Question
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, a cop says these words to the town citizens:
it looks like Christmas will have to be canceled this year.
How can a festival be canceled?
I didn't understand the cop's words here.
Answer
It's just an expression.
What, in the modern times, makes Christmas Christmas? Gifts, trees and fire, hot chocolate... these kinds of things. Same about Easter, that has chocolate eggs, and so on. The cop says it's going to have to be cancelled because nothing of what makes Christmas Christmas is happening, due to the terror Jack is putting Christmas into.
And adding:
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there are lands of holidays, where for the people inside that land, the holiday in question is work. A "presentation" night of sorts. If they see that way, might as well be that other people do as well, and then, "Christmas was cancelled," because the Christmas beings couldn't do their job.
Answered By - Pelicer
