Corpse Bride
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Directed by	Tim Burton Mike Johnson
Produced by	Tim Burton Allison Abbate
Written by	John August Caroline Thompson Pamela Pettler
Starring	Johnny Depp Helena Bonham Carter Emily Watson Albert Finney Richard E. Grant Joanna Lumley
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 23, 2005
Running time	77 min.
Language	English
Budget	$40,000,000
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is a 2005 Academy Award-nominated stop-motion-animation film based loosely on a 19th century Russian-Jewish folktale version of an older Jewish story and set in a fictional Victorian era England.It was directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, and filmed at 3 Mills Studios in London. Johnny Depp led an all-star cast as the voice of Victor and Helena Bonham Carter (for whom the project was specially created) as the voice of the Corpse Bride. This is the first animated film in which Johnny Depp has been a voice actor. The film was nominated in the 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. It lost to another stop-motion animated feature, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit which also starred Helena Bonham Carter. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (441x688, 52 KB) This is a copyrighted poster. ... 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Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994... Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. ... Emily Anita Watson (born January 14, 1967) is an Oscar nominated English actress best known for her acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves. ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ... Richard E. Grant depicted as the unofficial Ninth Doctor. ... Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel. ... Warner Bros. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 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The movie exhibits Burton's trademark style and recurring themes (the complex interaction between light and darkness, and of being caught between two irreconcilable worlds). The movie can be particularly compared to The Nightmare Before Christmas , Burton's previous stop-motion feature project (directed by Henry Selick and based on a Tim Burton poem, which Corpse Bride director Mike Johnson worked on as an animator) and Beetlejuice, especially in the scenes depicting the underworld and its deceased denizens. The studio intentionally emphasized the links, as some commercials for Corpse Bride were accompanied by songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas (specifically, "What's This"), and in an issue of Disney Adventures, Emily, the title character, was compared to The Nightmare Before Christmas's Sally. Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 Academy Award-Nominated, stop motion animated musical film about the inhabitants of Halloween Town who take over Christmas, directed by stop-motion animator Henry Selick. ... Henry Selick (November 30 1952 - ), is an American stop motion animation director who directed both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach. ... For the animated series based on the film, see Beetlejuice (TV series). ... The first issue of Disney Adventures, which featured an interview with Rick Moranis. ... Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas film Sally is a fictional character in Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas. ...

Plotline

Victor is grabbed by the Corpse Bride's hand.

The story is set in a cold, gloomy Victorian era town, a parody of aristocratic England. A nervous young man by the name of Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp), son of rich fishmongers Nell and William Van Dort (Tracey Ullman and Paul Whitehouse), is due to be wed to beautiful young Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson), daughter of bankrupt (as well as ugly and unpleasant) aristocrats Maudeline and Finis Everglot (Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney). Victor isn't too keen on the idea of an arranged marriage until he meets the charming Victoria face-to-face and they fall in love almost instantly. But after botching the wedding rehearsal (and accidentally setting Victoria's mother's skirt on fire in the process), Victor is banished by Pastor Galswells (Christopher Lee) to learn his wedding vows. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994... A fishmonger at Seattles Pike Place Market. ... Tracey Ullman (born December 30, 1959) is a British comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter, and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show. ... Suits you Sir Mark Williams (left) with Paul Whitehouse (right) The Fast Show For the motor vehicle and aircraft painter, see Paul Whitehouse (painter). ... Emily Anita Watson (born January 14, 1967) is an Oscar nominated English actress best known for her acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves. ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ... Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel. ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London, England) is an English actor known for his professional longevity, and his distinctive basso delivery. ... Wedding vows are promises made by the bride and groom to each other during a wedding ceremony. ...

Victor wanders through the forest practicing his vows, consistently blundering them. Finally he gains confidence and successfully recites them, and upon spying a tree root that resembles a human hand, places his bride's wedding ring on it. No sooner has he done so than the hand (for it really is a human hand) grabs him by the arm and Emily, the Corpse Bride, (Helena Bonham Carter) emerges from beneath the earth dressed in a moldy, flowing wedding dress and declares Victor her husband. She was mysteriously killed on her wedding day and has been waiting for her groom to come and claim her ever since. Victor is terrified and runs through the woods, and stops on the bridge to the town, believing he's lost her. He then turns around and she says, 'you may kiss the bride.' She then kisses him (although we can see her leaning in just short of kissing him, a raven blocks the actual touch.) A finger ring is a metal band worn as an ornament around a finger; it is the most common current meaning of the word ring. ... Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. ...

After fainting, Victor awakes in a pub with the dead. At first, Victor is terrified at being surrounded by skeletons and corpses, but after Bonejangles sings a rather colorful song, he begins to enjoy himself in the surprisingly lively setting. But then he shakes himself and runs into the streets. Emily finds him and gives him a wedding present of the alive skeleton of his dead puppy Scraps. He then convinces Emily and the elderly Elder Gutknecht (Michael Gough) to return them both temporarily to the Land of the Living via Ukrainian Haunting Spell (returning only if either one says "Hopscotch") under the pretense of introducing her to his parents. Once back, however, Victor goes to see Victoria instead to confess his love for her, and they are about to kiss when a betrayed Emily discovers them and spirits him away while Victoria watches helplessly. While Victoria tries unsuccessfully to convince the pastor and her parents that Victor needs help, Maudeline and Finis lock her in her room and plan to match up their daughter with the presumed rich drifter "Lord Barkis Bittern" (Richard E. Grant) instead. Unbeknownst to the others, Barkis intends to kill Victoria and make off with her fortune, which he mistakenly believes is still viable. Michael Gough as Lord Ambrose DArcy in Hammers The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Michael Gough (born November 23, 1917 in Malaya) is an English character actor. ... A pastor is a minister or priest of a Christian church. ... Richard E. Grant depicted as the unofficial Ninth Doctor. ...

Emily tells the maggot and spider of how Victor probably does belong with Victoria because she is dead and he is not. Victor apologizes for lying to her and Emily's love for him is renewed. Victor's coachman Mayhew (newly-deceased) delivers the news of Victoria's engagement to Victor himself. Victor is distraught, but thinking that Victoria is marrying Barkis willingly, decides to make the best of his situation below and agrees to drink poison as part of an above-ground ceremony that will make his marriage to Emily official (since the marriage vows bind the couple until "death do them part", and since Emily is already dead, then the marriage technically won't exist until Victor kills himself). As Victoria and Barkis are married, the residents of the Land of the Dead busy themselves preparing for a wedding of their own, storming the town and marriage "celebration" on their way to the church. In the ensuing chaos, the newly-wed Lord Barkis learns (to his horror) that Victoria is penniless. Meanwhile, there is panic with the village at the invasion of the dead, until both sides suddenly recognize their respective loved ones and realize to their mutual joy at an undreamed of temporary reunion. This article discusses transportation vehicles. ...

Corpses from the land of the dead visit the Everglots.

Victoria heads for the church as well, and discovers Victor in the midst of the ceremony that will kill him. Emily sees Victoria watching them and, realizing that she is cheating Victoria out of a happy life, stops Victor from drinking the poisoned wine. She gives Victor back to Victoria, but the reunion is interrupted by Lord Barkis, who reminds the crowd that she is still his wife, and moves to kidnap her at sword point. Emily recognizes Barkis as the man who both jilted and murdered her long ago. Victor tells Barkis to get his hands off his love, and Barkis is about to kill him, but Scraps bites Barkis' leg. A sword fight ensues between the two men, with Victor wielding a dinner fork tossed to him by the dead cook. Barkis corners Victor and is just about to jam his sword into Victor's stomach, when Emily rushes between them and blocks the blow, saving Victor's life. Image File history File links Corpsebrideskeletons. ... Image File history File links Corpsebrideskeletons. ... Part of the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard in Whitehall, London. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ...

A seething Emily orders Barkis to leave, which he smuggly agrees to. The rest of the dead, outraged at what he did to Emily, try to stop him, but they are unable to interfere, since he is of the living, and therefore not under their power. But before leaving, he proposes a mock-toast to Emily, "always the bridesmaid, never the bride." Unknown to Barkis, he drinks the poisoned wine intended for Victor, which kills him instantly. The dead then proceed to induct the "new arrival". Barkis' exact fate is unknown.

Emily explains to Victor and Victoria that they belong together. When Victor protests, saying that he "made [Emily] a promise," Emily explains that he already kept it by setting her free, and that now she shall do the same for him. She begins to leave the church, but stops to throw her bouquet to Victoria (but accidentally first to an old woman with Emily's maggot on her shoulder, to the latter's delight), then resumes her leave. As she reaches the threshold, Emily transforms into hundreds of butterflies, which soar towards the moon. Victor and Victoria look on together, happy to be finally reunited by all of the world. For other uses of the term butterfly, see butterfly (disambiguation). ... Apparent magnitude: up to -12. ...

Characters

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Victor Van Dort

Victor Van Dort

Voice Actor: Johnny Depp Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Victor-Van-Dort. ... Image File history File links Victor-Van-Dort. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994...

Victor is a bashful young man who hails from a family of nouveaux riches, or "new money". His social-climbing parents have made a fortune, but hail from humble fish-mongering origins. They are eager to join the ranks of the aristocracy through the arranged marriage of their son with Victoria Everglot, the daughter of a titled, but penniless, family. Throughout the movie, his heart is torn between the attentions of the sweet, shy Victoria and the free-spirited, but dead, Emily, and as the movie progresses, Victor's character reveals a more coy side, suggesting more confidence than initially believed. For bands under the name Nouveau Riche, see Nouveau Riche (band). ...

With pale skin, dark hair and sharp features, Victor bears physical similarities to that of his voice actor, Johnny Depp. Similarly, it could be considered paying homage to Depp's other on-screen appearances (directed by Tim Burton), notably those of severely reclusive natures. These potential candidates of dedication are the pale hero of Edward Scissorhands and Ichabod Crane of Sleepy Hollow. Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy film, directed and co-written by Tim Burton and written by Caroline Thompson. ... Sleepy Hollow (1999) is a historical horror film directed by Tim Burton interpreting the legend of The Headless Horseman and based very loosely around the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. ...

Emily, the Corpse Bride

Emily the Corpse Bride

Voice Actor: Helena Bonham Carter Image File history File links Emily-the-Corpse-Bride. ... Image File history File links Emily-the-Corpse-Bride. ... Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. ...

Emily is the titular character of the film. As the Corpse Bride, Emily is portrayed as kind and trusting, with a free spirit and a lust for un-life. Her outgoing persona acts as a foil for the more reserved, tentative Victoria. Despite being dead, Emily is capable of the same amount of love and emotion as any living person, and her unbeating heart can just as easily be broken. She has been waiting for her real true love ever since her murder at the hands of her fiance. Like Victor, Emily can play the piano. She has a spider that follows her around and a maggot that lives in her head (occasionally knocking out her eyeball to speak to her).

Emily bears a marked resemblance to Helena Bonham Carter, her voice actress, with full lips and large dark eyes. Despite being a partially skeletonized, decomposing corpse, Emily is nonetheless hauntingly beautiful. She casts a striking figure in her flowing, rotted wedding dress and tattered veil. These were the clothes she was killed in as she waited for her groom. Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. ...

Victoria Everglot

Victoria Everglot

Voice Actor: Emily Watson Image File history File links Victoria-Everglot. ... Image File history File links Victoria-Everglot. ... Emily Anita Watson (born January 14, 1967) is an Oscar nominated English actress best known for her acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves. ...

Victoria is the daughter of Maudeline and Finis Everglot, a repulsive couple in a "sad, sad state of affairs." She has long dreamt of marrying a man that she loves, but is afraid that it seems silly to others. She wanted to learn how to play the piano, but her mother said that music is "too passionate for a young lady." However, Victoria breaks the mold of quiet as she displays a more outgoing nature contrary to the film's first introductions. Victoria's arranged marriage to Victor was supposed to be her parents' "ticket to our rightful place", which means that Victor's family's money would save them from the poor-house. Luckily Victor and Victoria liked each other right from the start (unlike her parents, who view marriage as more of a contract or "partnership").

When Victor disappeared with Emily, Victoria was forced to marry Lord Barkis Bittern. Shortly after the ceremony, Barkis confronted Victor and Emily, then accidentally drank poisoned wine and died. This made Victoria a widow. The film ends before she (presumably) marries Victor.

Nell Van Dort

Voice Actor: Tracey Ullman Tracey Ullman (born December 30, 1959) is a British comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter, and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show. ...

Victor's mother. She is often seen with expensive clothing, some kind of animal around her neck, and a folding fan. She dislikes her carriage driver Mayhew for his persistent coughing fits, and doesn't appear very remorseful about Mayhew's death later in the film (let alone know that he died). Alongside her husband, she dreams of standing alongside the upper echelons of society, believing that she deserves more than a fish merchant's life. When Victor disappears from the Land of the Living, Nell becomes desperate to find him before dawn arrives.

William Van Dort

Voice Actor: Paul Whitehouse Suits you Sir Mark Williams (left) with Paul Whitehouse (right) The Fast Show For the motor vehicle and aircraft painter, see Paul Whitehouse (painter). ...

Victor's father. He appears to be a rather lowly and ignorant individual, despite his successful occupation as a fish merchant. He, along with his wife, dreams of life alongside the elite members of society.

Lord Finis Everglot

Voice Actor: Albert Finney Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ...

Victoria's father. A land-rich, cash-poor aristocrat whose fear of being forced penniless into the streets leads him to arrange a marriage for Victoria as to save their family from the poorhouse. He is known to possess a musket, which he calls for twice in the film. Muskets and bayonets aboard the frigate Grand Turk. ...

Lady Maudeline Everglot

Voice Actor: Joanna Lumley Joanna Lumley and David McCallum as Sapphire & Steel. ...

Victoria's mother. She feels that love has nothing to do with marriage, as marriage is simply a partnership. She and Finis deny loving or even liking one another.

Mayhew

Voice Actor: Paul Whitehouse Suits you Sir Mark Williams (left) with Paul Whitehouse (right) The Fast Show For the motor vehicle and aircraft painter, see Paul Whitehouse (painter). ...

An employee of the Van Dort's fish business, and the family carriage driver. He has a persistent cough (aggravated by his constant pipe-smoking), which proves fatal during the second half of the film.

Hildegarde

Voice Actor: Tracey Ullman Tracey Ullman (born December 30, 1959) is a British comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter, and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show. ...

A servant in the Everglot house, and an aids of Victoria.

Emil

Voice Actor: Stephen Ballantyne

A servant in the Everglot house. When a swarm of deceased persons invade the Everglot home, he abandons his masters and flees.

Lord Barkis Bittern

Lord Barkis Bittern

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When Lord Barkis strolls into town and introduces himself, no one recognizes him, but he seems to know the best people and he acts like a true gentleman, so everyone assumes he's somebody important and respectable. The Everglots are so impressed by him, that after Victor's disappearance, they arrange for Victoria to marry him. In addition to having a respectable son-in-law, the Everglots think they can lean on him for money.

But in reality, Barkis is nothing but an excellent con-man. He's dirt poor, a coward, and it's revealed that he is the one who murdered Emily for her money. Barkis charmed Emily into falling in love with him (while she was alive) and convinced her to elope with her mother’s dowry. Soon he murdered her in the woods beneath the old oak tree and left her there, waiting for her true love to come set her free. Fate would have it that he meets again with Emily at her wedding to Victor, and that is when she discovers that her “love” was also her murderer. In a moment of his presumed victory, he unknowingly drinks the poison, or “Wine of Ages". Having died, the inhabitants of the underworld seek Emily’s revenge with great vigor.

Pastor Galswells

Voice Actor: Christopher Lee Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London, England) is an English actor known for his professional longevity, and his distinctive basso delivery. ...

The ill-tempered village pastor, he is highly impatient to the point of bludgeoning Victor over the head with his staff for dilly-dallying even a little. During the climax of the film, Galswells tries to drive away the living dead from his church, but is easily bypassed when the corpses shower him with good manners.

Gertrude

Voice Actor: N/A

An elderly woman who lives in the village. Her husband, Alfred, has been dead for 15 years.

Solemn Village Boy

Voice Actor: Lisa Kay Lisa Kay is an English actress, born 1980[?] to parents Hazel and Brian Kay. ...

A boy who lives in the village, usually seen with a toy boat. He meets his deceased grandfather during the invasion of the dead.

Onion-Headed Employee

Voice Actor: N/A

An employee of the Van Dort fish business. His head resembles that of an onion. Binomial name Allium cepa L. Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ...

Elder Gutknecht

Voice Actor: Michael Gough Michael Gough as Lord Ambrose DArcy in Hammers The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Michael Gough (born November 23, 1917 in Malaya) is an English character actor. ...

Supposedly the head of the Land of the Dead. He resides in a tower filled with books and dust. He also seems to have a habit of periodically consuming medicine. The top of his skull is cracked, and can thus be slightly opened. His name is derived from the German expression "guter Knecht", meaning 'good menial'. Considering the quasi-European backdrop of the movie and how strongly Burton's works are influenced by early German expressionist films, incorporating such names is an appropriate means of enhancing atmosphere.

Mrs. Plum

Voice Actor: Jane Horrocks Jane Horrocks Jane Horrocks (born January 18, 1964) is an English actress and singer. ...

The cook of the Ball and Socket pub. She immediately introduces herself when a recently-deceased person has arrived. She is apparently looking for a mate, as evidenced when Victor arrives in the Land of the Dead ("Does he have a dead brother?").

The Maggot

Voice Actor: Enn Reitel Enn Reitel is an impressionist on Spitting Image. ...

A small green worm who lives inside Emily's head, and is her loyal friend and confidante. His features and voice are caricatures of the actor Peter Lorre. Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was an Austrian-Jewish stage and screen actor and director, who later became a naturalised US citizen. ...

Black Widow

Voice Actor: Jane Horrocks Jane Horrocks Jane Horrocks (born January 18, 1964) is an English actress and singer. ...

A self-proclaimed widow. She appears to have a good relationship with the Corpse Bride (alongside the Maggot). She is responsible for fixing Victor's clothing, along with a group of other spiders.

General Bonesaparte

Voice Actor: Deep Roy Deep Roy as an Oompa Loompa. ...

A diminutive undead general impaled by a sabre through his chest. He is usually accompanied by a taller skeleton, apparently the victim of a cannonball.

Tall General

Voice Actor: N/A

A General with a large cannonball hole in his abdomen. He is usually seen with General Bonesaparte.

Bonejangles, the Skeleton Band Leader

Bonejangles

Voice Actor: Danny Elfman Image File history File links Bonejangles. ... Image File history File links Bonejangles. ... Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter who led the rock band Oingo Boingo from 1978 until its breakup in 1995, and has since gone on to become one of the most sought-after film score composers working in Hollywood today. ...

If not for the unique shape and features of his skull, Bonejangles might look just like all the other skeletons. He has a large jaw that often dislocates itself. His one eye can be interchanged within both sockets and is removable. He also wears an old-fashioned bowler hat that is black and snazzy. His character is quite vaguely portrayed, his one lime-light focus being the main singer of "Remains of the Day" at the "Ball and Socket" pub of the Land of the Dead. He is assumed to be the star performer or the owner of the pub, with his Bone Boys in tow.

It appears that he has a Broadway show tunes personality; he’s not afraid to flaunt his talent. As he is rather musical, Bonejangles could have been some sort of Broadway/Vaudeville performer. Perhaps the only item left of his living days is his bowler hat. His name is never mentioned in the movie, but in the script and merchandise, he is referred to as "Bonejangles" (an obvious parody of the dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) or "The Skeleton Band Leader". Bill Bojangles Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was a pioneer and pre-eminent African-American tap dance performer. ...

On a video podcast concerning the production of the film, Danny Elfman compared Bonejangles to Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy Davis, Jr. ...

Alfred

Voice Actor: N/A

A skeleton who is frequently seen smoking a pipe. His wife Gertrude is still alive, and reunites with her for Victor's wedding.

Skeleton Boy & Girl

Voice Actor: N/A

A young boy in a sailor outfit, and a young girl with a pink dress and pigtails. They are usually seen with a toy boat.

Scraps

Voice Actor: N/A

A dog formely owned by Victor. Scraps is deceased, but Emily gives him to Victor as a wedding present.

Voice cast

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Filming techniques

Corpse Bride wide poster

Corpse Bride is the first movie to be shot with still cameras. Previous stop-motion movies (such as Aardman Animations' Chicken Run) were shot on modified Mitchell film cameras, the same old cameras used to shoot King Kong. The camera chosen for the production of Corpse Bride was Canon EOS-1D Mark II, a digital single-lens reflex camera, which also makes it the first stop-motion feature to be shot in digital. Additional work was required to develop systems to permit precise camera positioning, the mounting of Nikon optical lenses, and previewing a scene in camera. Corpse Bride was the first stop-motion animated film to use Apple's Final Cut Pro as well. To give the film the traditional look of movie film stock, each image was processed with a color profile based on a type of film used in feature length movies. Image File history File links Corpse_Bride_Wide. ... Image File history File links Corpse_Bride_Wide. ... A camera is a device used to take photographs. ... Aardman Animations, Ltd. ... This article is about the movie. ... The original 1933 King Kong model. ... The EOS 1D Mark II is a professional 8. ... A modern digital SLR (the Pentax K10D), without a lens installed. ... Nikon Corporation )   (TYO: 7731 ), also known as Nikon or Nikon Corp. ... Wallace & Gromit is an example of cartoons made with stop-motion animation. ... Apple Inc. ... Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing system developed by dan tshite ngoy. ...

The film was the first stop-motion animated movie to use the new "gear and paddle" technique for the maquette's heads. This new system involved the maquettes being built with a complex gear system inside of the main character's heads. The various gears were attached to external paddles. A soft skin-like material, mainly made of silicone and foam, was placed over these paddles to create the head and then painted. By adjusting the gears, done by inserting an allen wrench into small holes located on the maquette's head and in the ears, the paddles would move, therefore adjusting the facial expression of the character. This allowed for a much more smooth system of emotion change and lip-sync than the old style of replacing heads. The soft "skin" also gave the characters a much more natural look. Silicones (more accurately called polymerized siloxanes or polysiloxanes) are inorganic-organic polymers with the chemical formula [R2SiO]n, where R = organic groups such as methyl, ethyl, and phenyl. ... An Allen wrench, Allen key, hex key or hex head wrench is a tool used to drive screws and bolts with a hexagonal socket in the head. ...

The puppets were made in Altrincham, near Manchester, England, by the leading puppet manufacturers Mackinnon and Saunders. They were also responsible for a major contribution to another Tim Burton film (Mars Attacks), as well as numerous British animated series like Bob the Builder (Hit Entertainment), Andy Pandy (Cosgrove Hall) and Pingu (Hit Entertainment). Altrincham (pronounced Oltringum) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... Mars Attacks is a highly popular lurid science fiction trading card series. ... Bob the Builder is a childrens television clay character created by Keith Chapman. ... Andy Pandy was a British childrens television series, the original incarnation of which premiered on BBC TV on 11 July 1950, as part of the For the Children strand (later Watch with Mother). ... Pingu Pingu is a Swiss animated series aimed at children. ...

Origins

The origin of the folktale can be traced back to Rabbi Isaac Luria of Safed, a 16th century mystic. In the original folktale, "The Finger," the "corpse bride" in question is not a deceased woman, but a demon. In the 19th century Russian-Jewish adaptation, a woman is killed on her wedding day and is buried in her wedding gown. Later, a man on his way to his own wedding sees her ring finger poking out of the ground and thinks that it's a stick. As a joke, he puts his bride's wedding ring on the finger and dances around it, singing and reciting his marriage sacrament. The woman's corpse emerges from the ground (with the man's ring on her finger) and declares herself married to the man. Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534–July 25, 1572) was a Jewish mystic in Safed. ... Safed (Hebrew: צְפַת, Tiberian: , Israeli: Tsfat, Ashkenazi: Tzfas; Arabic: صفد ; KJV English: Zephath) is a city in the North District in Israel. ...

The folktale adaptation was born of the anti-Jewish Russian pogroms of the 19th century, in which young women were said to have been ripped from their carriages and killed on the way to their weddings. The folktale usually ends with the rabbis deciding to annul the corpse's marriage and the live bride swearing that she will live her marriage in the corpse's memory, part of the Jewish tradition of honoring the dead through the lives and good works of the living. Pogrom (from Russian: ; from громить IPA: - to wreak havoc, to demolish violently) is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious or other, and characterized by destruction of their homes, businesses and religious centers. ...

A similar motif has also been used by Prosper Mérimée in his story La Vénus d'Ille [1]. Instead of the corpse bride, the ancient statue of Venus figures in the story. Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (September 28, 1803–September 23, 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. ...

The allegorical theme of the two brides, one living and one dead, occurs from ancient times in Christian (especially monastic) spirituality. The first evidence comes from the fourth century. It focuses on the differing meanings of the English word "love", which come out better in Latin. Christian love, or "caritas" (hence the English "charity"), is the wilful seeking for the good of the other person in all ways. "Amor", which is the main meaning of the word in modern English, concerns the emotional and passionate attraction to the other person. In the allegory, "caritas" is the living, shy, quiet bride (i.e. "Victoria"), whereas "amor" is the dead, extrovert, flagrant bride (i.e. "Emily"). The lesson is that "amor" by itself is selfish and essentially dead, and can only be redeemed by making way for (and being incorporated into) "caritas", which is the true love for the other.

The French writer Theophile Guerin wrote a Gothic short story entitled "Clarimonde, La Morte Amoureuse (The Dead Lover)" in 1836 following on from this theme, where a seminarian about to be ordained as a priest is visited by an extremely beautiful woman who wishes to marry him. He goes ahead with the ordination without thinking things through, and finds that the beautiful bride-to-be is a corpse representing his repressed desires for a passionate relationship with a woman. He finds her grave and sprinkles her with holy water, whereupon she crumbles into dust.

A recurring image through the movie is that of a blue butterfly, ranging from a drawing Victor makes at the beginning, using a live model, to the Corpse Bride herself dissolving into mass of butterflies. This resonates with a European folktale that a brutally murdered woman would be reborn as a butterfly.

Trivia

• Most of the characters in the film bear a strong resemblance to the original cast of the British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. In the Special Features section of the DVD, Tim Burton states that the films' setting pays tribute to the series, with the Land of the Living being the "upstairs", and the Land of the Dead being the "downstairs".
• The film's initial release was two weeks prior to that of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, marking the first time that a stop-motion animated film and a claymation animated one were in simultaneous wide theatrical release. Interestingly, both films feature the voice of Helena Bonham Carter in a lead role and a character named Victor (in this case the villain).
• The piano that Victor plays is a Harryhausen. This is a reference to Ray Harryhausen, who is possibly the most famous of all stop-motion animation artists.
• In the Bonejangles musical number, "Remains of the Day", the piano player acts and looks like Ray Charles.
• The maggot's voice, mannerisms and facial appearance are an impersonation of Peter Lorre.
• Near the end of the movie, Victor's suit greatly resembles Jack Skellington's suit during The Nightmare Before Christmas, with the exception of the stripes and bat-shaped bow tie absent from Victor's outfit.
• The main character, Victor, is named after Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist of Mary Shelley's most famous work, Frankenstein, a name Burton also used in his short film Frankenweenie.^{[citation needed]}
• A skeletal version of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man can be seen in Elder Gutknecht's book.
• A sub-plot in LucasArts' "The Curse of Monkey Island" resembles the story of Corpse Bride. On Blood Island, Guybrush Threepwood meets Minerva Stronheim ("Minnie Strone") Goodsoup, who fell in love with a pirate. Alas, he stole the diamond from her heirloom ring before their wedding and ran off. She died a week later of a broken heart. After a number of years haunting the family crypt in her wedding dress, Minnie was eventually reunited with her other suitor, Charles de Goulash. They presumably lived happily ever hereafter.
• "Remains of the Day" may have been named after a book (The Remains of the Day) that was later made into a movie in which a butler misguidedly pledges his loyalty. This plot resembles that of the story of how Emily became the Corpse Bride.
• Bonejangles is a reference to dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and the song "Mr. Bojangles", originally written by Jerry Jeff Walker and popularized by a variety of performers.
• After the reference to Gone with the Wind with the line "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" between the skeleton and the old lady, the two swing into the classic pose seen on Gone with the Wind movie posters, and the music changes to play several bars of that movie's main theme.
• The chef with the long face greatly resembles Vincent, the main character from Tim Burton's first stop animation feature, Vincent; indeed, Victor himself looks like Vincent in his own right.
  • Also, Finis Everglot mistakenly calls Victor "Vincent" once.
  • At the end of the film, the dog Scraps meets greatly resembles Vincent's dog Abercrombie, and in the photo at the beginning of the movie, Scraps is shown alive, and also looks like Abercrombie.
• Victor's dog, Scraps, is similar in shape to Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Their heads are almost identical, except that Zero has a Rudolph the Reindeer glowing nose.
• Albert Finney was the leading choice to play Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but when Tim Burton was attached he nixed the idea because the only big name he wanted in the movie was Johnny Depp, though he cast Christopher Lee as Wonka's father. So Tim cast Albert in this movie to apologize.
• Tim Burton reportedly offered a role to Sam Neill, who turned it down.^{[citation needed]}
• The film is dedicated to the memory of Joe Ranft.
• During the scene of the dead walking the Earth, the little boy who sees his dead grandfather has a strong resemblance to the boy who receives a shrunken head in The Nightmare Before Christmas while Jack is handing out rogue presents. He also resembles one of Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinys as do the children in the Land of the Dead.
• The image of Emily on the DVD cover is mirrored. Her skeletal arm is left in the movie, while it is her right arm on the cover.
• For a moment, as Elder Gutknecht reaches out in his tower, the shadow of his arm passes across the candlelit wall, much like a famous scene in the film Nosferatu.
• In the film's theatrical trailer, the background music is not of Danny Elfman's (the film's soundtrack composer), but is "In the Hall of the Mountain King", by Edvard Grieg.

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Box Office

The film performed well at the box office grossing $53 million dollars domestically.

Soundtrack

1. Main Titles
2. According To Plan
3. Victor's Piano Solo
4. Into The Forest
5. Remains Of The Day
6. Casting A Spell
7. Moon Dance
8. Victor's Deception
9. Tears To Shed
10. Victoria's Escape
11. The Piano Duet
12. New Arrival
13. Victoria's Wedding
14. The Wedding Song
15. The Party Arrives
16. Victor's Wedding
17. Barkis Bummer
18. The Finale
19. End Credits: Part 1
20. End Credits: Part 2

and 4 Bonus Tracks=The musics of preview movie

DVD release

Widescreen edition
January 31, 2006

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See also

• List of animated feature films
• List of stop-motion films
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• James and the Giant Peach (film)
• Edward Scissorhands

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External links

• Official site
• Corpse Bride at the Internet Movie Database
• Corpse Bride at Rotten Tomatoes
• Corpse Bride at Metacritic
• Corpse Bride trailer
• Music samples from the motion picture (4 complete songs)
• Corpse Bride Fansite
• Read the folk tale here!
• Film Review
• Johnny Depp interview for Corpse Bride
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: From Concept Art to Finished Puppets an interview with Graham G. Maiden's narrates the process involved with taking Tim Burton's concept art and translating Tim's sketches and paintings into fully articulated stop motion puppets.