![]() As for the name of the character, it’s more obvious to me that it’s inspired by The Bogeyman, a Bogeyman who knows how to boogie, as in dancing.Īlso, the character is voiced by Black actor Ken Page, which seems to be another reason that the character representing racism doesn’t make sense. I can see where she’s coming from, but I didn’t get that at all from the character. I think it’s a fun segment of the story as it was executed but it’s a troubling one.” ![]() Particularly the name… it’s a really evil derogatory term. And as I said, I really did beg Tim to reconsider. I did not win that fight… It was a troubling part of the film for me, to be frank. I said: this is so ugly and dangerous and antithetical to everything inside me. I begged the powers that be to change something about that character, because of that. Oogie Boogie is a derogatory term for African Americans in the American south. “The Oogie Boogie character looks like a Klansman. Thompson explains that she begged Burton to make some changes to the character of Oogie Boogie to make him less racist. She recently appeared on the podcast Script Apart and shared that she had a creative disagreement with Burton regarding the depiction of the Oogie Boogie character. Well, the writer of the film, Caroline Thompson, saw something completely different in the character. I just saw a fun and playful Bogeyman villain who is made out of burlap sackcloth made to look like a ghost and filled with insects. It’s hands down one of my favorite holiday movies! I’ve watched it a ton of times over the years, and I never looked at the villainous character of Ogie Boogie and saw “ugly, dangerous, racist” connotations. Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is such a wonderful holiday film that fans enjoy watching from Halloween to Christmas.
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