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Tim Burton: Ed Wood
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Tim Burton has created some of the most outstanding dark, strange and stimulating creative visions in filmmaking history, including Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Sleepy Hollow. His dark and evocative dreams come to life on film revealing an imagination lush with originality and atmosphere. He has an ingenious talent for creating haunting landscapes that come alive with an intensity and beauty rarely seen. His characters are inventive and inspiring and yet often on the edge of society.
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Heldreth, Leonard G."Architecture, duality, and personality: mise-en-scene and boundaries in Tim Burton's films." In: Trajectories of the fantastic : selected essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Michael A. Morrison. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997. MAIN: NX650.F36 T7 1997
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It should come as no shock to the fans of director Tim Burton that he spent his formative years glued to the tube, watching old cartoons and horror flicks. Such early influences no doubt helped to form the deliciously ghoulish and artfully warped sensibility of a director who was to become known for his forays into the bizarre outer regions of mainstream celluloid. The emphasis on "mainstream" is notable: Burton's career has been distinguished in part by the director's skillful ability to remain just inside the realm of the mainstream while producing work of a decidedly unconventional vision. A native son of Southern California, Burton was born in Burbank on August 25, 1958. He never really took to suburbia, where he was raised, and instead of joining little league or selling lemonade spent his time drawing, watching old horror movies, and reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Winning a scholarship in 1980 to the Disney-created California Institute of the Arts, Burton went to work as an apprentice animator at Disney.
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New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell hosts director Tim Burton (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Planet of the Apes), whose film Big Fish has just been release on video & DVD. (This is an encore presentation of a program originally aired December 10, 2003.)
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Tim Burton, of Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands fame, directs the film. With a first printing of 45,000 copies, the movie tie-in version will carry a suggested retail price of $14.95 and is now available wherever books are sold.
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Burton was born in Burbank, California, the first of two sons to Bill Burton and Jean Erickson. His year of birth is sometimes mistakenly given as 1960, most notably in his own books, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and the picture book of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Burton described his childhood self as quirky, self-absorbed and highly imaginative. As a child growing up in Burbank, he staged an axe murder with his brother to scare the neighbors, prompting them to call the police. He repeated the prank again with similar results. He found home life and school difficult, often escaping the reality of everyday life by watching horror and low budget films, to which he would later pay tribute in his biography of Edward D. Wood, Jr..
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