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In your opinion is the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween or Christmas movie? In this I will give evidence to support it. The evidence will come from the movie and I will have some scenes supporting my evidence. My opinion is that the movie is a Halloween themed movie. First of all, the movie has Jack as the Pumpkin King, he is the main character of the movie. He is mostly in all the scenes. The movie has Jack make Christmas better in his own mind. He makes himself look like Santa for Christmas and he tries to have Boogie kill Santa. The movie basically puts a twist on Christmas and makes it Halloween themed. That is one evidence that proves that the movie is a Halloween movie. Second of all, is that the movie begins and ends
Throughout Clover’s novel she never mentioned “A Nightmare on Elm Street” even though it is part of the same franchise as “Halloween”. However, I say the film followed Clover’s exact model. A link can be made from the film to Clover’s theory from a couple of standpoints. “A Nightmare on Elm Street” had a very Halloween like feel to it. Freddy Krueger acted as the male tormentor as he harmed Tina Gray and Nancy Thompson. The line here is that the base for the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is the same base that was used in “Halloween” as well as the base theory Carol Clover provides in her novel. In “A Nightmare on Elm Street” Tina and Nancy have a goal of becoming the “final girl(s)” because they have the same common goal of surviving Freddy Krueger’s attacks. Tina and Nancy’s stories sound exactly like Laurie’s in Halloween. The base is the same in that a male continued to attack female characters until the female(s) overcame the challenge to become the “final girl.” I really feel that most “slasher” films follow this
It is not a perfect film, but the film’s satire surely is. From minute one, KRAMPUS seems less concerned with actually being scary in the sense that its trailers reveal, but more unnerving in the sense that it wants people to consider how terribly materialistic they are around this time of year. It is the type of film that will let little things like a Christmas tree catching on fire seem to hit so hard, but then turn around and leave you asking “Why is it that I actually care so much about the tree burning down?” Krampus isn’t a horror film. It is a vicious satire.
The story opens with the haunting anthem of “This is Halloween” as Halloween Town serenades an opening procession led by no other than Jack Skellington, the leader of Halloween Town. After the celebration is done, we see Jack wandering woefully by himself and reveals that he has grown weary of the holiday, he yearns for something new and exciting. He finds this when he accidentally stumbles into the world of Christmas. I believe this struggle of growing tired of things and yearning for something new is a feeling we all experience and helps us relate to Jack. The love story between Sally and Jack in the film gives reinvigorating and playful twist on the theme of ‘forbidden love’.
Halloween is the time of the year when people dress up and have fun scaring people. Christmas is the time of the year full of joy and happiness. All though these two holidays are quite the opposite, some people find it hard to determine what type of movie The Nightmare Before Christmas is. There are two different sides, the people who think it’s a Halloween movie and the people who think it's a Christmas movie. I personally feel and believe that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie. I feel this way because after watching the movie multiple times, I’ve come up with many valid reasons that can make your mind change to stand with me on the side of people who also believe it’s a Christmas movie.Those reasons include the movie’s
The movie The Nightmare Before Christmas is an animated movie that follows in the life of Jack Skellington, also known as, The Pumpkin King of Halloweentown. After Jack delivers another gloomy and creepy Halloween, he finally realizes that he is bored of always doing the same thing (preparing for next Halloween). Little does he know, the thing that he realizes is missing from his life might be Sally, a rag doll who lives up in a laboratory where Halloweentown’s evil scientist works on her and she is his slave. Sally wants Jack to notice her and want her like she yearns for him. Jack goes to the cemetery to ponder out what to do with his life, from there
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966&2000) explains not only the life of the Grinch but the Whos as well. Through the theorists of Karen Horney and Erik Erikson, viewers can learn why the Grinch’s personality is formed. Not only had it formed, but through the years it transformed.
Color is a powerful tool in film making. What once was only black and white is now a full spectrum of vibrancy. But monochromatism is still an integral artistic choice in film. Blacks and whites in movies and television tend to represent the dark nature of scenes: death, evil, sadness, the macabre. Deep blacks, rich grays, and harsh whites tend to illustrate the Gothic influence of the piece as well as its tone. Adam Barkman, a writer famous for his analysis of films, explains the impact of color in film in his book A Critical Companion to Tim Burton “When we see a particular color, we immediately attach a particular set of meanings to it that is triggered by either our instincts or our memories” (Barkman
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Around the world, people know of such holidays like St. Patrick’s Day, Valentine’s day, or Christmas. But there is a magical place, where not everyone knows of such things, they just know what’s around them. Screenwriter Caroline Thompson allows for others to see a new look at how the holidays are in their “world.” Thompson describes how a scary skeleton embarks on a journey and learns of another holiday that is completely different from his world. Edward Ivory is the main voiceover of the Thompson’s 2014 20/20 winner The Nightmare Before Christmas (Jon Reeves). Ivory is given the role of Santa, who’s the man to save the day after Jack Skellington, Chris Sarandon, decides to take over Christmas and ruins it all together (Jon Reeves). Jack
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For some reason, many people like to be terrified out of their minds. Maybe it’s an adrenaline rush? Or they just plain enjoy having the pants scared off of them. Whatever the reason, monster movies frequently top the charts around Halloween; not slasher films, monster fests. Sometimes the monsters are super convincing (think Jaws or Alien), and other times a little less so (think Cowboys and Dinosaurs). Well, for whatever reason you like to watch monster films, here is a short collection of 17 of the best monster movies (or movies featuring monstrous creatures!) of all time, and in no particular order.
The benefit of the low-key lighting is that it makes the Halloween movie scenes more intense, dark and it provides a mysterious shadow atmosphere. The several scenes in this movie that has a low-key lighting is very important in order to make its viewers scare and scream. For example, the below picture shows the
It is widely accepted by historians that the first instance of Halloween can be found over 2,000 years ago, with the Celt people. Early Scottish and Irish historical documents mention a celebration known as Samhain, that was observed at the same time Halloween is observed today. Samhain depicted a time when the Celts would celebrate the end of summer, the ushering in of the winter months, and the harvest. The Celts were documented as wearing costumes
The nightmare before Christmas is such a good movie and a great book. I'm thankful for it because I love to read interesting books and that book was really interesting. That is why I am writing about the Nightmare before Christmas. It was so great, I couldn’t but the book down! That book was the best book I have ever read before!
What's the crime rate on halloween? Think that crime is more likely to occur long after the porch lights and bowls of candy get brought in.? Think again. My research shows that the same early evening hours favored for trick-or-treating had the highest numbers of violent crimes on Halloween night.the bottom line is that even if it's early it's not safer buts that's not all.