Corpse Bride
Short description
Corpse Bride is a stop-motion animated fantasy set in a 19th-century European village. Victor Van Dort, the shy son of fish merchants, is being married off to Victoria Everglot, the daughter of impoverished aristocrats, in a match that suits their parents far better than it suits the nervous young couple. After botching the wedding rehearsal, Victor flees into the woods, where he slips a ring onto what he takes to be a branch and speaks his vows. The branch turns out to be the finger of a dead young woman, who rises from the ground as the Corpse Bride and claims Victor as her husband, carrying him down to the land of the dead. Torn between his growing feelings for the lively underworld and his loyalty to Victoria, who waits for him among the living, Victor must find a way to set things right.
Tim Burton directed alongside Mike Johnson, with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler, and a voice cast led by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse and Joanna Lumley. It was the fourteenth of the twenty-two films Burton has directed, arriving between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Made for about 40 million dollars, it took roughly 118 million worldwide, a solid return for a stop-motion feature. On IMDb it holds 7.4/10 from around 327,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.6/10 from over 10,000. A critics' score of 7.5/10 from about 200 reviews places it in line with how audiences received it.
What's left behind the scenes
- To speed up the filming process, 14 Emily dolls, 14 Victor dolls, and 13 Victoria dolls were created.
- 22 animators were involved in the project – each of them worked at an average speed of 6 seconds of animation per week.
- Kostotryas's song "Remains of Days," which tells the backstory of Emily, is written in the style of a 1930s jazz song by Cab Calloway. Over 27 people auditioned to perform it, but in the end, the composer performed it himself.
- The technology of mechanical facial control for dolls was previously used only for shooting commercials.
- The singing skeleton (Bonejangles), who tells Emily's story in the song, was voiced by the soundtrack author and composer, Danny Elfman.
- The film is dedicated to the memory of executive producer Joe Ranft. Joe died on August 16, 2005, as a result of a car accident.
- This is the first stop-motion animated film edited using Apple's 'Final Cut Pro'.
- Victoria's father mistakenly calls Victor Vincent. "Vincent" is the title of Tim Burton's very first animated film.
- To make the bride blink in the film, the creators needed 28 frames.
- The dolls used in the film are approximately 30 centimeters tall. Among other things, they contain special mechanisms placed in their heads. The mechanism allows the dolls to blink or open their mouths, and is designed so that animators adjusting the doll do not have to touch its face.
- To demonstrate the indifference and formality of the Victorian world, the world of the living was depicted in colors close to those of ferrotypes and daguerreotypes.
- Tim Burton designed most of the characters himself.
- The actors voiced their characters before filming began.
- All the dolls used in the production of the film are made of stainless steel.
- The first film in history to be entirely shot on a digital still camera instead of a standard video camera. During the production of the film, 109 million frames were shot. The shooting process lasted 55 weeks (just over a year).
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