Check in with the NBC favorites, Tim Burton's brainchildren from the 1993 animated classic, The Nightmare before Christmas. Christmas Carnivals brings information on The Nightmare before Christmas Script to help you by-heart your favorite movie dialogues, penned by none other than Burton himself.
Burton his movies are full of loveable freaks. From Batman to Edward Scissorhands, his films are populated with people trying to live in a world that can neither understand nor accept their quirks.
Bruce Wayne, Batman, is the poor little rich boy who lives in seclusion following the brutal murder of his parents. Night after night, he dons a rubber suit and enacts his own vigilantism against the social evils.
Jack Skellington is Burton's misunderstood protagonist. Jack resides in Halloween-town, where every citizen - witch, vampire, zombie, or werewolf –delivers Halloween every year. Jack is in charge of the festivities, but has grown tired of the same old scares. But Jack's duty is to create terror and mayhem every October. His restlessness leads him to discover Christmas-town, as well as his eventual kidnapping of Santa Claus and attempt to usurp his place, which ends up with disaster, as the horrors of Halloween get mixed with the joys of Christmas: Jack, as Santa, delivers shrunken heads, large snakes, goblins, and other frightful things to the children of the world, and is eventually shot down (in his coffin-sleigh) by the military. The real Santa is left to rectify Christmas, as Jack realizes he needs to be the best Pumpkin King in the world. Jack's ultimate epiphany parallels the themes that usually apply to Burton's benevolent losers. We sympathize with Jack's plight, and gain a better understanding of his personality, but inevitably nothing can be done to change the way the world looks at him.
Jack is a victim, powerless to alter his destiny, but then Burton's fables come with a pinch of salt. Jack Skellington comes to terms with who he is and learns to accept his freakish fate. Find all about the playwright's creation at
Christmas Carnivals The Nightmare before Christmas Script.
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