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The Wonderful World Of Tim Burton
Tim Burton's style is instantly recognisable, as demonstrated in this week's Alice in Wonderland pics. We look back over his history to see how it developed, in the man's own words.
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The Wonderful World Of Tim Burton | Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Burton's first outing with future regular collaborator Johnny Depp was a topsy-turvy fairytale affair. But the juxtaposition of the gothic against the supremely suburban was borne out of a struggle on Burton's part. "When you do a fairytale, you're a little bit at odds with yourself, because a fairytale is a romantic version of certain things. Taking something real and heightening it. So what you have is an inherent balancing problem between the real and the unreal. I think that's where I run into trouble a lot of the time, because of the unwieldy nature of it." Still, in this case he managed it beautifully, creating a bizarre parallel world of suburban horror and Gothic beauty.

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