Comparing Victor And Victoria's Wedding To The Land Of The Dead

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The movie is set in a random Victorian British village. Victor Van Dort, and Victoria Everglot, are engaged by their families to marry. When they meet up each other for the first time, they felt good. After meeting, inept Victor ruin a wedding practice, he rehearsals his marriage vows in a forest , placing the wedding ring on what seems like a tree branch. The branch, in fact is the finger of a dead bride who is so excited by the vision of wedding that she rises from the grave and take Victor to the Land of the Dead. In the amazingly happy afterlife, Victor finds out that his new fiancé name is Emily and she was put to death in the woods on the night of her wedding. Victor, wanting to get back to Victoria, persuades the magical Elder Gutknecht …show more content…
Victor's recently dead coachman has shown in the underworld and notifies him about Victoria's coming wedding to Lord Barkis. Victor, sense deceived and decides to end his own life so he can suitably marry Emily. The dead go "upstairs" to the Land of the Living to attend Victor and Emily's marriage in the town church. At first, the living is horrified, but they fright disappears once they identify their deceased family and dear ones. Victoria rushes to the church and sees Victor about to drink poison. Emily spots Victoria and stops him. Victor and Victoria happily reunite, but Lord Barkis disrupts the celebrations to repeat them that Victoria is now his wife. Lord Barkis trys to kill Victor with his sword, but Emily takes the drives herself. She then identify Lord Barkis as her previous fiancé, who killed her for her dowry and planned the same fortune for Victoria. Emily stresses him to leave. Before he goes, he offers an offensive mock-toast to Emily. He drinks the poison meant for Victor and dies. The dead cheerfully drags him underworld while he yells in terror. Emily sets Victor free of his promise to marry her. Then, she converts into a group of butterflies which flies

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