‘‘Director, Producer and screen writer, Tim Burton, known for classic films such as Beetlejuice, Edward scissorhands Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas. and older shorts like Vincent price, known for creating masterful blends between horror and fantasy’‘.
sourced from biography.com
Timothy Walter Burton is one of the biggest names in the stop motion industry, hes been around for some time, he has created some wonderful pieces of work that many enjoy even today.
Born 1958, August 25th, in Burbank California, Burton age 13 created many stop motion movies just in his spare time, one of which ; The island of Doctor Agor, an adaptation of the classic H.G.wells story
‘‘The island of doctor Moreau’‘
This was a 1896 science fiction novel, ‘‘an exercise in youthful blasphemy’‘ quote by the author .H.G.Wells. The story is about a shipwrecked man on the island of Moreau, only much later from after depicting the many acts having to be made to survive on the isl, finally to be saved by a passing ship.
Tim Burton studied at Burbank highschool, interviewers show that Burton was a introspective person, he mostly enjoyed painting drawing and watching old movies, his biggest influences were Dr seus and Roald Dahl, you can see this from his work with Seus’s narrative writing style to give greater tension, and Dhals highly imaginative imagery, very visible in his drawings. After graduating, Burton attended the California institute of the Arts. Studying character animation, he had created the short stories.
‘‘Stalk of the celery monster’‘ (Stalk of the Celery Monster is a 1979 short animated film written, directed and animated entirely in pencil, seen in the image above the quality these days are far greater, but it is a great example of what was expected in terms of a cell animation, using simple flip pads and only later put onto early image software to be put together, by Mr Tim Burton during his time in the California Institute of the Arts.) and the ‘‘King and the Octopus’‘.(it shows a cephalopod looking quite bored on a king’s throne while a guy (presumably the king) shouts abuse from a dungeon.) keep in mind this was only 25 seconds long, but still very well done in my opinion, sourced from openculture.com
http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/tim-burtons-early-student-films.html
In 1984, Tim Burton created his own stin on the classic story of the Frankenstein, it was a live action short called Frankenweenie. Frankenweenie Impressed Mr Paul Reubens and so he gave director authority to the wildly inventive comedy Pee-wee’s Big Adventure made in 1985. This became a huge hit quickly, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure brought more interests for the young director, he continued work further, his next title being the 1988 ghost story Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, and Geena Davis.
1989: A cast that included Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, and Kim Basinger, Tim Burton’s take on a movie form of The Batman, It was the first film to sell $100 million boxed copies in the first 10 days!
If you didn’t know! - the story of the first Batman movie by Tim Burton, quoted from IMDB with a user rating of 7.6 (personally it should be higher)
‘’Having witnessed his parents’ brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a deformed madman who calls himself “The Joker” (Jack Nicholson) seizes control of Gotham’s criminal underworld, Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis ever while protecting both his identity and his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger).’‘
Some extra facts you may not know about batman from the eyes of the average Jo,
1. Michael Jackson Was Wanted For the Soundtrack.
http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/10-ridiculous-facts-tim-burtons-batman.php#om53qlZobr3llOiL.99
2. Fans Were Against the Movie Sight Unseen Solely Because of Tim Burton and Michael Keaton.
Tim argued in favor of Keaton by pointing to his performance in the recently released Clean and Sober. Still many people were not pleased, but we can all agree that the performance was by no means bad.
3.Kiefer Sutherland Was Approached to Play Robin
He turned the part down because he pictured the TV version with the tights. “I didn’t realize they were going to make the coolest movie ever!” said Sutherland, who took the gig in his stead? well as seen, nobody.
Above is a picter of Kiefer Sutherland of the time when he was approached to play the part of robin.
Burton was on a roll releasing hit after hit! next came Edward scissorhands
‘‘A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.‘‘ quote from IMDB
