Justine Barbe, week 4

Frankenweenie, by Tim Burton

Frankenweenie is the last Tim Burton’s movie, distributed in cinemas in October 2012.

In 1984, Tim Burton directed already a short film (29 minutes) titled Frankenweenie. For the director, the new version was an important project which matured for several years. He decided to work again his story for a black and white feature film.

The story is inspired by the James Whale’s movie, Frankenstein, created in 1931 in United-States (the second movie adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel). A little boy, Victor Frankenstein, is sad because his dog and best friend, Sparkly, is dead. He will try to come back him to life with the science.

Tim Burton used the stop-motion method which consists to make moves with objects. It was a laborious work. For example, 200 very detailed puppets were made to represent the different dog’s emotions and bring him to life.

This movie is imbued with the Tim Burton’s emotions and personality. It consisted in reproduce his childhood’s universe.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xse9cm_comic-con-2012-frankenweenie-a-personal-journey-for-tim-burton_news

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