The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all-time favourite stop motion film.

T.N.B.C is about a character called jack skellington, known as The Punkin King who leads the festival of Halloween, but he has grown tired of the same old thing. As he’s thinking for now ideas he fined himself in the holiday wood, where he opens the door to Christmas town. After seeing the wonders of Christmas town, he goes about making his very own Christmas holiday. But things don’t go to plan

I love this film because if the exaggerated characters and the emotions they all use, jack himself  has around four hundred heads to express every possible emotion and action although he is a skeleton, no eyes, or lips, just a round head with a menacing long grin.

I also like the instant different use of colures in Halloween town and that of Christmas town, Halloween town is all dim colures such as grays oranges, dim greens, dark blues…colures related to Halloween. Whereas in Christmas town its worm colures some beings white, greens, blues, and red.

The film is a musical, but this helps build the story and the character’s emotions. And it all works very well, it also containing some interesting sayings that are true such as “just because I cannot see it doesn’t mean I cannot believe it”