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The Nightmare Before Christmas |
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The Nightmare before Christmas directed by animator Henry Selick is a stop motion animated musical film. The story of the movie revolves around the inhabitants of the Halloween town who takes over Christmas one year. The story of the Nightmare Before Christmas has been written by a couple of writers like Tim Burton who gave the main
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story, Caroline Thompson who provided the screenplay and Michael McDowell who gave the adaptation for the movie.
The cast of the movie includes Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix and Paul Reubens. The story of The Nightmare Before Christmas centers on Jack Skellington, who is the much-adored leader of the Halloween Town. Though much respect and attention is paid to Jack by his followers but then also he gets bored with the repetitiveness of the Halloween festivities and feels as if something is missing from his life. One day he gets to discover the trees depicting different festivals. When Jack opens the Christmas door, he is mesmerized with the cheerfulness and brightness of the Christmas festival and he realizes that this is the only thing he has been waiting for.
Immediately a meeting is called by him in the town hall and he tries to describe the splendor of Christmas to his followers. He even gives them a description of the leader of the Christmas celebrations as a creature resembling a lobster, with deep voice and someone who flies like a vulture on a sleigh in the sky. When the denizens of the Halloween town are not able to understand, Jack in a fit of anger locks himself in a room. After some time he comes to a realization that to understand Christmas better he needs to believe in the occasion of Christmas. He informs his followers about his intention of taking over Christmas that year. Mislead by the town meeting denizens pitch in their own ideas of creating a twisted version of Christmas. Then the movie follows the incidents of the twisted version of the Christmas prepared by the denizens of the Halloween town. In the end the true picture of Christmas is revealed with Santa appearing on the scene for correcting the twisted picture of Christmas.
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