domingo, 27 de abril de 2008
First official work
Vincent (1982)was the first official Tim Burton´s film, with Rick Heinrichs he tell a story about a 7 years old boy named Vincent Malloy, who is obsessed with the actor Vincent Price,with this film Tim Burton reflect his own childood because when he was young he also wanted to be Vincent Price, and as a homage for Edgar Allan Poe, this film is narrated in verses by the real Vincent price similar to the way Poe wrote his poems.
This film is made with the stop-motion technique with mournful Figures maded of clay, with an exelent screenplay, music, production, etc.
Vincent Malloy is seven years oldHe’s always polite and does what he’s toldFor a boy his age, he’s considerate and niceBut he wants to be just like Vincent Price
He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and catsThough he’d rather share a home with spiders and batsThere he could reflect on the horrors he’s inventedAnd wander dark hallways, alone and tormented
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see himBut imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on his dog AbercrombieIn the hopes of creating a horrible zombieSo he and his horrible zombie dogCould go searching for victims in the London fog
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimesHe likes to paint and read to pass some of the timesWhile other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe
One night, while reading a gruesome taleHe read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not surviveFor his beautiful wife had been buried alive!He dug out her grave to make sure she was deadUnaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed
His mother sent Vincent off to his roomHe knew he’d been banished to the tower of doomWhere he was sentenced to spend the rest of his lifeAlone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
While alone and insane encased in his tombVincent’s mother burst suddenly into the roomShe said: “If you want to, you can go out and playIt’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speakThe years of isolation had made him quite weakSo he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again”His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost deadThese games that you play are all in your headYou’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent MalloyYou’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boyYou’re seven years old and you are my sonI want you to get outside and have some real fun.”
Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hallAnd while Vincent backed slowly against the wallThe room started to swell, to shiver and creakHis horrid insanity had reached its peak
He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slaveAnd heard his wife call from beyond the graveShe spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demandsWhile, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreamsSwept his mad laughter to terrified screams!To escape the madness, he reached for the doorBut fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slowAs he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe:
“and my soul from out that shadowthat lies floating on the floorshall be lifted?Nevermore…”
This film is made with the stop-motion technique with mournful Figures maded of clay, with an exelent screenplay, music, production, etc.
Vincent Malloy is seven years oldHe’s always polite and does what he’s toldFor a boy his age, he’s considerate and niceBut he wants to be just like Vincent Price
He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and catsThough he’d rather share a home with spiders and batsThere he could reflect on the horrors he’s inventedAnd wander dark hallways, alone and tormented
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see himBut imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on his dog AbercrombieIn the hopes of creating a horrible zombieSo he and his horrible zombie dogCould go searching for victims in the London fog
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimesHe likes to paint and read to pass some of the timesWhile other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe
One night, while reading a gruesome taleHe read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not surviveFor his beautiful wife had been buried alive!He dug out her grave to make sure she was deadUnaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed
His mother sent Vincent off to his roomHe knew he’d been banished to the tower of doomWhere he was sentenced to spend the rest of his lifeAlone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
While alone and insane encased in his tombVincent’s mother burst suddenly into the roomShe said: “If you want to, you can go out and playIt’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speakThe years of isolation had made him quite weakSo he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again”His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost deadThese games that you play are all in your headYou’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent MalloyYou’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boyYou’re seven years old and you are my sonI want you to get outside and have some real fun.”
Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hallAnd while Vincent backed slowly against the wallThe room started to swell, to shiver and creakHis horrid insanity had reached its peak
He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slaveAnd heard his wife call from beyond the graveShe spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demandsWhile, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreamsSwept his mad laughter to terrified screams!To escape the madness, he reached for the doorBut fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slowAs he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe:
“and my soul from out that shadowthat lies floating on the floorshall be lifted?Nevermore…”
sábado, 26 de abril de 2008
Filmography
- Stalk of the Celery Monster (1979) also animator.
- Luau (1982) co-animator and co-directoR
- Vincent (1982) Hansel and Gretel (1982)
- Frankenweenie (1984)
- Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1984) for the Faerie Tale Theatre television series
- The Jar (1985) for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series
- Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Beetlejuice (1987)
- Batman (1989)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Conversations with Vincent (1990) Documentary
Sleepy HollowBatman Returns (1992) - Ed Wood (1994)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Hollywood Gum (1998)
- French TV commercial for chewing gumSleepy Hollow (1999)
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Big Fish (2003)
- 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride - 2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Biography
Director, producer, screenwriter. Born August 25, 1958, in Burbank, California. As a child, Burton was engrossed with the classic horror films of Roger Corman—many of which featured quintessential screen villain Vincent Price. Burton also developed a penchant for drawing and enrolled at the California Institute of Arts, where he majored in animation. In 1980, upon his graduation, he began working as an apprentice animator for Walt Disney Studios. Within a year, Burton grew tired with his work at Disney and decided to strike out on his own. In 1982, he released the award-winning short Vincent, which paid homage to the enduring work of his childhood idol.
In 1984, Burton created a unique version of the Frankenstein story with the live-action short Frankenweenie. Impressed with Frankenweenie, Paul Reubens commissioned Burton to direct the wildly inventive comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985). The success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure brought about other opportunities, including the 1988 ghost story Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, and Geena Davis. Often considered the prototypical Burton film, Beetlejuice was recognized for its visual flair and interwoven themes of fantasy and horror.
After forming his own production company, Burton directed the lavish production Batman (1989). With a cast that included Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, and Kim Basinger, the stylized feature became the first film to sell $100 million in the first 10 days of release. The following year, Burton helmed the bizarre but touching film Edward Scissorhands. Featuring notable performances by up-and-coming stars Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder (as well as Price's final feature role as the eccentric inventor), Edward Scissorhands was acclaimed for being both a social satire and a simple tale of love and intolerance.
Directing an ensemble that included Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Walken, Burton reteamed with Keaton for the 1992 Batman sequel, Batman Returns. The following year, he produced the animated musical Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Created with the painstaking process of stop-motion animation, the film became a critical and commercial success, while Burton was credited for his technical prowess.
In 1994, Burton cast Johnny Depp as the title character in Ed Wood—a black-and-white portrait of a middling filmmaker and his all-consuming passion to succeed. Although critically praised (Martin Landau won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a drug-addicted Bela Lugosi), the film failed to appeal to mass audiences. After producing the third installment Batman Forever (1995) and the animated feature James and the Giant Peach (1996), Burton directed the sci-fi spoof Mars Attacks! The film flopped at the box office despite an all-star cast that included Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, and Pierce Brosnan.
In 1999, Burton directed a freely adapted film version, Sleepy Hollow, of Washington Irving's haunting tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in which Johhny Depp offered a notable performance as the heroic Ichabod Crane. In 2001, Burton took on an ambitious remake of the 1968 cult classic Planet of the Apes starring Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter. In 2005, he released a remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and a stop-motion animated feature called The Corpse Bride, which received an Oscar nod for Best Animated Feature Film.
Continuing with his interest in ghoulish subjects, Burton directed the film adaptation of the popular musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2007. The film reunited Burton with longtime friend Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. All three received critical praise for their work on the film, including several Golden Globe nominations.
Burton has been involved with Apes star Bonham Carter since 2001. The couple has two children, a son born in October 2003 and a daughter born in December 2007.
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