Princessa

“I’m telling you, I think we should try the grappling hook.”

“The grappling hook will just tear through him.”

“So? I don’t think the new boss will care. It’s not like he’s going to be mourned.”

“No, I mean, I don’t want his guts spilling down on me. Maybe if we had a hunter-seeker we could use it to press the buttons on his suspensor belt and lower him down.”

“Nobody is going to loan us a hunter-seeker. We could try opening and closing windows to create a draft and suck him outside?”

“I dunno—somebody might want a trophy from his body. Say... do you think we could just. Y’know. Leave it up there?”

“Leave it up there? It’ll rot!”

“Not in this dry air. I bet it’ll desiccate quickly and shouldn’t smell too bad... talk about a war trophy! I’m sure I can convince the new emperor that a floating mummy of his defeated enemy will be just the decorative centerpiece for his throne room.”

“Bad news. St. Alia of the Knife has ordered the floating mummy removed and given a proper burial. She called it ‘tacky’ and ‘offensive’.”

“Why?! I thought she loved that thing! Why, I remember when she dragged it around on a string with a balloon and called it ‘Dry Grandpa’.”

“Who knows. Teenagers, man. They’re very changeable—even normal ones.”

“You don’t think it’s a sign of depression—losing interest in things that previously gave her pleasure? Should we tell someone?”

Tiny unit

LETS PLAY A GAME. It’s called: Who directed it TIM BURTON or HENRY SELICK

We’ll start with the 2009 Laika film Coraline based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Do you know who directed it? Burton or Selick?

Did you guess yet?

If you guessed Henry Selick, you would be correct. Tim Burton actually had absolutely nothing to do with Coraline at all in anyway ever. Reminder: Tim Burton has NOTHING to do with Coraline. At all. But that was an easy one. Let’s go to the Walt Disney Pictures adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel, James and the Giant Peach next.

Think you got it? Are you sure? Better double check…

Oh, look. It’s Henry Selick again! Tim Burton actually interacted with this project, though only as a producer. Bet that was tricky… Next one! Let’s go to the Disney/Touchstone Pictures film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Have you guessed it correctly? Have you really?

Yep that’s right. Even Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by Henry Selick. Though Burton wrote the poem and created the characters in which Nightmare was based he didn’t have much interaction with the project beyond that. At the time he had already signed off to direct the film Batman Returns and did not want to be involved with the “painstakingly slow process of stop-motion animation.”