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What A Cartoon Movie! - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
🕑 Added 2019-10-31 00:14:55 +0000 UTCWhat's this?!?! October's What A Cartoon Movie! is here and it's good whether you're in the mood for scares or Santa! Directed by Henry Selick and featuring an unforgettable soundtrack by Danny Elfman, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is a holiday classic. We discuss the long development behind this iconic stop-motion animated film, and then go scene by scene (and song by song) into this creepy crawly Christmas tale. Listen now, because This Is Halloween!
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Graeme Black Robinson
Great episode guys! The music in this movie is so good, thanks for including most of it in the podcast. I don't know if you're listeners of Kirk Hamilton's Strong Songs podcast, but a day before you dropped this episode he release a breakdown of the song Making Christmas, specifically on its composition. He highlights the way Jack's motif is woven throughout it, and how Jack's motif in turn is built out of the first four notes of The Carol of the Bells! Pretty mind-blowing stuff if you ask me.
Just because I haven't seen it anywhere - Oogie Boogie's aside "I'm going to do the best I can" is a reference to the Betty Boop cartoon "The Old Man in the Mountain": https://youtu.be/tK6Ty-uLIwM?t=289
