Tim Burton, the director of such films as Pee Wee's Big Adventure,
Beetlejuice, Batman, and Edward Scissorhands to name a few is seen as a highly
eccentric, idiosyncratic, and personal director. He began drawing at an early
age, later going on to attend the California Institute of the Arts. He studied animation
and then recieved a fellowship award from Disney.
His career at Disney, although short lived, started him off to direct a variety of films which
all depicted the same theme, the misunderstood, mispercieved, individual. This is a Burton
trademark which leads back to Burton's childhood, the memory of growing up in suburbia and feeling like he was "looking out a window".
Other Burton traits include the love for all things dark, shadowy, and bizarre. Many people have said Burton's films to be
a style as live-action cartoon because of his use in portraying these strange worlds, and use of gothicism.
He's original, and inventive and is an authentic artist in the sence that he is so clearly personally involved in and committed
to his peculiar vision and its realization in film.
Coming in 99, 'Sleepy Hollow'
The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a book of short stories and poems by Tim Burton.
Here I will put a few poems and a few excerpts from the book.
