The Nightmare Before Christmas

Coincidins with Halloween I have remembered one of my favorites films and one that I think I have seen more. Of course, it is a film from my infancy. It is The Nightmare Before Christamas!

When I was little I used to saw films with my brother and my sister and The Nightmare Before Christamas was one of our favorites.

The Nightmare Before Christamas takes place in Halloween Town where the moustrous citizens are celebrating the Haloween day. Jack Skellignton, the principal character, is respected for the entire town but he is tired to celebrate Halloween every year. He goes to stroll and after a while he can't recognize the place where he arrives. Jack is in a kind of forest where every tree has a different dor. Each dor isfrom one festivity and the Christmas door is where Jack pays more attention. When he enters he discovers a town full of snow, lights and hapiness. Something completely different to Halloween town. The sprit of Christmas is liked so much by Jack and he decides to show it in Halloween town.

Jack is fascinated with Christmas and he wants to take the control of the celebration.

Then is when Jack starts to preparethe presents for the children, the sled and the Santa Claus dress. But there is a porblem and it's that the real Christmas can't be understood by his friends from Halloween and they mix the both festivities creating horrible and hideous presents. (jack and his friends made all with a good intention, they only want to celebrate something different. But they are not made for Christmas).

Christmas in the real world is a real disaster and the real Santa Claus is the only who can save it! The problem is that Oogie Boogie, the evil from Halloween Town, has captured Santa Claus and Jack must go to save heir.

Finally Jack Skellington can defeat Oogie Boogie and Christmas can be returned to the world.

The idea to make the film was thought by Tim Burton. It occurred to him when he saw how Halloween decorates were changed for the Christmas ones in the windows displays. That and his inspiration in Christmas classics like The Grinch (you already know him, the ugly green creature who hates Christmas) to crate The Nightmare Before Christmas. 

The truth is I like very much Tim Burton movies. All are full of imagination and take place in imaginatives worlds with bafflings characters. All are incredible: Tim Burton is incredible!

Coming back to our film I have to confess that when I was little there were some parts of the film and some characters that scared me. I had real terror to Oogie Boogie, who was a creepy-crawly sag and I feared to meet him under my bed. Or to Doctor Frinklenstein who could open his hear to scratch his brain (and still now they aren't my favorite characters).

There were parts that caused real terror to me! When Oogie Boogie broke in insects or when all the horrible monsters appear and besides they sang you where you could find them. Certainly I don't know why I didn't watch Cindirella or the Sleeping Beauty. Well, I konow, I love Tim Burton films!

Jack Skellington and the rest of the characters make you love the film because they are incredible, they are very accomplished. The technique to make the fil is incredible, too. All models were made in dummy. Tim Burton and his team used stop motion to make the film. It is a method taht consist in feigns the movement of the characters by taking a lot of images in differents positions. Finish all the film takes them three years. For example Jack Skellingtong had hundreds of heads with different expressions.

But The Nightmare Before Christmas is not only a great story with amazing characters. The Nightmare Before Christmas has an incredible soudtrack! My favorite is "This is Halloween", the first song with which the filkm begins. In that one the Haloween Town is celebrating the day and all the monsters sing. I loves the song and I used to sing it when the film started (although my brother and my sister didn't enjoy it very much).

Without a doubt The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of the best films I never have seen and I think it will be all my life. It is one of those kinds of film that you can watch in any age and you enjoy like a child. And aslo it is a film that don't matter how times you had watched because you always will watch it again (or that happens to me).

This is the begining of the film and my favorite song!