Charlie Rose

Pervyable  09/14/2012 08:45 PM Report

"Below this comment is a really nasty one."

As well as an ignorant one. Whatever you may think about Tim Burton the last thing thats needed in a discussion about him is a dour asshole with a nostalgia fetish who knows nothing of the subject he's attempting to comment on.

monkeyhumour  08/16/2010 05:47 AM Report

Below this comment is a really nasty one

I love Tim Burton, he's my favourite director of all time and he definde my childhood. His films are widely loved by so many. He's always great in interviews and I love reading 'Burton on Burton'

His films make me relax and reflect all at once. He's attracted to profound themes and does it with the most beautiful visuals I've ever seen...ever...ever...ever

Tim Your My Freakin Hero

REMant  01/12/2010 06:25 PM Report

I have never seen ANY of his movies. They would bore me to death. I feel the same way about Spielberg and Lucas, and many others. I think he's a closet actor actually. He gesticulates and poses, drawing as it were with his body, and I think it must help him think, perhaps replacing language. I'm sure that designers and architects, by and large, are not good writers or speakers, tho there are some notable exceptions, such as Adolf Hitler. Years ago oratory such as his was considered as performance, which out to tell us something. Freud would probably find him lacking in maturity, but today's politically correct psychologists would no doubt think him exceptional. While I find it hard to argue with rebellion against the kind of society we have made, in many ways this fits right in with it. I find it worrisome, and I tend to think the trend is back towards middle ages symbolism.

kalliek  01/10/2010 08:42 AM Report

I was also scared by clowns as a child and find them sinister and/or sad now.

I'm also one of those who thought I couldn't draw. I think Burton's right. EVERYONE has it, and in this country it's "beat" out of them - one way or another.

20 years ago I lived near a beautiful botanical garden in a Japanese city that was largely a concrete jungle. One day, while passing through the botanical garden on my way home, I passed by a class of young public school students drawing. I was close enough to see the drawings without imposing, and was astonished at the HUGE number of them had produced such highly competent drawings. I assumed it was an art class, but found after discussing it with Japanese friends that this was required of all students. The surprise was that most of their pictures looked very much like one-another. There was a style that was being clearly being aimed at. The description that comes to mind is "Hello Kitty".

I suspect that learning to write in Chinese characters and being evaluated on those gives students an eye for proportion, shape and detail that encourages them to reach a higher degree of competence as a group, than we who use simple alphabets do.

Just as so many of us learned we couldn't draw, I suspect Japanese students were learned they how to draw well, and to conform to a certain style.