The Nightmare Before Christmas - full reaction
Added 2023-12-18 17:00:12 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays Everyone!! Hope you enjoy the reaction :)
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i love all of those interpretations! i'm not a huge romance person so for Sally to be Jack's happiness never even occured to me lmao
TheLexiCrowd
2023-12-19 07:22:26 +0000 UTCI love this movie! As you may be able to tell that by the length of this comment :-D I saw it in the theatre back when it released. I can still sing along all the songs. In fact, I can speak along with most of the dialogue too. Both Tim Burton and Danny Elfman are amazingly good at what they do. And I'm pretty sure they named the ghost dog after me. I believe that good movies have different messages depending on the viewer's perspective. For this one, my main takeaway is that Jack tried to find happiness in strange places while all along true happiness was right under his nose, in the form of Sally. Another interpretation could be that Jack had to follow his heart before he could find happiness. Although Sally was there from the start, he couldn't see her until he found contentment with himself. This "returning home" is a common theme in a lot of media. Another example is The Lord of the Rings, where the final chapter is the Hobbits returning home. Tolkien even specifically calls this out at the start of the chapter, Saying that some would have the big victory over evil as the end, but he felt the real end is the return to hearth and home. Yet another possible interpretation is: Jack tried to do Christmas, and failed. For a moment, it made him want to give up. But then he realised that failure isn't the end of the world. You shouldn't be afraid to try new things, even if you might fail. And I'm sure there are other possible interpretations. The soundtrack contains an epilogue, which is not in the movie. It's Santa Claus framing the story, and it's narrated by none other than Patrick Stewart: And finally, everything worked out just fine. Christmas was saved, though there wasn't much time. But after that night, things were never the same-- Each holiday now knew the other one's name. And though that one Christmas things got out of hand, I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man. So, many years later I thought I'd drop in, And there was old Jack still looking quite thin, With four or five skeleton children at hand Playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band. And I asked old Jack, "Do you remember the night When the sky was so dark and the moon shone so bright? When a million small children pretending to sleep Nearly didn't have Christmas at all, so to speak? And would, if you could, turn that mighty clock back, To that long, fateful night. Now, think carefully, Jack. Would you do the whole thing all over again, Knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then?" And he smiled, like the old pumpkin king that I knew, Then turned and asked softly of me, "Wouldn't you?"
zerofk
2023-12-18 21:40:02 +0000 UTC
