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It has its own very, very special, very unique look, movement. And it's beautiful. And, also, it's like a lot of great things: it's a dying art. Johnny Depp on the stop-motion animation used for Corpse Bride
It's a perfect match!
Have you ever been in the situation where, nervous on the eve of your wedding, you go for a walk in the woods to practice saying your vows, and you slip the ring onto a branch, pretending it's your bride-to-be's finger; but the branch turns out to be an actual hand of a dead lady who grabs you, accepts your proposal, and drags you down to the Land of the Dead to live happily ever after? That's what happens to Johnny's character in this movie.
Corpse Bride is a stop-motion animation film directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. The story takes place in Victorian England where two families have arranged the marriage of Victor (Johnny Depp) and Victoria (Emily Watson) for the sole purpose of marrying into wealth. After a disastrous wedding rehearsal, shy Victor practices and perfects his marriage vows during a walk in the woods and slips Victoria's ring onto a branch that comes to life. He finds himself married to the corpse bride (Helena Bonham Carter) who drags him "downstairs" to the Land of the Dead. Torn between two worlds, Victor must decide whether to fight his way home to his true love or stay in his new, more welcoming community.
I want a wedding invitation!
"That sounds like a movie Tim Burton would want to make," I thought when I heard its story was based on Jewish folklore about a guy who accidentally marries a corpse. It seemed to be a perfect fit, and the more I heard about it, the more excited I became about seeing it! When I first saw the "coming attractions" preview for Corpse Bride, I knew it was going to be special! You can see the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9boDkpEyvc&feature=player_em....
Beautiful, right? Who knew dead people could be so cute?
Some weddings are difficult to plan.
For stop-motion animation, puppets are painstakingly positioned and shot frame-by-frame. Tim Burton's featured it in his movies before (see Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Frankenweenie.) He's a fan and so am I! Corpse Bride was a project in the making for 10 years, as Tim Burton waited to get all the right people involved. "A lot of people get sucked into doing computer stuff, but there's still this great group, a rare group of people, that are still into this type of animation," he explains. "There's just an energy that gets infused into these puppets from these amazing animators, and there is something quite special about moving an inanimate object frame-by-frame." It's tedious, hard, physical, fascinating work with spectacular results.
At least 85 characters and 200 puppets were built for Corpse Bride. "Stylistically, stop-motion offers something very unique, which is every single thing you see on screen was created by a crafts person or an artist," Art Director Nelson Lowry says. At the forefront of stop-motion animation is codirector Mike Johnson, who oversaw the day-to-day process on this project. For this film, the crew used computers for the first time to assist in the process, perfecting the quality and flow of the animation. "A lot of people thought that computers and digital technology would be the death of stop-motion animation, but really, it's bringing it forward," he says. Shooting the film digitally allowed the crew to see the results instantly and make changes as needed. They used the computers to trigger the camera to shoot the frame and move on to the next shot. "So much of this is a traditional, old-fashioned method of shooting a film," says Producer Alison Abbate. "With the advent of CGI, audiences have become very used to a very slick look, and I think stop-motion's charm is in that it's not slick and not feeling like it's made in a computer. It's nice to sort of walk that fine line between keeping it in the realm of beautiful and a slickness just because it's so flawlessly executed."
The finished product is very much Tim Burton's vision. Most of Corpse Bride's characters are based on his drawings. "Tim had a very clear idea of how he wanted the puppets to look and he'd been working on designs, sketches, and paintings before we met up with him," Puppet Maker Peter Sauders says. While he designed most of the characters on his own, Character Designer Carlos Grangel brought them to life, though they brought on new challenges. His characters are typically tall and skinny with tiny feet, so the team had to explore different ways to engineer the puppets' joint systems to support the weight of each character and its heavy, complicated head. These models were built in a new way with gear- and pulley-filled heads that allow for freer facial expressions. "People get very attached to the characters they're working on and I think, especially with this project, the character designs are so fantastic that people want to make every element of that puppet shine," Puppet Maker Ian Mackinnon says. "They have spent hours on every little detail of that character."
It shows! In 2010, I saw some of the drawings, paintings, and puppets created for Corpse Bride in an exhibit on Tim Burton's career at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Because of the detail involved, they are perhaps more amazing in person than on screen. "They do such beautiful work," Tim Burton says of the animation crew. "These puppets are very sensitive and textural and really like Swiss watches, they're made so nicely!"
The stars aligned!
This cast of voices for Corpse Bride is dreamy! With Johnny is a bunch of my favorite Brits: Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Christopher Lee, Tracey Ullmann, Johanna Lumley, Michael Gough, Paul Whitehouse, Jane Horrocks.... Can you imagine having all these people in the same room together? Well, keep imagining. "I have scenes with Johnny Depp, Johanna Lumley, and Albert Finney, and I've never met them," Emily Watson admits. "I was shown work in progress of the way things look and the style of it, but you're sort of trying to make it happen in your head, really." So much for that fantasy. In any case, these actors are perfectly cast. "It's a fairly low-budget movie," Tim Burton says of Corpse Bride. "I was very lucky and grateful to get people to do voices for just the love of doing a project."
One of my favorite special features on the DVD is seeing the actors speaking as their characters in their solitary recording booth next to the actually scene they are playing out. They all get animated in that booth while reading their lines, and their reactions translate into the final scene. "When you're recording your voice, you do find yourself moving as the character within the parameters of the microphone and everything," Johnny says. "There's a kind of great spontaneity in that." Helena Bonham Carter, whose work in Corpse Bride stands out to me, agrees: "It's nice to act something when it's so not dependent on what you look like. You can completely create a character, and you're not limited by your own physical envelope. That's fun and, in that way, it's very liberating. In a way, it's sort of pure acting because you don't really have anything. You can be completely selfish. You don't have any marks to hit."
For Corpse Bride, Tim Burton worked with his long-time collaborator Danny Elfman, who wrote the score and voiced the skeleton character of BoneJangles. Like Tim Burton's work, Danny Elfman's music is just as instantly recognizable. For this movie, some of it's haunting, some of it's sweet, and some of it's funny. It's another perfect fit.
And we all got a happy ending!
When Tim Burton described it to me....it sounded really scary, Gothic, and horrible," writer/lyricist John August says of the story's premise. "And, yet, we ended up making a really charming movie. You don't really think about the characters being dead or alive. You sort of see it as this really sweet little love story."
The artistry and passion that went into the making of Corpse Bride is undeniable. This charming, bittersweet, scary, funny, fantastic, beautiful work of art earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination. But who needs awards? "To be able to see these characters in the studio environment, against the sets and speaking dialogue and what have you--It's been a great revelation." Puppet Maker Peter Saunders says. "You think, 'Wow, that's what it's all about!'"
Marriage is hard.
It's hard to match the artistry on display in Corpse Bride and decide what scene to highlight. I chose the moment when The corpse bride (Mini) realizes that Victor is trying escape his current situation and return to his fiancee in the Land of the Living. She'll have none of that and drags him back "downstairs." I see her point: She's his wife, after all.
What's next?
Johnny heads back to sea in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
To see more images from Corpse Bride and learn more about Johnny Kitties, visit my blog: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2013/05/johnny-kitties-celeb....
2025 Flickr Project: What's The Score?
Featured Composer: Danny Elfman
You may recognize his work from: Men in Black, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands
Featured Track: 'Deconstruction'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxnDxN3GZJY
Daniel Elfman is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. In 1989, Elfman's influential, Grammy-winning score for Tim Burton's Batman marked a major stylistic shift to dark, densely orchestrated music in the romantic idiom. His highlights include Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). In 1993, Elfman wrote the score and ten songs for the Burton-produced stop motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas, and also provided the singing voice for main character Jack Skellington, as well as the voices for secondary characters Barrel, the Clown with the Tear-Away Face and others. In 2005, he wrote the score and songs for Burton's Corpse Bride and provided the voice of the character of Bonejangles, and provided the score, songs and Oompa-Loompa vocals for Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that same year. Among his franchise work, Elfman composed the scores for four Men in Black films (1997–2019) and three Fifty Shades films. In 1996, he scored the first film in the Mission: Impossible series. Elfman scored Spider-Man in 2002 and Spider-Man 2 in 2004. Elfman entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe by providing additional music in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, receiving composer credit with Brian Tyler. Elfman was featured in the 2016 documentary Score, in which he appeared among over 50 film composers to discuss the craft of movie music and influential figures in the business.
Authors Note: This project reflects an evolution of 40 years of scoring and is not intended to exclude the amazing works of composers pre-1984 or post-2024. This restriction simply provides me some parameters to work within to showcase great composers in this industry.
Which year is going to win as the Most Interesting Year in Scoring? - Currently 2001 is in the lead with 3 entries!
Project Posting Details:
28. Dec. 4th - Benjamin Wallfisch/2024
27. Dec. 18th - Lorne Balfe/2023
26. Jan. 1st - Michael Giacchino/2022
25. Jan 15th - Martin Todsharow/2021
24. Jan 29th - Ennio Morricone/2015
23. Feb 12th - Tom Holkenborg/2015
22. Feb 26th - Ryan Amon/2013
21. Mar 12th - Harry Gregson-Williams/2012
20. Mar 26th - Craig Armstrong/2011
19. Apr 9th - Daft Punk/2010
18. Apr 23rd - Clint Mansell/2006
17. May 7th - Steve Jablonsky/2005
16. May 21st - Stephen Hilton & David Holmes/2003
15. Jun 4th - Don Davis/2003
14. Jun 18th - Thomas Newman/2002
13. Jul 2nd - Cliff Martinez/2002
12. Jul 16th - Trevor Rabin/2001
11. Jul 30th - Mark Isham/2001
10. Aug 13th - Danny Elfman/2001
09. Aug 27th
08. Sep 10th
07. Sep 24th
06. Oct 8th
05. Oct 22nd
04. Nov 5th
03. Nov 19th
02. Dec 3rd
01. Dec 17th
00. Dec 31st: Project Title Page
Upcoming Projects:
2026 -> Back to Digital
2027 -> Black & White 35mm Film
Hey! Give me a listen you corpses of cheer
Leastles of you who still got an ear
I'll tell you a story make a skeleton cry
Of our own jubiliciously lovely corpse bride
Die, die we all pass away
But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay
And you might try 'n' hide
And you might try 'n' pray
But we all end up the remains of the day...
Who says Halloween is for kids? I'm working on Jenny's costume for Halloween. Bone Jangles from the Tim Burton movie, "Corpse Bride" Model Magic clay, a ping pong ball and a hat.
4. week of 52 Weeks of Music and Blythe:)
Bonejangles
Hey! give me a listen you corpses of cheer
Leastles of you who still got an ear
I'll tell you a story make a skeleton cry
Of our own jubiliciously lovely corpse bride
Bone boys
Die, die we all pass away
But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay
And you might try 'n' hide
And you might try 'n' pray
But we all end up the remains of the day
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Bonejangles
Well our girl is a beauty known for miles around
When a mysterious stranger came into town
He's plenty good lookin', but down on his cash
And our poor little baby, she fell hard and fast
When her daddy said no, she just couldn't cope
So our lovers came up with a plan to elope
Bone boys
Die, die we all pass away
But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay
And you might try 'n' hide
And you might try 'n' pray
But we all end up the remains of the day
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
(instrumental)
Bonejangles
So they conjured up a plan to meet late at night
They told not a sould, kept the whole thing tight
Now her mother's wedding dress fit like a glove
You don't need much when you're really in love
Except for a few things, or so i'm told
Like the family jewls and a sachel of gold
Then next to the grave yard by the old oak tree
On a dark foggy night at a quarter to three
She was ready to go, but where was he
Bone boys
And then?
Bonejangles
She waited
Bone boys
And then?
Bonejangles
There in the shadows, was it the man?
Bone boys
And then?
Bonejangles
Het little heart beat so loud
Boneboys
And then?
Bonejangles
And then baby, everything went black
Now when she opened her eyes she was dead as dust
Her jewls were missin' and her heart was bust
So she made a vow lyin' under that tree
That she'd wait for her true love to come set her free
Always waiting for someone to ask for her hand
When out of the blue comes this groovy young man
Who vows forever to be by her side
And that's the story of our own corpse bride
A highlight was the presence of three production puppets—a disheveled Victor, the Corpse Bride and Mr. Bonejangles—providing a rare opportunity for the audience to see working puppets up close.
FINALLY got hold of the skeleton pack!
In my world, she's the daughter of Emily and Bonejangles hence the musical name. Plus Harmony kinda sounds like How many... HurrHurr.
The wig is temporary. She will get a better wig! :P She wears the vampire outfit and triclops shoes.
Tim Burtons Corpse Bride Skeleton Band Leader (Bonejangles ) I just finished it. the head moves from left to right as well as the eye rolls and changes orbit (bearing) 25 hours to realize the entire piece. what took the most time is the head because before it was necessary to think and develop the system so that the head moves and that the eye also changes orbit as in the film of annimation #Artiste_les_tordus #Artistelestordus #Halloween #metalArt #metalwork #metalsculpture #sculpture #weldingArt #weldsculpture #weld #skelleton #TimBurton #Corpse_Bride #lamps #Bedsidelamps #original #unique #Bonejangles
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From Left to right: Mazikeen, Lucifer, Lilith(named after me), and Bonehilda(Mrs Bone Jangles herself).
Tim Burtons Corpse Bride Skeleton Band Leader (Bonejangles ) I just finished it. the head moves from left to right as well as the eye rolls and changes orbit (bearing) 25 hours to realize the entire piece. what took the most time is the head because before it was necessary to think and develop the system so that the head moves and that the eye also changes orbit as in the film of annimation #Artiste_les_tordus #Artistelestordus #Halloween #metalArt #metalwork #metalsculpture #sculpture #weldingArt #weldsculpture #weld #skelleton #TimBurton #Corpse_Bride #lamps #Bedsidelamps #original #unique #Bonejangles
Tim Burtons Corpse Bride Skeleton Band Leader (Bonejangles ) I just finished it. the head moves from left to right as well as the eye rolls and changes orbit (bearing) 25 hours to realize the entire piece. what took the most time is the head because before it was necessary to think and develop the system so that the head moves and that the eye also changes orbit as in the film of annimation #Artiste_les_tordus #Artistelestordus #Halloween #metalArt #metalwork #metalsculpture #sculpture #weldingArt #weldsculpture #weld #skelleton #TimBurton #Corpse_Bride #lamps #Bedsidelamps #original #unique #Bonejangles
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