Tim Burton

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Tim Burton

• Timothy Walter Burton• August 25, 1958- Present• Born in Burbank, California.• Producer, Director, and Writer• Attended the California Institute of the Arts in

Santa Clarita• Burton entered the Disney animation program

in his second year and drafted to join the Disney animation ranks.

• Domestic Relationship with Helena Bonham Carter

• Father of two kids called Nell Burton and Billy Raymond But.

Continuation. . .• As a preteen Burton would short films in

his backyard using “crude stop motion” and would use and 8mm film without sound.One if his oldest films made was “The Island of Doctor Igor”, which he made when he was 13.

• While in college one of his classmates was Henry Selick– Later on Selick and Burton worked together

in The Nightmare Before Christmas & James and the Giant Peach

The Burton Style• Tim Burton is known for his dark,

gothic, macabre, and quirky styles on horror and fantasy style movies.– Examples of these his film style would

be Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhand, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow etc.

Close Relationships• Tim Burton and Johnny Depp

became close friends after their first film together.

• Became close as well with composer Danny Elfman who composed all but five of Tim Burtons film’s scores

• He has an interest in clowns and he often includes them or make reference in his films.

• Nearly everywhere he goes, he carries a pocket-size sketchbook and a small watercolor kit.

• He Usually dresses in Black because he doesn’t like spending too much time matching colors.

• Has phobia of chimpanzees.• Played water polo and swam for Burbank High

School in California.

Trivia

Must See…1. Edward Scissorhand (1990)2. Ed Wood3. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barberof Fleet

Street4. Sleepy Hollow

5. Corpse Bride (2005)

Corpse Bride (2005)• Actors: Johnny Depp,

Helena Bonham Curtis, Emily Watson

• When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnniLlnsooI

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

• Starring: Johnny Depp, Cristina Ricci, Miranda Richardson

• Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N4AkWxHVeo

Sweeny Todd (2007)• Starring: Helena Bonham

Carter, Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman

• The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hgrfZVlJA

Ed Wood (1994)• Actors: Johnny Depp,

Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

• The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors

• http://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=CawVaHxWvnA

Edward Scissorhand (1990)• Actors: Johnny Depp,

Winona Ryder, Dianne West

• An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbinkqqRXY