Tim Burton is known today as a certified insane genius thanks to the movies he has directed, produced and written. The movies that were conceived from this renowned director are all true to a certain theme and one would just have to watch a trailer of a movie directed by Burton and know immediately that he would be the creative and driving force behind that particular movie.
Dark, quirky and originally unique, movies like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhand, Sleepy Hollow, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Alice In Wonderland all share a sense of nonsensical meaning and at the same time creates a different world which some of us are intrigued to visit. Tim Burton has a flair of inserting twists and turns, lending darker and deeper elements to a particular film which in turn gives that film depth and originality. Movies like Big Fish shows exaggeration in terms of storyline and character development.
What most people might not know is that Burton came up with a 6-minute stop motion, black-and-white film entitled "Vincent" which depicted a young boy who pretends to be the actor, Vincent Price. The boy Vincent has obsession with tales by Edgar Allan Poe and is somewhat detached from reality.
Burton's film "Vincent" contains elements similar to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, for example, the narration is told in a poetical way. The rhymes and storyline are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Burton had always used elements found in the works of Poe in many of him films, even in his animated films such as The Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas and his style of directing, producing and writing is clearly defined even in this very first film of his. The drawing and style of the characters in "Vincent" is seen again in the animated films stated earlier.
Tim Burton shows that creativity is inspired and that by somehow 'borrowing' elements from a person who has inspired you and conforming it to come up with your own style of doing something, you'll discover a different part of yourself which sets you apart from the others. Quirkiness and abnormalities are merely a part of being creative and one should never be afraid of coming up with something that might seem odd and unnatural because you'll never know how that particular work might turn out. Experimenting and taking risks are what you should be able to do along the way of creating a creative, original and unique piece of work, be it a poem, film, script or painting.
"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanings of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kind of words." - Tim Burton
References :
Tim Burton. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
petrover. (2006, April 30). Vincent - Tim.Burton.Short.Animation.1982. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQcBKUPm8o
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