Yang Xinlian in loneliness
It is said that "The Nightmare Before Christmas" was inspired by Tim Burton seeing a shop replacing Halloween merchandise in its window with Christmas merchandise. Although the film is only written and produced by Tim Burton, in the minds of movie fans, it is an indispensable part of Tim Burton's film system. made animation. Stop-frame shooting is to move the puppet frame by frame, which is quite complicated and time-consuming. One of the puppet experts introduced that in many cases, a whole day's work can only complete one or two seconds of footage on the screen. There is no doubt that the film's splendor after its release reflects the great success of Tim Burton's experiment in stop-motion animation.
When it comes to Tim Burton, people will subconsciously think of some classic characters in his works. Tim Burton's gothic style deeply deduces loneliness, darkness and death. Some people say that he is a generalist. The spiritual person, because he expresses the underworld of death, which people do not recognize, so thoroughly that it even becomes a currently established and default cognitive reference mode. Halloween is a well-known carnival festival, with masquerade, frightening pranks and other elements, this festival extends to a Halloween town in this film, in the underground underworld. The significance of the existence of the residents of the town lies in the Halloween day. They are responsible for the Halloween carnival activities. They are like a planning team, seeking more exciting and fun ideas to innovate the annual festival. When everyone happily advertised the success of this festival, a gentleman with melancholy poetic feelings walked alone to the top of the hilly hills overgrown with trees in the carnival, singing lonely and lonely songs. He is Jack the Halloween Pumpkin King, a cool skeleton man who likes this classic look very much. Lonely Jack has the heart of a sage, and the game replicates flawlessly year after year, which is not what he wants to continue, thus appearing unhappy. This contradiction is the fulcrum of the dislocation between Halloween and Christmas.
Let’s talk about the terrifying monsters in various shapes at the carnival. They are Halloween pets. They have the idea that the more horrible they are, the happier they are. Although they are ugly, they feel very pure. This is what the saying goes. Let things gather together, but the living system of this species and the way they get along with each other are no different from people. To say that this difference probably only exists in "clustering". In this system, they identify with each other and have the same thinking concept, which can easily explain the divergent consequences brought about by this translocation later. There are Halloween towns, and naturally there are other festival towns. The melancholy and thoughtful Skeleton Jack later escaped from a tree door into another pure and white world of ice and snow-Christmas Town. Jack was amazed by the bright lights and colorful colors in the town, and the joyful atmosphere of the town made Jack even more fascinated. At this time, he suddenly became enlightened, and the looming Santa became the ideal incarnation and pursuit blueprint in Jack's mind. A plan came into being in Jack's mind. His impassioned speech set off a new round of carnival craze among the residents of Halloween town, who were eager to try it.
Carnival is the loneliness of a group of people, and loneliness is the carnival of one person. Jack is, and so is Sally, who adores Jack, and they both appear to be contrarians among the residents of Halloweentown. All the foreshadowings are unfolding one after another. Jack leads everyone to a new goal, but the residents' thinking still maintains an inherent fixed pattern. Mischief, terror, and darkness are their main themes. They have never seen snowy, pure and peaceful. , the warm and touching Christmas town, naturally cannot trigger and change their inherent thinking, and they do not understand the beliefs and pursuits of Skull Jack. Therefore, Jack's incomprehension and failure are all doomed. They are born for Halloween, making jokes and happiness for Halloween. This is their established mission. When they try to bring more joy to people, they directly transfer Halloween's Elements transplanted into Christmas, although the original intention is good, but in the opposite direction. It is impossible to break through an established concept. This concept is accumulated by many things. This accumulated concept may be called fate.
When Christmas Eve meets Halloween, it breaks people's original traditions and expectations, and it feels like terror strikes. Jack's beautiful original intention was bombarded by people as a gift, which turned into a sad farce. Jack sang a lonely and lonely song, and he looked so hurt and dazed. At the end, the harvest of love properly filled his lonely heart, and it was also an explanation for this "Gothic fairy tale". Jack and Sally, who embraced under the warm yellow moon, brought a bright color to the film. , comforting viewers outside the film.
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" played a foundational role in Tim Burton's work "Zombie Bride" thirteen years later. "Zombie Bride" contains more elements and plots, making the stop-motion animation more perfect. In comparison, the story in "Christmas Horror" is a bit simple, but it is not ambiguous at all in terms of infecting people, and it is in every detail. This classic image of the pumpkin king skull Jack is so charming, with slender feet and a classic pumpkin head, I would rather interpret him as a gentleman full of poetic melancholy who exudes infectious emotions. In reality, "deviations from the south" are not faults, but rather a restriction and a prohibition. Consistent with the regret of Edward Scissorhands not being able to hug the beloved girl, this is the origin of loneliness.
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