Nanny McPhee - A Mysterious, Magical Nanny for Challenging Children
Nanny McPhee is the mysterious, amusing and a bit scary Nanny character created by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda.
Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay for the film and also stars as Nanny McPhee bringing the character to life. Through the use of make up and costuming that included a nose, unibrow, warts, large earlobes and padded costumes the normally beautiful Emma Thompson is transformed (almost unrecognizably) into the ugly mysterious, slightly lovable and slightly scary Nanny McPhee.
During the process of the movie, as the children gradually learn Nanny McPhee's lessons, we see her transform back into her normal beautiful self.
You need Nanny McPhee...
Can I get a Nanny McPhee?
Nanny McPhee was a hit with moms everywhere and especially with those of us who also grew up watching Mary Poppins, the original Mysterious, Magical Nanny.
I would guess that I am probably not the only parent who would like to hire a Nanny McPhee, at times to help teach my children manners, how to behave and perhaps most importantly the consequences of their actions.
Photo Source: Video Cover, Website for Nanny McPhee.
Three + reasons to love Nanny McPhee
- Her Magical Cane that could get children to mind.
- Her firm, but gentle way of disciplining children.
- Her Unibrow.
- Her transformation during the process of teaching the children.
Description of Nanny McPhee the Movie
Nanny McPhee Website
Nanny McPhee at a Glance
Nanny McPhee is a 2005 children's film. It was adapted by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books. On the BBC One television show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Emma Thompson revealed that a film trilogy is planned. It was premièred in the Showcase Cinemas in Coatbridge near Glasgow.
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Nanny McPhee's Five Lessons
In the process she also teaches them manners, how to behave and perhaps most importantly the consequences of their actions.
- First Lesson - To Go To Bed When They Are Told.
- Second Lesson - To Get Up When They Are Told.
- Third Lesson - To Get Dressed When They Are Told.
- Fourth Lesson - To Listen.
- Fifth Lesson - You Must Do Exactly As You Are Told.
What do you think of Nanny McPhee?
Pretending to be Nanny McPhee
Soon after we'd seen the Nanny McPhee movie in the theater on one of those nights when my girls were acting up, we decided to play a joke on the girls.I managed to sneak out of the house with a long cape and shoes. My husband told the girls if they didn't settle down, we'd call on Nanny McPhee.
Shortly after that I knocked on the front door, from the outside.
It was dark outside, so with the cape and the stick that I'd grabbed I thought I would be a pretty convincing Nanny McPhee. It didn't take long for my girls to figure out that this Nanny McPhee had their mother's hands.
So much for trying to spook them a bit and play a joke...
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Nanny McPhee - The Beginning - Learning about Death
If it wasn't empty however we wouldn't have a story.
I thought they handled the absence of the Mrs. Brown, the mother quite well. Her presence was still very much felt by the family by keeping her old chair present. Several references are made to the chair during the film, perhaps most notably when Nanny McPhee comes into acknowledge the chair at the end of the film before leaving.
Mr. Brown works as a Funeral director or undertaker, so children watching the film are exposed to the concepts of death through his work.
Interview with Emma Thompson about Nanny McPhee on YouTube
Emma Thompson Interview about Nanny McPhee
An Interview with the fantastic Emma Thompson about writing and acting in the film Nanny McPhee. "The Movieguy" interviews her.
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Emma hugging Colin!
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Nanny McPhee - The Wedding on YouTube
Much of the rest of the movie was filmed in dark tones, but when the children learned their lessons and Mr. Brown discovers he loves Angeline, Nanny McPhee's magical cane coats the world in a covering of fluttering, feathery white snow for a magical winter wedding.
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- When you need me,
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When you want me,
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A unibrow or monobrow is due to the presence of abundant hair between the eyebrows, so that the two eyebrows appear to merge forming one long single eyebrow, or a "confluence of eyebrows."The medical term for a merging of the eyebrows is called synophrys. It is caused by hypertrophy (general increase in bulk) of the eyebrows and fusion (joining) of the eyebrows in the midline.
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