Influences On Tim Burton's Life
130 minutes is all it takes for one person to become engrossed in a tale, to travel through the trials and tribulations, and to be able to walk away with something to talk about. Movies have always been an escape for humans to travel and walk through someone else’s eyes. Some movies are better at making people’s dreams come true or for Tim Burton making people’s nightmares come to life. Tim Burton, a filmmaker, has become extremely popular in the eyes of this generation as the kind of director that can turn a cute Disney movie into an adult phenomenon. He’s done musicals, comedies, and even children’s movies and although all have not been a success they have made some type of important impression on the world. Tim Burton has been an influence
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People often assume he had a tortured and horrible upbringing. In reality, he felt "quite normal" although his feelings of isolation were there and extremely prominent all the way up to his adulthood (Itzkoff). He realized that those feelings are common among many kids. As for is influences, Burton loved the classic gory monster movies and pop-culture touchstones as Mad Magazine. He felt a certain lure to the hard core tales and B-movies (a low budget movie). He saw a "roughness" and a "surprising" nature in how they were more immediate than the classic movies he watched were (Burton, Tim). The lower budget ones image's stuck in Burton's head, although he didn’t watch them for that purpose. The images and impressions on a young Burton's mind, combining with a sense of abandonment from the suburban society, he developed a love to create. This love manifested in many ways be that as it may the most important was what started out as doodles and irrelevant sketches turned into an outlet from his world (Howell). Young Burton didn’t consider the drawings he made relevant until he won a contest for his drawing to be chosen as the local garbage company’s new advertising picture. When reflecting about his younger life Burton often re states that he was most likely clinically depressed and didn’t know it (Itzkoff). Yet he makes a point that if he were to ask any kid today they probably would feel the same way he felt all those years
People often assume he had a tortured and horrible upbringing. In reality, he felt "quite normal" although his feelings of isolation were there and extremely prominent all the way up to his adulthood (Itzkoff). He realized that those feelings are common among many kids. As for is influences, Burton loved the classic gory monster movies and pop-culture touchstones as Mad Magazine. He felt a certain lure to the hard core tales and B-movies (a low budget movie). He saw a "roughness" and a "surprising" nature in how they were more immediate than the classic movies he watched were (Burton, Tim). The lower budget ones image's stuck in Burton's head, although he didn’t watch them for that purpose. The images and impressions on a young Burton's mind, combining with a sense of abandonment from the suburban society, he developed a love to create. This love manifested in many ways be that as it may the most important was what started out as doodles and irrelevant sketches turned into an outlet from his world (Howell). Young Burton didn’t consider the drawings he made relevant until he won a contest for his drawing to be chosen as the local garbage company’s new advertising picture. When reflecting about his younger life Burton often re states that he was most likely clinically depressed and didn’t know it (Itzkoff). Yet he makes a point that if he were to ask any kid today they probably would feel the same way he felt all those years