A follow-up to that book, entitled The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think About in a Bar, containing sketches made by Burton on napkins at bars and restaurants he visited, was released in 2015. Burton also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997 by British publishing house Faber and Faber, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches, and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009. Burton also directed the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).īurton has often worked with actors Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Johnny Depp, Lisa Marie (his former girlfriend), Helena Bonham Carter (his former domestic partner) and composer Danny Elfman, who scored all but three of Burton's films. These include Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Dark Shadows (2012) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), as well as the television series Wednesday(2022). Known for pioneering goth culture in the American film industry, Burton is revered for his gothic horror and fantasy films. I rated this movie ten stars and when you see it you'll do the same.Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker, animator, and artist. But the scene-stealer is Bonham Carter in the dual role of Jenny and the crone witch. DeVito is a delight in the role of a circus ringmaster. Lange brings dignity and brio to the role of the long "suffering" wife - and she still looks great(!)- you believe she has had a long and loving life with Finney/McGregor. You will actually believe two Brits and a Scot (Finney, Helena Bonham Carter, and McGregor) are natives of small town Alabama. And of course love - unrequited and reciprocated - control almost all of Ed's many adventures. Not exactly "It's A Wonderful Life," he still manages to show how all of us - even the little fish - have profound effects on the people around us. Burton deals with mythic themes in "Big Fish." Besides the surface story of the generational tension between father and son he explores the metaphor of the big-fish-in-a-small-pond by examining the impact Ed Bloom has had on the lives he's touched in his workaday contacts with colleagues, customers (he's a traveling salesman), and people in the small towns across the South. And Burton delivers a terrific punchline at the end of the film that left me both tickled and weeping, a truly weird emotional state. In his effort to understand the truth behind his father's stories he learns to love the man as well as the mythology. Originally a true believer, Will now knows everything his father has told him was not just an exageration or even a tall tale but an outright lie. Ed Bloom has spent his life spinning his personal history into mythological proportions: an early encounter with a very tall man becomes a battle with a house-sized giant a rural village is depicted as heaven on earth military service during the Korean War morphs into a behind-the-lines mission that would make Duke Nukem proud. Father and son are reunited as Finney lies dying of cancer. Jessica Lange plays his wife and Billy Crudup plays the son, Will, estranged from his father for the past three years. Bloom is a metaphorical and literal big fish in the small pond of Ashton, Alabama in this tale told mostly through flashback. Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor share the role of Ed Bloom, one of the big fish from the movie's title while an SUV-sized catfish plays the other. "Big Fish" combines Burton's unusual humor with a heart-wrenching story of a father-son deathbed reconciliation. And there's always the possibility of Danny DeVito chomping down on a raw fish. Will it be "Edward Scissorhands" or "Batman II?" With Burton you could get a quirky comedy, a dark thriller, or sweet morality tale. I approach Tim Burton films with a certain trepidation.
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