Corpse Bride - wedding with a corpse

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Movie
German title Corpse Bride - wedding with a corpse
Original title Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Corpse-bride-logo.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 76 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Tim Burton ,
Mike Johnson
script John August ,
Pamela Pettler ,
Caroline Thompson
production Tim Burton
Allison Abbate
music Danny Elfman
camera Pete Kozachik
cut Jonathan Lucas
synchronization

Corpse Bride is an American stop-motion film directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson from 2005. The film is based on the old Russian legend The Corpse Bride (Мёртвая невеста), in which a young man stands for his Wedding practices and by mistake promises marriage to a funeral bride.

action

England at the end of the 19th century: Victor is to be married to the unknown Victoria. He is the offspring of a family that has become rich in the fish trade and now wants to move up into higher social circles. The wedding with Victoria offers the ideal opportunity. Their aristocratic family, however, is completely bankrupt and only agrees to join forces with the despised nouveau riche in order to escape the poor house . In the house of the future in-laws, shy Victor sits alone at a grand piano. With his game he takes hold of the listening Victoria. When she comes face to face with him, she seizes him too - despite the coupling , two hearts have found each other. Nothing seems to stand in the way of the wedding, but then Victor messes up the rehearsal for the wedding ceremony on the eve of the wedding and is sent away to practice by the exasperated priest.

Victor goes into the woods to practice his wedding vows. However, the branch on which he sticks the wedding ring after the marriage vow is not a branch, but the skeletonized finger of a dead woman in a wedding dress named Emily. And this is, albeit partially decomposed, very much alive for a corpse and delighted to have found a husband. Victor's situation is precarious: full of fear, he tries to flee, wants to wake up from the nightmare, but the corpse bride takes the wedding vows very seriously and follows him without being able to shake her off. She stands him on a bridge and steals a kiss from him. Terrified Victor faints and wakes up alive in the realm of the dead.

In this other world, Victor is introduced to the dead Emily. She has been waiting for someone who loves her and who seriously wants to marry since her former lover murdered her to steal her family inheritance. Victor, however, loves Victoria and wants to return to this world . He makes Emily believe that he wants to introduce her to his living parents. She leads him to the elder of the group named “Weiser Gutknecht”, who brings them both back to the forest with the help of a magic potion. The enamored Emily should wait there at Victor's request until he comes back. In fact, however, he quickly flees into the city to seek refuge at Victoria. But here Emily surprises him and, angry because of the other woman, takes him back to the realm of the dead with a return message. Victoria's parents see their plans thwarted by Victor's disappearance and quickly find a new husband, Lord Barkis, for their child, who is to marry the now heartbroken Victoria on the same day, the original wedding date of Victor and Victoria. He, who is not aware of the family's predicament, only hopes for a rich dowry from the marriage .

In the realm of the dead, Emily learns that her marriage to Victor is void because they were divorced after death. Victor would have to die on this side, only then would they be married again. Emily refuses, but Victor is prepared to die for her by poison after he learned from a recently deceased friend, the family's coachman, that Victoria is now married. The dead set out for the ceremony in this world and disrupt Victoria's wedding celebration. Both the dead and the living meet with Victor and Emily in the local church. Emily recognizes in Lord Barkis her former fiancé, who once murdered her. After a fight between Victor and Lord Barkis, which is ended by Emily, the arrogant Lord Barkis drinks, believing it is wine, of the poison that was intended for Victor. His reception in the hereafter is different from that of the “good” dead. Emily understands that she should not destroy the happiness of Victor and Victoria and dissolves into butterflies in the light of the moon, as she has already been redeemed by Victor.

Stylistic devices

Corpse Bride is not dissimilar to the movie Nightmare Before Christmas with its numerous vocal interludes , but it has something revue-like . The clear division into arias, choirs, melodrama and other things partly gives way to the sudden interludes of dance and song.

Danny Elfman , who can be heard as the singer in the song Remains of the Day , stages a very (ba) rocky score that follows the style of The Planet of the Apes or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and merges into the operatic.

The staging of the worlds in Corpse Bride is twisted compared to Nightmare Before Christmas . In the earlier film, the portrayal was still clear, even if it was over-contrasted: Here the gloomy world of Halloween, there the even more dazzling and brightly colored Christmas world. In Corpse Bride, on the other hand, this side of the living is a world of sadness. The beyond of the dead, on the other hand, shines in the colors of the Christmas world.

background

The budget of the film produced from 30 January 2004 amounted to an estimated 40 million US dollars . The film celebrated its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2005, from September 16, 2005 it was shown in the USA and from October 15, 2005 it was shown for the first time in Austria at the Viennale . The film opened in German and Swiss cinemas on November 3, 2005, and was released one day later in Austria. By mid-December 2005 almost 60,000 visitors were counted at the Swiss box office. During the same period, the film grossed over $ 53 million in the United States. The film was made at Three Mills Studios in England .

The 20 cm to 25 cm tall figures used in the film were made of steel and covered with a silicone skin. The film is the first stop-motion production, with the software Final Cut Pro from Apple was created. Here, no film cameras were used, but there were 31 Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II cameras with lenses from Nikon for use with which 109,440 individually animated scenes were photographed within 55 weeks. Small moving elements, such as candle flames, were recorded using MiniDV . In order for the film to be made in a shorter time, Emily and Victor made fourteen dolls each, and Victoria made thirteen dolls. In the film, which is dedicated to Joe Ranft , a plaque can be seen on the wing with the words "Harryhausen" in honor of the animator Ray Harryhausen . The maggot was given the voice, appearance and behavior of Peter Lorre . After no suitable interpreter could be found, Danny Elfman sang the score he had written himself at the request of Tim Burton .

criticism

Michael Althen writes for the FAZ that Burton succeeded in " poaching in the realms of necrophilia and not only making cheap jokes, but in finding a disturbing magic in the realm of the dead that turns the hierarchies of the world of trickery upside down."

The website of the Bayerischer Rundfunk praises the “puppet film trimmed to be old”, because although it had “some superfluous vocal parts”, it was “otherwise a funny and visually great ghost train ride that teaches us: Even the dead have feelings.”

The lexicon of international films judges the film very positively:

“Imaginative film adaptation of a Russian folk tale as a puppet animation, which enriches its macabre material with exuberant ideas and is at its best in terms of both staging and narration. An overwhelming animated film that inspires both cinematically and musically and has some gruesome and creepy delicacies to offer. "

synchronization

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book by Marianne Groß under her dialogue direction on behalf of Interopa Film in Berlin .

role English voice actor German voice actor
Victor Van there Johnny Depp David Nathan
Emily Helena Bonham Carter Melanie Pukass
Victoria Everglot Emily Watson Heidrun Bartholomäus
Finnis Everglot Albert Finney Jürgen Kluckert
Maudeline Everglot Joanna Lumley Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Pastor Galswells Christopher Lee Otto Mellies
William Van there Paul Whitehouse Bodo Wolf
Nell Van there Tracey Ullman Dagmar Biener
Lord Barki's bitter Richard E. Grant Lutz Mackensy
Wise manor Michael Gough Wolfgang Völz
Bonejangles Danny Elfman Thomas Fritsch
General Bonesapart Deep Roy Stefan Krause
Made Enn Reitel Michael Pan

Awards

The film received the rating "particularly valuable" from the Wiesbaden film evaluation office .

Corpse Bride was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for Best Animated Feature Film, but had to admit defeat to Wallace & Gromit: On the Hunt for the Giant Rabbit. The film also won four film awards in 2005/06:

He was also nominated for 14 international prizes:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Corpse Bride - Wedding with a corpse . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 087 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Corpse Bride - wedding with a corpse . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c Box office / business for Corpse Bride - wedding with a corpse. In: Internet Movie Database .
  4. ↑ a b Release Info. In: Internet Movie Database .
  5. ↑ Filming Locations. In: Internet Movie Database .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h Trivia. In: Internet Movie Database .
  7. ↑ Michael Althen : "Death suits her: Tim Burton's" Corpse Bride "" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 3, 2005.
  8. ↑ "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Wedding with a Corpse" ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk , Daniel Ronel, October 31, 2005
  9. ↑ Corpse Bride - wedding with a corpse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ Corpse Bride. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Awards according to the Internet Movie Database

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