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Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. Burton has broad appeal as well as a devoted fan following. His mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts much press attention, while the films themselves have been overlooked. TIM BURTON, FILMMAKER redresses this imbalance through a close analysis of Burton's key films and their industrial context. Such an analysis is necessary to identify the distinctive quality of Burton as a filmmaker, including his ability to reject mainstream Hollywood stylistic and generic conventions while maintaining critical popularity and commercial success. The book focuses on Burton's contribution to the transformations taking place in the horror, fantasy, sci-fi and related genres.
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Tim Burton's masterpiece is one of the most beautiful and original fairy tales put on screen. There is so much to be got out of this film that it's hard to describe it in one review. More than any of Burton's other films it improves with each viewing, as you discover more and more details.
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Tim Burton most recently directed Big Fish, a heartwarming tale of a fabled relationship between a father and his son. The film was hailed as Burton's most personal and emotional to date, earning respectable reviews and box office. Big Fish starred Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange and Billy Crudup.
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Burton failed to utilize many important details from Dahl's book. For example, in Dahl's book the vessel that escorts the party along the chocolate river is described as a sugar boat, made "...by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet..."; Mike Teavee is admonished not to lick it. Burton is true to Dahl's description of the boat (mainly in its size and its pink color), but Burton's Wonka never explains the nature of the boat to the party, or, therefore, to the audience. In fact, the boat isn't introduced at all; it merely pulls up and Wonka asks everyone to get in. This incident points at a related problem throughout the film: Burton is often so concerned with visual details that he neglects to ensure that the dialogue properly introduces and explains key concepts in the film. In the 1971 film, all points along Charlie's journey are clearly articulated by the characters, so that dialogue and visuals harmonize with one another. In Burton's film, the dialogue is flimsy at best, and usually serves only to buttress the two-dimensional quality of the characters.
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At the same time Burton's personal life was in a state of upheaval. Both of his parents died within a short space of time, and his relationship with Lisa Marie ended. Shortly after the release of Planet of the Apes, Burton began dating one of the stars of the film, Helena Bonham Carter. Their son, Billy, was born in October, 2003.
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center, displaying impeccable taste, will present FRESH BLOOD: AN EVENING WITH TIM BURTON--A FIRST LOOK AT FOOTAGE FROM SWEENEY TODD on Wednesday evening, November 14th, at the Rose Theater, Broadway and 60th Streets, New York City. Here's what the Film Society of Lincoln Center has to say about their honored guest: "Witty, often elegant and always unpredictable, the films of Tim Burton have created a special niche for themselves within contemporary cinema. A born spinner of tall tales, whose subjects have ranged from Martians to Z-list Hollywood directors to, now, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Burton takes audiences places they'd never thought they'd go--and in ways they couldn't have imagined.
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