It was followed in 1988 by a comedy originally planned as a horror movie, Beetlejuice. In 1985, he filmed his feature debut, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. He started out by working as an animator and storyboard artist for Disney. "There's something sad about being separated, but there's also a kind of wonderful freedom," he explained. "Because when people brand you as a freak of some sort, it allows you to act freakish without people getting on your case." Burton has wholeheartedly embraced his "freaky" label Image: picture-alliance/dpa/M.Taga His film characters would reflect his own yearning for acceptance. "At school, nobody seemed to like me," the then already successful director said in 1994, in the MTV series titled Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos. His films are inhabited by vampires, skeletons or ghosts that seem scary at first glance, but are actually rather nice.īurton developed his preference for outsiders after growing up in Burbank, a Californian city of 100,000 inhabitants he's turned them into a recurring theme of his films. The introduction might reveal the background story of a character, for example how The Penguin was abandoned by his parents as a child in Batman Returns. His works often open with a tracking shot following someone or something, accompanied by eerie music. Tim Burton is a fan of tried-and-true methods. He likes to use recurring shots, stylistic devices and motifs in his films – such as scarecrows or snow in a noiseless environment.
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