Nightmare Before Christmas Film: Nightmare Before Christmas

Alone with his dog Max on Mount Crumpit, poor Grinch hated the entire idea of all the Christmas bliss. He had a repugnance for all that participated in such holiday because of the countless rejections he received from the Whos as a child. Many Whos including the Mayor of Whoville himself would ridicule him for lack of better appearance making the Grinch feel remorseful and unfit for the Whos’ standards. For this reason, he stayed far, far away from the Whos and anything pertaining to them. No one quite realized the reasonings for the Grinch’s cold-hearted tendencies and rather just came to the conclusion that his heart was just two sizes too small. So the Whos continued on with the life and the holidays without any thought of the grumpy

From the beginning of the movie it tells you its about Halloween with a wonderful song called “This is Halloween.” The story starts in Halloween town not in Christmas town and most of the movie is in Halloween town including the end of the movie. Near the end of the movie Jack goes to send presents over the world yet his sleigh is shot down and he lands in a cemetery where he sings a song about how he is meant for Halloween and not for Christmas or any other holiday.

The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982 that was later published October 13, 1993 as a film with his original hopes of  making “The Nightmare Before Christmas” a short film turned out to be a smashing hit out of his many films. Tim Burton's films often show mysterious worlds filled with wonder and horror that bring us to see the world in new ways that we never knew. In this film just like many other of Burton’s films the character is searching to find a new meaning to their life, or even going out of the way to make their life better by filling the empty void by finding a certain something or someone. What begins to puzzle the reader or viewer is when confusion comes up on who the bad guy or monster is in reality.

Heroes have fascinated the masses for years; this is displayed in comic books, movies, and myths that trail back farther than five thousand Before Common Era. The question that goes through all minds at some point, however, is what makes a hero? Joseph Campbell wrote his theory of "The Hero’s Journey" in which he describes the path the hero will tread and the trials and tribulations ahead of them. That is not to say that there are not multiple ways to go about a hero tale, there are various kinds of heroes, which all change the story. There are tragic heroes, classic heroes, epic heroes, and more. In the film The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington fits Campbell’s archetype of the Hero’s Journey tragically, as he enters the

First is the history of Halloween all according to a 2017 article from LiveScience by Benjamin Radford. Around 2,000 years ago in the United Kingdom Ireland, and the northern part of France the people called the Celts started this holiday. They called it Samhain back then instead of Halloween. November 1st marked their new year which resulted in them celebrating on October 31st. The New Year brought wintertime which to them meant death. On the night before winter which was October 31st, they believe that the spirits of the Dead came back. They wore costumes, put on bonfires, burned crops and sacrificed animals. When the Romans

The Nightmare before Christmas had a couple of issues that needed to be address before improving the takeover of Christmas. There are four serious issues that occurred in order of importance. Firstly, Jack had no clear vision. What vision he did have, he was incapable of communicating it clearly. When Jack tried to explain ``Jolly`` his team was unsure of the definition and they went back to their original core values by creating ghoulish toys for Christmas.

Halloween is the point at which you cut Jack o' Lanterns out of pumpkins, design the house with a ghoulish topic, parties, and go trap or treating way to entryway wearing ensembles. Halloween is praised by both kids and grown-ups. Kids spruce up in

In the film Christmas Vacation, there is a hilarious scene when Clark Griswold “played by Chevy Chase” and his family are out finding the perfect Christmas tree. They come across what Clark believes to be the family tree, but the family worries about the tree being too big. Clark reassures them that the tree isn’t big, it’s just full. Rusty worries about the tree not fitting anywhere, Clark tells Rusty the tree is not going to go anywhere but in Griswold’s living room. After all this time spent finding the perfect tree, a huge tree with the roots still attached is shown on top of the Griswold station wagon because Clark forgets to bring the saw. This scene paves the way for

In its infant stages, Halloween was simply a concept - and that concept was about a babysitter who is stalked by the boogeyman. John Carpenter made the comment “We are all afraid of the same things… so that makes a movie that deals in our fears, universal.” Irwin Yablans (executive producer to Halloween) came up with the title for the film and set the stage for the babysitter, the boogeyman, and the darkest holiday of the year. John Carpenter (director / co-writer / music composer) and Debra Hill (script supervisor) went to Moustapha Akkad and requested the funds to create this film. Moustapha had not previously entered into the horror genre prior to this venture. When John pitched the idea to him, he was intrigued and pulled in with the mention of the “babysitter” so he agreed to finance

The Grinch is a Prude, Obnoxious character which is due to traumatic events while growing up, now has a intense grievance towards Christmas. After this experiences he decided to run away and live on Mt. Crumpit. The only times he would come out of his cave would to steal food from the Who’s or just to annoy everyone. In the movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, the plot of this movie is essentially is that there is more to Christmas than just decorations and presents.

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis. This theory includes the belief of struggle by class, indicating those of higher class have more power. Marxism views the aspects of socialism in regards to capitalism, in the belief that eventually all capitalist society’s will become socialist society’s. Dr.Seuss’s, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, is a great example of Marxism. This poem was published in the decade of the 50’s, the time that Christmas was becoming a commercialized event following Santa Claus becoming the new face of the Christmas edition Coca Cola advertisements. Reading the poem there are strong elements that distinctly tell the reader that it’s the Who, who have all the power and are of higher class in comparison to the Grinch.

The Marxism critic can be defined as the differentiation between social and economics statuses between individuals and society. In How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch represents the lower class and symbolizes the struggle people endure during the season. The citizens of Whoville represent the upper class and symbolize the rich who are pampered. The Grinch found bitterness during this time because the upper class was able to afford the food, the presents, and the decorations.

Sigmund Freud believed that personality consists of three parts: the id, which is motivated by desire and looks for immediate satisfaction; the ego, which deals with rational decisions; and the superego, which makes moral judgments (Acacio). This is psychoanalysis, which can be used to analyze The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss. According to Freud, the mind consists of only the id when we grow up. As we age, we transform part of the id into the ego and superego (Acacio). In the case of the Grinch, he grew up in a situation where, due to his isolation, he had no one to guide, reprimand, or praise him. He had no influences in his life. In the poem, there is a line that states, “It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.” (Seuss

Halloween, a holiday many of us know and love. A day when we celebrate together with our friends, family, neighbors and community. We go from door to door collecting candy, sweets and much more, racing on who can approach the most houses or who can collect the most candy in the group. It is all fun and games when trick or treating, and it has evolved into so much more than from the past. As years pass by, we celebrate this holiday annually, but of everything we’ve taken in from being children through our teen and adult years, do we truly know the background of Halloween Day?

Halloween is a horror film released in 1978 directed by John Carpenter who also produced escape from New York and Starman. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis who stared in The Fog another famous horror film and Donald Pleasence who was in the Great Escape. Halloween was distributed by Compass International Pictures who also released horror films such as Hell Night and Blood Beach. Halloween is a typical 1970s horror film, I think this because the font in the titles looks dated and the images are grainy, unlike the the highly polished images and high tech devises used in films today. The pumpkin in the beginning titles has been used to represent Halloween.