1/17/2024 0 Comments Vincent tim burton![]() His thoughts though aren’t only of ghoulish crime, / He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time. So he and his horrible zombie dog, / Could go searching for victims in the London fog. He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie, / In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie. Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, / But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum. There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented, / And wander dark hallways alone and tormented. ![]() He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats, / Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats. For a boy his age he’s considerate and nice, / But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. ![]() ![]() For older ones though, it is likely to be a ghoulish favourite.Vincent Malloy is seven years old, / He’s always polite and does what he’s told. However, although delivering well on both setting and sound, ‘Vincent’ may prove a little too frightening for young children. The tone of this piece is both dark and humorous – a classic by Tim Burton’s standards. In all, ‘Vincent’ is an interesting and beautifully put together introduction to Burton’s emergence as a prominent director. Similarly, Vincent’s desire to create a ‘horrible zombie dog’ also appears in ‘Frankenweenie’. This style of character is a signature of Burton. The two can also be contrasted in terms of character design Victor, the protagonist of the latter, has the same basic design of large eyes with small pupils, a pointed chin and elongated limbs. The use of black and white to illuminate the contrast between Victor’s imagination (full of gloom and dark shadows) and reality, and complete lack of colour seems to be a hint of the kind of cinematography Burton explored years later in ‘Corpse Bride’. It is easy to see how this first debut developed into Burton’s later work. The jerking movements of Vincent perfectly emphasise his own mock-tragedy as he engages with his imagined reality. Her face is never shown, but the animation of her body language is beautifully explicit, clearly putting across her irritation. The mother is only seen from the shoulders down, imitating the viewpoint of a child. The animation is incredibly good at expressing the distance between them. Burton also contrasts light and shade to compare both states of Vincent’s reality, as well as varying his use of two and three dimensional animation to highlight Vincent’s melodramatic fantasies, eventually collapsing into ‘insanity’. “You’re seven years old, and you’re my son, / I want you to get outside and have some real fun”’. You’re not tormented, you’re just a young boy. We witness his mother’s almost desperate attempts to encourage him to be normal: ‘“You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy. It provides an interesting comparison between the views of adult and child, as Vincent sees himself as a typical mad scientist/insane prisoner/tortured widower sporadically throughout the film. In this way, Burton creates a suitably ghoulish character within the normal world, something which he repeats often in later work, such as “Edward Scissorhands”. ![]() This is particularly effective in contrasting Vincent’s imagination with his reality: ‘Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, / But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum’. It follows a Dr Seuss-like pattern of rhyming couplets, which is intended to grab the audience’s attention. The narrative was written by Burton as an appropriately macabre poem. The haunting opening of Vincent playing ‘The Streets of Cairo’ on a flute effectively sets the mood, and the repetition at the end leaves the audience with the significantly ghostly melody. The overly-dramatic narration gives the audience a sense of amusement rather than any real fear, which is perfectly executed to appeal to the film’s target audience – primarily, children. This is in playful contrast to the actual film, which plays out like an animated B-horror film, full of exaggerated terror. He excels in this role, providing a tone which can only be associated with that of an audio-visual horror story, complete with tremoring vocals to inspire dread. The irony behind this stems from the fact that Vincent Price himself is the narrator. ‘Vincent’ is the protagonist of this short film, a seven year old boy who appears to be ordinary that is, until it is revealed that he longs to be ‘just like Vincent Price’. This virtual unknown was Tim Burton, and despite the brevity of the piece – at only six minutes in length – it clearly demonstrates the origin of those standardly gothic Burton classics, such as ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’, ‘Corpse Bride’ and ‘Frankenweenie’. In 1982, a young apprentice working for Disney created a short and deceptively simple animation entitled ‘Vincent’. ![]()
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