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Corpse Bride
Photos: Impawards, Gaby Smith
Returning to the painstaking stop-motion animation he
employed with amazing success in The Nightmare Before
Christmas, Tim Burton presents a hair-raising legend based
on a 19th-century Russian folktale, in which a young
man mistakenly weds a corpse while on a two-day trek to
the village of his real bride-to-be. It is up to the groom‘s
flesh-and-blood fiancée, who has been pining for the arrival
of her intended, to face her wraith-like rival and make peace
with her by promising to live her dreams for her and by
vowing to remember her always. Only then are the living
bride and groom free to proceed with their own wedding
ceremony in the warmhearted fable Tim Burton‘s Corpse
Bride.
Just as the color palette is very precise in „Nightmare“-
-with all its carefully chosen shades, „Corpse Bride“ also
features two main color families that help contrast two
worlds through the use of diligent lighting and hand-painting.
Life scenes show everything in grays, like tintypes,
while Death scenes are much more flamboyant (Burton
2008). The Life scenes therefore come across as uptight
and dreary, whereas the Death scenes read as significantly
more relaxed and fun.