Elvis Mitchell interviews Tim
Burton, on the Directing both movies, The Corpse Bride and Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory at the same time, in a KCRW interview aired on
2-15-2006. He directed some other films,
such as Beetle Juice and Batman. Tim Burton is an artist who went to Cal Art
for animation and also worked at the Disney Factory in animation with many
famous and great people.
It was a
wonderful interview where Tim Burton talks about animation, and specifically
stop motion. He talks about working at
the Disney Factory and also the people that he worked with, such as the
animators of The Fox and the Hound and other films, but also about attending
Cal Arts and having teachers who also worked at the Disney Factory. He goes over art and creations and how people
need to create. He also goes over how
people are always against the villians and the monsters, but he was on the flip
side and felt for them. How they had
emotions and feelings and he believed that were the victims.
“…
hand-made artistry that went into it, I think that there is something important
about that medium. Like Pinnocio,
bringing the inanimate object to life…”
He is talking about stop motion and how it is a medium that is made to
show emotion and all the hand-made work that went into it. He is speaking of the animation medium of
stop motion. This is when a camera is
used and each scene is a combination of thousands of still films. In this medium each movement is done slightly
and a picture is taken until the movement is achieved on film. This is a slow and intensive craft that most
companies have abandoned, like Pixar.
“Everyone
needs an outlet, whether it is music or writing… that helps us let go of some
emotional or creative steam.” Tim Burton
is a big fan of art and creating things from one’s own mind and less for the
masses. His work has a dreamy side,
artistic and creative, but an outlet for his expression. Tim Burton has an exhibit at the LACMA a few
years back and a lot of his early art work was displayed, such as his earlier
animations, such as The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories” shows
that he is very true to his artwork and his style is always very
consistant.
The last quote that I have from Tim Burton on
the interview is, “I think they were all different, some were really great at
layouts…. You can see their passion, even after so many years, you can see
their passion.” This quote shows that
the most important thing to Tim Burton is passion and being true to it. He tells of working at The Disney Factory and
being surrounded by brilliant people and still he could not do what they wanted
him to do. While drawing the fox for the
movie The Fox and the Hound, he realized that he could not keep drawing the fox
as a cute big eyed animal. He knew that
he was not being true to his art and his passions.
I have
always been a fan of Tim Burton and his art, not only is he a great director he
is an artist and a passionate person. He speaks true and one can tell there is
no lie in him. He draws and makes what
he loves. He says that as a child he
loved to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then he makes it into a
movie. He can recreate a book into a
film and he also has the ability to create original works.
