Seasonally redoing select Disneyland attractions in Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas style (with the reworkings of the Haunted Mansion and "Great Moments with Mr.Rereleasing the film every Halloween and every Christmas for limited runs.Never ones to shy from sequels and tie-ins, Disney has cashed in on the popularity of Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas in a number of ways, including: Jack's love song about how his obsession with Christmas is drawing him away from Sally is one of the film's high points, as was the look on Disney's accountants' faces when they saw how much money the film made as it continued to be popular for years. It is also, at its heart, a love story about the relationship between Jack and Sally - a stitched-together creation of various discolored body parts played (in what may seem like typecasting to some) by Sally Struthers. Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas is a musical and includes a number of songs penned by Elfman. ![]() Santa even promises that, next year, he'll let Jack scare the heck out of Christmas Town. Santa's pleased to have found a new way to bring joy (while blowing off a little steam), and everyone ends up happy (or its equivalent). Then, just to hammer home the lesson, Santa hops on his slay and goes on a wild rampage through Halloween Town, destroying buildings, knocking over little children, and cutting off folks' heads with razor-sharp candy canes.īeing who they are, Jack and the inhabitants of Halloween Town enjoy this very much and ask Santa to come back every year. Santa Claus is furious that someone from Halloween has invaded Christmas Town and has security escort Jack back through the door beneath the trestle. It turns out that Santa Claus lives in the castle, and that each neighborhood is the home of elves who make toys in keeping with their local theme (space toys, cowboy outfits, etc.) At the end of this main street, Jack discovers a circular "hub" with streets leading off into different neighborhoods and a huge castle at the far end. The door opens beneath a train trestle, and Jack walks out from under the stone bridge to find himself in a large town where everything is clean and everyone smiles all the time no matter how expensive everything is. One day while wandering through a spooky forest outside Halloween Town, Jack finds a tree with a door carved in it and a sign that says "Do not open until Xmas." Ignoring the warning, Jack opens the door and finds that it is a gateway to Christmas Town.Ĭhristmas Town is about as different from Halloween Town as anything Jack could imagine. In between is all manner of dangerous insanity, from a building that routinely explodes to a door that electrocutes anyone who opens it. At one end of town lives the mayor (a three-faced rat named Eve), at the other end is an amusement park where kids can have real fatal car wrecks. Halloween Town is populated by a variety of monsters, including vampires, werewolves, mummies, a ten-necked multi-decapitated cyclops, zombies, etc. The plot of Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas revolves around the character of Jack Skellington (played by Johnny Depp), the pirate king of Halloween Town where every day is Halloween, even Christmas. Some characters seems so wooden that they might be china dolls or Keanu Reeves. This, combined with brilliant sets and makeup, gives Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas a surreal, almost toylike appearance. This greatly prolongs production and is quite difficult for the performers, but results in a film that has no motion blurs and is quite striking. In this process, actors move only inbetween clicks of the movie camera's shutter. ![]() To make the film's atmosphere particularly odd, Burton decided to film the entire production using stop motion. It was Elfman who suggested that Burton combine a delightful Christmas romp with a more sinister Halloween theme, and although Burton was skeptical that the public would embrace a dark film with his name on it, he set to work. Elfman, during his misspent youth through late thirties, headlined funky rock band Bongo Bongo, famed for its bitter songs about reptiles, dead people, and bug crushing. So it makes a great deal of sense that he would want to create the ultimate Christmas film.īurton's ideas were heavily influenced by his friend and sometimes-carpool-buddy Danny Elfman. Andy Hardy can be seen in some of Burton's earlier films, including Reindeerman, Beetlenog, and Edward Tinselhands. Burton had been a big fan of Christmas movies since childhood, and the influence of such holiday classics as It's a Wonderful Life and Santa Claus vs. Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas was the brainchild of, surprisingly enough, Tim Burton. Disney Films - Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas (Disney Lies)ĭisney Films Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
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