the mayor / politician is "Two -faced" Always loved that detail. the Santa flying by touching his nose is taken from the Poem from which this movie derived its name, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
It's a very unique movie in the sense that it's definitely a Halloween movie and quite creepy, but it has a very strong Christmas theme. It came out when I was a kid, and I've enjoyed it every year around Christmas time.
You wondered a couple of times in the video about Disney doing this kind of a movie. When this movie came out it was released under Touchstone Pictures, a studio owned by Disney, so that it was not associated with the Disney brand. It was a big success and so it was later branded as a Disney movie.
@@RamblersInc I believe it was more a branding concern. They weren't certain how a 'scary' movie would do with children and there are a lot of people who see that a film is Disney and take their kids based on that alone. Once they learned that the show was well received even by children they didn't have to be worried that the creepy nature of the film would besmirch the Disney brand name.
You were surprised when Santa rose up into the air. Perhaps you for got in the poem; "and laying a finger aside of his nose, and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose."
🎶 "Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!" 🎶 Merry Christmas! ✝️ 🙏 🎄 🎁 Fun Fact: The first fully animated Disney film to not be traditionally animated. Inspiration Origin Fact: Tim Burton has said the original poem was inspired after seeing the Halloween merchandise display in a store being taken down and replaced by a Christmas display. The juxtaposition of ghouls and goblins with Santa and his reindeer sparked his imagination. Music Enthusiast Fact: In Oogie Boogie's (Ken Page) Song, there was a story boarded sequence where bugs came out of Oogie's eye and danced on his arm before he belches them off. It was removed from the film because it was considered difficult to make miniature armatures for all the bugs. Another scrapped scene involved his shadow dancing on a rotating orange background and was traditionally animated but ended up being cut for timing. Despite this, the lyrics during these scenes were included in the film's soundtrack. Math Enthusiast Fact: A crossed-out calculation on Jack's (Chris Sarandon) blackboard seems to equate 3 times the square of pi multiplied by 12 to Christmas Day (a Santa hat). The true numerical answer is approximately 355.31. If the decimal portion is dropped, this then equates to December 21st, the 355th day of the year--hence the crossed-out equation. December 21st however is the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere (winter solstice). It is also the birthday of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the film's executive producer and most often credited for turning Walt Disney Studios and its animation division around after joining in 1984.
Love this Halloween/Christmas movie & the music by Danny Elfman. And yes, Tim Burton has worked with Disney before. First, there's a 1982 short film, "Vincent" (about a 7-yr-old who pretends to be Vincent Price; the short is narrated by Mr. Price). Then there are two versions of Frankenweenie - a 1984 stop motion featurette and a 2012 stop movie full length film - both are parodies & homages to the classic 1931 Frankenstein film. Merry Christmas to you both!
I saw this in the theatres with a date when I was 19 and the guy was totally baffled and didn't like it - definite sign that he wasn't the guy for me :)
Glad you two liked it, been a fan of this one since it released. (If I may make a suggestion - go with The Hogfather. It's long, but worth every minute.)
