It is interesting to know that jewelry boxes have been featured in many movies, plays and books. Hollywood movies have frequently used them to tell a story. There are several movies that mysteriously revolve around a jeweler.
‘Black Swan’ is a famous movie starring Natalie Portman and she even won an Oscar for her amazing performance. In the movie, every night when she goes to bed with all her toys, she dreams of a ballet dancer in a musical jewelry box.
In the 1970s, a South Korean movie titled ‘When a Woman Breaks Her Jewelry Box’ was released, in which a woman breaks her jewelry box to find out the truth about her mother. When all the time she had thought that her mother was dead, she was actually alive and this was revealed when she opened her mother’s jewelry box. It was voted the best film and also won an award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards ceremony.
Another scary movie that involved a jeweler is ‘What Lies Beneath’ with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. Michelle discovers the jewelry box in the lake behind her house and it was the clue that helped her solve a murder mystery. She was constantly disturbed by a ghost appearing before her and you have to watch the movie to enjoy the exciting conclusion.
Thrillers like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ have also used treasure chests and jewelry boxes extensively.
In the 1980s Dalton Moore, administrator of Swindon High School, wrote a beautiful play called ‘The Missing Bride’. The students were trained to act so naturally that they won an inter-school competition. This play was about a bride who disappeared from her wedding party.
Everyone in the group was worried about the disappearance of the girlfriend. They searched everywhere in the house until they found the old-looking jewelry box and made an effort to open it. When they opened it they found, to her dismay, that only her dress and her bride were missing.
Her body was missing but her beautiful wedding dress was in place. There was perfect silence and the audience was scared to death! Finally, the play explained that the old house, which was bought for the bride and groom, was haunted!
In Greek mythology, the story of the famous Pandora’s box is well known, in which the gods had given a beautiful girl a precious jewelery box and had asked her not to open it. But her curiosity got the better of her and she opened it only to unleash all kinds of disease and destruction on the world.
Jewelers also find a place in fairy tales. In the story “The Emperor’s Clothes” the clothes and the wealth of the treasure chest worn by the king are described in detail.
In the famous books of JK Rowling, who wrote the “Harry Potters” series of books. The first book tells us that Harry is a wizard and inherited his fortune from his parents. This fortune was kept in jewelery chests at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. This is the first series called “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”
Adults and children alike love exciting stories and those involving jewelry boxes and hidden treasures are a sure hit for them. Whether it’s a storybook, a play, or watching a movie together, the whole family is delighted!