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Tim Burton
Movies are Magic
Tim Burton
movies are always a treat. Director Tim Burton has contributed more to
the genre of fantasy than any other director. Every one of his films
reflect his unique vision,
which is a delicious blend of quirkiness and eccentricity. He has a
knack for capturing offbeat characters and the story worlds they
inhabit.
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Tim Burton's 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Too
often, filmmakers lose so much of the magic of fantasy
when they try to transport a story from the written page to the big
screen. But Tim captures the fantasy spirit so wonderfully in movies
such as Edward
Scissorhands, Big
Fish and Sleepy
Hollow. Watching these Tim Burton movies is like stepping into a dream.
The story-world becomes your world and the characters’ journey becomes
your own.
The
good news is that we fantasy fans have even more great Tim Burton
movies to look forward to. He’s remaking
one of his earliest movies called Frankenweenie,
about a boy who brings his dog back to life, due out in 2009.
And he’s about to become the first modern-day director to turn Lewis
Carroll’s Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland into a blockbuster movie, and I
dare say a huge success. Tim’s version of Alice in Wonderland will star
Mia Wasikowska
as Alice and is due in theaters in 2010.
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These
are all movies that Tim directed. He also wrote, co-wrote and/or
produced some of them too. They are mostly but not all fantasy.
Here
are my Top Ten Tim
Burton
Movies
 10.
Batman
Returns (1992)
The mysterious Catwoman puts the moves on Batman as he tries to stop the grotesque villain Penguin from taking over Gotham City.
 9.
Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
A sadistic barber and his equally deranged tenant set out on a bloody murder spree to wipe out London's corrupt upper classes.
 8.
Corpse Bride
(2005)
A shy groom recites his wedding vows in a woods and accidentally slips
his wedding ring onto the finger of a corpse, making her his wife.
 7.
Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Willy
Wonka is wackier than ever is this version of Roald Dahl’s famous
book.
 6.
Sleepy Hollow
(1999)
This movie
gives a fresh take on the age-old Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Ichabod Crane is a New York detective who goes to the small town of
Sleepy Hollow to solve a series of brutal murders.
Here come the Top Five Tim Burton Movies:
 5.
Batman
(1989)
A murderer
falls into a pit of acid and becomes The Joker, a crazed
criminal bent on wreaking havoc on Gotham City. And the caped crusader
is the only one who can bring him down.
 4. Beetlejuice
(1988)
A
newly-deceased young couple go to great lengths to rid the house they
lovingly decorated of its wealthy new owners – only to become the main
attraction among their guests.
 3.
Big Fish (2003)
Experience
the colorful life of Edward, a gifted storyteller at the end of his
life, as he recounts for the final time his friendship with a giant,
his stint as a circus worker and the lengths he went to to win the
heart of his beloved wife.
 2.
Ed Wood
(1994)
A lousy director with transvestite tendencies tries to make his mark on Hollywood with a series of low-budget horror movies.
1.
Edward
Scissorhands (1990 - below)
Edward,
who as his name suggests has scissors for hands, lives all alone in
the mansion his father left him until a kindly saleswoman takes him in.
This heartwarming movie combines the talents of Burton and leading man
Johnny Depp.
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