In a 2013 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “Tim Burton on His Life and Movies Coming Full Circle with ‘Frankenweenie,”, not surprisingly, Burton said that he always loved monster movies. According to the documentary, Tim Burton: The Twisted Story of the Eccentric Filmmaker, by Screen Rant on YouTube, Bill Burton was a minor league baseball player who worked for the Burbank Parks and Recreation Department and Jean had a gift shop dedicated entirely to cats.ĭuring childhood, Burton retreated into monster movies and drawing. His landscape is full of odd angles and eccentric shapes and designs which create an off-kilter and dreamlike effect.īorn on August 25, 1958, to Jean and William Burton, Tim Burton grew up in Burbank, California. Tim Burton’s macabre wonderlands are reminiscent of German silent horror films from the ‘20s which were heavily inspired by German expressionism. Burton is more than just a director-he creates worlds. Lydia Deetz, Edward Scissorhands, Jack Skellington, and the citizens of Halloweentown are just a few examples of macabre but benevolent characters that populate Burton’s world. What’s interesting is that the characters that have a macabre sensibility are not sinister. His main characters are always misunderstood outcasts. In movies like Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, the settings are fairytale-like and magical. Tim Burton uses macabre imagery in a unique way.
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