The boy learns that he will probably only live another nine years, but is ok with that because he doesn’t want to live without his grandmother. They find out the Grand High Witch lived in a castle in Norway and devise a plan to kill all of the remaining witches. In the book, the grandmother and boy return to Norway and the boy remains a mouse. The endings of the book and both films are all quite different. In the 2020 film, he goes to live with the boy and his grandmother since his own mom hates mice and won’t accept him. The soup is watercress in the 1990 film.īruno Jenkins, a little boy turned into a mouse in all versions, is returned to his family in the book and the 1990 film. The witches eat pea soup in the book and 2020 movie.
Eyes aren’t mentioned as a way to spot a witch in the 2020 movie, but they are given an elongated mouth that is hidden with pancake makeup. Witches had a purple tinge to their eyes in the 1990 film. Witches in the book had pupils that would change color, appearing as fire and ice. In the 1990 film, the grandmother has diabetes. She coughs when a witch is near in the 2020 film. Three different illnesses affect the grandmother between the book and film versions. In 2020, the pretty, pointed shoes were back.
In the 1990 version, witches never wore pointed or pretty shoes. In the book, witches hid their lack of toes by wearing stylish, pointy shoes that were painful. His original witch encounter took place while he was in his treehouse in the book and 1990 film. The boy encounters his first witch while in the grocery store in the 2020 film. The grandmother smoked cigars in the book and in the 1990 movie, but the cigars were not present in the 2020 film. The 2020 version of the grandmother was a healer.
The book and 1990 film version feature a grandmother who was a witch hunter or “witchophile”.
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