I am watching “Anne with an E” on Netflix. It has been a while since I have read the book, but if the series is accurate, Anne has magic in her words. Do you agree?
What other books or movies have characters who are magical even though the genre isn’t about magic?
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The Hallmark version of The Secret Garden (Maggie Smith) has a wonderful scene of magick.
There was also a nice scene of magick in one version of The Little Princess, but I can’t remember what version- definitely more recent than Shirley Temple. If I remember correctly, Sarah tells Miss Minchin “All girls are princesses.” That is not a common line for the differing versions of the story.
As for the possibility of magick in a movie which supports physical acts over magick, The Lamp is a good one, as is Merlin of the Crystal Cave.
In Contact, the travel sequence may be considered a contact with a deity rather than an extra terrestrial. Personal opinion, there.
If you’re looking for a rabbit hole to go down, What the Bleep Do We Know and its follow up are excellent explanations of where magick may come from or how it may work with science.
A surprise for me was Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. There was another, similar, but I don’t remember the name, wherein Sean Connery plays a monk detective during the middle ages.
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Probably 90% of the fictional media I consume is fantasy, so I’m having a tough time thinking of magical appearances outside of a genre that tends to be pretty magical 
It’s an interesting thing to think about, though - perhaps, in some ways, any character who sets a goal and manifests the result they wish could be seen as wielding their own power 
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