My discovery of Tim Burton had a lot of happy meeting. A whole approach to an imaginary that reconciled my adult self with the child suspicious of my realistic drift due to the typical demands of life's script. The fantasy is rekindled like embers at the blowing of a good current. It is always a pleasure to discover that Fantasy as Homeland of Atreyu, or even of any recalcitrant counter clerk, is always there waiting for new travelers passing through.
So all is not lost my dear Michael Ende. And thanks to guys like Tim Burton, even the fantastic is reaching new cinematic territories capable of surprise even to gray-cast adult brains. It could be the mere scenery, that play of vivid colors, the mists and icy settings that awaken the chill from which to catch the skin off guard for the final assault. It could also be, of course, the histrionics of Johnny Deep, an overacting for a game of tragicomic excesses that captivates children and adults.
Yes, it could be "just" those details. But it is also that the arguments are also a cascade of sensations, juicy emotions between the allegorical, the absurd and that final metaphorical point. A mixture that only Burton is able to dissolve between visions and impressions. Tricks that separate us from the focus of realism closest to our feet to be able to see deep truths from a bird's eye view.
Top Recommended Tim Burton Movies
Big Fish
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:I have to admit that every time I see her I cry like the vines. Enter the emotion for that epic notion of our passage through the world. Due to the marked more than generational disagreement between a father and a son that ends up breaking into a thousand pieces.
A son, already in his adulthood, returns home to accompany his father in his last hours. William, the son, He is recently married, he has grown up as a practical, responsible type, very far from what his father always was, who he thinks he lived in a continuous fantasy, little attached to the earth.
At the foot of his bed, knowing that he is weakened and close to death, he tries to put up with the usual rambling paternal stories. He hates this way of projecting ideas about his own life, he senses that everything that comes out of his father's mouth is a lie that he has never stopped telling him since he was a child.
In those last days of his father, William, tired of enduring so much bullshit, follows his trail, trying to compose a real life story. He travels through spaces in which he moved, approaches people from his past and sees how his father's fantasies were the positive and beautiful way of assuming his passage through the world, recomposing reality in an optimistic and positive sphere in everything moment and before any situation, however regrettable it may be.
Reckoned to the correctness of the steps taken by his father, whose subjectivity had embellished the events of his world, he approaches him in his last moments with a much more condescending and absolutely redemptive perspective.
During the last minutes it will be Willian himself who, at his father's request, will tell him about the moment when he is preparing to die. Willian manages to access that plane where reality is sublimated. His father is that big fish, the big fish that he takes out of the hospital through the window and takes him to the nearby river so that its waters can stir him up in his final moments.
The father dies in the hospital bed with a smile and William, who has accompanied him until his last breath, manages to reach that world that turns the darkest into life and color. He finally understands that he has had the best father in the world. The round argument for that Tim Burton shines with his fanciful scenography, with that vital, disconcerting, magical color ... If you immerse yourself in history, it will get you deep.
Sleepy Hollow
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:It could not be otherwise. Washington Irving wrote this account for Tim Burton to discover centuries later. The purest romantic inspiration with those first dark strokes that would later feed tormented souls like that of Allan poe. Tormented more than by heartbreaks by spiritual terrors between life and death.
Johnny Deep is in charge of confronting a decapitated guy who is always coming back settling unfinished business. He takes shelter in an ancient trunk and takes advantage of the shadows to escape from the curse that pursues him, trying to collect more and more souls as an offering for his demons.
But poor Deep is just an inexperienced cop who has too much hope. And in that situation, his protagonism takes on a comic aspect that curiously brings us closer to the human side of the story, to that almost childlike aspect that takes us back to old fears of characters that lived under our heads, perhaps not headless but with long cold hands. to catch our unsuspecting feet ...
A charming film that is complemented with a dose of more current romanticism, that of kisses and looks, which ends up hooking us with the unsuspected reason why the headless man suffers from his nocturnal attacks of anger ...
Eduardo Manos Scissors
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Probably the most popular of Tim Burton's movies. A wonderful allegory about the value of the hands charged with a filial parental emotion. Under the characterization of Deep, who places him between a mime and a silent film actor, we discover that there are plenty of words to convey everything that is necessary, what words do not cover.
Eduardo was about to be like the others. His father had been in charge of preparing his hands with which to finish the work. Because Eduardo is a new Pinocchio who also lives in a fantasy world where everything is fantasy except the behaviors, vices and sins of the people who surround Eduardo in the house on the watchtower.
Indeed. We already know that the hands could never be placed on his wrists. And that's when Eduardo makes his living as a hairdresser with the mass of scissors and blades that hung from him temporarily until his precious hands arrived that never arrived... By fate, people end up discovering that his anomaly is monstrous. It happens like all phobias happen, due to well-worked conviction. What happened next almost all of us know. And in such a great work it is never good to anticipate any details. Eduardo Scissorhands is simply enjoyable…
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