From Christmas Town to Easter Town, painted onto the trunks of trees, Jack comes across one of the most mysterious places in the forest. A circle of holiday trees with small doors leading to their towns. After stumbling down into the glistening, snow filled, place of Christmas Town, Jack, the Pumpkin King, introduces his community to ever confusing world of Christmas. From bats to garland, Jack struggles to find happiness in a place where evil and fright rule. Santa Clause a.k.a. Sandy Claws, is taken prisoner and forced to spend time with the Boogy Man. And so goes the story of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of the most ingenious animated films, and I would kill to see the "mind map" of anyone who took part in creating the world that those characters live in. Where does someone create a character? I know you envision things in your mind, like when you read a book. You play it out subconsciously while reading, but how does your brain piece together things like a movie? I guess, if you sat down and took the time to just play it out, you can see it all come together. I want to know how our brain decides what things will look like, and why the fence on the house from that story is black and not white? Do other people picture the same things while reading the same book?
If I had the chance to jump into someones brain/ visionary world, it would have to be the creators of Nightmare Before Christmas. It is an old movie, not as popular today, but it has always been a movie that I was fascinated with, even at a young age. At twenty some years old, I still wonder who had the vision and where did it all come from??
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