Next, the Corpse Bride
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oneirophreniaOMFG THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD. I will see it at least a thousand times in the theatre.
Now, it's not quite as cute or as addictive as Nightmare Before Christmas, which was by definition a much more ambitious film in terms of concept and execution. Corpse Bride is a love story, pure and simple, with awesome animation, skeletons, and Christopher Lee as the creepy jut-jawed priest. It's a beautiful, beautiful film: the story is a wonderful execution of contemporary fairy tale telling, the music is clever and bouncy (though nowhere near as memorable or as catchy as anything from Nightmare), and the voice-acting is positively superb. It's chock full of incredibly corny dead jokes, hundreds of subtle subtle references to zombie films and oldtimey Gothic authors like Poe, et. al., and that's all wonderful--especially to the English majors amongst my readership! But the film could be completely silent and it would still be incredible, simply because the art direction is so incredible: the sets are surprisingly simple but still superbly suggestive and well-wrought in a very archetypal Gothickal sense, and the character design is just wonderful--the skeletal dead are thoroughly individual, and the living are all excellent caricatures, their features all comically exaggerated. And very reminiscent of the cartoon elements of Pink Floyd's The Wall, oddly enough. I spotted the Evil Mother, the Wife, and even the Judge at various points....
I will own it the second it comes out on DeeVamaDee. And I will buy every fucking toy they make for it. :)
But...on a more personal note, here's something kind of amusing: four--four--of my students today asked me if I'd seen the film yet, to which I obviously answered no, as I'd been on campus since eight this morning. Apparently, a couple of them caught an early matinee showing or something. Well, regardless of how they got to see the film, they did, and they all said: "Herr Doktor Pegritz, you look exactly like Victor!" Oooooooookay. I had to think about that for a minute...but, yeah, I can see the resemblance there! Tall, stick-thin, gawky, prone to wear rather somber suits and have really dark circles around the eyes at all time, attracted to dead women....Yep. There's something there! So, in order to capitalize on this, I've shaved off the mighty gopher-butt and busted out the oldskool suit in the interest of seeing how often I'm told that I could've fallen out of that movie. It should be a fun little experiment. :)
Oh, and one last thing: I don't care if the girl's fucking dead and has a hole in her cheek through which you can count her teeth, Emily, the Bride, is cuter than hell. But, you all probably anticipated that statement. I'm all about the cold, clammy dead chicks.
Go see this damned film. It's the bestest!
Now, it's not quite as cute or as addictive as Nightmare Before Christmas, which was by definition a much more ambitious film in terms of concept and execution. Corpse Bride is a love story, pure and simple, with awesome animation, skeletons, and Christopher Lee as the creepy jut-jawed priest. It's a beautiful, beautiful film: the story is a wonderful execution of contemporary fairy tale telling, the music is clever and bouncy (though nowhere near as memorable or as catchy as anything from Nightmare), and the voice-acting is positively superb. It's chock full of incredibly corny dead jokes, hundreds of subtle subtle references to zombie films and oldtimey Gothic authors like Poe, et. al., and that's all wonderful--especially to the English majors amongst my readership! But the film could be completely silent and it would still be incredible, simply because the art direction is so incredible: the sets are surprisingly simple but still superbly suggestive and well-wrought in a very archetypal Gothickal sense, and the character design is just wonderful--the skeletal dead are thoroughly individual, and the living are all excellent caricatures, their features all comically exaggerated. And very reminiscent of the cartoon elements of Pink Floyd's The Wall, oddly enough. I spotted the Evil Mother, the Wife, and even the Judge at various points....
I will own it the second it comes out on DeeVamaDee. And I will buy every fucking toy they make for it. :)
But...on a more personal note, here's something kind of amusing: four--four--of my students today asked me if I'd seen the film yet, to which I obviously answered no, as I'd been on campus since eight this morning. Apparently, a couple of them caught an early matinee showing or something. Well, regardless of how they got to see the film, they did, and they all said: "Herr Doktor Pegritz, you look exactly like Victor!" Oooooooookay. I had to think about that for a minute...but, yeah, I can see the resemblance there! Tall, stick-thin, gawky, prone to wear rather somber suits and have really dark circles around the eyes at all time, attracted to dead women....Yep. There's something there! So, in order to capitalize on this, I've shaved off the mighty gopher-butt and busted out the oldskool suit in the interest of seeing how often I'm told that I could've fallen out of that movie. It should be a fun little experiment. :)
Oh, and one last thing: I don't care if the girl's fucking dead and has a hole in her cheek through which you can count her teeth, Emily, the Bride, is cuter than hell. But, you all probably anticipated that statement. I'm all about the cold, clammy dead chicks.
Go see this damned film. It's the bestest!
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Date: 2005-09-24 04:53 pm (UTC)My boyfriend and I both had a Sauron moment during one of the Christopher Lee priest scenes.
'Twas wonderful for us English majors. See? That degree does come in handy sometimes! ;)
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Date: 2005-09-24 09:23 pm (UTC)