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'The Corpse Bride' d. Tim Burton
screenplay: Caroline Thompsan and Pamela Pettler
release date: October 2005
genre: stop-motion, folk-tale, fantasy...think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
composer: Danny Elfman
cast: Johnny Depp, Helan Boham-Carter, Albert Finney, Christopher Lee, Emily Watson, Richard Grant and Joanna Lumley
Once again Tim burton plans to bring a faintly twisted dark fairy tale love story in his unique barnd of animation; stop-motion. The story takes after an old Eastern Europe folk tale about a groom-to-be and his unexpected bride-to-be. As the story goes the groom (voiced by Johnny Depp
), is walking with a friend to the next village where his bride-to-be is, along with wedding ceremony. Seeing a stick on the ground, the groom places the ring on the stick and performs the traditional jewish wedding cerenony. But behold that was no stick! 
In fact it was the wedding finger of a dead bride, after the 'fake' ceremony is complete she rises from her leafy grave.
The corpse bride (voiced by Helena Boham Carter) demands that she be given the full rights as his bride (this is a kids movie?), well more that she argues that since wedding ceremony is performed she is indeed married to the groom. He protests, and explains that it was an accident, he shouldn't of been playing around, he has a girl waiting for him in the next village. They travel to the village and the corpse bride tries her case to the rabbi. The rabbi, agrees that they are married. But the bride that the groom was supposed to marry, protests. The corpse bride, realizing that she is taking away the same thing that was taken away from her allows for the real (and living) bride to take her place.
There was a picture on the net, pretty cool too. But alas the site which it was on took it down.
screenplay: Caroline Thompsan and Pamela Pettler
release date: October 2005
genre: stop-motion, folk-tale, fantasy...think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
composer: Danny Elfman
cast: Johnny Depp, Helan Boham-Carter, Albert Finney, Christopher Lee, Emily Watson, Richard Grant and Joanna Lumley
Once again Tim burton plans to bring a faintly twisted dark fairy tale love story in his unique barnd of animation; stop-motion. The story takes after an old Eastern Europe folk tale about a groom-to-be and his unexpected bride-to-be. As the story goes the groom (voiced by Johnny Depp
), is walking with a friend to the next village where his bride-to-be is, along with wedding ceremony. Seeing a stick on the ground, the groom places the ring on the stick and performs the traditional jewish wedding cerenony. But behold that was no stick! In fact it was the wedding finger of a dead bride, after the 'fake' ceremony is complete she rises from her leafy grave. The corpse bride (voiced by Helena Boham Carter) demands that she be given the full rights as his bride (this is a kids movie?), well more that she argues that since wedding ceremony is performed she is indeed married to the groom. He protests, and explains that it was an accident, he shouldn't of been playing around, he has a girl waiting for him in the next village. They travel to the village and the corpse bride tries her case to the rabbi. The rabbi, agrees that they are married. But the bride that the groom was supposed to marry, protests. The corpse bride, realizing that she is taking away the same thing that was taken away from her allows for the real (and living) bride to take her place.
There was a picture on the net, pretty cool too. But alas the site which it was on took it down.
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Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T.S Eliot, "Preludes"
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T.S Eliot, "Preludes"
