FRANKENWEENIE **

Frankenweenie, VERSIONS 1984 & 2012 **

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Frankenweenie (REBOOT - 2012) **

2sur5 As always, we'll talk "back" (back!) Burton, creative crossing the desert is over - or it's coming immediately after this unexpected outburst, that is obvious! Auto-remake (but first degree in a formal sense this time), Frankenweenie is resolutely and exclusively burtonien filled with self-citations and references in a closed circuit. This is an ordinary product, trivial, mild, equal to the rest of his work in the treatment and in the subject and all avatars are usual and it is neither more nor less specific and entertaining the world we burtonien arpentons continuously.
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Burton padlocked
Like the 1984 model, short hysterical himself already curiously placid surface in spite of himself, Frankenweenie 2012 version takes very faithfully the figure and the world of Frankenstein, into the cabinet. References to the film as well as Universal Monster monster movies of 50s and 60s are supported and permanent. A provision in the varnish enough redneck darky but predictable: Burton always weaves around the same canvas, from and to the same grounds.
It finds its formal brilliance eternal signature impeccable. Scenario it is evanescent and transparent useless to have come a synopsis or overview of the original, everything is a foregone conclusion. The general framework this assumption flies totally fabulous, frantic denial of death (discussed in more childish but also more courageous in original). Always the same hobbies, the same son, the same diversions and reversals.
However, Frankenweenie 2012 looks with a certain pleasure, because we appreciate the graphic quality, expressive creatures. But the line is heavy and outdated mantra, you get bored, as cordially as it is still worthwhile and generous (see outrageous) filling cleverly deceive our impatience. There are a host of attractive but superficial archetypes (wicked and destructive engineer the world for his garage), many of which remained normal figures of ghosts and sad caricatures of Burton's touch. A parade almost embarrassing in its coarseness and banality aesthetic intrinsic to the girl pale face hollow synthesizing these unfortunate aspects. These elements seem foggy brain from a pimply cavernous must admit, they cling nevertheless, it is what drives the fans and explains the indulgence even more exasperated. And so appetizers whole swarm, the whole atmosphere even thicker and watered, it can not refuse.
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My difference to me & the rest of the world ugly
As always, the film is centered around a kid "different" socialized rooted in his dreams to tame imaginary creatures morbid and sensitive (especially a context close to Beetlejuice). Opposite that of ordinary monsters, villains conformist blocking the road and breaking the enthusiasm of the little hero shy, gullible and exalted. Including, at the outset, a nasty neighbor and bitter perfectionist (if a black knight is not the helm, the perfection it sucks, it's ugly and a sign of closed-mindedness).
Uncle Bob, the old mayor is actually reached in the psychoanalytic jargon of "obsessional neurosis". We are witnessing the conversion of its malaise (indefinite) on an external object, but this compulsion there (we can speak of "reaction formation") not interested Burton. Burton does not like "difference" in what looks like read. Small dwarfish beings, lunar-capable, and to share happiness, but the sweetness is thwarted by a cruel world psychorigides. The Little Dreamer monomaniac, unproductive, touching but totally selfish and self-centered: it is always the same figure as a poet distracted, fragile creature reportedly mulling imaginative but always the same whims, to finally conclude that only his family, elected or acquired worth and the rest of the world is ugly, and herd be blind, or without any finesse or goodness.
Burton should understand that among the common people, the miserable absolute junk final does not exist, everyone can still be transformed or drop some interesting contribution, or reveal significant features, even in a situation or angle REM (incidentally, this is why we always like the bad service). It should also include a normopathe and a misanthrope, unlike the caricature rebellocrates desired by its species generally have little to do. It should open these characters equally caricatured as he likes, because those have themselves many interesting symptoms, and there is a truth behind their behavior to translate apparent. Yes, Burton criticizes those Others who can not read between the lines that stop at the external identity, never crosses the threshold itself: the others are just calves, monsters or idiots if they not see her own beauty. So it is that combination of naivety and opportunism, with total break, like a mirage before all the real social and human requirements, so that the world is filled alter ego to discover ..
Burton and his creatures accuse the other of having an ideal, a will, while they have so many intense feelings so deep in their visions, so much variety in their imagination. They avoid you entrust frontally, but they do insist heavily on this, hoping reward, bonus originality and delirium as childish and bravely roudou esquement-punk.
So, as usual, Burton makes enemies everywhere and launches into his babies, cursed and misunderstood artist (even if nothing is to unravel), Engineering autarkic in the crowd tasteless. Only a few passersby (as Professor) attract his consideration, but not those it does not probe. Like all artists unilaterally in love with themselves, to some degree whatsoever, successful or not, assimilated or marginalized, Burton has just hate what it is not. There is in him a vague absolutism, which boasts nothing but taking into account its artistisme so powerful and unique. Others are rednecks, or competitors, and sometimes, acolytes or benefactors. There are only a few downright enlightened to receive his mercy, though paradoxical in the case of adjuvant (as the villain commander and inventor hoarse voice).
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Burton, (our) gothic destroy institutional
Everything venom retarded teenager but sophisticated demonstrates a disregard for pre-existing cultures and by extension, rooted with this painting of a locality (of Edward Scissorhands in black & white) reflecting leached civilization on the downward slope. Such a posture goes well with contemporary neoliberal morality. Prof. (Mr Rzykruski) which refers to "this country" who refuses to "ask questions", contrary to his (an Eden of knowledge and research that we asked to see the emblem) is an integral part of this petty approach.
However, it is he who stands out in this world, yet only with this life force that is lacking in post-Burton Mars Attacks. The real climax of the film is the scene where he sabotages the opportunity to attract the graces of a population asthenic and suspicious. He prefers to face the truth and share rather than clog that is not worth the trouble. This is an authentic original character and dissenting (with the researcher and the fiber tip, again, lingered in adolescent behavior, but all in the service of the ego and the mind), not a sweet dreamer monomaniac, but an artist insatiable. This much flavor of truth, Burton should adopt instead of just salivating before him.
As Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie 2012 is a kind show - and this is what happen now Burton. However, already less shimmery but we appreciate some flashes scattered in a threadbare. The last-thirds, with small gargoyles dropped in the city ("Angels of the Sea"), shall be true vocation and the true potential of the film défouloir playful, and graphically pleasing browned. A film for the holiday season, rather than for the Halloween period when it was released.
The beautiful book, institutional and conservative despite the illusions in which its authors cradle. They take the audience with them, it is because the product is only fair and Burton still believes in him burns a flame revolutionary truth, this is a totally iconoclastic fervor squeezed under control and labeled. And we all like to honor some traditions, even suspend his judgment and critical disappointment, to enjoy a ceremony outdated but still charming (and unifying naturally).
Overall Rating 54
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→ MBTI: As always with Burton, INFP 4W5 sp / sx dominate the game, and are tested by atrocious TJ and SJ intolerant. The stage where it is, Tim Burton is not pressed questioning today more than ever it spreads hatred of his "shadow" archetype ESTJ, which he still captures the subtleties well that arrived in mid-life.
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Frankenweenie (1984) **

3sur5 Tim Burton has not made Pee Wee, his first feature, when manufactures Frankenweenie, medium-length construction and style similar to The Twilight Zone, in an infant version and talkative. Already anticipating swathes of Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice and Edward, Frankenweenie abounds with references to cinema Z Ed Wood, producer and Disney spectacular Gothic tales of the Hammer.
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With Burton, the U.S. civilized suburb of sweet fifties mask malicious intentions but little injured individuals seeking to rebuild. The introduction is completely (and deliberately) outdated, anchored in a petit-bourgeois delighted with the nursery and happily assimilated into the American way of life as anachronistic.
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Burton mocked candor that is also the subject of his inspiration and blatant protection, since it is a case which he never really falls apart. The dog's death comes quickly, then his burial in a highly expressionistic and gothic, but Burton never takes its independence vis-à-vis the theater of clowns sketched with nonchalance. After all, the man is obviously too candid to feed a real malice, even against this outrageous cast of characters, braggarts and intolerant neighbors.
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The author clearly identifies the boy dreamer and iconoclastic, ready to defy the laws of nature, more out of curiosity and thirst for discovery or suspicion by greed, notions entirely foreign to his behavior. Caught between parents gentle and loving, but totally naive and too conciliatory, and neighbors hysterical pretty stupid, selfish and malicious, the child bears the character of the smoothest of all this universe. A strength of this emphasis purity, Burton creates a nice little character, but banal and indistinct, in which every child will project easily shy.
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As Edward, we find a being morbidly sensitive and different (Sparky the dog - and his owner because they are treated as two facets of the same entity), who eventually died for false to guard the fury Hicks with pitchforks and hatred. Nuance emblematic work with Burton here, this outburst of aggression above mediocrity and a return to life in joy and carried by a sudden wave of solidarity. Gently macabre and grotesque, this final mill is far more tragic-romantic in the remake. Here's baroque dimension is shipped away from freedom and fury creative short film Vincent lighthouse.
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Concise, friendly and rhythmic, this means the 1984 film deserves to be cramped in a period of 28 minutes. He said after all very little, emphasizing style and avatars who asked then to grow and assert itself, supported by world scenarios and more expanded. Nevertheless, this post captures the essence of the whole work burtonienne: praise the difference a bit silly and not on the edges, Frankenweenie has not lost its charm three decades later.
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More alive than its reboot in 2012, however it surpasses that for logistical reasons and greater inner harmony, a unity that is not enough to compensate for the coarseness of his arrogant sophistry misunderstood artist, but hardly more than the finding of misunderstanding and staging to assert its creative force. It must be said that already, it's the feeling of being an exception, intuition regressive and hateful, which stimulates and motivates the entire program each choice of implementation for the best (real original premise, sensitivity likely) for worse (about intrigue and hollow atmosphere wobbly).
Overall Rating 61
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