Tim Burton by Ian Nathan

Author:Ian Nathan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2016-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

The Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter) guides Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp) through the confines of the World of the Dead. The facial expressions of the puppets were adjusted by hidden clockwork, which was engineered by a Swiss watchmaker.

Frankenweenie

Tim Burton can tell you exactly where his 2012 version of Frankenweenie takes place, down to the postal address. ‘Off Victory Boulevard, Hollywood Way, moving toward North Hollywood, but the flatlands of Burbank. And a little bit of the downtown area, up where the City Hall is, but mainly the flats.’20

Frankenweenie is explicitly a psychic journey back into Burton’s doleful youth, remaking his 1984 short (shot in Pasadena). His third stop motion movie doesn’t take place in an imaginary world per se, but in a very specific model of his former haunts.

Preparing the exhibition of his artwork for the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, he had come across the ‘abstract’ sketches he had made for the original. They stirred up something very peculiar – affection. ‘The heart of it then, is still the heart of it now,’21 he says, summing up his recalibration of the story. A precocious but sullen boy named Victor resurrects his deceased mutt Sparky by harnessing a lightning bolt, like Baron Frankenstein.

Significantly, John August provided the final script. He was the writer for Big Fish, another film contemplating the proximity of memory and imagination. And Frankenweenie’s real-life framework would be embodied by a stop motion suburban monster movie based on the panoply of creature-features filed away in Burton’s memory bank from afternoons spent glued to the box.

‘If you grow up liking a certain movie, it’s always part of you,’ he admits. ‘And no matter how hard you try to you can’t shake those feelings from earlier on in your life. I liked making Super 8 films. I wanted to be a mad scientist – not a regular one, a mad one … That’s what’s fun about memories – it’s like a dream.’22

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