POST 8 TIM BURTON

Tim Burton was __born______in 1958, in the city of Burbank, ___California_________.
He remains without question one of the _____most___ original film ___maker_____ working in ________cinema____ today.

 Indeed, his talent and originality have kept him at the ________ of the profession where he occupies a very special place, somewhere ____between_______ the mainstream and the avant-garde, in that region of cinema occupied by artists ______ worldview is _______ unconventional that it attains popular appeal.

In 1989, Tim Burton directed the hugely ______famous known____ Batman which, although his _______ personal film, was one of the most __famous__________ movies of all time and gave him unprecedented ___________ in Hollywood, considering the originality and adventurousness of his ____________ films (for ____example_____ Beetlejuice in 1988).

Edward Scissorhands (1990), another hit, saw him at the peak of his ________ powers and established a fruitful working ________in collaboration_____ with __the actor_________ Johnny Depp who played in his 2005 film _____________of Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and who became one of his most esteemed __partnership________since their first film together.

In 1992, Batman Returns was a __more_____ darker film than the original, a reflection of how much ____________ freedom Tim Burton had won (___producers____ Warner Bros were reputedly unhappy with the final result).
And even _______if__ Ed Wood (1994), his loving ___________ to the life and work of the legendary ‘Worst Director of All Time’ Edward D. Wood, Jr., was a box-office disaster, it got some of the best _____critics______ of Burton’s career.

In fact, Tim Burton is ___known_____  both for his dark, quirky-themed ____films_______like Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, or Dark Shadows (2012) and for ____________  such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (2010), one of his most  __famous______ films, which became the fifth highest-grossing film of all ___times____.

Burton has ______created_____ 18 feature films as of 2014, and has _________ 12 as of 2012  (among which the very nice ____________ tale called The  Nightmare Before ____christmas___________ in 1993).

All in all, Tim Burton’s films consistently challenge the spectator’s ___________, push forward the ____________ of filmmaking and bring to life previously unthinkable _____character_______ (like Edward Scissorhands).

Taken as a whole, his work ____________ on the confrontation ____________ the fantastic and the _____________, and the consequences of these two worlds intermingling.

Big Fish, Burton’s 2003 effort, is no different. And ______, somehow, it is not really the
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On the surface, it would appear to have all the ___________ of a classic Burton film: a magic screenplay, fairy-tale characters, flights of imagination, forces of nature ( _as____ well __as_____ the supernatural), far-fetched situations and vastly imaginative visual style and imagery. The movie is, in fact, ________ packed with fanciful episodes that it begins to feel ____like_______ a loose adaptation of The Odyssey, told from the mouth of an aging character named Ed Bloom, a story-__________ and dreamer who sees the world with beautiful eyes.