TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE

    TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE is scheduled for release in October, 2005. Oscar nominated actors Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow), Helena Bonham Carter (Big Fish, The Wings of the Dove) and Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love, Breaking the Waves) have been tapped to provide voices for the lead characters in the Tim Burton-produced animated film Corpse Bride for Warner Bros. Pictures, currently in production in London. Rounding out the film’s voice cast are five-time Oscar nominated actor Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Joanna Lumley and Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings).

  The film is co-directed by Michael Johnson and Tim Burton, from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler. The director of photography is Peter Kozachik, the production designer is Alex McDowell and the film is edited by Jonathan Lucas. The score will be composed by Danny Elfman. Corpse Bride carries on in the dark, romantic tradition of Burton’s classic films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

  Representing a remarkable step forward in digital film making, Tim’s stop motion animation, the Corpse Bride, is feature film created through the innovative use of editing and camera technology. The ground breaking work of this movie features puppets made from stainless steel armatures covered by silicon skin,. Technologically, this is a movie of very first having been the first feature-length, stop motion film edited using Apply Final Cut Pro(FCP), its the first feature shot using commercial digital SLR still photography cameras over film cameras based on the criterion of the image quality. In addition, Tim Burton used his movie to show the place he grew up in “is shows the society feeling quiet repressive and everything in its place and everything put into its place, which is the way I grew up.” Burton stated, “Where as the after life was much for creative and colourful and vibrant like our creative minds are. It was not meant to be so much literal where it was to be symbolic.”

  

      The synopsis of this movie is the story of a young bride murdered by her thought to be love, an arranged marriage put together by greedy, an unknown prophecy, and one fatal mistake that set the whole story into motion.

  The setting of Corpse Bride is set in a dreary, dim Victorian era England where half of the movie takes place. The other half is set underground in the world of the dead. Oddly enough, the world of the dead is much more fun than upstairs where everyone is so rigid and uptight. Tim Burton uses low lighting to show how very insimmilar the land of the living and land of the dead are. For example, when Victor and everyone that lives in the land of the living is up there it very dark and glomly and very plain in color and dim lighting. But, in the land of the dead its much more bright and vibrant than the land of the living. This is opposite of what the audience normally thinks. In Burton’s typical style, he uses light and color to change the audience’s outlook on things.

  The composer uses mostly staccato notes for Victor as it makes it sound like he is trying to make Emily happy. The tempo is moderately fast once Victor sits at the piano and starts to play. The volume is moderately loud. The piano is a very appropriate instrument as it is very peaceful, duets sound like conversations and it gives a sense of peace in the scene when necessary, which is very important for this scene. The instrument sounds smooth and delicate, much like the character Emily. The part Victor plays individually sounds very jumbled as he is using both hands and the left hand is using more notes. This sounds clumsy like Victor’s character. Not only that, there is also had a scene that Victor and Emily travel from the under world back “up stairs” as the Corpse call it (normal world). Before the you only here the piece, Emily is talking to Victory. As she is talking, we can slightly hear vocals. This scene is of Emily dancing under the moonlight gracefully as she had forgotten how beautiful the moon really ia as she has been living in darkness her whole life.

  Besides, the scene that the piano duet shows Emily playing the piano, and she looks very sad as Victor lied to her. At first its a back and forth of piano playing between Victor and Emily. Then we hear just Victory playing to Emily, sort of like he was trying to talk to her, but there was still no reply from Emily, then Emily joins in but she still does not look happy. Eventually, Emily joins in, but she is not playing at a fast place as if she does not want to be talking to him but she knows she has to. At the end of this scene she gets carried away, her and flies off of the piano and onto Victor’s shoulder and she then forgives Victor.

  In summary, set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor (Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Bonham-Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Watson), waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love. It’s a tale of optimism, romance and a very lively afterlife, told in classic Tim Burton style.Tim Burton makes characters who are strange and odd and the character force the audience to rethink about how the judge people without getting to know them.