I wanted to watch this animation because I bought a Skull Jack pendant at a toy store in Ueno at the beginning of the year, and it has been hanging on my PSP, so I have always wanted to see what the movie this animated character belongs to is. .
To be honest, this is a weird animation. The feeling of watching this movie is a bit like watching "The Unfortunate Adventure of Raymond Snitch" a few years ago. The scene is cool, the plot is not very sunny, and it is a bit dark and humorous. Although the whole movie is not aimed at being funny, there are some baggages that are quite imaginative.
The content of the story is a bit similar to the feeling of a fairy tale, but it is a bit anti-fairy tale. The protagonist is a master who is good at making pranks and scary Halloween – Skeleton Jack, he is the hero of Halloween City. Because of a mistake, he came to Christmas City and found that the joy there was far better than his own city, so he was infected by the joyous atmosphere, hoping to make his own Christmas too. So he called on the residents of the city (a group of lunatics, such as werewolves, witches, vampires, etc.) to help him make gifts, make elk, and make Christmas beards. Jack even instructed three "little bad guys" to kidnap Santa Claus in an attempt to replace him and bring joy to children all over the world. However, the ending of the matter was completely beyond his expectation... (The plot is stopped below) The
final ending Of course, it inherited the usual style of American movies and ended with a happy ending. However, the point of view of this film is far from being as simple as looking at the story itself.
The first thing worth mentioning is the shooting of this film. I have actually watched some short videos of clay animation before—in fact, I didn't have a good impression. Because either these animations are too abstract and belong to a type of art that is difficult to understand; or they are made too simple and the actions are extremely blunt. However, in this film, the movements of the clay figures are so smooth that I even mistakenly thought it was an animation made with computer CG at first. Moreover, the lens used in this film is very skillful, basically the way of framing is similar to that of realistic movies. Moreover, the rapid sliding of the camera in some scenes seems to have the feeling of watching an action movie.
Another very compliment is the picture of this film. Although they are all in cool colors, the characters and background are perfectly designed. Jack, the lanky skeleton with a cunning and cute expression always appears on his face, the heroine Sally with stitches all over his face, the fat, cute and funny Halloween city mayor, and a group of hideous but honest faces. Simple Halloween monsters. In addition, the weird buildings in the entire Halloween City seem to show the amazing imagination of the film's creators. It took more than two years to shoot the film, and the picture is really exquisite and perfect.
One of my favorite factors in this film is the music. There are no big-name singers singing theme songs or other gimmicks. The whole film adopts the method of opera. Almost half of the lines are sung, and the melody and plot are combined beautifully. At this point, it seems that only Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (the first animation work nominated for "Oscar Best Picture" in history) or "The Lion King" can compete with it. Speaking of it, it seems that I have always had a special preference for this kind of film that uses opera to advance the plot, so that when I later watched the movie version of "The Phantom of the Opera" at home, I almost clapped alone (unfortunately, The level of English has not yet reached the level of completely deviating from subtitles).
In fact, I always feel that foreigners like to bring Christmas plots into the movies, and in some animations, the spirit of Christmas is especially emphasized. From a long time ago the cartoon "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (fortunately to have seen both the old version of the animation and the new version of Kim Kelly), the spirit of this Christmas has been repeatedly incorporated in each section. In the movie, the ears face fate. Although this practice of emphasizing giving more than taking is definitely better than the "three* pieces&^wear^&table" and "河*(蟹$%社^&会" currently advocated by our country, but after all, preaching Too much meaning will cause disgust. Fortunately, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" no longer deliberately emphasizes these, so this is probably one of the reasons that make it a classic masterpiece.
Weird and bold imagination, meticulous and professional production, Grey and fresh beauty. The most important thing is the keyword "Tim Burton". So, why don't you like this movie?
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