Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
For more about this video seminar, see http://www.movingimage.nyc. Tim Burton’s success thus far as a director and producer is impressive. Not only does he maintain a unique signature style, but is also able to combine it with the creativity and the passion that captures imagination. It should be noted that Tim himself is an able producer as well.
Tim’s two films, A Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, show creativity and art combined with computer generated images and animations in a truly magnificent way. For those that have seen these two films, one can easily tell the distinctive style that Tim uses in animation. In his stories and poems, one can capture and see brilliant fantasy at its best.
Drawing inspiration from his disruptive imagination, there is no doubt that the success of these films has been their effectiveness for the audience. If a person cheers for the procedures and believes in working magic, there is no doubt that Tim’s stories will be a breather. In terms of the characters, one can categorize it as gothic in a sense.
There are a variety of movies competing for children’s attention, and in my opinion, Cadaver and Plasticine (Isaac so. The story is rather different, but it’s not very engaging). There’s a middle class in America and although children are different from each other, generally, they believe Orienting themselves to necromancers and other rulers of the dark world is rather faddish. It’s a dog eat dog world in cinema.
Tim Burton’s work, with its outstanding characters, is nothing short of a work of art. Children aged 10 to 14 may find this film somewhat bushy, but all the other necessary measures will be positive, making the experience truly memorable and wonderful. It seems as if this animated film would be better suited for the Channel family audience.
I am unable to determine which category this movie belongs to. The plot takes place in a strange world that is explore in rather dim daylight and is lit with only the faintest touch of moon light at night. Johnny Depp plays Victor, a timid child of overbearing and newly rich parents, Tracey Ullman and Paul Whitehouse.
They have also proposed Victor to wed a gentle Victoria (Emily Watson), who is the daughter of bankrupt aristocrats (Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney) and to top it all, the coincidence of names, Victor and Victoria, is so disturbing that it is almost incest, which happens to be most horrifying and quite ironically, the least deliberate aspect of the film.
Abandon for a moment the pleasant sounds of opera and take a look at the characters around: everyone present in the movie has a smearish deathly grey skin with no color in its cheeks. Reminded as well with Jonathan Miller who, in his younger years as a medical student, once looked in horror for the first time at a roomful of dissected bodies: “These people do not look well even in death”.
Despite the looks, however, we find ourselves in the living land. There is also a peculiar figure who fails to show up for the wedding rehearsal although he goes through some dark forest and plays the part of the frustrated man rehearsing his lines; when he starts to put the ring on a paper-thin beer’s finger, he actually says them in the correct order: “I do.”
The wrinkle of ivy-covered realism only extremes this feel; it means that a dead lady in the rags of a bride appeared as if from the vows filled the ground to earth with the sorrowful figures of Miss Havashams squealing the lines of Helena Bonham Carter. Victor is officially now married to the washed-up corpse, which he must find a way to invalidate this horrible arrangement or whether this female corpse should indeed be considered the one for marriage.
When Victor and the Corpse Bride step into her ‘neighborhood’ in the nether world, it is evident that the place is more bustling than the one Victor was from. According to Burton, it is one long celebration or a wriggly mess with skeletons patrolling and a gaudy ball bobbing inside a dust-ridden eye socket. The eyeless trait certainly seems to be held by the Corpse Bride who, when spurned, hissing softly; said, “It’s the eye, isn’t it?” It is partly on that, and the indescribable worm resides deep within her head which seems to be simulating Peter Lorre’s look like the latter for its entire life does not help either.
The film is filled with what seems like an eternal masquerade party coupled with sad songs sung by Danny Elfman who seem to make the total image that of Phantom of the Opera as though the director wanted to create it in a comical style. The most comic element comes from the dueling sets of parents, ‘The Noves’ and ‘The poshos’ who have extreme concerns about each other. Paul Whitehouse’s character observes a huge house especially, considering that he is rich after selling fresh fishes. He does not understand why the implication of sorts would be “chivvy.”
I am not clear what the extent is of the conditions for all the enthusiasm of the Halloweener, the strewing skeletons, the falling off flesh and the dislocated skull head literally serving the drinks (yes!).
The, haha, head waiter. It is a mood that is a mix of humor and horror. It appears that after the great and well thought out victory that was Charlie and the chocolate factory, this piece is more like something Tim Burton does in a rush all of his times. He’s done it, nevertheless, with confidence and class.
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