 Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse
Director: Tim Burton
Year Of Release: 2005
Plot: When an arranged marriage between Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot reaches the rehearsals, Victor starts to worry. Spending time alone in the forest, Victor decides to practice on his own. Everything seems to go well, until he accidentally puts the ring upon the hand of a corpse. Before he knows it, Victor is in the land of dead and now has a corpse bride. Whilst everyone worries about who Victoria will marry in the land of the living, Victor desperately tries to a way to get back. |
Today I’m going to cheat, and rather than writing an article of my own, I want to point you to someone else’s, which is about the home life of Corpse Bride director Tim Burton and the film’s voice star, Helena Bonham Carter.
Unfortunately I couldn’t write it myself because I have precious little access to Bonham Carter’s house (a court order says so). It's a fascinating article that was published recently in the Daily Mail (I’m sorry about that, but occasionally they accidentally print something worthwhile and interesting, if there isn’t enough news to fill the entire paper about asylum seekers and that day’s cure/cause of cancer) in the run up to the release of Alice In Wonderland.
The writer, Alison Boshoff, got rather privileged access to Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter’s home (or rather their two homes), and reveals their life together to be as pleasing eccentric as you’d hope it’d be. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the odd but mutually beneficial life the couple lead, which could have fallen out of one of Burton’s films.
Perhaps most interesting is that despite the fact they’ve now made six films together since they met on the set of Planet Of The Apes in 2001, it might be better if they worked apart, and it also reveals the peculiar in-joke world shared between Burton and best friend Johnny Depp.
So head over to the Daily Mail site and have a read. Oh, and watch Corpse Bride too, as it’s ridiculously entertaining.
TIM ISAAC
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