Jack Skellington

The Nightmare Before Christmas begins in a small town, better known as Halloweentown. Here, they have a “Pumpkin King,” who is the ruler/ most significant role model to everyone, and his name is Jack Skellington. Jack begins to feel bored of the same holiday they have every year, Halloween, and he soon stumbles upon trees that are embellished with carved symbols for each holiday. He is intrigued by the door that has a bright green Christmas tree on it adorned with small ornaments and baubles. He

songs are Christmas themed. This essay will help the reader understand that “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is a Halloween movie. Most of the time is spent in Halloween Town! When, Jack Skellington found out about Christmas he kidnapped Santa Claus and took him to Halloween Town. Although, most of the time Jack Skellington was at Halloween Town he felt sad, but who would blame him, as he lives in a place where the characters of Halloween Town only know about Halloween. Halloween Town is a place where

released around halloween. The first reason why I think Nightmare Before Christmas is a halloween movie is because both the protagonist and antagonists are halloween characters. The protagonist is Jack Skellington and the antagonists is Oogie Boogie. Most people think that skeletons are scary, Jack Skellington is a skeleton and Oogie Boogie is the Boogie Monster. Both of those creatures people think are scary, but I myself think

residents of Halloween Town is a creepy, dark, and spooky thing to us. When Jack Skellington finishes his annual Halloween celebration, the many monsters say things such as, “You make rats shriek” and “You make flesh crawl…” as compliments. They also stated, “It was our most horrific Halloween ever!” Finally, I really feel that this movie truly is a Halloween one because Jack Skellington ruins Christmas for a while. Because Jack was so fascinated with Christmas, he decided to hold his own. With that

on Union Street in Seattle, Wa. hosted a creative dance take on Tim Burton’s classic Nightmare Before Christmas, called This is Halloween choreographed by Fae Phalen. In this spectacular cabaret-like performance the dancers tell the story of Jack Skellington through their awe-inspiring movements. The choreography presented in This Is Halloween is especially diverse in design and movements, however in the two pieces, “This Is Halloween” and “Jack’s Obsession” the choreographer pays particular attention

reader or viewer is when confusion comes up on who the bad guy or monster is in reality. Our main character Jack is faced with hardship of not being understood and not being able to find what is needed to fill the empty void within him which is said in that of Jack's Lament Performed by Danny Elfman “Yet year after year, it's the same routine And I grow so weary of the sound of screams And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King Have grown so tired of the same old thing Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones An

Christmas, Jack Skellington fits Campbell’s archetype of the Hero’s Journey tragically, as he enters the

because all of the evidence leads in the direction of Christmas. The first reason why I think that this is a Christmas movie is because the movie is all about how Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king has a huge obsession with Christmas. Jack wants everyone to understand the joy that Christmas brings like opening presents and decorating trees. Jack is obsessed with Christmas because he is tired of being the pumpkin king of Halloween Town and he is tired of being his same old self, so he wants to take over

between a HalIoween or Christmas theme. I am leaning towards a Christmas theme because Jack Skellington wanted all the others to understand the meaning of Christmas and the feeling of joy. The first reason I think this is because Jack Skellington wants everyone to feel the joy and understand the meaning of Christmas. They people of Halloween town have only ever understood one holiday, Halloween. Then one day Jack goes through the Christmas door. He finds himself amazed. He then goes back to Halloweentown

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie because all the major characters are from Halloweentown. Such as Jack Skellington, Sally, Dr. Finklestein, Oogie Boogie, the Mayor, and Zero. First, the main character is from Halloweentown. Jack is the Pumpkin King, he deals with Halloweentown more than the Mayor. The Mayor does not do well in crisis situations, so he relies on Jack all the time. The Mayor calls him the Pumpkin King all the time. The main character, or protagonist is from Halloweentown