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Tim Burton Exhibit
Compliments to the curators and organizers:
A job well done with depicting the director's artistic progression in his film making career while keeping a strong emphasis on his idiosyncratic styles - the grin, frequent employment of Johnny Depp and stop motion animation techniques...etc.
The not-so-great part:
The $35 admission fee is too steep for the size of the exhibit, which is divided into approximately 10 sections and has an average viewing time of 45 minutes/person. It is as compact as it could get. Granted that the Tim Burton name is a brand/pop-art cultural representation by itself, it is still very much overpriced for a glimpse at a few of Burton’s learning pieces, art works, scribbled notes, film props and synopsis as well as less than a dozen sculptures by Rick Heinrichs. A lot more could have been shown given the repertoire of Burton's works but the organizers probably ran out of space.
Top 4 Tim Burton’s film moments (none of which were illustrated in the exhibit):
(1) Nightmare before Christmas - Kidnap Mr. Sandy (Santa) Claus musical scene
(2) Big Fish - the concept of a fish that cannot be caught as it shows itself in other forms other than a fish
(3) Beatle Juice - dinner over Banana Boat song scene
(4) Batman Returns - Suicidal penguins strapped onto candy-cane coloured explosives scene
What's yours?
2 comments:
excellent comment re the cost of the Tim Burton event.
Re his best movie moments hmmm. Def the Banana boat song, loved that!
The MAd Hatter walking across the table to Alice, just loved that moment, pretty much summing up TB & JD!
Sweeney Todd from start to finish!
The final moments between father and son in The Big Fish, in one word EMOTIONAL!
Ditto the Banana Boat! I like the gothic baby tram in Batman, the maggot side kick in Corpse Bride and the squirrels in Charlie Chocolate, I'll sell my bike for one of those squirrels anytime!
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