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Jane Loretta Anne Goldman (born 11 June 1970) is a British screenwriter and producer. She is mainly known for collaborating with director Matthew Vaughn on the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), as well as X-Men: First Class (2011), Kick-Ass (2010), and Stardust (2007). Goldman also worked on the story of X-Men: Days of Future Past(2014), the sequel to First Class, again in partnership with Vaughn. Both met high critical praise for their work. Goldman's first solo screenplay is The Woman in Black (2012). She also wrote the script for The Limehouse Golem and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, released in 2016. She is the writer of Edgar Wright's upcoming remake of Barbarella. She has also written books such as The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1995) and the novel Dreamworld (2000). Goldman presented her TV show, Jane Goldman Investigates (2003–04), a non-fiction series on the paranormal, for the channel Living. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Goldman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This live-action remake of Corpse Bride, directed by Guillermo del Toro, reimagines the stop-motion classic as a breathtakingly macabre, practical-effects-heavy gothic fairy tale (Guillermo del Toro). The film masterfully splits its visual identity into two contrasting worlds. The Land of the Living is a rigid, suffocating Victorian town rendered in an ultra-matte, bloodless color palette of chalky white skin tones, charcoal tailcoats, and suffocating, high-collared gowns that mirror the social desperation of the nouveau-riche Van Dorts and the icy, aristocratic decay of the Everglots. Here, the repressed, melancholic Victor (Connor Storrie) accidentally binds himself to the afterlife during a botched rehearsal when he places a wedding band onto what he believes is a gnarled tree branch.In stark contrast, the Land of the Dead explodes onto the screen in a vibrant, bioluminescent spectacle. Bathed in a stark green cinematic glow, the underworld is a chaotic cabaret of hyper-realistic skeletal prosthetics and eccentric, larger-than-life characters. Olivia Rodrigo delivers a tragic, magnetic performance as Emily, the Corpse Bride, cascading in vibrant turquoise locks and a tattered, water-logged wedding gown. This world thrives on theatrical dark comedy, populated by a jazz-club big band led by the bare-boned Bonejangles (Sterling K. Brown) belting out brassy anthems, alongside a miniature, dueling military duo composed of a bombastic royal blue General Bonesapart (Ralph Fiennes) and a comically slow-witted, red-coated General Wellington (Gary Oldman). Driven by Jane Goldman’s sharp, emotionally sincere screenplay and Danny Elfman’s indispensable, whimsical score, the film evolves from a spooky comedy of errors into a visually stunning, bittersweet romance. It balances the suffocating prisons of high-society greed against the joyful, liberated chaos of the underworld, culminating in a spectacular, heartbreaking sacrifice.
