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Burton Characters - Top 7
7. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) in Alice in Wonderland (2010)
What would Alice
have been like at age 19? Tim Burton’s version of
Lewis Carroll’s works attempts to answer this question by portraying
Alice as a young adult, whose memories of her childhood visit to
Wonderland, or Underland as
it’s called in the movie, haunt her
dreams. While the girl in the storybooks is above all logical, the girl of Burton's creation has all kinds of fanciful ideas. However, when she finds herself in Underland, she has a hard time believing it's anything more than a dream. In time she comes to accept the realm's reality as well as the prophecy that she alone can slay the monstrous jabberwocky and restore peace to the land.
6. Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) in Frankenweenie (2012)
This little boy
loves his dog, Sparky, so much that he will do anything to return him
from the grave. Victor Frankenstein, named
after the inventor
in Mary Shelley’s 1818 book Frankenstein, uses science to bring his
beloved pet back to life. But then the resurrected dog escapes into the
neighborhood and unleashes all kinds of chaos. Tim Burton originally
conceived of the character of
Victor when he made a short-film version of Frankenweenie in 1984.5. Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon) in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The protagonist of
this quirky story is a resident of Halloween Town, a
land inhabited by the likes of ghosts, ghouls and goblins. Jacks
happens upon a portal to
Christmas Town and is enchanted by the festive season, which he
introduces to the people of Halloween. This turns out to be a mistake
and puts the life of Santa Claus in danger. But Jack saves the day,
proving
that his heart is in the right place. This film was written and
produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick.4. The Joker (Jack Nicholson) in Batman (1989)
Batman's archenemy
is a criminal called Jack Napier, who becomes horribly
disfigured after falling into a pit of chemicals. He returns a few
years later as the psychotic and unpredictable Joker, ready to take on
Gotham and bring Batman down. Tim Burton's Joker is less ruthless than the one portrayed by the late Heath Ledger in the 2008 film The Dark Knight, but he is equally destructive in his own way. He disfigures the face of his poor girlfriend and then murders Gotham residents with a poison that makes them laugh themselves to death. And in one of the final scenes, he reveals himself as the murderer of Batman's parents, who he shot to death in a dark alleyway.
3. Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney) in Big Fish (2003)
Many of the
characters in movies
by Tim Burton seem to have a way of perceiving the world that has more
to do with
fantasy than reality. This is especially true of retired traveling
salesman Edward Bloom, whose stories of his past are full of fancy and
exaggeration.In the movie, we meet Edward at the end of a long and colorful life. He recalls a series of unlikely adventures, including an encounter with a witch, a friendship with a giant, and a stint working in a circus, all of which he gives a fairy tale twist. A charming, sweet and loveable man, he is also a gifted storyteller, a trait his son, Will, comes to accept before the end.
2. Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Willy
Wonka is the founder of the Wonka Candy Company and the greatest
candy maker in the world. This eccentric and enigmatic character was
first conceived of by Roald Dahl in his 1964 book Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory and brought to life on screen in the 1971 film Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.Tim Burton’s version of the story is more faithful to the book than the earlier film and includes Dahl’s portrayal of Wonka as the son of a dentist, who forbade him from eating candy and forced him to wear a large ugly head brace. In rebellion, Wonka left home and opened a chocolate factory, where he can eat as much as candy as he likes.
After rival candymakers tried to steal his secret recipes, he retreated from the world. He locked up the factory and hired a team of creatures called Oompa Loompas to help him run it. But now, faced with his mortality, he opens it one last time to find a worthy heir.
What Wonka lacks in social skills, perhaps due to his many years of isolation, he makes up for with his wacky sense of humor and candy-making genius. This character has an edge of darkness and a touch of insanity, but is delightfully original.
1. Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) in the 1990 film of the same name
The protagonist of
this tale is the most sensitive, compassionate and
misunderstood of all of
the Tim Burton characters. He is the only living creation of a lonely
inventor who dies just before giving him a pair of hands. Abandoned and
alone, he remains in his father’s mansion, with scissors for hands,
until
a kindly saleswoman called Peg Boggs finds him and takes him in. Edward's naïve and trusting nature endears him to Peg and her family, especially her daughter, Kim. But the neighbors soon take advantage of him and turn on him, before driving him back to his mansion to live out his life in lonely isolation. Edward is ultimately a tragic figure, often compared to singer Michael Jackson, too pure for the harshness, cruelty, and cynicism of the human world.
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