2005 stop motion animated film by Tim Burton, Johnny Depp lending his voice to the character Victor van Dort, also with Helena Bonham Carter Christopher Lee and soundtrack by Danny Elfman http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed












 

CORPSE BRIDE

2005

Victor Van Dort

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Director: Tim Burton and Mike Johnson

Writers:
  • Tim Burton and Carlos Grangel (characters)
  • John August, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler (screenplay)






With : Johnny Depp, Emily Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee


Tagline: "There's been a grave misunderstanding"

Music: Danny Elfman

Rating:  PG








 





 

 

 


  
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SYNOPSIS

 Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animated feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride while his real bride 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 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 Burton style.
 

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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP


"Somehow, in my mind, I thought we would do “The Corpse Bride” in a couple of months. Suddenly, one day on the set, Tim comes up to me and says, “What about tonight? We’re going to record something for ‘Corpse Bride.’” I say, “Yeah, we can.” I had no character so I sat him down and grilled him for 15 minutes. That’s how I found the guy"
Cinema Confidential, september 2005

"I was able (to prepare for Victor), but I didn't. Only because I - well, there's no excuse. I thought we were going to do it later."

Johnny Depp, IESB, september 2005

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The puppets used neither of the industry standards of replaceable heads (like those used on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)) or replaceable mouths (like those used by Aardman Studios in Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)) but instead used precision crafted clockwork heads, adjusted by hidden keys. This allowed for unprecedented subtlety, but was apparently even more painstaking than the already notoriously arduous animation. One animator even reported having recurring nightmares of adjusting his own facial expression in this fashion.

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"He’s (Victor Van Dort) character that’s not so far away from other characters that I’ve played in the past for Tim, like Edward Scissorhands. He’s sort of an outsider, bumbling, insecure, nervous – a lot like me in life.  [...]   The feeling of failure [...]  Feeling inept and unable to be understood."
Cinema Confidential, september 2005

"Working with Tim is like going home to this place that is very comfortable, even with knowledge that there’s a lot of risks you have to take and you really have to be prepared to explore but there’s great comfort there and great safety there. The fact that he keeps casting me is either huge luck or a great mistake on his part."
Cinema Confidential, september 2005

"The funny thing is with my kids, my daughter's six and my boy is three. My daughter, she's quite calm and ladylike and princessy so she can sit there and watch a movie and not get real antsy. Normally, my boy will watch for about three and a half seconds, then sprint as fast as he can across the room to go and break something. With this film, we watched Corpse Bride together, my boy sat on my lap and watched the entire film, just didn't move, just riveted. Loved it. Which says a lot. It's pretty full, this movie."
Johnny Depp, IESB, september 2005

"Your job is to pull these words off the paper, salt and pepper them, just layer them with stuff and then send it out there in a very non-organic environment. So I wouldn't say it's as difficult as filmmaking/moviemaking but it wasn't so easy either."
Johnny Depp, IESB, september 2005


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Danny Elfman originally wrote the part of BoneJangles looking for another musician to sing it, but after not finding a voice that fit, Elfman decide just to sing it himself.

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"We were shooting ‘Charlie’ one day and I said, ‘Let’s go over to the recording booth and let’s do some recording.’ I think as he was walking over he was like saying to himself, ‘S**t, I don't know what am I doing. What is this character? I have no idea.’ Great thing is he likes to work spontaneously, too, and really in that one session he got it. I think he might have been a bit worried to begin with, but I think he kind of likes that.”
Tim Burton, About.com, setember 2005

"Adults are like, ‘You can’t see this. You can’t see that it.’ It creates this climate of fear and it makes kids more afraid. I have a child that is under 2 years old and he has watched ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’ and ‘Viva Las Vegas,’ which isn’t a horror movie but some people might call it scary. It’s about how you present things. If he didn't like something, then he'd run away. If you were like, ‘Oh my God! Elvis and Ann-Margret are about to kiss!!!’ He'd freak out, you know?”
Tim Burton, About.com, setember 2005



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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2006 ACADEMY AWARDS (OSCARS):

- Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson (Nominated)

2006 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS:

- Saturn Award - Best Animated Film (Won)

2006 ANNIE AWARDS:

- Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement (Won)

- Best Animated Feature (Nominated)

- Best Character Design in an Animated Feature Production: Carlos Grangel (Nominated)

- Best Directing in an Animated Feature Production: Mike Johnson, Tim Burton (Nominated)

2006 ARGENTINEAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS:

- Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language: Tim Burton (Nominated)

2006 BROADCAST FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS:

- Best Animated Feature (Nominated)

2006 ITALIAN NATIONAL SYNDICATE OF FILM JOURNALISTS:

- Best Director - Foreign Film: Tim Burton (Nominated)

2006 KIDS' CHOICE AWARDS:

- Favorite Voice from an Animated Feature: Johnny Depp (Nominated)

2006 MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS:

- Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing in Feature Film - Animated (Nominated)

2005 NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW:

- Best Animated Feature (Won)

2006 ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS:

- Best Animated Feature (Nominated)

2006 PGA GOLDEN LAUREL AWARDS:

- Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award: Animated Motion Picture: Tim Burton, Allison Abbate (Nominated)

2005 SATELLITE AWARDS:

- Outstanding Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media (Nominated)

- Outstanding Original Score: Danny Elfman (Nominated)

2006 SATELLITE AWARDS:

- Best DVD Extras (Nominated)

2005 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL:

- Future Film Festival Digital Award: Mike Johnson, Tim Burton (Won)

2005 WASHINGTON DC AREA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS:

- Best Animated Film (Nominated)

2006 YOUNG ARTIST AWARDS:

- Best Family Feature Film - Animation (Nominated)



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