![]() Throughout the entire movie, Emma flip flops between wanting Jake to stay with the peculiar children and telling him to go back to where he came from, though it’s difficult to say why she feels either way, as her character is given no backstory or personality that would inspire motive. Oh, and of course the implied relationship that had existed between her and Jake’s grandfather. Inexplicably, Jake and Emma Bloom (Ella Purnell), a peculiar girl who would float away without her leaden platform shoes, began to gravitate towards each other for no other reason than she is a girl and he is a boy. Sprinkle in a few shoehorned romances and you can look just as confused as Asa Butterfield did throughout the entire movie. Nearly all of the characters fell flat of achieving emotional depth or motivation. Unfortunately, this film is a tale of finding a place to belong that never quite did that itself. To understand both his grandfather’s death and his own peculiarity, Jake has to confront the peculiar world’s greatest threat. What he finds instead are the very characters that populated his grandfather’s bed time stories: the peculiar children and their eccentric caretaker, Miss Peregrine (Eva Green). When Jake’s grandfather has his eyes stolen out of their sockets and is killed by a monster only Jake can see, his cryptic last words send our protagonist off to Cairnholm, Wales in search of closure and answers. When Jake was a young boy, Grandpa Portman (Terence Stamp) regaled him with tales of the children’s home he grew up in and its strange denizens, all with photographic proof that served doubly as an allusion to the source material. The film centers around protagonist Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield), a kid from Florida who somehow manages to be both bland and abnormal at the same time and is only popular with one person: his grandfather. However, the characteristic wackiness becomes the only feature of interest. They at least have a shared aesthetic and Burton’s latest film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, based off of the Ransom Riggs novel of the same name, is slathered in it. Other photos only show people who resemble the character rather than of the same people.One has to wonder if all of Tim Burton’s movies take place in a shared universe. ![]() The pair are the first and only characters so far to have two actual pictures of them in the series.The two may be considered as close friends of Abraham, considering the fact that he kept a photo of them with him in America.It was believed in the book they had a telepathic bond. Not too much is known about their peculiarity, but in the movie they were capable of turning a wight into stone with just a glare, similar to Medusa in Greek Mythology. In the movie, they are often seen communicating via incoherent snarls. The twins also are very affectionate and attached to each other, as they are always together, and they only talk to each other. Not much is known about the Twins' personalities, besides the fact that they are shy and quiet due to the fact that they do not speak to anyone besides each other. In the movie, their appearance remains the same, however without their masks, they have pale gray, scaly skin with gray serpentine eyes and fangs. For their outfit they wear white baggy shirts with white shorts and white stockings and shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Twins appear as two short children, wearing sacks on their heads that have holes for the eyes, thick triangular eyelines with some makeup on them, and small black lips as the design for the mask. ![]()
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