These are good and valid points, though I don’t really think they apply to Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, which was more of an antichrist of the book.
As for Corpse Bride I’ve looked up and read a little about it since initially starting this thread. Heaven knows I am not generally averse to black humor (I think the only thing I was ever censored on C&F for was such), but, what I found disturbing was the sexually perverse necrophiliac theme of the title.
Well, duh! I never thought of it that way. I guess because she’s actually moving around and talking I didn’t consider the corpse bride to be dead-dead.
M
Have you ever listened to the lyrics of The Unquiet Grave, Demon Lover, or any number of other songs that have sort of the same theme?
Where’s dear Alice when you need him?
djm
Playing golf in Scottsdale Arizona…
life is a strange ol’ duck,
I’d contemplated the lyrics of Barbry Allen. Seemed to be the sight of his corpse that brought her to the breaking point, and they were united, symbolically, at least, upon her death.
-I haven’t seen the show but feel the title is an obscenity- death, corruption and rot juxtaposed on a word symbolic of a fresh, vital & promising relationship. I am generally cynical and no stranger to dark humor or dark themes-but this disturbs me. I hate to lose what
little is left of lingering naivete and childhood optimism, still less through the agency of pop media.
The title strikes me as an entertainment media corollary to a teen hollering four-letter words for attention. Yukk!
I have, and it’s actually very life-, bride-, and marriage-affirming, with a much more satisfying story, in my opinion, than The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a theme about how to find peace.
Carol
-I can’t comment on the content, but have a gut-level aversion to the title, one of bad taste and shock value. Lurid, in a word. I dislike having my weaknesses and flaws pandered to so.