HOLIDAY 2019: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Cirque du Soleil, GET ON THIS.
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of emotional abuse, neglect, and gaslighting of women and female characters; poor representation; horror themes and fears of children.
We’re rounding out 2019 with holiday and Christmas(ish) movies this year, starting with this recent classic that one of us (cough David cough cough) hadn’t already seen. It’s not for lack of trying either - he’s probably seen the first half several times, but just never made the time to watch the whole film. But is that just quintessential Macintosh, or is this movie only for a specific audience? That, of course, being an audience who’s really into the dark moods and imagery of creative force Tim Burton and director Henry Selick. Danny Elfman plants his flag as one of our greatest living composers (and a damn fine singer) in this film, but despite everyone’s best efforts, there’s something a little flat about this canonical holiday movie - we’re just not exactly agreed on what that is. Join us for a review of The Nightmare Before Christmas this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Excerpts taken from “What’s This?,” “Kidnap the Sandy Claws,” and “Oogie Boogie’s Song” are all from the original motion picture soundtrack The Nightmare Before Christmas, with music and lyrics by Danny Elfman. © 1993 Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. and The Walt Disney Company, phonographic copyright 1993 Buena Vista Music Company.
Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Jingle bells effect taken from “Jingle bells.wav” created by user ‘juskiddink’ on the Freesound platform. Licensed under an Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license. To get additional information or download the sound, visit Freesound.
