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Serious Social Issues Confronted In His Movies...

I'm not a psychologist, but it's blatant that Tim Burton has an extremely dark side that he's not afraid to show the world. Just look at every single one of his movies.

Characters are either dead, obsessed with death or forced to interact with the dead and want nothing to do with death because they are afraid of the unknown. And if it's not death it's the dark side of any situation.

As a young boy, Burton began making movies with Super 8 camera, one of which called The Island of Doctor Agor. The short film, Burton's own take on the  was shot when he was only 13 years old. Burton also starred in the titular role.

He displays this from his first short film, which was shot at at 13, "The Island Of Doctor Agor". It's his personal spin on H.G. Wells' 1896 sci-fi novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," starring himself and personal friends; All the way up to his upcoming release "Sweeney Todd". Mr. Todd is a demented barber who slits people's throat while shaving them and disposes of their bodies in quite a peculiar way.

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Ed Wood dedicated his life to making movies. Unfortunately, he wasn't very good at it! What he did have was a love of movies and boundless enthusiasm. He prided himself on the multiple roles he took on in his movies including author, editor, director, producer and occasionally actor.Despite the shor

Not Familiar With Mr. Burton's Work?

You Should Be!!!

The following is a list of movies Mr. Burton has directed since the start of his career. Of course these are just the ones that have been made available to the public, who knows what crafty "ol Timothy has hidden up his sleeve.

For instance, Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas appeared in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the stop-motion animation film James and the Giant Peach.

The first cameo was years before production of The Nightmare Before Christmas, though Burton had toyed with the original story idea while still an animator at Disney.

The Island Of Doctor Agora

1971

I haven't personally seen or heard of this short film and there isn't very much information available out there. Fortunately I was able to dig up a little bit about it...

As a young boy, Burton began making movies with Super 8 camera, one of which called The Island of Doctor Agor. The short film, Burton's own take on the H.G. Wells' 1896 sci-fi novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau," was shot when he was only 13 years old. Burton also starred in it along with some personal friends.

Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs' "Vincent"

a 1982 stop-motion short film

Narrated by Vincent Price...

Vincent is the story of a young boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price. He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring very much certain parts of Poe's "The Raven." The film ends with Vincent being tortured by the goings-on of his make-believe world, quoting The Raven as he falls to the floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.
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Luau

1982

Luau is an energetic homage to beach-blanket movies and other B movies, complete with song-and-dance numbers. Tim Burton stars as the disembodied head of "The Most Powerful Being In The Universe"

Hansel And Gretel

1982

Contrary to popular belief, this film contains no animation. Tim Burton's "Hansel and Gretel" is a live action film short featuring Japanese actors and striking set designs

Frankenweenie

1984

When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monst...( read more read more... )er" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.

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Pee Wee's Big Adventure

1985

Pee-wee Herman, a strange man who acts very much like a child, loves his bike more than anything else in the world. One morning he runs into his nemesis Francis Buxton, a fellow man-child and neighborhood rich "kid," who tries to buy Pee-wee's beloved bike at any cost. Pee-wee refuses to even name a price. He takes his bike to town and leaves it elaborately chained to an animated clown statue while he shops. He browses a magic shop to pick up some "supplies," then picks up a bike horn from his friend Dottie and resists her attempts to date him. When he finishes shopping, he discovers that his bike has been stolen

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Jar

1986

Conceptual artist Knoll (Griffin Dunne) hasn't made one piece of work worthy of consideration. An art critic writes a really bad review at Knoll's latest exhibit. While taking apart a 1938 Mercedes purchased at a junkyard, Knoll finds a jar with indescribable contents, and becomes entrapped within its spell. Putting the jar in the center of his exhibit, people come from all around to stare at the unusual thing, each seeing something different. One man leaves laughing in hysterics, while another woman claims it makes her sick to her stomach. One man says it's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen, while a pair of lovers feel sexual stimulant. Knoll becomes a huge success overnight and his other pieces sell for large sums. It seems everyone loves the jar except for his wife, Erica (Fiona Lewis), who begs him to get rid of it. Out of jealousy, Erica knocks over the jar and the contents slither away. Grabbing a sharp knife, Erica intends to destroy it but instead she gets into a struggle with her husband and Knoll knows exactly what to do... During his next exhibit, Knoll has the jar back on display, now with a strange - but unsuspected - new ingredient...

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"Faerie Tale Theatre" - Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

1986

The Faerie Tale Theatre series is excellent in its own right, known for off-the-wall, low-budget productions, and the addition of Tim Burton and such actors as James Earl Jones, Leonard Nimoy, and Valerie Burtinelli makes "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" one of its very best.
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Beetlejuice

1988

a young couple living in the small town of Winter River, Connecticut are about to begin a much needed vacation, but first, Adam needs to make a quick trip to the hardware store. On the way back, they swerve to avoid a dog and their car crashes through the side of the Winter River Bridge and falls into the river. When they arrive back home, strange things start happening and they don't remember how they got home. When Adam tries to backtrack their steps from the bridge, he's transported to a desert which is infested with monstrous sandworms. He makes it back to the house and they find a book entitled The Handbook for the Recently Deceased. They realize they did not live through the accident.
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Batman

1989

Director Tim Burton's Batman isn't the camp 1960s Batman of the television show and for this he should be thanked. Instead he takes the Batman legend seriously and his film re-invents the story in manner closer in the spirit of the various 1980s revisionist graphic novels written by the ilk of Frank Miller.

Batman is a fearful character that inhabits the dark alleys of a decrepit Gotham city striking fear into the hearts of ordinary criminals.
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Edward Scissorhands

1990

A young man named Edward is created by an inventor who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by bread winning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg, the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim and her boyfriend isn't to happy about that.
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Batman Returns

1992

the Caped Crusader is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin, a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a "power" hungry capitalist villain Max Shreck. As the two criminals plot to gain domination over Gotham City, BATMAN must plot to stop them.
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Ed Wood

1994

A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and ultimately moving film.
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Mars Attacks

1996

MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly "vaporize" a gathering of unfortunate Earthlings, kicking off a bizarre high-tech war with wild special effects.
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Sleepy Hollow

1999

stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations.
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The World Of Stainboy

2000

Flash series created by Tim Burton, starring characters from his book "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories". A pale-skinned, mute boy who constantly creates Grey stains is abandoned by his parents at the Burbank Charity Home for Unusual Cases (AKA the Burbank House of Horrors). Soon after words, he is taken under the wing of Police Sergeant Glen Dale, who christens him "Stainboy" and pits him against equally freakish denizens of Burbank.

Planet Of The Apes

2001

In remaking this classic sci-fi horror film, director Tim Burton takes on a whopping challenge and succeeds. Astronaut Leo Davidson is part of a space station crew that, in the year 2029, is conducting experiments in training genetically engineered chimps to perform complex away missions. When Leo's chimp disappears into a worm hole, Leo unadvisedly goes after him, ending up in a parallel world in which the monkeys are the keepers and humans are traded and caged like animals.
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Big Fish

2003

A wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom, who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. Told through a series of vignettes, Bloom's stories involve a witch, a giant, a haunted forest, and yes, a big fish. A self-described small-town hero, Bloom explains how he left home at 18 determined to experience anything and everything life could dish out.
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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

2005

Willy Wonka has built the greatest and largest chocolate factory in the world. After some of his workers steal his secret recipes, Willy Wonka kicks his workers out and closes the doors. For 15 years, no one has seen any workers entering or leaving the factory, yet his chocolate candy is still being produced and shipped around the world. One day when Willy Wonka is getting his hair cut, he realizes that he is getting old, and he needs a successor. He comes up with a plan to open his factory and reveal his secrets to five lucky children, who find golden tickets inside Wonka chocolate bars. The golden tickets are sent around the world and soon 4 winners are announced. There is one ticket left, and Charlie Bucket finds the last ticket.
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

2005

Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor , who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead of his intended, Victoria (Emily Watson). Victor soon discovers that the Land of the Dead holds more fun than frights and begins to fall in love with his innocent bride.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

2007

"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again."
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"Family Dog" Show Dog

1993

The dog's family enters him in a rodeo showcase of the stars! His family believes him to be specially talented, but as we all see, the magic is in the making.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

Jack Skellington, The pumpkin king, lives in Halloweentown and as usual he celebrates Halloween, but he's bored and finds a mysterious forest with 6 doors representing the holidays. He opens the door with a Christmas tree one it and discovers Christmastown. The Halloween town residents are worried and go searching for jack until he comes home and calls a town meeting where he tells the townsfolk about his new discovery and a mysterious man nicknamed "Sandy Claws".
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Cabin Boy

1994

Wealthy young snob Nathanial Mayweather, en route to his father's Hawaiian hotel, accidentally winds up on an old schooner with a group of hostile fishermen.
Once out at sea, Nathanial's mates force him to perform all the ship's most menial jobs. However, he soon finds himself in a series of fantastic adventures that eventually transform him into a man.
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James And The Giant Peach

1996

In the live-action prologue, a recently orphaned British boy named James comes to own a bag of glowing, magical crocodile tongues. When he drops some of them near a tree, a peach grows--and grows, until it reaches gigantic proportions. One night, James crawls inside the fruit (at which point the film becomes animated) and meets the six fascinating insects that reside within. The bugs become his new family, and together they set sail in the giant peach, floating toward New York City.
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Lost In Oz

2002

A group of contemporary young people are swept to the Land of Oz; only Ozma and the Wizard are missing, and no one knows why.

Lost in Oz is a 2002 television pilot for a planned series, an original sequel to The Wizard of Oz, inspired by the Oz books of L. Frank Baum. The series was planned to start September 1, 2002 but was cancelled, perhaps because the special effects required for each episode would have been too expensive.The pilot was made, but not released to television.
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Mr. Burton Has A Full Schedule Until 2010...

Here Is A List Of A Few Projects That 'll Be Coming Up

  • "9" - (Filming)

    A post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened...

    Directed By: Shane Acker
    Produced By: Tim Burton
    Projected Release Date: 11/26/08

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  • "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" - (In Production)

    Believe It or Not picks up with Ripley at the time when he gained celebrity status through a "Believe it or Not" column that chronicled his search for the greatest oddities in the world. Along the way, he starts to respect his unusual human discoveries as more than mere conquests to be documented.

    Directed By: Spike Jonez
    Produced By: Tim Burton
    Projected Release Date: 2009

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  • "Frankenweenie" - (Announced)

    Mr. Burton has decided to turn the short film into a full-length feature...

    Directed By: Tim Burton
    Produced By: Tim Burton
    Projected Release Date: December 2009

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  • "Alice In Wonderland" - (Pre-Production)

    Because this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change; some data could be removed completely.

    Directed By: Tim Burton
    Produced By: Tim Burton
    Projected Release Date: 2010

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  • "The Spook's Apprentice" - (Need Info)

    The beginning of the story is told through the eyes of Tom Ward, and how a cloaked old man carrying a wooden staff in his left hand (as later it is found out from the spook himself that mystical people tend to be left handed) comes to the house. This man is the Spook. Spooks travel the country fighting troublesome creatures such as Boggarts, Ghosts/Ghasts, and Witches, for the money of the people who need these things gone. However the religious world hates them, for they are thought to be meddling in the dark powers themselves, which is against the Christian church.

    Tom knows that his parents have agreed to make Tom the apprentice of the Spook. He will have to learn how the Spook fights "The Dark" as it's referred to in the book.

    The Spook is actually a very caring person, and seems to look after Tom like a son. He explains that most of his other apprentices have failed, due to them being cowardly, disobedient, or deceased. (Later in the series, we learn that a failed apprentice seeks vengeances on the Spook.

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