Corpse Bride

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Johnny Depp as Victor Van Dort, a timid, but good-natured young man who is engaged to Victoria Everglot for social and financial reasons
• Helena Bonham Carter as Emily the Corpse Bride, a beautiful and naïve young revenant woman with a passion for music and dance
• Emily Watson as Victoria Everglot, Victor’s pretty, sweet-natured, yet abused fiancée
• Tracey Ullman as two characters:
  • Nell Van Dort, Victor’s socially ambitious mother and William’s wife who loves, but holds too much contempt for him
  • Hildegarde, the elderly maid of the Everglot household
• Paul Whitehouse as three characters:
  • William Van Dort, Victor’s absent-minded and tactless fish merchant father and Nell’s husband
  • Mayhew, the Van Dorts’ smoking coachman
  • Paul the Head Waiter, literally a severed head
• Joanna Lumley as Lady Maudeline Everglot, Victoria’s abusive, large-chinned, unloving mother and Finis’ wife
• Albert Finney as two characters:
  • Lord Finis Everglot, Victoria’s abusive toad-like, unloving Baron father and Maudeline’s husband
  • Grandfather Everglot, Finis’ deceased grandfather, Maudeline’s grandfather-in-law and Victoria’s great grandfather
• Richard E. Grant as Barkis Bittern, a charming yet murderous con artist, later revealed to be Emily’s former fiancé and killer
• Christopher Lee as Pastor Galswells, a haughty and bad-tempered priest who is hired to conduct Victor and Victoria’s wedding ceremony
• Michael Gough as Elder Gutknecht, an ancient and rickety skeleton who rules benevolently over the underworld
• Jane Horrocks as two characters:
  • The Black Widow Spider, an affable seamstress
  • Mrs. Plum, a dead chef working at the Ball and Socket Pub
• Enn Reitel as two characters:
  • The Maggot, Emily’s sarcastic friend who lives inside her head and acts as her conscience, parodying Hungarian-born actor Peter Lorre
  • The Town Crier, who alerts the Van Dorts and Everglots about Victor and Emily’s marriage
• Deep Roy as General Bonesapart, a diminutive skeleton in a military uniform with a sword stuck in his chest. He is a parody of Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Danny Elfman as Bonejangles, a vivacious, one-eyed, lounge singing skeleton
• Stephen Ballantyne as Emil, the Everglots’ long-suffering butler

Storyline:

Set back in the late 1800s in a Victorian village, a man and woman by the names of Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot are betrothed because the Everglots need the money or else they’ll be living on the streets and the Van Dorts want to be high in society. But when things go wrong at the wedding rehearsal, Victor goes into the woods to practice his vows. Just as soon as he gets them right, he finds himself married to Emily, the corpse bride. While Victoria waits on the other side, there’s a rich newcomer that may take Victor’s place. So two brides, one groom, who will Victor pick?

About Movie:

Corpse Bride (also known as Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride) is a stop-motion animated dark fantasy film co-directed by Mike Johnson (in his directorial debut) and Tim Burton. The screenplay, written by John August, Caroline Thompson, and Pamela Pettler, is based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel.

The film stars Johnny Depp as the voice of Victor and Helena Bonham Carter as the titular bride, Emily. An international co-production between the U.S. and U.K., the film was produced by Tim Burton Productions and Laika Entertainment. It marks Burton’s first stop-motion feature as a director and his first stop-motion film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, following his production work on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996).

The film draws inspiration from a 17th-century Jewish folktale, introduced to Burton by Joe Ranft while they were completing The Nightmare Before Christmas. Production began in November 2003 while Burton was also working on Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The stop-motion animation was created at 3 Mills Studios in East London, using Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital cameras instead of traditional 35mm film. Longtime collaborators Johnny Depp and composer Danny Elfman were brought on board, and the film was dedicated to Joe Ranft, who passed away in a car accident during production.

Corpse Bride premiered at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2005, and was released in U.S. theaters on September 23, 2005, followed by its U.K. release on October 13. The film was both a critical and commercial success and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 78th Academy Awards, making it one of the first two stop-motion films to receive this nomination.

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