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I once watched a series made by the Youtube Channel The Princess and The Scrivener about what is good, what is bad and what is ugly in Tim Burton movies, and as i checked the comments session, there was one that specially called my attention, wich sayed it was good that he never directed a movie of the Addams Family franchise.
And here is the context about the comment: troughout the analysis, we learn that, specially because he choosed to start in the Disney animation department instead of going to film school, Burton is a director that is more focused on the aesthetics of the movies and not so much in their themes. That's why, unless he gives more charge to a thrustfull screen writer and/or works with strong pre-existent source material, his works can get lost in the story department and feel more meandering, and he usually recicles the same theme: "Being an outsider sucks". Only his idea of an outsider is someone like him: a cishet white guy from the suburbs of Burbank California who likes dressing up in black and watching horror movies, who may have been called the weird kid in the past but overall is leaved alone as innofensive, specially because he is a guy who makes millions for Hollywood.
And when it comes to questions like, for instance, ethnic-cultural diversity, a more concrete form of outsiderners that has consequences for people beyond their youth years, two interviews of him show he definitely is not the most qualified director to aproach it: first there is the fact that he tooked a jewish folk tale as inspiration for Corpse Bride, and declared that "he was more interested in the universal fable aspect of the story instead of the specific etnic background of it" and that "i decided to set it in Vitorian England because the story had a very Vitorian feel for me" (i.e so jewish culture is not universal, but vitorian english culture is, ha) and that "as a kid he watched The Brady Bunch and got offended because they inserted a black kid and asian kid out of nowhere, and that he watched Blacksploitation movies and didn't asked for a white person in there so why isn't the other way around" (i.e for me diversity is something that should be explained instead of being treated as something that just exists, and i really don't get that black people getting to see movies with more than one black person on scene is not the same as white audiences seeing only themselves in the movies all the time).
Now, here is the thing about the Addams Family franchise: is conceived since the beggining to be a critical social commentary against the average conservative, white, cishet, middle class american family ideal. Their humour comes from the fact that, despite the spooky exterior and affinite for sadomasochism, they are always loving and honest with each other, and as a couple Gomez and Morticia are unashamed of showing passion and sexual desire for one another, in contrast to the hipocrisy of the so called "normal good families".
There is also the fact that Gomez (more clearly in the 90s movies where he was played by Raul Júlia)is latino, making the Addams a mixed heritage family, and they are entusiasts of artistical and scientifical influences instead of just waspy ones. And the second movie, Addams Family Values, even went so far as to criticize the racism in Thanksgiving plays!
Would Tim Burton get that witty radical satirical commentary from the franchise as a director? Probably not! In the worst case scenario, Gomez would be white washed (even having his spanic first name changed for an english sounding one, like George), they would become another vitorian spooky family, and the gothic way they dress and are maked-up would be treated as the only reason they are seen as outsiders, instead of the more deeper, subversive meaning behind their characterizations.
So thankfully indeed he didn't hold a "monopoly on spooky family entertainment", and other directors were allowed by studios to work with the iconic cooky family.
