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The Nightmare Before Christmas Signed Movie Script X6 Tim Burton Reubens reprint
$ 9.5
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This auction is for a mint color copy of an autographed"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
script with the signatures of these 6 huge stars:
Tim Burton
Paul Reubens
Chris Sarandon
Glenn Shadix
Catherine O'Hara
Danny Elfman
The script is a standard three hole punch with brass fittings and has approximately 75 pages and is dated August 5, 1991. This is a first draft script and a great read. If you have ever wanted to read along with one of the greatest movies ever written, here is your chance. No rights are given or implied since this is sold from collector to collector. Check out my other auction for more great scripts and other fun stuff. Please note the autographs on the cover are reprints. Thanks for looking and have a great day.
The film begins with the introduction of
Halloween
Town
and its much adored leader Jack Skellington, The Pumpkin King. ("This is Halloween"). Although Jack is loved and respected by the townspeople, he is bored with the repetitiveness of his Halloween festivities and feels that there is something unknown to him that is missing from his life ("Jack's Lament"). One day while wandering in the woods with his dog Zero, Jack discovers a circle of trees unlike anything that he has seen before. Each tree has a door on it representing a different holiday. When Jack opens the Christmas door he is sucked into the wonderful world of
Christmas
Town
. Jack is mesmerized by the color and cheerfulness of the holiday, and realizes that this is exactly what he has been searching for ("What's This?").
Jack immediately calls a meeting in Town Hall and reveals the splendid sights that were to be seen in
Christmas
Town
("Town Meeting Song"). Unfortunately, the denizens of
Halloween
Town
have no possible way of understanding such a place. Frustrated from the misunderstandings, Jack describes the leader of
Christmas
Town
in the only way the town members can understand: as a lobster-red creature possessing a deep voice and flying on a sleigh like a vulture in the sky. Jack refers to him as "Sandy Claws". Distraught by his friends' inability to understand Christmas, Jack locks himself in his home and performs multiple experiments to try to better understand
Christmas
Town
("Jack's Obsession"). He finally comes to the realization that all he has to do is believe in Christmas, and decides to improve it. He informs the town of his intention to take over Christmas for that year. In order to successfully take over Christmas, Jack enlists the help of a trio of misfits named Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap "Sandy Claws", aka Santa Claus ("Kidnap the Sandy Claws"). Misled by the town meeting, all of the townspeople pitch in to create their own twisted version of the holiday ("Making Christmas").
After capturing the so called Sandy Claws (after accidentally kidnapping the Easter Bunny instead), Jack allows Lock, Shock, and Barrel to take him away and keep him safe, which they mischievously interpret to take Sandy Claws to their boss, the villainous, gambling monster, Oogie Boogie ("Oogie Boogie's Song").
Sally, who is secretly in love with Jack, tries to warn him that taking over something he knows nothing about may be a bad idea. However, Jack is too wrapped in his fantasies to listen ("Sally's Song").
On Christmas Eve, Jack embarks on his makeshift sleigh led by skeleton reindeer and his ghost dog, Zero. Jack's scary (and sometimes dangerous) presence causes people in the real world to panic: they begin to call the police with reports of a false Santa Claus and attacking Christmas toys. Soon, Jack is targeted by the military and shot down. At the same time, Sally sets off to rescue Santa Claus but is captured by Oogie Boogie and the two are in risk of their lives.
When Jack finds himself and his sleigh crashed in a graveyard and his vision of Christmas is wrecked , he realizes that he is the Pumpkin King and that he should stick to what he knows best: Halloween ("Poor Jack"). In order to salvage Christmas, Jack hurries back to
Halloween
Town
and confronts Oogie Boogie. After Jack destroys Oogie, revealing him to be nothing more than a burlap sack full of insects, Santa Claus exits to correct Jack's misdeeds and save Christmas. Santa is later seen flying over
Halloween
Town
wishing the citizens a "Happy Halloween" to which Jack responds "Merry Christmas", bringing Christmas spirit to
Halloween
Town
, including snow, and the citizens are amazed by the new sensations ("Finale/Reprise").
Finally, Sally reveals her true feelings for Jack and the movie ends with a kiss.
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