Even though Victor is in love with Victoria, he gets heartbroken when he learns that she's being forced to marry Lord Barkis Bittern. Victor, out of despair decides to marry Emily above the Land of the Living and kill himself by drinking a poisoned goblet.
But there's been a mistake: Victor's not dead. The last thing he remembers is rehearsing his vows for the wedding and putting his ring on what he thought was a twig branch. And then he ended up there married to a corpse named Emily, who thought the vows and ring were for her.
She then learns that she can't steal another person's happiness just so she can achieve her own and ultimately decides to stop her wedding with Victor (the goal she has been trying to achieve for the majority of the film) so he and Victoria can achieve happiness.
A heartbroken Victor decided to dedicate himself to Emily, even agreeing to give up his life for her, possibly for his own broken heart and also for Emily's happiness. However, despite Victor expressing deep feelings for Emily, he was not in love with her.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Has A Heartbreaking Real-Life Inspiration - IMDb. The original Corpse Bride story was inspired by a Jewish folktale called "The Finger," which tells the story of a man accidentally marrying the undead ghost of a murdered bride.
He was thinking of Victoria as he said the words that accidentally bonded him with Emily. While in the land of the dead, he learned Victoria was already with someone else, and he couldn't understand how she could do that to him. This influenced his decision to marry Emily by sacrificing his life.
Victor, feeling betrayed, decides to end his own life so he can properly marry Emily. The dead go "upstairs" to the Land of the Living to hold Victor and Emily's wedding in the town church. At first, the living are terrified, but their fear dissipates once they recognize their departed relatives and loved ones.
Still, since Emily was an unmarried member of a wealthy Victorian family, it can be assumed that she was in her late teens. This is supported by the fact that Victor and Victoria are both 19 during the events of the Tim Burton movie since Emily appears to be about the same age as her fellow Corpse Bride characters.
Season 3 featured a lot of ups and downs, both romantic and otherwise, for Victor (Michael Cimino) and his friends, but by the end of the finale, the titular teen reunited with his first love Benji (George Sear) on the iconic ferris wheel.
Emily, now freed from her torment, releases Victor of his vow to marry her and returns his ring, allowing him to marry Victoria. As she steps into the moonlight, she transforms into a swarm of butterflies that fly into the sky as Victor and Victoria watch and embrace.
His plan is eventually revealed as marrying Victoria Everglot, in order to obtain wealth and riches from his dowry. This plan mirrors the one he used years before as he deceives Emily, the corpse bride, into falling in love with him and giving him the riches he desires.
Victor is a young man expected to marry Victoria whose family arranged the marriage with Victor to help them escape financial trouble. At the rehearsal, for the ceremony, Victor struggles to memorize his vows and embarrasses himself in front of everyone, and catches the Bride's mother's dress on fire!
Barkis killed Emily because he wanted her family's money and desired social status, which he could achieve through marrying Victoria. Emily turned into butterflies and departed to a different afterlife after giving Victor his wedding ring back, symbolizing her freedom and release from her vow.
Ever since she was murdered on her wedding night, this Corpse Bride has been waiting for a groom to come and claim her. Suddenly a husband, Victor must somehow find a way back to the living arms of Victoria without breaking the unbeating heart of the sweetly decaying Emily.
The Tim Burton 2005 dark fantasy film is based on a story of a living person accidentally marrying the specter of a murdered bride-to-be. However, Corpse Bride's bittersweet narrative added significant expansion to its plot and changes to its setting and characters.
As per the traditional vows, a reanimated Emily kisses Victor, who faints in the process. Upon waking up, Victor finds himself inside the Land of the Dead, and learns that his new "bride" Emily is in fact deceased, and learns that she was murdered in the forest by her original fiancé.
Which is set back in the late 1800s in a Victorian village, where a man and woman by the names of Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot are suddenly betrothed to each other even though they have never met...
tl;dnr: Emily is the maternal aunt of Victoria Everglot, the bethrothed / fiancé of Victor Van Dort. More specifically, Emily is - was? - the younger sister of Maudeline Everglot, Victoria's mother.
The movie had a 55-week shoot and included 109,440 individually animated frames set up and filmed. Multiple identical puppets had to be created, so that more scenes could be accomplished in a shorter period of time. In all, fourteen puppets of the Bride and Victor were created, and thirteen were created of Victoria.
Corpse Bride is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, were directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
