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Happy 55th Birthday to Tim Burton today!
To
celebrate the director’s special day, here are my top favourite Tim Burton films that
you should definitely check out...
1. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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"Hold me" "I can't"
I adore this film. It was probably the first
time I was conscious of Danny Elfman’s beautiful compositions – he has
continued to collaborate with Burton throughout his career and is one of my
favourite film composers. Speaking of collaborations, this was the
beginning of the Depp-Burton partnership which has lasted for 23 years so far,
with the most recent collaboration on the movie Dark Shadows (2012)
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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"What's this? What's this?"
Although this is often called ‘Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas’, Burton
did not direct. Henry Selick directed and since went onto direct James and the Giant Peach (1996) and Caroline (2009). Burton was in fact producer
and writer on The Nightmare Before
Christmas. I had only previously seen stop motion with the comical duo Wallace & Gromit but this film had a darker approach and really
captured my imagination. My favourite moment has to be when Jack sings ‘What’s
This’ as he arrives into Christmas Town.
3. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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"No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless"
This movie definitely introduced me to the dark
side of Burton’s directorial vision which I instantly fell in love with (even
though the headless horseman freaked the hell out of me when I was younger). Another thing I fell in love with? Of course,
it’s Johnny Depp playing Ichabod Crane.
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
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"At last! My arm is complete again"
My final top favourite is Sweeney Todd. I’m a big fan of musicals and pairing Tim Burton with
this film made perfect sense to achieve the dark and gory nature of the demon
barber. The only thing I wish the film had is the prologue from the original stage
show, ‘The Ballad of Sweeney Todd’. I truly think it could have worked over the top of the end credits. However,
the casting is fantastic with fabulously haunting performances by Helena Bonham
Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen and Alan Rickman.
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