TIm BUrton
Although the typical layman would immediately label him an oddball, those who are a little bit more familiar with Tim Burton would say that he's a beautiful mess. Burton was born August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California. He lived in typical suburbia, along with his brother and parents, although he never felt very attached to them. He felt much closer to the films of Vincent Price and the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. While his parents wanted him to go play outside and be "normal," he would rather soak into a 1950's horror movie, or just withdraw into his own mind, into his own world. When asked about his childhood, he responded, "I guess if there was a flavor [of childhood], I guess childhood was a kind of surreal, bright, depression," (Breskin 38). Aside from watching horror movies, Burton spent most of his adolescence drawing. He went on to win a scholarship to the California Institute of the Arts, awarded to him by Disney. After being unsuccessful working in the Disney atmosphere, where the animation was too cheery and uniformed for him, he went on to make distinctive box office hits. Those who have interviewed Burton can easily see what a mess he is. The language of English seems second to the visual process with which he t
Bursting with primary colors and shapes, he effectively creates a semi-surrealistic atmosphere that Pee Wee lives in. His next movie is tentatively titled Superman Lives and is planned to be released on July 4th weekend of 1999. After reviewing his work, Disney decided to give him freedom to be a conceptual artist. She says the ghosts of the Maitland's, "I myself am strange. The castle is even more gloomy than the original City of Gotham because it has sharper Gothic angles, a barren lawn, and is always covered in a dense fog. Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas feels like an outsider in his own Hallo'ween Land. This is a reflection of Burton's newfound power in Hollywood to express his freedom. In the sequel, the sharp contrast between the Penguin's (Danny DeVito) campaign office and his home immediately upstairs (as well as the rest of the film) provide impressive contrasts. Even the characters were frighteningly beautiful, with thin appendages and without eyes. Released in the summer of 1989, Batman set the opening weekend box office record of $50 million, and went on to make well over $400 million worldwide, and more than a billion dollars in Batman paraphernalia. He labels himself a "happy-go-lucky manic depressive," (Breskin 39).
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