They live in Baltese, a once peaceful town filled with magic. He is being raised by a disabled former soldier ( Mandy Patinkin as Vilna), who treats Peter as a recruit, making him march and teaching him that life is all hardship and danger. The story's center is an orphan named Peter ( Noah Jupe). It is significant that at several key points in this film, we literally see through the eyes of some of the characters, including the elephant. Her stories have endings that can only be considered happy but are not always resolved as simply as we might imagine. But she adds layers of complexity and compassion to those elements. “The Magician’s Elephant” is based on a book by two-time Newbery Award winner Kate DiCamillo, whose work was well described by novelist Ann Patchett: stories that “twist in ways you never see coming and do not shy away from despair or joy or strangeness.” Both DiCamillo’s fantasy and more realistic books include the basics we find in other stories for children, young people who must solve problems on their own, a connection with an animal, the importance of hope, and a sometimes-unexpected sense of community. A mysterious fortune teller knows the answers to “the most profound and difficult questions.” And a king who cares only for amusement challenges a boy to perform three impossible tasks. A magician’s trick goes wrong and an elephant falls from the ceiling.
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