04,166 --> 00:23:08,100 {\an1}HE HAD A HABIT OF GALLANTLY CRACKING NUTS WITH HIS TEETH, 330 00:23:08,133 --> 00:23:13,200 {\an1}AND AS A RESULT, HIS FRIENDS CALLED HIM THE BOY NUTCRACKER. 331 00:23:13,233 --> 00:23:16,400 {\an1}"GOOD THINGS COME IN PAIRS," SHOUTED THE DROSSELMEYERS, 332 00:23:16,433 --> 00:23:19,566 {\an1}AND THEY ALL QUICKLY SET OFF FOR THE PALACE, 333 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,433 {\an1}AND WITH NO TIME TO LOSE. 334 00:23:23,466 --> 00:23:31,466 ♪ 335 00:24:04,966 --> 00:24:08,266 DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? 336 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:12,700 {\an1}INDEED, THE YOUNG MAN, BLINDFOLDED, 337 00:24:12,733 --> 00:24:14,700 {\an1}CRACKED THE KRAKATUK NUT 338 00:24:14,733 --> 00:24:16,866 {\an1}BEFORE THE ALMOST 16-YEAR-OLD, 339 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:20,033 {\an1}AND STILL TERRIBLE LOOKING, PRINCESS 340 00:24:20,066 --> 00:24:22,833 {\an1}AND GAVE HER THE KERNEL TO EAT. 341 00:24:22,866 --> 00:24:25,500 AND YES, 342 00:24:25,533 --> 00:24:27,533 {\an8}THE CURSE WAS LIFTED, 343 00:24:27,566 --> 00:24:30,600 {\an7}AND SHE WAS RESTORED INTO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 344 00:24:30,633 --> 00:24:35,733 {\an7}ALMOST 16-YEAR-OLD PRINCESS HER PARENTS HAD EVER SEEN. 345 00:24:35,766 --> 00:24:38,833 BUT... 346 00:24:38,866 --> 00:24:41,866 {\an1}AS YOUNG NATHANIEL TOOK 7 STEPS BACKWARDS, 347 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:45,400 {\an1}HE INADVERTENTLY STEPPED ON AN UNSEEN GUEST, 348 00:24:45,433 --> 00:24:46,933 QUEEN MOUSERINK. 349 00:24:46,966 --> 00:24:48,866 THAT'S WHEN ANOTHER CRACK WAS HEARD, 350 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:50,800 {\an1}AND A TERRIBLE SQUEAL. 351 00:24:50,833 --> 00:24:57,900 {\an8}♪ 352 00:24:57,933 --> 00:25:01,733 "OOH, KRAKATUK NUT, BECAUSE OF YOU, 353 00:25:01,766 --> 00:25:03,466 "I DIE. 354 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,066 "BUT YOU, TOO, YOUNG CRACKER OF NUTS, 355 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:08,966 {\an1}"WILL PARISH BY AND BY. 356 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,533 "MY SON, THE 7-HEADED CROWNED PRINCE, 357 00:25:12,566 --> 00:25:14,500 "WILL BRING YOU DOWN. 358 00:25:14,533 --> 00:25:17,033 SQUEAK!" 359 00:25:17,066 --> 00:25:19,366 {\an1}AND AS QUEEN MOUSERINK DIED, 360 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:24,166 {\an1}THE YOUNG MAN WAS INSTANTLY TURNED INTO A LITTLE DISFIGURED 361 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,000 WOODEN NUTCRACKER WITH GREEN EYES, 362 00:25:28,033 --> 00:25:30,233 A MOUTH THAT WENT FROM EAR TO EAR, 363 00:25:30,266 --> 00:25:32,466 {\an1}WEARING A MILITARY COAT AND BOOTS 364 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:35,633 WITH AN ENORMOUS HEAD OVER A WITHERED BODY. 365 00:25:35,666 --> 00:25:37,866 {\an1}AND WHEN PRINCESS PIRLIPAT SAW HIM, 366 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,833 {\an1}SHE HAD HIM THROWN OUT OF THE PALACE. 367 00:25:40,866 --> 00:25:45,266 SHE REIGNED UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER 368 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:48,400 AND SPENT MUCH TIME CONSULTING HER MAGIC MIRROR 369 00:25:48,433 --> 00:25:52,400 {\an1}AND INSISTING ON BEING THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL. 370 00:25:52,433 --> 00:25:54,700 {\an1}BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY. 371 00:25:54,733 --> 00:25:58,600 {\an8}♪ 372 00:25:58,633 --> 00:26:01,166 {\an7}THE DROSSELMEYER BROTHERS FOUND THE NUTCRACKER 373 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,466 FLOATING IN THE MOAT OUTSIDE THE CASTLE. 374 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,400 {\an1}AND ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW THE RISK THEY WERE TAKING, 375 00:26:06,433 --> 00:26:09,100 {\an1}THEY TOOK TURNS HIDING THE WOODEN FIGURE 376 00:26:09,133 --> 00:26:12,133 {\an1}AMONG THEIR INVENTIONS AND MAGICAL TOYS. 377 00:26:12,166 --> 00:26:14,466 ♪ 378 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:18,733 {\an1}THE DROSSELMEYERS WERE VERY ENCHANTED CREATURES THEMSELVES 379 00:26:18,766 --> 00:26:20,966 AND LIVED ONWARD THROUGH TIME, 380 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,333 EVEN AS THE WORLD BEGAN TO BELIEVE 381 00:26:23,366 --> 00:26:27,900 {\an1}THAT THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS GIANTS, GLASS SLIPPERS, 382 00:26:27,933 --> 00:26:29,566 AND MAGICAL RINGS. 383 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,066 {\an1}THE DRAGONS WERE LONG GONE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, 384 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,166 THOUGH THERE WAS A PERSISTENT RUMOR 385 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,066 {\an1}OF UNHATCHED DRAGON EGGS SOMEWHERE TO THE WEST. 386 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:46,900 ♪ 387 00:26:46,933 --> 00:26:49,433 BROTHER ZACHARIAS CLOSED HIS TOY SHOP, 388 00:26:49,466 --> 00:26:52,966 {\an1}CONFIDENTLY ENTRUSTING THE NUTCRACKER TO HIS BROTHER. 389 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,766 {\an1}WE KNOW NOTHING MORE OF HIM 390 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,133 {\an1}EXCEPT FOR A RUMOR THAT HE RETURNED TO ANOTHER KINGDOM 391 00:26:58,166 --> 00:27:01,233 {\an1}FOUND ONLY ON WIZARDLY MAPS. 392 00:27:01,266 --> 00:27:09,266 ♪ 393 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:13,566 {\an1}CHRISTIAN DROSSELMEYER, HOWEVER, 394 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,100 KEPT ON INVENTING MAGICAL TOYS AND GIZMOS 395 00:27:17,133 --> 00:27:20,400 AND APPEARED WHENEVER CHILDREN NEEDED HIM. 396 00:27:20,433 --> 00:27:23,300 OF COURSE, HE WAS PARTICULARLY CAREFUL 397 00:27:23,333 --> 00:27:26,133 {\an1}ABOUT LETTING ANYONE KNOW HIS MANY SECRETS. 398 00:27:26,166 --> 00:27:28,700 {\an1}AND ABOVE ALL, HE NEVER FORGOT HIS PART 399 00:27:28,733 --> 00:27:31,933 {\an1}IN THE CURSE THAT TURNED HIS YOUNG AND HANDSOME NEPHEW 400 00:27:31,966 --> 00:27:35,633 {\an1}INTO A VERY UGLY, CARVED, WOODEN CREATURE. 401 00:27:35,666 --> 00:27:39,900 ♪ 402 00:27:39,933 --> 00:27:41,300 YEARS PASSED, 403 00:27:41,333 --> 00:27:43,600 TURNING MEMORIES INTO FAIRYTALES. 404 00:27:43,633 --> 00:27:48,266 {\an1}THAT IS WHEN DROSSELMEYER CAME TO KNOW DR. AND MRS. STAHLBAUM 405 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:51,233 {\an1}AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN FRITZ AND MARIE. 406 00:27:51,266 --> 00:27:53,800 HE REGULARLY VISITED THE STAHLBAUMS' HOUSE 407 00:27:53,833 --> 00:27:55,800 TO WIND THE CLOCKS AND FIX THEM 408 00:27:55,833 --> 00:27:57,466 IF ONE EVER BROKE. 409 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:04,633 ♪ 410 00:28:04,666 --> 00:28:10,300 {\an1}BUT THAT WASN'T THE REAL REASON HE WAS THERE. 411 00:28:10,333 --> 00:28:13,766 OF COURSE HE LOVED TELLING THE CHILDREN FANTASTICAL STORIES, 412 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,366 BRINGING THEM PUPPETS 413 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,066 {\an1}AND MECHANICAL ORCHESTRAS AND WINDUP DOLLS. 414 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,400 {\an1}DROSSELMEYER HAD A FEELING THAT THESE TWO CHILDREN 415 00:28:21,433 --> 00:28:25,400 {\an1}MIGHT BREAK THE CURSE, BUT IT WOULD NOT BE EASY. 416 00:28:25,433 --> 00:28:28,233 FRITZ AND MARIE WERE GROWING UP FAST, 417 00:28:28,266 --> 00:28:30,066 {\an1}AND THERE WAS LITTLE TIME TO SPARE 418 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:31,966 {\an1}BEFORE THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR BELIEF 419 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,766 {\an1}IN WHAT THEIR FATHER CALLED IMPOSSIBLE THINGS. 420 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,133 AND THEN DROSSELMEYER HAD AN IDEA. 421 00:28:39,166 --> 00:28:41,833 IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE. 422 00:28:41,866 --> 00:28:44,933 {\an8}AHH, IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE. 423 00:28:44,966 --> 00:28:47,433 {\an7}YES, THAT CHRISTMAS EVE. 424 00:28:47,466 --> 00:28:49,566 {\an7}YOU KNOW, THE ONE THAT STARTS THE BALLET 425 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,066 {\an8}WE ALL KNOW SO WELL. 426 00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:53,100 AND IN A MOMENT, YOU WILL HEAR HOW HOFFMANN 427 00:28:53,133 --> 00:28:54,866 {\an1}ORIGINALLY TOLD THAT STORY. 428 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:58,000 {\an1}NOW LET'S REMEMBER, WE HAVE JUST TRAVELED CENTURIES 429 00:28:58,033 --> 00:29:00,900 {\an1}FROM A TIME WHEN MAGICAL FAIRYTALES TAKE PLACE 430 00:29:00,933 --> 00:29:05,400 TO A TIME WHEN NO ONE BELIEVED IN SO-CALLED IMPOSSIBLE THINGS. 431 00:29:05,433 --> 00:29:09,166 NO MAGIC WANDS. 432 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,866 AT LEAST THAT'S HOW CHILDREN WERE BEING TAUGHT 433 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:15,200 AND WHY HOFFMAN WROTE "THE NUTCRACKER" IN THE FIRST PLACE. 434 00:29:15,233 --> 00:29:17,566 {\an1}HIS BEST FRIEND, YOU SEE, HAD TWO CHILDREN, 435 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,033 FRITZ AND MARIE. 436 00:29:19,066 --> 00:29:22,500 AND HOFFMANN MADE UP THE STORY JUST FOR THEM. 437 00:29:22,533 --> 00:29:24,200 {\an1}AND SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO MEET THEM, 438 00:29:24,233 --> 00:29:26,033 {\an1}FRITZ, WHO IS 10 YEARS OLD, 439 00:29:26,066 --> 00:29:28,433 AND HIS 8-YEAR-OLD SISTER MARIE, 440 00:29:28,466 --> 00:29:31,433 {\an1}WHO IS SOMETIMES CALLED CLARA IN THE BALLET. 441 00:29:31,466 --> 00:29:34,666 {\an1}WE ALSO GET TO MEET THE RED MARZIPAN CASTLE 442 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:36,766 {\an1}WITH ITS WINDUP SOLDIERS. 443 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,700 {\an1}THAT CASTLE WILL RETURN 3 MORE TIMES 444 00:29:39,733 --> 00:29:41,366 BEFORE THE END OF OUR STORY. 445 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,000 {\an1}THE CONDUCTOR, WHO CALLS HIMSELF MAUCERI, 446 00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:45,600 {\an1}HAS BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY, 447 00:29:45,633 --> 00:29:47,733 {\an1}SAVING HIS UPBEAT TO RESTART 448 00:29:47,766 --> 00:29:49,900 "THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING." 449 00:29:49,933 --> 00:29:52,433 {\an1}AND EVEN THOUGH YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE STORY, 450 00:29:52,466 --> 00:29:55,266 {\an1}YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT WHAT REALLY HAPPENS 451 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:58,900 {\an1}WHEN MARIE FIRST TRIES TO SAVE THE NUTCRACKER 452 00:29:58,933 --> 00:30:00,900 {\an1}FROM THE DREADFUL MOUSE KING 453 00:30:00,933 --> 00:30:03,700 AND HOW SHE SLOWLY BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND 454 00:30:03,733 --> 00:30:06,866 WHAT TOOK PLACE CENTURIES BEFORE 455 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:09,766 {\an1}THAT MAGICAL CHRISTMAS EVE. 456 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:17,300 ♪ 457 00:30:17,333 --> 00:30:23,566 {\an8}♪ 458 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:31,600 ♪ 459 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:03,800 ♪ 460 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:19,000 ♪ 461 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:34,100 ♪ 462 00:31:44,866 --> 00:31:48,733 AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, MARIE AND FRITZ WERE VERY EXCITED. 463 00:31:48,766 --> 00:31:51,533 {\an1}THERE WAS TO BE A GREAT CHRISTMAS TREE, OF COURSE, 464 00:31:51,566 --> 00:31:53,300 AND PRESENTS FROM THEIR PARENTS. 465 00:31:53,333 --> 00:31:55,966 FRITZ WANTED A RED HOBBY HORSE 466 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,800 {\an1}AND MARIE HOPED FOR A DOLL 467 00:31:57,833 --> 00:32:00,166 THAT WAS EVEN BIGGER THAN SHE WAS. 468 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,933 BUT MOST OF ALL, THEY WERE ANXIOUS TO SEE 469 00:32:02,966 --> 00:32:07,100 WHAT THEIR BELOVED GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER WOULD BRING THEM. 470 00:32:07,133 --> 00:32:15,133 {\an8}♪ 471 00:32:18,233 --> 00:32:21,533 {\an1}WHEN THE FRONT DOOR OPENED AND SENT A GUST OF FROZEN AIR 472 00:32:21,566 --> 00:32:23,466 AND SNOWFLAKES INTO THE PARLOR, 473 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:26,200 {\an1}THEY KNEW THAT THE WAITING WAS ALMOST OVER. 474 00:32:26,233 --> 00:32:31,000 YES, IT WAS HE, GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER. 475 00:32:31,033 --> 00:32:39,033 ♪ 476 00:32:42,733 --> 00:32:46,033 {\an1}GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER WAS ANYTHING BUT HANDSOME. 477 00:32:46,066 --> 00:32:48,766 {\an1}HE HAD A WRINKLED FACE, LONG LEGS, 478 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,800 {\an1}AND BECAUSE HE HAD LITTLE HAIR ON HIS HEAD, 479 00:32:50,833 --> 00:32:53,766 WORE A WIG MADE OF SPUN GLASS. 480 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,566 HE ALSO WORE A PATCH OVER ONE EYE 481 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,266 {\an1}AND A YELLOW WAISTCOAT. 482 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:02,400 {\an1}HE BROUGHT A MINIATURE CASTLE OF RED MARZIPAN CANDY 483 00:33:02,433 --> 00:33:04,900 {\an1}WITH MECHANICAL SOLDIERS MADE OF METAL 484 00:33:04,933 --> 00:33:08,400 {\an1}AND ALL WEARING MAGNIFICENT EMBROIDERED COATS 485 00:33:08,433 --> 00:33:13,500 {\an1}AND SHINY BLACK BOOTS. 486 00:33:13,533 --> 00:33:18,033 {\an1}GODFATHER TURNED A BIG KEY IN THE BACK OF THE CASTLE. 487 00:33:18,066 --> 00:33:19,800 ♪ 488 00:33:19,833 --> 00:33:24,666 {\an1}AND THE STAHLBAUMS WATCHED AS THE SOLDIERS MOVED IN FORMATION. 489 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:30,466 {\an8}♪ 490 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:38,500 ♪ 491 00:33:59,533 --> 00:34:07,533 ♪ 492 00:34:15,066 --> 00:34:23,066 ♪ 493 00:34:30,533 --> 00:34:35,200 ♪ 494 00:34:44,833 --> 00:34:50,166 {\an1}"OH, THAT WAS WONDERFUL," SAID DR. AND MRS. STAHLBAUM. 495 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,666 BUT FRITZ PREFERRED HIS HOBBY HORSE. 496 00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:55,466 {\an1}AND HE RACED OFF AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE. 497 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:58,766 {\an7}THAT'S WHEN MARIE SAW SOMETHING UNDER THE TREE 498 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,466 {\an7}SHE HAD NOT NOTICED BEFORE, 499 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:04,766 {\an7}A LITTLE WOODEN FIGURE WAITING TO BE SEEN. 500 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:12,800 ♪ 501 00:35:14,033 --> 00:35:16,333 {\an1}LIKE GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER, 502 00:35:16,366 --> 00:35:19,233 THIS SMALL WOODEN MAN WAS NOT HANDSOME. 503 00:35:19,266 --> 00:35:22,066 TRUE, HE WAS DRESSED MAGNIFICENTLY 504 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,633 IN A RED COAT WITH GOLDEN BUTTONS, 505 00:35:24,666 --> 00:35:27,000 {\an1}AND HIS BOOTS WERE SO TIGHT 506 00:35:27,033 --> 00:35:29,100 THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE PAINTED ON. 507 00:35:29,133 --> 00:35:31,133 HE HAD A SWORD, TOO. 508 00:35:31,166 --> 00:35:33,700 BUT HIS HEAD WAS FAR TOO BIG FOR HIS BODY. 509 00:35:33,733 --> 00:35:37,400 {\an1}MARIE TOOK AN INSTANT LIKING TO THIS LOVELY FIGURE 510 00:35:37,433 --> 00:35:40,833 {\an1}WITH HIS BRIGHT GREEN EYES AND KINDLY FACE. 511 00:35:40,866 --> 00:35:43,200 {\an1}EVEN HIS WHITE COTTON BEARD 512 00:35:43,233 --> 00:35:47,766 {\an1}ONLY MADE HIS STRANGE SMILE ALL THE MORE BEAUTIFUL TO HER. 513 00:35:49,566 --> 00:35:52,966 "PAPA, WHO OWNS THAT WONDERFUL WOODEN MAN 514 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,233 {\an1}OVER THERE BY THE TREE?" ASKED MARIE. 515 00:35:55,266 --> 00:35:59,200 {\an1}"HE WILL WORK HARD FOR ALL OF US," DR. STAHLBAUM ANSWERED. 516 00:35:59,233 --> 00:36:03,166 {\an1}"HE WILL CRACK THE HARDEST NUTS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY." 517 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,900 {\an1}AND WITH THAT, HE PULLED ON A WOODEN HANDLE 518 00:36:05,933 --> 00:36:07,833 IN THE BACK OF THE MANNEQUIN'S HEAD 519 00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:11,566 TO REVEAL TWO SETS OF WHITE TEETH. 520 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:18,233 ♪ 521 00:36:18,266 --> 00:36:21,066 MARIE INSERTED A NUT, AND CRACK, 522 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:22,700 {\an1}THE SHELL DROPPED OUT, 523 00:36:22,733 --> 00:36:26,600 {\an1}LEAVING THE DELICIOUS MEAT OF THE NUT FOR HER TO EAT. 524 00:36:26,633 --> 00:36:34,633 ♪ 525 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:54,000 {\an1}FRITZ DECIDED IT WAS HIS TURN, 526 00:36:54,033 --> 00:36:57,066 {\an1}AND HE BEGAN SHOVING THE BIGGEST AND HARDEST 527 00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:59,066 OF THE NUTS IN THE NUTCRACKER'S MOUTH 528 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,233 UNTIL THERE WAS A VERY BIG CRACK. 529 00:37:02,266 --> 00:37:05,566 ♪ 530 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,433 AND 3 TEETH FELL OUT, 531 00:37:07,466 --> 00:37:10,700 AND THE LITTLE MAN'S LOWER JAW BECAME DETACHED. 532 00:37:10,733 --> 00:37:18,733 ♪ 533 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,400 {\an1}"OH, MY POOR NUTCRACKER," CRIED MARIE, 534 00:37:25,433 --> 00:37:27,600 WHO GRABBED IT FROM HER BROTHER'S HANDS. 535 00:37:27,633 --> 00:37:31,333 {\an1}AND WITH THAT, SHE BEGAN TO CRADLE THE LITTLE FELLOW IN HER ARMS 536 00:37:31,366 --> 00:37:34,966 WHILE SEARCHING FOR HIS LOST TEETH. 537 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,433 "DON'T WORRY, DEAR NUTCRACKER. 538 00:37:37,466 --> 00:37:40,600 {\an1}"I KNOW GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU 539 00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:43,133 {\an1}AND FIX YOU UP GOOD AS NEW." 540 00:37:43,166 --> 00:37:46,800 THAT'S WHEN SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENED. 541 00:37:46,833 --> 00:37:49,933 {\an8}♪ 542 00:37:49,966 --> 00:37:53,433 {\an7}AT THE MOMENT SHE SAID, "GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER," 543 00:37:53,466 --> 00:37:56,466 {\an1}SHE THOUGHT SHE SAW THE FACE OF THE NUTCRACKER CHANGE 544 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:59,466 AND SPARKLES COME OUT OF HIS GREEN EYES. 545 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:07,500 ♪ 546 00:38:12,433 --> 00:38:15,566 {\an1}"OH, I AM A SILLY GIRL," SHE THOUGHT. 547 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,900 "HOW COULD A LITTLE WOODEN DOLL MAKE FACES?" 548 00:38:18,933 --> 00:38:23,233 {\an1}SHE CAREFULLY PLACED HIM IN THE BED RESERVED FOR HER FAVORITE DOLL 549 00:38:23,266 --> 00:38:26,533 {\an1}IN THE GLASS CABINET WHERE ALL THE TOYS WERE KEPT. 550 00:38:26,566 --> 00:38:28,000 IT WAS GETTING LATE, 551 00:38:28,033 --> 00:38:29,833 {\an1}AND FRITZ HAD ALREADY PUT HIS TIN SOLDIERS 552 00:38:29,866 --> 00:38:34,233 ALL IN CAREFUL ROWS ON THE SHELF JUST ABOVE THE DOLLS 553 00:38:34,266 --> 00:38:36,766 {\an1}AND THE WOUNDED NUTCRACKER. 554 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:44,800 ♪ 555 00:38:44,966 --> 00:38:48,100 {\an1}"TIME FOR BED, CHILDREN," SAID PAPA. 556 00:38:48,133 --> 00:38:51,333 MAMA SMILED AS MARIE LOCKED THE CABINET 557 00:38:51,366 --> 00:38:54,033 AND WAS ABOUT TO GO INTO HER BEDROOM 558 00:38:54,066 --> 00:38:57,200 {\an1}WHEN THE WALL CLOCK BEGAN TO MAKE STRANGE SOUNDS. 559 00:38:57,233 --> 00:38:59,333 AND WHEN SHE LOOKED UP AT IT, 560 00:38:59,366 --> 00:39:02,166 {\an1}SHE THOUGHT SHE SAW GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER 561 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:07,100 {\an1}SITTING ATOP THE CLOCK WHERE A CARVED OWL USUALLY RESIDED. 562 00:39:07,133 --> 00:39:09,900 ♪ 563 00:39:09,933 --> 00:39:11,566 THROUGH THE CRACKS IN THE FLOORBOARDS, 564 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,833 {\an1}MARIE COULD SEE A THOUSAND LITTLE FLICKERING CANDLES. 565 00:39:14,866 --> 00:39:17,000 {\an1}BUT NO, THEY WEREN'T CANDLES. 566 00:39:17,033 --> 00:39:21,533 {\an1}THEY WERE THE EYES OF MICE WHO SEEMED READY TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK. 567 00:39:21,566 --> 00:39:24,233 {\an1}MARIE WAS NOT SOMEONE WHO WAS AFRAID OF MICE, 568 00:39:24,266 --> 00:39:27,833 {\an1}BUT AS IF DRIVEN BY SOME SUBTERRANEAN FORCE, 569 00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:31,333 {\an1}THE GROUND SPURTED OUT SAND AND LIME, 570 00:39:31,366 --> 00:39:35,466 {\an1}AND 7 MOUSE HEADS WITH 7 GOLDEN CROWNS APPEARED. 571 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:38,933 {\an1}THEY WERE ATTACHED TO ONE BIG, NASTY BODY 572 00:39:38,966 --> 00:39:40,900 THAT WAS BRANDISHING A SWORD. 573 00:39:40,933 --> 00:39:43,366 {\an1}IT WAS THE MOUSE KING HIMSELF. 574 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:51,400 ♪ 575 00:39:58,266 --> 00:40:01,333 THE MOUSE KING HEADED DIRECTLY TOWARD MARIE, 576 00:40:01,366 --> 00:40:05,066 {\an1}AND SHE FELL BACK AGAINST THE GLASS DOOR OF THE TOY CABINET. 577 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:07,533 ALL AT ONCE, THE NUTCRACKER AWOKE 578 00:40:07,566 --> 00:40:09,666 AND CALLED FORTH FRITZ'S SOLDIERS 579 00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,300 IN A GREAT BATTLE TO SAVE THE DOLLS 580 00:40:12,333 --> 00:40:16,333 {\an1}AGAINST THE ONSLAUGHTS OF THE LEGIONS OF MICE. 581 00:40:16,366 --> 00:40:22,800 {\an8}♪ 582 00:40:22,833 --> 00:40:30,833 ♪ 583 00:41:00,266 --> 00:41:02,833 AND JUST AS IT SEEMED ALL WAS LOST, 584 00:41:02,866 --> 00:41:05,066 MARIE COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN HERSELF. 585 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,833 {\an1}SHE THREW HER LEFT SHOE AT THE MOUSE KING 586 00:41:07,866 --> 00:41:11,133 AS HE WAS ABOUT TO SLAY THE NUTCRACKER. 587 00:41:11,166 --> 00:41:19,166 ♪ 588 00:41:24,966 --> 00:41:26,533 {\an1}AND AT THAT VERY MOMENT, 589 00:41:26,566 --> 00:41:29,366 {\an1}MARIE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HER ARM, 590 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,900 AND SHE FAINTED. 591 00:41:35,666 --> 00:41:39,766 {\an7}WHEN SHE AWOKE, THE SUN WAS SHINING THROUGH THE ICY WINDOWS, 592 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,933 {\an7}AND DR. BINDLESTERN WAS SITTING BY HER SIDE. 593 00:41:42,966 --> 00:41:45,566 "SHE'S AWAKE," HE SAID SOFTLY. 594 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,766 "OH, MAMA, ARE ALL THE UGLY MICE GONE? 595 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,500 {\an1}AND IS FRIEND NUTCRACKER SAVED?" 596 00:41:52,533 --> 00:41:55,533 {\an1}"DON'T TALK NONSENSE, MARIE," SHE SCOLDED. 597 00:41:55,566 --> 00:41:57,600 {\an1}"YOU CAUSED US MUCH WORRY. 598 00:41:57,633 --> 00:42:00,400 {\an1}"YOU WERE PLAYING WITH YOUR DOLLS UNTIL VERY LATE, 599 00:42:00,433 --> 00:42:03,100 "AND PERHAPS YOU WERE STARTLED BY A MOUSE. 600 00:42:03,133 --> 00:42:05,500 {\an1}"WE DO HAVE A FEW, I KNOW. 601 00:42:05,533 --> 00:42:08,566 "AND YOU PUT YOUR ARM THROUGH THE GLASS IN THE TOY CABINET 602 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,733 {\an1}AND CUT YOURSELF BADLY." 603 00:42:10,766 --> 00:42:15,133 ♪ 604 00:42:15,166 --> 00:42:17,933 "THANK GOODNESS I HEARD THE CRASH. 605 00:42:17,966 --> 00:42:20,100 "AND THERE YOU WERE ON THE FLOOR 606 00:42:20,133 --> 00:42:22,366 "WITH ALL TOYS AND SOLDIERS ABOUT. 607 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,666 {\an1}"AND THE NUTCRACKER LAY ON YOUR BLEEDING ARM 608 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:27,633 {\an1}"VERY NEAR YOUR LEFT SHOE. 609 00:42:27,666 --> 00:42:32,366 {\an1}I ALMOST FAINTED MYSELF." 610 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,300 {\an1}DR. BINDLESTERN HAD A QUIET CONVERSATION WITH FATHER. 611 00:42:36,333 --> 00:42:40,600 {\an1}IT WAS CLEAR TO THEM THAT MARIE HAD SUFFERED A BIT OF DELIRIUM 612 00:42:40,633 --> 00:42:44,033 {\an1}THAT REQUIRED HER TO STAY IN BED FOR SEVERAL DAYS. 613 00:42:44,066 --> 00:42:52,066 ♪ 614 00:42:59,866 --> 00:43:03,066 AT TIMES, WHEN SHE WAS HALF AWAKE, 615 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:07,100 SHE THOUGHT SHE HEARD THE SAD VOICE OF THE NUTCRACKER. 616 00:43:07,133 --> 00:43:10,833 ♪ 617 00:43:10,866 --> 00:43:13,333 "MARIE, MY DEAR LADY, 618 00:43:13,366 --> 00:43:15,900 "I OWE YOU SO MUCH. 619 00:43:15,933 --> 00:43:19,100 {\an1}BUT YOU CAN DO EVEN MORE FOR ME." 620 00:43:19,133 --> 00:43:21,300 ♪ 621 00:43:21,333 --> 00:43:26,000 MARIE WONDERED WHAT THAT COULD MEAN. 622 00:43:26,033 --> 00:43:28,300 {\an7}AS THE SUN SET THAT EVENING, 623 00:43:28,333 --> 00:43:32,400 {\an7}GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER PAID A VISIT TO MARIE'S BEDSIDE. 624 00:43:32,433 --> 00:43:37,533 ♪ 625 00:43:37,566 --> 00:43:42,433 {\an1}"OH, GODFATHER, YOU WERE VERY UGLY SITTING ON TOP OF THE CLOCK. 626 00:43:42,466 --> 00:43:45,766 {\an1}AND WHY DID YOU NOT COME TO THE AID OF THE NUTCRACKER?" 627 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,000 ONCE AGAIN, MOTHER SCOLDED HER. 628 00:43:48,033 --> 00:43:51,533 {\an1}BUT GODFATHER JUST LAUGHED AND SANG A STRANGE SONG 629 00:43:51,566 --> 00:43:55,133 {\an1}ABOUT A MOUSE KING AND CLOCKS GOING BRRR, 630 00:43:55,166 --> 00:43:57,800 {\an1}BELLS GOING DING DONG, 631 00:43:57,833 --> 00:44:01,400 DING DONG, DING DONG, 632 00:44:01,433 --> 00:44:04,500 DING DONG. 633 00:44:04,533 --> 00:44:07,000 HE CLAIMED IT WAS AN OLD DITTY HE SANG 634 00:44:07,033 --> 00:44:09,133 {\an1}WHENEVER HE FIXED THE CLOCKS, 635 00:44:09,166 --> 00:44:12,333 {\an1}BUT SHE DID NOT REMEMBER EVER HAVING HEARD IT BEFORE. 636 00:44:12,366 --> 00:44:16,566 {\an1}THEN GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER REACHED INTO HIS POCKET 637 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,566 {\an1}AND PRODUCED THE NUTCRACKER, 638 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:23,800 {\an1}HIS JAW FIXED AND ALL HIS TEETH PUT BACK GOOD AS NEW. 639 00:44:23,833 --> 00:44:27,200 "DEAR, MARIE," GODFATHER SAID SUDDENLY, 640 00:44:27,233 --> 00:44:30,200 "IF YOU LIKE, I CAN TELL YOU HOW SUCH UGLINESS 641 00:44:30,233 --> 00:44:32,533 "CAME INTO THE NUTCRACKER FAMILY. 642 00:44:32,566 --> 00:44:36,900 {\an1}"UNLESS YOU ALREADY KNOW THE STORY OF PRINCESS PIRLIPAT, 643 00:44:36,933 --> 00:44:38,933 {\an1}"THE WITCH QUEEN NAMED MOUSERINK, 644 00:44:38,966 --> 00:44:41,133 AND THE MYSTERIOUS CLOCKMAKER." 645 00:44:41,166 --> 00:44:43,500 "OH, PLEASE," SHE SAID EXCITEDLY. 646 00:44:43,533 --> 00:44:45,833 {\an1}"I LOVE YOUR AMAZING STORIES." 647 00:44:45,866 --> 00:44:47,833 "I HOPE," SAID MAMA, 648 00:44:47,866 --> 00:44:51,100 "THAT IS NOT ONE OF YOUR SCARY STORIES." 649 00:44:51,133 --> 00:44:54,400 {\an1}"ON THE CONTRARY, DEAR LADY," SAID DROSSELMEYER, 650 00:44:54,433 --> 00:44:59,100 {\an1}"IT IS A FAIRY STORY AND TREMENDOUSLY FUNNY." 651 00:44:59,133 --> 00:45:07,133 ♪ 652 00:45:18,633 --> 00:45:21,233 AND SO, FOR THE NEXT 3 NIGHTS, 653 00:45:21,266 --> 00:45:23,566 GODFATHER CAME TO THE BEDSIDE OF MARIE 654 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,866 {\an1}AND TOLD THE FANTASTIC AND ANCIENT STORY 655 00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:28,433 OF A CRACKED NUT 656 00:45:28,466 --> 00:45:31,733 AND A CERTAIN WIZARD NAMED DROSSELMEYER. 657 00:45:31,766 --> 00:45:35,133 BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT. 658 00:45:35,166 --> 00:45:38,633 MARIE WAS ENCHANTED BY THE STORY, 659 00:45:38,666 --> 00:45:41,933 THOUGH SHE SUSPECTED THAT GODFATHER WAS SOMEHOW IMPLYING 660 00:45:41,966 --> 00:45:45,133 THAT HE HAD INVENTED THE MOUSETRAP. 661 00:45:45,166 --> 00:45:50,266 {\an1}TO WHICH GODFATHER SAID, "CHILD, THIS IS A FAIRY STORY 662 00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:53,433 "THAT TOOK PLACE IN A KINGDOM A VERY LONG TIME AGO. 663 00:45:53,466 --> 00:45:55,800 "DON'T BE SILLY. 664 00:45:55,833 --> 00:45:59,100 "BUT AS A BRILLIANT CLOCKMAKER, 665 00:45:59,133 --> 00:46:03,600 {\an1}OF COURSE I COULD HAVE INVENTED A MOUSETRAP." 666 00:46:03,633 --> 00:46:07,033 FRITZ, WHO HAD BEEN LISTENING ALL ALONG, 667 00:46:07,066 --> 00:46:10,400 {\an1}THOUGHT THE NUTCRACKER SIMPLY NEEDED TO FIGHT A DUEL 668 00:46:10,433 --> 00:46:12,800 {\an1}WITH THIS HORRID 7-HEADED MOUSE KING 669 00:46:12,833 --> 00:46:15,266 AND BE DONE WITH IT. 670 00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:18,133 {\an1}MARIE STILL HAD TO SPEND THE WEEK IN BED 671 00:46:18,166 --> 00:46:20,600 {\an1}RECOVERING FROM THE CUT IN HER ARM. 672 00:46:20,633 --> 00:46:23,533 {\an7}THAT GAVE HER TIME TO THINK. 673 00:46:23,566 --> 00:46:26,000 {\an8}♪ 674 00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:28,466 {\an8}SHE NOW BELIEVED THAT THE NUTCRACKER, 675 00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:31,266 {\an1}WHO WAS AT THAT VERY MOMENT IN THE TOY CABINET, 676 00:46:31,300 --> 00:46:34,533 {\an1}WAS NONE OTHER THAN THE YOUNG DROSSELMEYER, 677 00:46:34,566 --> 00:46:36,133 GODFATHER'S NEPHEW, 678 00:46:36,166 --> 00:46:38,466 {\an1}AND THAT THE FAIRY STORY HE HAD TOLD HER 679 00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:41,133 {\an1}WAS NO FAIRY STORY AT ALL, 680 00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:44,466 OR MAYBE IT WAS A FAIRY STORY, 681 00:46:44,500 --> 00:46:46,933 BUT IT WAS ALSO TRUE. 682 00:46:46,966 --> 00:46:50,433 {\an1}SHE SNEAKED DOWNSTAIRS TO SEE ALL HER DOLLS 683 00:46:50,466 --> 00:46:52,000 {\an1}AND THE YOUNG NUTCRACKER 684 00:46:52,033 --> 00:46:54,966 {\an1}AND WONDERED HOW THEY COULD NOT MOVE OR SPEAK, 685 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,033 {\an1}AND YET SHE KNEW THAT THIS HAD SOMETHING TO DO 686 00:46:58,066 --> 00:47:01,033 WITH THE CURSE OF QUEEN MOUSERINK. 687 00:47:01,066 --> 00:47:03,233 {\an1}"OH, IT DOES NOT MATTER," 688 00:47:03,266 --> 00:47:05,433 SHE SAID OUT LOUD TO THE TOY CABINET. 689 00:47:05,466 --> 00:47:10,366 {\an1}"EVEN IF YOU CANNOT SPEAK OR MOVE, NUTCRACKER DROSSELMEYER, 690 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,666 "I AM DEVOTED TO YOU 691 00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:15,766 {\an1}AND YOU CAN COUNT ON ME." 692 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,066 ♪ 693 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:21,466 {\an1}THE NUTCRACKER DID NOT MOVE, 694 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:25,033 {\an1}BUT IT SEEMED TO MARIE THAT A SWEET BELL-LIKE VOICE 695 00:47:25,066 --> 00:47:30,633 {\an1}SAID TO HER, "LITTLE MARIE, MY GUARDIAN ANGEL, 696 00:47:30,666 --> 00:47:35,133 YOURS I SHALL BE, MY SWEET MARIE." 697 00:47:35,166 --> 00:47:37,766 COLD SHIVERS FLASHED THROUGH HER BODY 698 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,400 {\an1}AND SHE RETURNED TO HER BED BEFORE ANYONE NOTICED. 699 00:47:41,433 --> 00:47:45,166 ♪ 700 00:47:46,933 --> 00:47:50,266 {\an8}THAT VERY NIGHT, 701 00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:54,500 {\an7}MARIE WAS AWAKENED BY A STRANGE RUSTLING SOUND. 702 00:47:54,533 --> 00:47:59,366 SHE FELT WARM FUR AND 7 COLD NOSES NEAR HER NECK. 703 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,966 {\an1}"OH, DEAR, THE MICE ARE BACK," SHE THOUGHT. 704 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,466 EVEN WORSE. 705 00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:10,200 {\an1}SHE THEN HEARD A VOICE SHE HAD HEARD ON CHRISTMAS EVE. 706 00:48:10,233 --> 00:48:11,933 "HEE HEE! 707 00:48:11,966 --> 00:48:14,800 "GIVE ME ALL YOUR LITTLE CANDIES 708 00:48:14,833 --> 00:48:18,600 {\an1}OR I SHALL BITE YOUR DEAR NUTCRACKER TO PIECES." 709 00:48:18,633 --> 00:48:20,433 {\an1}IT WAS THE MOUSE KING. 710 00:48:20,466 --> 00:48:27,200 ♪ 711 00:48:27,233 --> 00:48:31,333 {\an1}SHE THOUGHT TO TELL HER BROTHER AND HER MAMA WHAT HAD HAPPENED, 712 00:48:31,366 --> 00:48:33,966 {\an1}BUT SHE KNEW THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE HER. 713 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,166 {\an1}SO WHEN NO ONE WAS LOOKING, 714 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,866 {\an1}SHE PUT OUT HER CANDIES IN FRONT OF THE TOY CABINET. 715 00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:43,533 THE NEXT MORNING, MARIE'S MOTHER SAID, 716 00:48:43,566 --> 00:48:45,200 "THAT'S VERY STRANGE. 717 00:48:45,233 --> 00:48:51,666 {\an1}POOR MARIE, THE MICE SEEM TO HAVE EATEN ALL YOUR SWEETS." 718 00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:54,466 YES, THEY HAVE. 719 00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,433 LATER THAT NIGHT, IT HAPPENED AGAIN. 720 00:48:59,466 --> 00:49:01,333 {\an1}THIS TIME THE VOICE SAID, 721 00:49:01,366 --> 00:49:03,700 "GIVE ME ALL YOUR SUGAR DOLLS 722 00:49:03,733 --> 00:49:08,933 OR I WILL BITE YOUR DEAR NUTCRACKER TO PIECES." 723 00:49:08,966 --> 00:49:12,233 {\an1}A HEARTBROKEN MARIE WENT INTO THE DOLL CABINET 724 00:49:12,266 --> 00:49:15,566 {\an1}AND JUST BEFORE BEDTIME PUT HER SUGAR DOLLS 725 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,133 OUT TO BE EATEN BY THE DREADFUL MOUSE KING. 726 00:49:19,166 --> 00:49:21,300 ♪ 727 00:49:21,333 --> 00:49:24,100 {\an1}MARIE KNEW THERE WOULD BE NO END TO THIS, 728 00:49:24,133 --> 00:49:26,166 AND INDEED, ON THE THIRD NIGHT, 729 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,566 THE SCRATCHING OF LITTLE MICE FEET 730 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,500 {\an1}AND COLD, WET NOSES ACCOMPANIED THAT VOICE ONCE AGAIN. 731 00:49:32,533 --> 00:49:36,933 {\an1}"GIVE ME ALL YOUR PICTURE BOOKS AND YOUR DOLL DRESSES 732 00:49:36,966 --> 00:49:39,833 "OR I WILL EAT YOUR DEAR NUTCRACKER. 733 00:49:39,866 --> 00:49:41,400 HEE HEE HEE!" 734 00:49:41,433 --> 00:49:44,066 SQUEAK. 735 00:49:44,100 --> 00:49:46,400 MARIE HEADED FOR THE TOY CABINET 736 00:49:46,433 --> 00:49:50,033 AND SPOKE QUIETLY TO THE UNMOVING NUTCRACKER 737 00:49:50,066 --> 00:49:52,566 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLASS. 738 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,100 {\an1}"POOR ME, MR. DROSSELMEYER. 739 00:49:56,133 --> 00:49:59,433 {\an1}"IF I GIVE UP MY PICTURE BOOKS AND DOLL DRESSES, 740 00:49:59,466 --> 00:50:02,800 {\an1}"THE DREADFUL MOUSE KING WILL ONLY ASK FOR MORE. 741 00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:05,800 WHATEVER SHALL I DO?" 742 00:50:05,833 --> 00:50:09,900 {\an8}♪ 743 00:50:09,933 --> 00:50:13,066 {\an7}ALTHOUGH SHE HAD STOPPED KISSING THE LITTLE FIGURE 744 00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:16,300 {\an7}AND FELT RATHER SHY ABOUT HOLDING HIM AT ALL, 745 00:50:16,333 --> 00:50:18,400 {\an1}THIS TIME SHE TOOK HIM ABOUT OF THE CABINET 746 00:50:18,433 --> 00:50:22,666 {\an1}TO WIPE OFF WHAT LOOKED LIKE A BLOOD STAIN ON HIS UNIFORM. 747 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:29,300 ♪ 748 00:50:29,333 --> 00:50:31,166 {\an1}SHE PUT HIM BACK ON THE SHELF, 749 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,500 {\an1}AND IMMEDIATELY, HIS LIPS MOVED, AND IN A WHISPER, HE SPOKE. 750 00:50:34,533 --> 00:50:37,566 ♪ 751 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:42,366 "MY FRIEND, I OWE YOU SO MUCH ALREADY. 752 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:47,433 "BUT PLEASE GRANT ME ONE MORE FAVOR. 753 00:50:47,466 --> 00:50:51,033 "FIND ME A SWORD. THAT IS ALL I NEED. 754 00:50:51,066 --> 00:50:53,700 {\an1}I CAN MANAGE THE REST." 755 00:50:53,733 --> 00:50:58,033 AND THEN HIS EYES WENT BLANK. 756 00:50:58,066 --> 00:51:01,533 ♪ 757 00:51:01,566 --> 00:51:05,400 {\an1}OH, THE JOY MARIE FELT. 758 00:51:05,433 --> 00:51:08,000 SHE KNEW WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. 759 00:51:08,033 --> 00:51:10,466 {\an1}HER OLDER BROTHER FRITZ HAD TO BE TAKEN 760 00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:11,733 INTO HER CONFIDENCE. 761 00:51:11,766 --> 00:51:13,400 {\an1}SHE TOLD HIM THE WHOLE STORY. 762 00:51:13,433 --> 00:51:17,000 {\an1}AND TO HIS IMMENSE CREDIT, HE BELIEVED HER. 763 00:51:17,033 --> 00:51:22,500 ♪ 764 00:51:22,533 --> 00:51:24,533 "ALL RIGHT," HE SAID, 765 00:51:24,566 --> 00:51:27,400 {\an1}"I HAVE A NUMBER OF SOLDIERS WHO HAVE GOTTEN QUITE OLD, 766 00:51:27,433 --> 00:51:29,433 "AND I'VE SENT THEM INTO RETIREMENT. 767 00:51:29,466 --> 00:51:32,866 {\an1}I WILL GIVE YOU THE OLD COLONEL'S SWORD." 768 00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:35,733 {\an1}AND THERE, IN THE BACK OF THE THIRD SHELF 769 00:51:35,766 --> 00:51:39,600 {\an1}WAS THE OLD COLONEL WHO HAD NO FURTHER USE FOR HIS SWORD. 770 00:51:39,633 --> 00:51:41,933 FRITZ REMOVED HIS SILVER SABER 771 00:51:41,966 --> 00:51:45,200 {\an1}AND SLUNG IT AROUND THE NUTCRACKER'S WAIST. 772 00:51:45,233 --> 00:51:48,133 {\an1}THAT NIGHT AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, 773 00:51:48,166 --> 00:51:51,633 {\an1}MARIE HEARD STRANGE SOUNDS COMING FROM THE LIVING ROOM... 774 00:51:51,666 --> 00:51:52,966 CLANGING, CRASHING, 775 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,700 {\an1}AND THEN 7 GREAT SQUEAKS. 776 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,666 {\an1}AND THEN THERE WAS SILENCE 777 00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:04,366 AND A KNOCK ON HER BEDROOM DOOR. 778 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,033 ♪ 779 00:52:08,066 --> 00:52:10,300 {\an1}A FAINT LITTLE VOICE SAID, 780 00:52:10,333 --> 00:52:14,333 {\an1}"MOST ESTEEMED MRS. STAHLBAUM, HAVE NO FEAR. 781 00:52:14,366 --> 00:52:16,466 I BRING GOOD NEWS." 782 00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:19,033 ♪ 783 00:52:19,066 --> 00:52:22,666 {\an1}"MOST ESTEEMED MRS. STAHLBAUM." 784 00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:25,666 YES, MARIE RECOGNIZED HIS VOICE 785 00:52:25,700 --> 00:52:28,100 AND THREW OPEN HER BEDROOM DOOR. 786 00:52:28,133 --> 00:52:36,133 ♪ 787 00:52:37,433 --> 00:52:40,700 {\an1}NUTCRACKER WAS STILL HOLDING A SWORD IN HIS RIGHT HAND 788 00:52:40,733 --> 00:52:43,966 {\an1}AND A CANDLE IN HIS LEFT. 789 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,533 WHEN HE SAW MARIE, HE BENT DOWN ON ONE KNEE. 790 00:52:47,566 --> 00:52:50,400 ♪ 791 00:52:50,433 --> 00:52:52,733 {\an1}"YOU ALONE, DEAR LADY, 792 00:52:52,766 --> 00:52:54,933 "GAVE ME THE COURAGE AND STRENGTH 793 00:52:54,966 --> 00:52:56,933 {\an1}"TO FIGHT THE DREADFUL MOUSE KING. 794 00:52:56,966 --> 00:53:00,866 {\an1}I BEG YOU TO ACCEPT THIS TOKEN OF MY GRATITUDE." 795 00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:04,166 AND WITH THAT, HE REMOVED FROM HIS WRIST 796 00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,833 THE 7 LITTLE CROWNS THAT HAD BEEN WORN 797 00:53:06,866 --> 00:53:08,800 {\an1}BY THE DREADFUL MOUSE KING 798 00:53:08,833 --> 00:53:11,466 {\an1}AND GAVE THEM TO MARIE. 799 00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:15,500 ♪ 800 00:53:15,533 --> 00:53:18,366 HE THEN SOLEMNLY ROSE TO HIS FEET. 801 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,500 ♪ 802 00:53:21,533 --> 00:53:24,200 {\an7}"AND MY DEAR MISS STAHLBAUM, 803 00:53:24,233 --> 00:53:26,233 {\an8}"WHAT MAGICAL THINGS I CAN SHOW YOU 804 00:53:26,266 --> 00:53:29,000 {\an1}"IN THIS HOUR OF VICTORY IF YOU WOULD BUT CONSENT 805 00:53:29,033 --> 00:53:31,466 {\an1}TO FOLLOW ME FOR A WHILE." 806 00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:35,100 "I'LL FOLLOW YOU, MY DEAR HERR DROSSELMEYER, 807 00:53:35,133 --> 00:53:37,066 {\an1}"BUT JUST FOR A SHORT WHILE. 808 00:53:37,100 --> 00:53:41,933 {\an1}YOU SEE, I HAVEN'T BEEN SLEEPING VERY WELL THESE PAST NIGHTS." 809 00:53:41,966 --> 00:53:44,566 "THEN," HE SAID WITH A FLOURISH, 810 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,700 {\an1}"WE SHALL TAKE A SHORTCUT." 811 00:53:46,733 --> 00:53:54,733 ♪ 812 00:54:04,166 --> 00:54:07,333 {\an1}AND WITH THAT, THE TWO WALKED TO THE WARDROBE. 813 00:54:07,366 --> 00:54:09,966 NUTCRACKER CLIMBED UP FATHER'S OVERCOAT 814 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,733 AND PULLED A TASSEL AT THE BACK 815 00:54:11,766 --> 00:54:15,300 {\an1}AND OUT POPPED A WOODEN STAIRCASE MADE OF CEDAR 816 00:54:15,333 --> 00:54:18,733 THAT WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE FLOOR. 817 00:54:18,766 --> 00:54:26,766 ♪ 818 00:54:34,333 --> 00:54:37,100 {\an1}"AND NOW, MY DEAR LADY, 819 00:54:37,133 --> 00:54:40,166 {\an1}"PLEASE BE SO KIND AS TO GIVE ME YOUR HAND 820 00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,033 {\an1}AND GO UP TOGETHER WITH ME." 821 00:54:43,066 --> 00:54:45,700 {\an1}THEY CLIMBED UP THE SLEEVE IN FATHER'S COAT. 822 00:54:45,733 --> 00:54:47,500 AND AS THEY REACHED HIS COLLAR, 823 00:54:47,533 --> 00:54:50,333 {\an1}A BLINDING LIGHT SHONE IN FRONT OF HER. 824 00:54:50,366 --> 00:54:52,533 "OH, MY GOODNESS," EXCLAIMED MARIE. 825 00:54:52,566 --> 00:54:54,433 "WHERE ARE WE?" 826 00:54:54,466 --> 00:55:02,466 ♪ 827 00:55:34,766 --> 00:55:37,733 {\an1}NOW, THAT'S GOT TO BE SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING MUSIC 828 00:55:37,766 --> 00:55:39,666 {\an1}TCHAIKOVSKY EVER COMPOSED. 829 00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:43,166 {\an8}WE HAVE NOW ARRIVED AT THE ASTONISHING THIRD PART OF THE STORY. 830 00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,500 {\an8}ASTONISHING BECAUSE HOFFMANN TAKES NUTCRACKER AND MARIE 831 00:55:46,533 --> 00:55:50,166 {\an8}TO THE CAPITAL CITY KNOWN AS BONBONBURG. 832 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,100 ALAN CUMMING, BEING SCOTTISH, 833 00:55:52,133 --> 00:55:54,400 {\an1}PRONOUNCES IT BONBON-BURRA, 834 00:55:54,433 --> 00:55:57,500 {\an1}LIKE THE CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH. 835 00:55:57,533 --> 00:56:01,466 {\an1}BONBONBURG IS WHERE MARIE LEARNS THAT NUTCRACKER IS A PRINCE 836 00:56:01,500 --> 00:56:03,100 AND THAT HIS KINGDOM IS NOT JUST 837 00:56:03,133 --> 00:56:05,066 A LOT OF DANCING FLOWERS AND CANDY. 838 00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:08,733 {\an1}NOPE. ITS ARCHITECTURE REPRESENTS ALL THE GREAT 839 00:56:08,766 --> 00:56:11,733 AND VARIED BUILDINGS FROM EVERYWHERE ON THE EARTH 840 00:56:11,766 --> 00:56:15,166 {\an1}AND ITS POPULATION INCLUDES PEOPLE OF EVERY FAITH 841 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,200 {\an1}AND CULTURE LAUGHING AND JOKING AND SINGING 842 00:56:18,233 --> 00:56:21,633 {\an1}AND ALL LIVING TOGETHER IN RUCKUS HARMONY. 843 00:56:21,666 --> 00:56:25,066 SURELY THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AN IDEAL SOCIETY 844 00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:26,900 {\an1}IS DESCRIBED LIKE THIS, 845 00:56:26,933 --> 00:56:31,033 ONE WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, RELIGION, OR ECONOMIC STATUS. 846 00:56:31,066 --> 00:56:33,900 AND JUST WHEN WE THINK IT IS OVER, 847 00:56:33,933 --> 00:56:36,033 {\an1}BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE BALLET ENDS, 848 00:56:36,066 --> 00:56:38,766 {\an1}HOFFMANN TAKES US BACK TO MARIE'S LITTLE BED 849 00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,300 ONE LAST TIME 850 00:56:40,333 --> 00:56:42,666 AND TO 3 DISBELIEVING ADULTS. 851 00:56:42,700 --> 00:56:46,333 {\an1}BUT HANG ON, HOFFMANN WAS HIMSELF A COMPOSER, 852 00:56:46,366 --> 00:56:50,033 {\an1}AND LIKE A GREAT SYMPHONY BY HIS CONTEMPORARY BEETHOVEN, 853 00:56:50,066 --> 00:56:52,333 THERE WILL BE A THRILLING CLIMAX 854 00:56:52,366 --> 00:56:56,300 AND AN EPILOGUE THAT ENDS THE STORY RIGHT NOW. 855 00:56:56,333 --> 00:56:59,533 {\an1}OK, THEN, MARIE JUST ASKED, "WHERE ARE WE?" 856 00:56:59,566 --> 00:57:02,366 AND HERE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION IS ALAN CUMMING 857 00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,900 {\an1}WITH THE ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA, 858 00:57:04,933 --> 00:57:07,800 {\an1}THE CONDUCTOR WHO CALLS HIMSELF JOHN MAUCERI, 859 00:57:07,833 --> 00:57:11,466 AND THE MUSIC OF PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY. 860 00:57:11,500 --> 00:57:14,033 {\an7}"MY DEAR MISS STAHLBAUM, 861 00:57:14,066 --> 00:57:17,033 {\an7}"THIS IS CANDY MEADOW. 862 00:57:17,066 --> 00:57:19,033 {\an8}"AND IN A MOMENT WE SHALL PASS THROUGH 863 00:57:19,066 --> 00:57:21,466 {\an8}THE GREAT GATE UNDER THOSE ARCHES." 864 00:57:21,500 --> 00:57:29,466 ♪ 865 00:57:29,500 --> 00:57:33,400 THE GATE SEEMED TO BE OF WHITE, RED, AND BROWN MARBLE. 866 00:57:33,433 --> 00:57:34,900 {\an1}BUT AS THEY GOT NEARER, 867 00:57:34,933 --> 00:57:37,900 {\an1}SHE REALIZED IT WAS MADE OF PRESERVED FRUIT 868 00:57:37,933 --> 00:57:39,466 AND SUGARED ALMONDS. 869 00:57:39,500 --> 00:57:41,400 AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GATE, 870 00:57:41,433 --> 00:57:43,566 6 MONKEYS CLAD IN RED 871 00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,600 WERE PLAYING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUSIC. 872 00:57:46,633 --> 00:57:54,633 ♪ 873 00:57:54,866 --> 00:57:57,766 {\an1}SHE HARDLY NOTICED THAT THE PAVEMENT SHE WAS WALKING ON 874 00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,800 {\an1}WAS MADE OF PISTACHIOS AND MACAROONS 875 00:58:00,833 --> 00:58:05,566 {\an1}AND GOLD AND SILVER FRUITS WERE HANGING FROM THE BOWS OF THE TREES. 876 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:11,233 ♪ 877 00:58:11,266 --> 00:58:15,233 {\an1}WHEN THE LEAVES RUSTLED IN THE WIND, 878 00:58:15,266 --> 00:58:20,000 {\an1}THE TINSEL TINKLED LIKE CELESTIAL MUSIC. 879 00:58:20,033 --> 00:58:28,033 ♪ 880 00:59:03,633 --> 00:59:05,266 {\an1}NUTCRACKER CLAPPED HIS HANDS 881 00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:08,366 {\an1}AND SEVERAL LITTLE SHEPHERDS AND SHEPHERDESSES APPEARED 882 00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:11,700 {\an1}LOOKING AS IF THEY'D BEEN MADE OF PURE SUGAR. 883 00:59:11,733 --> 00:59:19,600 {\an8}♪ 884 00:59:19,633 --> 00:59:27,633 ♪ 885 00:59:40,533 --> 00:59:43,666 THEY WERE JOINED BY A GROUP OF HUNTERS AND HUNTRESSES 886 00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:45,966 WHO BROUGHT HER A GOLDEN CHAIR 887 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,033 AND A WHITE LICORICE CUSHION ON IT. 888 00:59:48,066 --> 00:59:51,433 {\an1}AND THEY ALL DANCED A SHORT AND CHARMING BALLET 889 00:59:51,466 --> 00:59:53,166 JUST FOR HER. 890 00:59:53,200 --> 01:00:01,200 ♪ 891 01:00:29,166 --> 01:00:31,866 {\an1}"I'M SORRY IT WAS SO REPETITIVE, MISS STAHLBAUM," 892 01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:33,533 SAID THE NUTCRACKER. 893 01:00:33,566 --> 01:00:35,066 {\an1}"BUT THESE DANCERS ARE MEMBERS 894 01:00:35,100 --> 01:00:37,800 OF A MECHANICAL BALLET TROUPE." 895 01:00:37,833 --> 01:00:40,533 {\an1}"I THOUGHT IT WAS LOVELY," SAID MARIE, 896 01:00:40,566 --> 01:00:42,400 AS THEY CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY 897 01:00:42,433 --> 01:00:43,966 {\an1}ALONG A WHISPERING BROOK 898 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:48,000 {\an1}THAT LED TO THE EVEN MORE FRAGRANT LEMONADE RIVER. 899 01:00:48,033 --> 01:00:52,900 {\an8}♪ 900 01:00:52,933 --> 01:00:55,266 {\an8}THEY CAME UPON A SEASHELL BOAT 901 01:00:55,300 --> 01:00:58,233 THAT WAS DRAWN BY GOLDEN DOLPHINS 902 01:00:58,266 --> 01:01:02,300 THAT TOOK THEM ACROSS A GREAT RIVER OR ROSE PETALS. 903 01:01:02,333 --> 01:01:09,366 ♪ 904 01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:15,133 {\an1}THERE SHE SAW A FAMILY OF SILVER WHITE SWANS GENTLY GLIDE BY. 905 01:01:15,166 --> 01:01:23,166 ♪ 906 01:01:43,133 --> 01:01:47,766 AND THEN TINY DIAMOND FISH APPEARED AND DISAPPEARED, 907 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,066 AND IT SEEMED AS IF THEY WERE DANCING A MERRY DANCE 908 01:01:51,100 --> 01:01:54,233 {\an1}ON THE FRONT OF ROSES. 909 01:01:54,266 --> 01:02:02,266 ♪ 910 01:03:02,133 --> 01:03:04,533 MARIE LOOKED DOWN INTO THE WATER 911 01:03:04,566 --> 01:03:08,000 AND SAW THE IMAGE OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL LOOKING UP AT HER. 912 01:03:08,033 --> 01:03:10,433 {\an1}"OH, MR. DROSSELMEYER, LOOK. 913 01:03:10,466 --> 01:03:13,400 {\an1}"IT MUST BE PRINCESS PIRLIPAT DOWN THERE. 914 01:03:13,433 --> 01:03:15,600 SHE'S SMILING AT ME." 915 01:03:15,633 --> 01:03:19,366 ♪ 916 01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,233 "OH, MY DEAR MRS. STAHLBAUM, 917 01:03:23,266 --> 01:03:24,666 "THAT IS YOU, 918 01:03:24,700 --> 01:03:29,466 {\an1}YOUR SWEET, SMILING FACE LOOKING AT YOU OUT OF THE WAVES." 919 01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:37,500 ♪ 920 01:03:49,233 --> 01:03:52,333 {\an1}THE SPRAY FROM THE NOSTRILS OF THE DOLPHINS 921 01:03:52,366 --> 01:03:55,400 {\an1}SENT BRILLIANT SHEATHS OF CRYSTALS INTO THE AIR 922 01:03:55,433 --> 01:03:59,633 {\an1}THAT FELL BACK INTO THE WATER IN THE FORM OF SNOW. 923 01:03:59,666 --> 01:04:07,666 ♪ 924 01:04:09,133 --> 01:04:11,100 {\an1}BUT INSTEAD OF BEING WHITE, 925 01:04:11,133 --> 01:04:15,233 {\an1}THE LITTLE FLAKES WERE IN ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW. 926 01:04:15,266 --> 01:04:23,266 ♪ 927 01:04:48,966 --> 01:04:51,766 FASTER AND FASTER THEY SAILED ONWARD. 928 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,066 IT WAS ALMOST AS IF THEY WERE FLYING. 929 01:04:55,100 --> 01:05:03,100 ♪ 930 01:05:34,700 --> 01:05:37,966 {\an1}AT THE SHORE, A DOZEN CHILDREN OF MANY COLORS 931 01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,866 {\an1}DRESSED IN HUMMINGBIRD FEATHERS 932 01:05:39,900 --> 01:05:42,300 CARRIED THE BOAT WITH MARIE AND NUTCRACKER 933 01:05:42,333 --> 01:05:44,133 {\an1}THROUGH THE CHRISTMAS FOREST. 934 01:05:44,166 --> 01:05:49,333 {\an7}AND SOON, MARIE SAW THE CAPITAL CITY IN THE DISTANCE. 935 01:05:49,366 --> 01:05:51,500 {\an8}AS THEY GOT CLOSER, MARIE COULD SEE 936 01:05:51,533 --> 01:05:54,466 {\an8}THE ASTONISHING WALLS AND TOWERS OF THE CAPITAL. 937 01:05:54,500 --> 01:05:56,433 IT WAS AS IF ONE FANTASTIC BUILDING 938 01:05:56,466 --> 01:05:58,766 FROM EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD WAS THERE, 939 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:03,033 {\an1}ONLY THEY WERE MADE OF CANDIED FRUITS AND CRYSTALIZED SUGAR. 940 01:06:03,066 --> 01:06:06,900 {\an1}THEY MERRY SOUNDS FROM WITHIN SUDDENLY BURST FORTH 941 01:06:06,933 --> 01:06:10,266 {\an1}WHEN THE MACAROON GATES WERE OPENED FOR THEM. 942 01:06:10,300 --> 01:06:18,300 ♪ 943 01:06:37,933 --> 01:06:41,866 {\an1}THE GREAT MARKETPLACE WAS TEEMING WITH THOUSANDS OF LITTLE PEOPLE, 944 01:06:41,900 --> 01:06:44,466 LAUGHING AND JOKING AND SINGING. 945 01:06:44,500 --> 01:06:46,900 THERE WERE ELEGANT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 946 01:06:46,933 --> 01:06:50,500 GREEKS AND ARMENIANS, JEWS AND TYROLEANS, 947 01:06:50,533 --> 01:06:53,933 {\an1}DERVISHES AND PRIESTS, SOLDIERS AND PREACHERS, 948 01:06:53,966 --> 01:06:55,666 {\an1}SHEPHERDS AND BUFFOONS. 949 01:06:55,700 --> 01:06:58,533 IN SHORT, EVERY KIND OF PERSON 950 01:06:58,566 --> 01:07:02,466 {\an1}TO BE FOUND IN THE WORLD ALL LIVING TOGETHER. 951 01:07:02,500 --> 01:07:10,500 ♪ 952 01:07:39,866 --> 01:07:41,600 "MY," SAID MARIE, 953 01:07:41,633 --> 01:07:45,866 {\an1}"WE CERTAINLY DON'T CARRY ON LIKE THAT WHERE I COME FROM." 954 01:07:45,900 --> 01:07:48,433 {\an1}THE SILVER SOLDIERS ALL STOOD AT ATTENTION 955 01:07:48,466 --> 01:07:50,000 WHEN THEY SAW THE NUTCRACKER. 956 01:07:50,033 --> 01:07:52,100 THEIR CAPTAIN SALUTED AND SAID, 957 01:07:52,133 --> 01:07:55,966 "OH, DEAR PRINCE, YOU'VE COME AT LAST. 958 01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,333 {\an1}WELCOME TO BONBONBURG." 959 01:07:59,366 --> 01:08:02,133 MARIE WAS ASTONISHED TO HEAR YOUNG DROSSELMEYER 960 01:08:02,166 --> 01:08:04,566 {\an1}ADDRESSED AS A PRINCE. 961 01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,800 {\an8}THEN SHE LOOKED UP 962 01:08:06,833 --> 01:08:09,833 {\an8}AND SAW THAT SHE WAS STANDING BEFORE 963 01:08:09,866 --> 01:08:14,400 {\an7}THE MAGNIFICENT ROSE RED MARZIPAN CASTLE... 964 01:08:14,433 --> 01:08:20,233 ♪ 965 01:08:20,266 --> 01:08:24,266 {\an1}WITH ITS HUNDRED TURRETS STREWN WITH VIOLETS AND TULIPS 966 01:08:24,300 --> 01:08:28,133 {\an1}THAT WERE SO TALL THEY DISAPPEARED UP INTO THE CLOUDS. 967 01:08:28,166 --> 01:08:36,166 ♪ 968 01:08:44,233 --> 01:08:46,266 4 YOUNG LADIES RAN TOWARDS HIM. 969 01:08:46,300 --> 01:08:48,766 "OH, BROTHER, OUR DEAREST PRINCE. 970 01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,500 YOU HAVE RETURNED." 971 01:08:50,533 --> 01:08:52,233 AND AT THAT... 972 01:08:52,266 --> 01:08:53,500 ♪ 973 01:08:53,533 --> 01:08:56,200 {\an1}EVERYONE IN THE TOWN SQUARE KNELT 974 01:08:56,233 --> 01:08:58,666 TO GREET THE RETURN OF THE PRINCE. 975 01:08:58,700 --> 01:09:06,700 ♪ 976 01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:35,466 {\an1}NUTCRACKER WIPED A TEAR FROM HIS EYE, 977 01:09:35,500 --> 01:09:37,366 GRASPED MARIE'S HAND, 978 01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:41,533 {\an1}AND RECOUNTED THE STORY OF HOW SHE HAD SAVED HIS LIFE. 979 01:09:41,566 --> 01:09:43,966 NUTCRACKER'S WORDS SEEMED TO BE COMING 980 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,533 FROM A FARTHER AND FARTHER DISTANCE. 981 01:09:46,566 --> 01:09:51,033 {\an1}CLOUDS AND SILVERY MIST SEEMED TO ENVELOPE MARIE 982 01:09:51,066 --> 01:09:55,633 {\an1}AS SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS FLOATING HIGHER AND HIGHER 983 01:09:55,666 --> 01:10:00,500 AND HIGHER AND... 984 01:10:00,533 --> 01:10:02,500 {\an8}PLOP. 985 01:10:02,533 --> 01:10:04,833 {\an8}MARIE PLUNGED FROM AN ENORMOUS HEIGHT 986 01:10:04,866 --> 01:10:08,700 {\an7}AND OPENED HER EYES ONLY TO FIND HERSELF IN HER LITTLE BED. 987 01:10:08,733 --> 01:10:12,866 {\an1}HER MOTHER WAS SAYING, "HOW CAN ANYONE SLEEP SO LONG? 988 01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:16,366 {\an1}BREAKFAST HAS BEEN READY FOR QUITE SOME TIME." 989 01:10:16,400 --> 01:10:18,233 {\an1}"OH, MOTHER, DEAR MOTHER, 990 01:10:18,266 --> 01:10:20,866 {\an1}"WAIT UNTIL I TELL YOU WHERE YOUNG MR. DROSSELMEYER 991 01:10:20,900 --> 01:10:22,833 TOOK ME LAST NIGHT." 992 01:10:22,866 --> 01:10:25,366 AND MARIE RECOUNTED THE ENTIRE STORY 993 01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:29,200 {\an1}OF THE LAND OF CHRISTMAS TREES AND THE MARZIPAN CASTLE. 994 01:10:29,233 --> 01:10:31,266 BUT ALL HER MOTHER COULD SAY WAS, 995 01:10:31,300 --> 01:10:36,366 {\an1}"WHAT A LOVELY AND LONG DREAM YOU'VE HAD. 996 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:37,933 "BUT DON'T BE SILLY. 997 01:10:37,966 --> 01:10:40,200 "THAT NUTCRACKER IS MADE OF WOOD 998 01:10:40,233 --> 01:10:43,300 AND IS IN THE GLASS CABINET DOWNSTAIRS." 999 01:10:43,333 --> 01:10:46,100 THERE WAS LAUGHTER, NOT ONLY FROM MOTHER, 1000 01:10:46,133 --> 01:10:48,933 BUT FROM FATHER, TOO, WHO WAS STANDING BEHIND HER. 1001 01:10:48,966 --> 01:10:50,566 "WELL, LOOK THEN. 1002 01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:53,800 {\an1}"HERE ARE THE 7 LITTLE CROWNS THAT ONCE SAT ON THE HEAD 1003 01:10:53,833 --> 01:10:56,066 {\an1}"OF THE DREADFUL MOUSE KING. 1004 01:10:56,100 --> 01:10:59,366 EXPLAIN THAT IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME." 1005 01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:03,200 ♪ 1006 01:11:03,233 --> 01:11:06,366 {\an1}AT THAT VERY MOMENT, GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER 1007 01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:07,700 {\an1}APPEARED AT THE DOORWAY, 1008 01:11:07,733 --> 01:11:09,466 HAVING ARRIVED TO CHECK THE CLOCKS 1009 01:11:09,500 --> 01:11:10,833 {\an1}IN THE STAHLBAUM HOUSE. 1010 01:11:10,866 --> 01:11:12,266 HE LAUGHED, TOO. 1011 01:11:12,300 --> 01:11:16,933 {\an1}"THAT'S JUST EMPTY TWADDLE. NONSENSE, MARIE. 1012 01:11:16,966 --> 01:11:18,500 {\an1}"DON'T YOU ALL REMEMBER 1013 01:11:18,533 --> 01:11:21,400 {\an1}"THOSE LITTLE CROWNS CAME FROM MY WATCH CHAIN? 1014 01:11:21,433 --> 01:11:24,733 I GAVE THEM TO YOU ON YOUR SECOND BIRTHDAY." 1015 01:11:24,766 --> 01:11:29,233 ♪ 1016 01:11:29,266 --> 01:11:31,600 TRUTH TO TELL, DR. AND MRS. STAHLBAUM 1017 01:11:31,633 --> 01:11:34,066 DID NOT REMEMBER A THING ABOUT IT. 1018 01:11:34,100 --> 01:11:36,500 {\an1}MARIE TRIED ONE MORE TIME. 1019 01:11:36,533 --> 01:11:39,733 {\an1}"GODFATHER, YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS. 1020 01:11:39,766 --> 01:11:41,666 {\an1}"PLEASE TELL MAMA AND PAPA 1021 01:11:41,700 --> 01:11:44,766 "THAT THE NUTCRACKER IS YOUR NEPHEW FROM NUREMBURG 1022 01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:47,600 AND THAT HE GAVE ME THESE CROWNS." 1023 01:11:47,633 --> 01:11:49,533 DROSSELMEYER JUST SHOOK HIS HEAD 1024 01:11:49,566 --> 01:11:51,733 {\an1}AND MUTTERED SOMETHING ABOUT NONSENSE. 1025 01:11:51,766 --> 01:11:54,033 {\an1}FATHER BECAME VERY STERN 1026 01:11:54,066 --> 01:11:57,866 {\an1}AND TOLD MARIE THAT HE HAD HAD ENOUGH OF HER FANTASTIC STORIES 1027 01:11:57,900 --> 01:12:00,333 AND IF SHE DID NOT CEASE TELLING THEM, 1028 01:12:00,366 --> 01:12:02,466 HE WOULD TAKE FROM THE GLASS CABINET 1029 01:12:02,500 --> 01:12:05,966 ALL HER DOLLS AND THE NUTCRACKER 1030 01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,300 AND THROW THEM OUT OF THE WINDOW. 1031 01:12:08,333 --> 01:12:16,333 ♪ 1032 01:12:23,533 --> 01:12:26,333 ♪ 1033 01:12:26,366 --> 01:12:28,233 {\an7}AS YOU CAN WELL IMAGINE, 1034 01:12:28,266 --> 01:12:30,033 {\an8}MARIE NEVER SAID ANOTHER WORD 1035 01:12:30,066 --> 01:12:31,966 {\an8}ABOUT HER ADVENTURES WITH THE NUTCRACKER 1036 01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:33,700 {\an8}AND THE MOUSE KING, 1037 01:12:33,733 --> 01:12:38,333 {\an1}NOT TO MENTION THE KRAKATUK NUT AND THE ENCHANTED KINGDOM. 1038 01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:44,366 {\an1}NOR DID SHE EVER EXPRESS HER INTUITION 1039 01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,033 {\an1}ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY MAN WHO WOUND THE CLOCKS 1040 01:12:47,066 --> 01:12:51,033 AND WAS KNOWN AS GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER. 1041 01:12:51,066 --> 01:12:52,966 AS THE YEARS WENT BY, 1042 01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:56,500 {\an1}MARIE WOULD FREQUENTLY SIT BEFORE THE GLASS CABINET 1043 01:12:56,533 --> 01:13:00,800 {\an1}LOOKING INTO THE EYES OF HER BELOVED NUTCRACKER. 1044 01:13:00,833 --> 01:13:02,900 SHE STOPPED PLAYING WITH HER FRIENDS 1045 01:13:02,933 --> 01:13:06,333 AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE DREAMER. 1046 01:13:06,366 --> 01:13:10,366 {\an1}ONE DAY WHILE GODFATHER WAS WINDING THE CLOCKS IN THE HOUSE 1047 01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:13,566 {\an1}AND MARIE WAS UNAWARE THAT SHE MIGHT BE OVERHEARD, 1048 01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,500 {\an1}SHE GAZED AT THE NUTCRACKER AND SAID ALOUD, 1049 01:13:16,533 --> 01:13:19,133 {\an1}"OH, DEAR MR. DROSSELMEYER, 1050 01:13:19,166 --> 01:13:21,433 {\an1}"IF YOU WERE TRULY ALIVE, 1051 01:13:21,466 --> 01:13:25,333 {\an1}"I WOULD NOT TREAT YOU THE WAY PRINCESS PIRLIPAT DID 1052 01:13:25,366 --> 01:13:28,800 JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A HANDSOME MAN." 1053 01:13:28,833 --> 01:13:33,366 ♪ 1054 01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:36,966 "HEY, HEY, NONSENSE! ABSOLUTELY NONSENSE," SAID GODFATHER. 1055 01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,566 {\an1}AND WITH THAT, THERE WAS AN ENORMOUS CRACK... 1056 01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:40,700 [BANG] 1057 01:13:40,733 --> 01:13:42,566 AND A BOOM. [BOOM] 1058 01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:46,500 MARIE FAINTED AND HAD FALLEN FROM HER CHAIR. 1059 01:13:46,533 --> 01:13:49,666 {\an1}WHEN SHE AWOKE, HER MOTHER WAS HELPING HER UP. 1060 01:13:49,700 --> 01:13:52,366 "MARIE, YOU'RE ALL GROWN UP NOW. 1061 01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:54,833 {\an1}"HOW COULD YOU FALL OFF YOUR CHAIR? 1062 01:13:54,866 --> 01:13:56,466 "GET YOURSELF READY. 1063 01:13:56,500 --> 01:13:59,666 {\an1}"GODFATHER'S NEPHEW HAS JUST ARRIVED FROM NUREMBURG 1064 01:13:59,700 --> 01:14:01,000 "FOR A VISIT. 1065 01:14:01,033 --> 01:14:04,300 NOW BE A GOOD GIRL." 1066 01:14:04,333 --> 01:14:07,100 {\an8}♪ 1067 01:14:07,133 --> 01:14:09,800 {\an8}GODFATHER PUT ON HIS GLASS WIG, 1068 01:14:09,833 --> 01:14:12,133 {\an8}SLIPPED INTO A NEW YELLOW JACKET, 1069 01:14:12,166 --> 01:14:14,833 AND SMILED AS MARIE WAS INTRODUCED 1070 01:14:14,866 --> 01:14:17,866 TO YOUNG NATHANIEL DROSSELMEYER. 1071 01:14:17,900 --> 01:14:20,233 {\an1}A SMALL AND WELL-BUILT MAN, 1072 01:14:20,266 --> 01:14:23,566 HE WORE A SPLENDID RED COAT WITH GOLDEN BUTTONS 1073 01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,033 {\an1}AND BLACK BOOTS THAT WERE SO TIGHT 1074 01:14:26,066 --> 01:14:28,333 THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE PAINTED ON. 1075 01:14:28,366 --> 01:14:31,266 HE HAD A JEWELED SWORD AT HIS SIDE 1076 01:14:31,300 --> 01:14:36,766 AND HIS HAIR WAS TIED IN A PONYTAIL AT THE BACK. 1077 01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,933 {\an1}HE HAD BROUGHT WITH HIM SOME RED MARZIPAN 1078 01:14:39,966 --> 01:14:42,233 {\an1}ALONG WITH CANDIES AND DOLLS 1079 01:14:42,266 --> 01:14:45,166 THAT MATCHED THE VERY CANDIES AND DOLLS 1080 01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:49,166 {\an1}THAT THE MOUSE KING HAD TAKEN FROM MARIE YEARS BEFORE. 1081 01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:52,000 THE YOUNG NATHANIEL HAD PERFECT MANNERS. 1082 01:14:52,033 --> 01:14:53,633 AND AFTER DINNER, 1083 01:14:53,666 --> 01:14:57,200 {\an1}HE ENTERTAINED THE STAHLBAUMS AND GODFATHER 1084 01:14:57,233 --> 01:14:59,800 BY CRACKING NUTS IN HIS TEETH 1085 01:14:59,833 --> 01:15:03,233 {\an1}BY PULLING ON HIS PONYTAIL. 1086 01:15:03,266 --> 01:15:04,566 CRACK. 1087 01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,833 {\an1}YES, EVEN THE HARDEST NUTS. 1088 01:15:07,866 --> 01:15:10,666 CRACK! 1089 01:15:10,700 --> 01:15:14,566 EVERYONE LAUGHED EXCEPT FOR MARIE 1090 01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,066 {\an1}WHO FOUND HERSELF BLUSHING. 1091 01:15:17,100 --> 01:15:21,900 ♪ 1092 01:15:23,566 --> 01:15:27,100 {\an7}NATHANIEL AND MARIE THEN WALKED TO THE PARLOR. 1093 01:15:27,133 --> 01:15:31,200 {\an7}AS THE TWO YOUNG PEOPLE PASSED THE OLD GLASS TOY CABINET, 1094 01:15:31,233 --> 01:15:35,633 {\an1}NATHANIEL TOOK MARIE'S HAND AND KNELT ON ONE KNEE. 1095 01:15:35,666 --> 01:15:39,066 ♪ 1096 01:15:39,100 --> 01:15:43,933 {\an1}"OH, MY DEAR MISS STAHLBAUM, 1097 01:15:43,966 --> 01:15:47,266 {\an1}"BEHOLD AT YOUR FEET YOUR HAPPY DROSSELMEYER, 1098 01:15:47,300 --> 01:15:50,266 "WHOSE LIFE YOU SAVED AT THIS VERY SPOT 1099 01:15:50,300 --> 01:15:53,900 {\an1}"ON THAT CHRISTMAS EVE WHEN YOU WERE JUST A LITTLE GIRL. 1100 01:15:53,933 --> 01:15:56,133 "YOU WERE KIND ENOUGH TO ACCEPT ME 1101 01:15:56,166 --> 01:15:58,466 {\an1}"EVEN AS I HAD TURNED UGLY 1102 01:15:58,500 --> 01:16:01,600 {\an1}"AND PROMISED THAT YOU WOULD NOT REJECT ME. 1103 01:16:01,633 --> 01:16:03,400 "NOW I HAVE RETURNED 1104 01:16:03,433 --> 01:16:06,433 "AND I'M NO LONGER THE GROTESQUE NUTCRACKER 1105 01:16:06,466 --> 01:16:10,866 {\an1}AND HAVE REGAINED MY FORMER NOT UNPLEASANT LOOKS." 1106 01:16:10,900 --> 01:16:12,533 [LAUGHTER] 1107 01:16:12,566 --> 01:16:15,733 "OH, MISS STAHLBAUM, 1108 01:16:15,766 --> 01:16:17,866 {\an1}"FAVOR ME WITH YOUR HAND 1109 01:16:17,900 --> 01:16:21,166 "AND SHARE MY CROWN AND KINGDOM WITH ME, 1110 01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:25,533 FOR I AM NOW THE KING OF MARZIPAN CASTLE." 1111 01:16:25,566 --> 01:16:33,566 ♪ 1112 01:16:38,733 --> 01:16:42,166 MARIE SMILED AND SAID QUIETLY... 1113 01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,900 ♪ 1114 01:16:44,933 --> 01:16:47,866 {\an1}"DEAR HERR DROSSELMEYER, 1115 01:16:47,900 --> 01:16:50,466 {\an1}"YOU ARE KIND AND GENTLE, 1116 01:16:50,500 --> 01:16:54,400 "AND SINCE YOU RULE A GRACEFUL AND CHARMING LAND 1117 01:16:54,433 --> 01:16:57,900 "WITH VERY CHEERFUL AND VARIED PEOPLES, 1118 01:16:57,933 --> 01:17:01,066 {\an1}I ACCEPT YOU AS MY FIANCÉ." 1119 01:17:01,100 --> 01:17:09,100 ♪ 1120 01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:36,200 ♪ 1121 01:17:43,333 --> 01:17:51,333 ♪ 1122 01:17:58,466 --> 01:18:06,466 ♪ 1123 01:18:13,666 --> 01:18:21,666 ♪ 1124 01:18:33,966 --> 01:18:37,500 A YEAR LATER, SO I'VE BEEN TOLD, 1125 01:18:37,533 --> 01:18:40,066 HE CALLED FOR HER IN A GOLDEN CARRIAGE 1126 01:18:40,100 --> 01:18:42,400 {\an1}DRAWN BY SILVER HORSES. 1127 01:18:42,433 --> 01:18:46,366 22,000 OF THE MOST BRILLIANT FIGURINES 1128 01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:50,733 {\an1}ADORNED WITH PEARLS AND DIAMONDS DANCED AT THE WEDDING. 1129 01:18:50,766 --> 01:18:52,600 MARIE, THEY SAY, 1130 01:18:52,633 --> 01:18:56,000 {\an1}IS STILL THE QUEEN OF THE LAND OF CHRISTMAS FORESTS 1131 01:18:56,033 --> 01:18:59,500 AND THE MAGNIFICENT MARZIPAN CASTLE. 1132 01:18:59,533 --> 01:19:07,533 ♪ 1133 01:19:16,133 --> 01:19:18,933 {\an1}GODFATHER DROSSELMEYER WAS THERE, OF COURSE, 1134 01:19:18,966 --> 01:19:20,933 TO WITNESS THE END OF THE STORY, 1135 01:19:20,966 --> 01:19:23,200 {\an1}A STORY HE LIKES TO TELL. 1136 01:19:23,233 --> 01:19:26,033 {\an1}HE HAS CHANGED HIS NAME MANY TIMES. 1137 01:19:26,066 --> 01:19:28,833 {\an1}SOMETIMES HE'S A GODFATHER, 1138 01:19:28,866 --> 01:19:31,466 {\an1}SOMETIMES SHE'S YOUR TEACHER, 1139 01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:38,233 {\an1}AND SOMETIMES DROSSELMEYER APPEARS AS AN ACTOR. 1140 01:19:38,266 --> 01:19:42,033 {\an1}MOSTLY, THEY ARE STILL INVENTING GADGETS 1141 01:19:42,066 --> 01:19:45,566 AND NEW WAYS TO TELL MAGICAL STORIES. 1142 01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:50,433 {\an1}IN SHORT, THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS IMAGINABLE 1143 01:19:50,466 --> 01:19:53,333 CAN BE SEEN PROVIDED 1144 01:19:53,366 --> 01:19:57,566 {\an1}YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SORT OF EYES WITH WHICH TO SEE THEM 1145 01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:01,733 AND BELIEVE. 1146 01:20:01,766 --> 01:20:04,300 {\an1}AND THAT'S THE REAL STORY 1147 01:20:04,333 --> 01:20:08,133 OF THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING. 1148 01:20:08,166 --> 01:20:12,300 {\an1}ONLY A GREAT CLOCKMAKER COULD MAKE UP SUCH A TALE. 1149 01:20:14,766 --> 01:20:19,633 OF COURSE, IT'S JUST A FAIRY STORY. 1150 01:20:19,666 --> 01:20:23,366 BUT AS YOUNG MARIE ONCE SAID, 1151 01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:27,433 "MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, 1152 01:20:27,466 --> 01:20:33,166 IT'S ALSO TRUE." 1153 01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:41,200 ♪ 1154 01:20:48,933 --> 01:20:53,900 {\an8}[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1155 01:20:53,933 --> 01:20:56,500 {\an7}MAUCERI: THE REAL STORY OF THE NUTCRACKER 1156 01:20:56,533 --> 01:20:57,966 {\an8}AND THE MOUSE KING 1157 01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:59,933 {\an8}WITH ALAN CUMMING, JOHN MAUCERI, 1158 01:20:59,966 --> 01:21:04,066 {\an7}AND THE ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA. 1159 01:21:04,100 --> 01:21:08,233 {\an7}PAUL PHILBERT APPLAUDING AS ONLY A TIMPANIST CAN. 1160 01:21:13,500 --> 01:21:18,400 {\an7}AND MR. MAUCERI ASKS THE LEADER, MAYA IWABUCHI, TO STAND. 1161 01:21:21,100 --> 01:21:23,966 {\an8}IT WAS WHILE HE WAS COMPOSING "THE NUTCRACKER" 1162 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,300 {\an7}THAT TCHAIKOVSKY JOURNEYED TO NEW YORK CITY 1163 01:21:26,333 --> 01:21:30,500 {\an7}TO CONDUCT THE GRAND OPENING CONCERT OF CARNEGIE HALL 1164 01:21:30,533 --> 01:21:32,700 {\an8}IN 1891. 1165 01:21:35,466 --> 01:21:38,500 {\an7}CARVED WOODEN NUTCRACKERS DRESSED AS SOLDIERS 1166 01:21:38,533 --> 01:21:41,366 {\an7}FIRST APPEARED IN GERMANY IN THE EARLY 1800s, 1167 01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:46,300 {\an7}INSPIRING HOFFMANN TO CREATE THE STORY YOU HAVE JUST HEARD. 1168 01:21:46,333 --> 01:21:49,833 {\an1}HOFFMANN WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF MARY SHELLEY 1169 01:21:49,866 --> 01:21:53,000 {\an1}WHO WROTE "FRANKENSTEIN" IN 1816, 1170 01:21:53,033 --> 01:21:55,733 THE SAME YEAR AS "THE NUTCRACKER." 1171 01:21:58,066 --> 01:22:01,200 HERE'S ALAN CUMMING RECEIVING A HERO'S WELCOME. 1172 01:22:01,233 --> 01:22:04,566 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1173 01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:08,033 {\an1}ALAN GRADUATED FROM GLASGOW ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE 1174 01:22:08,066 --> 01:22:11,033 {\an1}OF MUSIC AND DRAMA IN 1985. 1175 01:22:11,066 --> 01:22:13,733 THIS WAS HIS DEBUT WITH THE RSNO 1176 01:22:13,766 --> 01:22:19,233 {\an1}AND THE WORLD PREMIERE OF "THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING." 1177 01:22:19,266 --> 01:22:22,300 {\an1}YOU KNOW, E.T.A. HOFFMANN HAD A PROFOUND PURPOSE 1178 01:22:22,333 --> 01:22:24,300 IN WRITING HIS NUTCRACKER STORY. 1179 01:22:24,333 --> 01:22:27,033 {\an1}FIRST OF ALL, HE WANTED TO ENCOURAGE CHILDREN 1180 01:22:27,066 --> 01:22:30,566 TO HOLD ON TO THEIR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION. 1181 01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:33,933 {\an1}HE ALSO TOLD A STORY IN WHICH A LITTLE GIRL 1182 01:22:33,966 --> 01:22:36,866 SAVES THE PRINCE, WHICH IS THE VERY OPPOSITE 1183 01:22:36,900 --> 01:22:39,033 OF "CINDERELLA," "SLEEPING BEAUTY," 1184 01:22:39,066 --> 01:22:40,700 AND "SNOW WHITE." 1185 01:22:40,733 --> 01:22:42,633 {\an7}NO WONDER ALEXANDRE DUMAS, 1186 01:22:42,666 --> 01:22:45,766 {\an7}THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FRENCH AUTHOR OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1187 01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:48,466 {\an7}TRANSLATED IT IN 1845. 1188 01:22:48,500 --> 01:22:51,666 {\an1}DUMAS WAS THE GRANDSON OF A FRENCH ARISTOCRAT 1189 01:22:51,700 --> 01:22:54,233 {\an1}AND AN AFRICAN HAITIAN SLAVE. 1190 01:22:54,266 --> 01:22:56,633 SURELY HE WANTED TO PROMOTE AN IMAGE 1191 01:22:56,666 --> 01:22:59,600 OF A WORLD IN WHICH ALL RACES LIVED TOGETHER, 1192 01:22:59,633 --> 01:23:02,633 {\an1}A REASON MARIE AGREES TO MARRY KING NATHANIEL 1193 01:23:02,666 --> 01:23:04,266 {\an1}AT THE END OF THE STORY. 1194 01:23:04,300 --> 01:23:08,433 {\an1}AND HOFFMANN'S NUTCRACKER CELEBRATES MENTORS AND TEACHERS. 1195 01:23:08,466 --> 01:23:13,566 {\an1}FROM MERLIN TO MARY POPPINS TO AUNT ROSE AND GRANDMA BETTY, 1196 01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:17,466 {\an1}EVERYONE OF US IS THE RECIPIENT OF MANY DROSSELMEYERS, 1197 01:23:17,500 --> 01:23:19,500 {\an1}AND IF WE ARE VERY LUCKY, 1198 01:23:19,533 --> 01:23:23,433 {\an1}WE GET TO PLAY THAT ROLE IN OUR ADULT LIVES. 1199 01:23:23,466 --> 01:23:26,766 {\an1}THANKS FOR JOINING US. A FEW THINGS BEFORE WE GO. 1200 01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:29,033 THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION 1201 01:23:29,066 --> 01:23:30,666 WANTED ME TO TELL YOU 1202 01:23:30,700 --> 01:23:33,000 NOT TO CRACK NUTS WITH YOUR TEETH. 1203 01:23:33,033 --> 01:23:35,400 USE A NUTCRACKER. 1204 01:23:35,433 --> 01:23:37,900 {\an1}AND THE NEXT TIME YOU GO TO THE THEATER TO SEE 1205 01:23:37,933 --> 01:23:40,166 {\an1}OR DANCE "THE NUTCRACKER" BALLET, 1206 01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:42,533 {\an1}YOU WILL KNOW A LOT MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED 1207 01:23:42,566 --> 01:23:44,100 {\an1}BEFORE THE CURTAIN GOES UP 1208 01:23:44,133 --> 01:23:46,666 AND AFTER THE FINAL CURTAIN COMES DOWN. 1209 01:23:46,700 --> 01:23:48,433 THIS IS JOHN MAUCERI. 1210 01:23:48,466 --> 01:23:49,933 {\an1}ON BEHALF OF ALAN CUMMING, 1211 01:23:49,966 --> 01:23:52,500 {\an1}THE ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA, 1212 01:23:52,533 --> 01:23:55,733 AND THE CONDUCTOR WHO CALLS HIMSELF JOHN MAUCERI, 1213 01:23:55,766 --> 01:23:58,533 {\an1}WE WISH YOU ALL LOVE AND JOY. 1214 01:23:58,566 --> 01:24:02,500 AND UNTIL NEXT TIME, TAKE GOOD CARE. 87574

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