A severed arm strides wildly down the street. Big, round eyes like candy roll around on the floor. A neck impaled by a large spear and a face covered in grotesque axe marks are also visible. At first glance, it looks like a gruesome crime scene with corpses strewn about.
But don’t be prejudiced by its sinister appearance. The ghosts that reside here are cheerful. Ghost detective ‘Wolf Jackson’ (Willem Dafoe) makes you laugh with his untimely ‘dad jokes’. The mischievous ghost ‘Beetlejuice’ (Michael Keaton), who travels between this world and the afterlife, never stops making mischievous jokes. The afterlife depicted by American film director Tim Bourbon (66) is filled with laughter rather than fear.
The comedy horror film ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’, which was released in Korea on the 4th, deals with the story of a mother and daughter traveling to the afterlife. When the teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) accidentally passes into the afterlife, her psychic mother ‘Lydia’ (Winona Ryder) summons the evil spirit Beetlejuice and goes to the afterlife to save her daughter. As of the 10th, about 90,000 people have seen the film. Although it is difficult to say that it was a box office success in Korea, it is once again rekindling the Tim Burton craze in the US by raking in $110 million (about 147.345 billion won) in ticket sales in its first weekend.
The new film is a sequel, 36 years after the 1988 film ‘Beetlejuice’. The previous film was a box office hit, grossing $73.7 million (about 98.7 billion won) on a production budget of $15 million (about 20 billion won), and made rookie director Tim Burton an overnight star. Since then, Tim Burton has created unique worldviews with films such as ‘Batman’ (1990) and ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (2005). In an interview with Warner Bros., Tim Burton said, “I tried to rely on the actors’ improvisation like in the first film,” and “I tried to recapture the fun I had when making the first film without thinking too deeply.”
The new film is full of elements that fans of the previous film will be excited about. For example, Winona Ryder, who played Lydia in the previous film, returned as a middle-aged woman to play the mother Lydia. The spaces that captivated audiences in the previous film, such as Lydia’s house that reminds us of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ (1991), were similarly recreated. In addition, in order to express Tim Burton’s unique colors, computer graphics (CG) were minimized and about 70 sets were built. Watching the noisy chaos of ghosts in the afterlife, ‘Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas’ (1995) naturally comes to mind. However, the setting, such as drawing a square on the wall with white chalk and reciting a spell to open the door to the afterlife, feels old-fashioned.
Reporter Lee Ho-jae [email protected]
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