![]() ![]() Seuss, "Vincent" tells the story of Vincent Malloy, an imaginative 7-year-old boy who "wants to be just like Vincent Price." As documented in "Burton on Burton," the director initially intended "Vincent" to be a children's book. " Burton on Burton" reports that while working as a concept artist for Disney in the early 1980s, Burton channeled his love of Price into a poem titled "Vincent." Written in a style reminiscent of Dr. As an adolescent who never quite fit in, Burton saw in Price a kindred spirit. To Burton, Price's characters weren't mere unhinged madmen, they were, in their macabre elegance, sensitive but tortured outsiders driven to commit heinous acts by internal forces that they could not control. "Together with a group of friends I would make Super 8 movies," the director says in " Burton on Burton." "There was one we made called 'The Island of Doctor Agor.' We made a wolfman movie, and a mad doctor movie, and a little stop-motion film using model cavemen." A poor student who had little interest in reading, Burton soon found he could use filmmaking to improve his grades. Burton's art adorned Burbank garbage trucks for two months.īurton also began to experiment with filmmaking and animation. " Burton on Burton" explains that in the ninth grade, his design for an anti-litter campaign won first place in a city-wide contest. Still, it was Burton's artistic skills that garnered him his first taste of fame. Art would continue to be an important part of Burton's life throughout high school where, believe it or not, the future "Edward Scissorhands" director became something of a jock as a valued member of the water polo and swim teams. With his younger brother, Daniel, Burton would spend hours sketching his favorite movie monster. ![]() "I didn't have a lot of friends," he explains in "Burton on Burton," "but there's enough weird movies out there so you can go a long time without friends and see something new every day that kind of speaks to you." Jekyll and Sister Hyde" shaped his sense of aesthetics and substituted for a social life. Classic horror such as "Dracula" and "The Bride of Frankenstein" and '70s grindhouse and exploitation shockers like "Scream, Blacula, Scream," and "Dr. Growing up, an introverted Burton often felt alienated from his peers and sought refuge from the banality of suburban life in movies and television. ![]() It's kind of like growing up on an empty canvas," Burton told MTV in the 1994 documentary " Freaks, Nerds, and Weirdos." "You're forced to create your own world." " Burbank, California, there's no seasons. Although Burbank, located in the San Fernando Valley just 12 miles from downtown Los Angeles, is a hub for the entertainment industry and home to Warner Brothers, NBC, and Walt Disney Studios, the suburban city was anything but glamorous to a young, artistic outsider like Tim Burton. ![]()
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