In 1982 Tim Created his first short called Vince. Vince was a stop motion animation that was in black and white only and lasted six minutes. The animation was voice by Vince price one of the reasons Tim wanted to go into the filming industry. The film was made by someone Burton had befriended whilst working for Disney in the concept art department. This someone was called Rick Heinrichs. Vince was shown at a film was showed and released at Chicago Film festival this was showed alongside a teen drama called Tex. After Vince Burton done his first live-action production which was Hansel and Gretel. This live action was Japanese themed and ends in a kung fu fight between Gretel and Hansel and the witch. Having aired only once On Halloween in 1938 at 10.30pm and only a limit supply of the film, a copy is extremely had to find. This adds to the rumour it doesn’t existence. It 2009 the short was shown in the Museum of Modern Art. Next was also a piece by Tim Burton and also a live action called Frankenweenie. Frankenweenie stars Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern and Shelley Duvall. Shelley Duvall was an early support of Burton’s work. Tim Burtons pieces Vincent and Frankenweenie are both on the 2-disc deluxe edition of the DVD the Nightmare before Christmas.
Even through Tim Burton’s work had made it really big yet he still started to attract attention from the film industry. He was approached by Griffin Dunne to direct a film called After Hours (made in 1985) the film was a comedy about a bored word processor who survives a crazy night in Soho. The film had been pasted over by Martin Scorsese. However when financing fell through, Burton pulled out of it out of respect for Scorsese.
Tim Burton’s themes normally consist of themes such as solitude and loneliness as well as things such as insanity and madness. Tim Burtons work is also usual done in a gothic, black humour, surreal style. The genre is also normally gothic or black comedy.
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The Becoming of Vincent
In 1982 Tim Burton made his first short animation which was 6 minutes long called Vince. He began working to Disney but didn’t work well with what Disney wanted because Disney wanted happy animations where as Tim wanted weird and off the wall. Disney gave him a small amount of money to do his own little animation but the only reason they gave him this money is because a famous actor at the time called Vince Price said he would voice the animation. After Tim Burton had made the animation Disney soon fired him.
Topic of Vincent (what happens)
The topic of Vincent is that a little boy wishes he could be like his hero Vince Price, where as him mum wish he was more like a normal boy and would just go out and play with friends and do normally things.
Themes of Vincent (Ideas and things behind it)
It has themes of madness and insanity this showed by the part where near the end of the animation the young boy sees the room “start to sway, shiver and creak, his horrid insanity had reached his peak he saw his Amcrumby his zombie slave and heard his wife call from beyond the grave” It also has the theme of loneliness therefore why the boy imagines having a wife. Another theme it has is that of isolation, because the boy wants to be someone he is not he makes himself isolated from everything and in return gets isolated from them. It also has themes such as Identity (not fitting in) (being who you want to be) This is showed by the fact the young boy wants to live with bats not cats therefore making him not fit in to what would be classed as normal and the being who you want to be comes from the fact he wants to be like Vince Price and his mum doesn’t want him to.
Childhood is also a key theme in Vincent as shows how the child can over imaginative, innocence, ambition and naivety.
Style of Vincent
Sound
It sounds dark, gothic, the voice over is deep in tone, the words are poetic though the animation making it child like somehow still though. Tim Burton seems to do dark and gothic stuff but somehow keeps it childish therefore making the piece even creepier.
It looks also look gothic, dark and surreal but also some parts are funny.
Such as the screenshot below. This depicts the boy’s sister as the object of laughter. Vincent also is comic like/ cartoonified in its animated characters. Therefore also making it child like and adding a creep effect.
Animation Technique
This was made using Claymation and was done with 2D/drawn graphics. Some of the characters features and exaggerated to create humour and all the animations are ever really big, small or really fat, thing.
My opinion
I think the animation is weird, dark and disturbing. But also interesting and in some parts amusing. The voice over is low but the way the words rhyme make it child like. I like how surreal this film is through and think it is very good. I think this animation might have actually been some what of an autobiography of Tim Burton. An autobiography of his childhood and inner hopes and dreams.
Response from audiences and critics (what did others think of it)
These responses come from http://www.imdb.com/
Beautiful, creepy, haunting, sad. A masterpiece., 5 February 2002Author: Francisco Huerta (fjhuerta@hotmail.com) from Mexico City
35 out of 37 people found the following review useful:
Expressionistic epic..., 26 May 2002Author: poe426 from USA
Ghoulishly good fun!, 14 September 1999Author: Chris Campbell from Coventry, England
Back to me
Most the critics and audiences loved it I think Disney where very dumb not to bring this out and to let go of one of the best animates ever.
Video of Vincent
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