Beetle Juice Beetle Juice screenwriter Alfred Gough recently spoke about Charles Deetz’s fate in the film and revealed that he was actually inspired by Tim Burton’s Worldthe worst nightmare of dying.
Charles’s death is the main plot of the story as it is the event that brings his wife Delia (Catherine O’Hara), his daughter Lydia (actress), and teenage niece Astrid (Jenna Ortega) to return to Winter River.
When they are all together, Delia explains how Charles died and the audience sees a stop-motion animated sequence showing the events.
In the sequence we see that Charles was involved in a plane crash while traveling on one of his bird watching adventures. After surviving the plane crash in the ocean, a shark swims in and bites him in half.
From that moment on, Charles is a half-eaten and headless ghost, brought back to life thanks to makeup and special costume effects.
In an interview with EW, Gough explained the inspiration behind the scene, saying, “The way Charles dies in that animated film is Tim’s death nightmare.
“He literally pitched this idea: ‘My nightmare is I’m in a plane crash, I survive the plane crash, I almost drown, and then a shark eats me.’ We were like, ‘Well, that’s brilliant. So this is how he’s going to die.'”
Hey, that worked! It was a fun and enjoyable way to handle that character.
by Joey Fear
Source: Geek Tyrant
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