The Brothers Grimm (film)

The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 adventure fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam. The film stars Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, and Lena Headey in an exaggerated and fictitious portrait of the Brothers Grimm as traveling conartists in Frenchoccupied Germany during the early 19th century. However, the brothers eventually encounter a genuine fairy tale curse which requires real courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms. Supporting characters are played by Peter Stormare, Jonathan Pryce, and Monica Bellucci.

Wilhelm Grimm Matt Damon and Jakob Grimm Heath Ledger arrive in Frenchoccupied Germany during the early 1800s. They go to Karlstadt to rid the town of a witchs ghost. After killing the ghost, it is revealed that the Brothers Grimm have actually set up a fake witch to trick the town. Afterwards, as they are celebrating, Italian torturer Mercurio Cavaldi Peter Stormare takes them to the French General Delatombe Jonathan Pryce. Delatombe forces them to solve a mystery The girls of the small village of Marbaden are disappearing, and the villagers are convinced that supernatural beings are responsible. The Grimms are charged with finding who is responsible, and they soon discover that it is the work of a real supernatural force a beautiful, yet evil, 500yearold Thuringian Queen Monica Bellucci stealing young girls to restore her own beauty. Will and Jake have a complicated relationship Jake is the smaller, younger, more sensitive one that Will feels he needs to protect. Will is often very hard on Jake dating all the way back to their childhood, when Jake spent their money that was to be used for medicine for their dying sister on magic beans and orders him around. Will is somewhat of a womanizer and wants to make money, whereas Jake is more interested in fairy tales and adventures. Jake feels that Will doesnt care about or believe in him but Will is just frustrated about the way Jake acts so spontaneously, making it hard for Will to protect him.Long ago, King Childeric I came to the forest to build a city while the Queen experimented with black magic to gain eternal life. A plague swept through the land, and she hid in her tower, while her husband and everyone below her perished. Her spell granted her immortal life, but not the youth and beauty to go along with it. Her youthful appearance now only exists in her mirror, the source of her life, as an illusion and nothing more. She needs to drink the blood of twelve young girls to regain her beauty ten have already been re

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