Vincent by Tim Burton

Tim Burton considered one of the greatest animators of today, born 25th August 1985 Burbank California; has contributed too many films in his career with his unique style added to many great, well known movies and animations.
His particular style seems to be somewhat twisted and surreal specialising in dark and quirky. Tim’s work is always engaging with its freaky abnormal edge to the storyline. Often his plots focus around a misunderstood outcast.
In his career he has worked as a producer, director, writer, animator and other various roles within the industry more recently he seems to find his comfort in producing and directing.
To name just a few films he has worked on there is “The Nightmare before Christmas”, “Corpse Bride”, “Beetle Juice” and “Vincent”.
Vincent was the first thing Tim Burton made in the year 1982. The topic of this was about a young boy who is just seven years old who lives his life as any other normal person. However he has a passion for the charismatic horror actor Vincent Price. The boy wants to be someone he’s not and goes mad with the feeling of loneliness and the want to have a life he would rather live than his own. It’s almost like a living nightmare trapped between the life he lives and the life he wants to live.
Tim has incorporated his style and his own life into this, his work is very autobiographical as he expresses himself through his animation. The feeling of loneliness and going mad is similar to how Tim felt when he worked as an animator for Disney, he got bored as it wasn’t him. The thirst to be something greater caused him to leave that job to pursue what he really wanted to do.
The animation itself consisted of three things, stop motion, clay-mation and drawing. It was all featured in black and white with narration by Vincent Price throughout the six minutes.
The theme of all this and what it’s trying to say is that people have the life they live and one they want to live. The feeling of being on your own, lonely stuck as who you are is what many people feel and what Tim Burton was trying to portray as well as representing his life through the twisted animation Vincent (1982).
Tim Burtons “Vincent” was never released along with some of his other projects which Disney let him have the free will to work on; the reason was that they were judged unsuitable for children. The critics at Disney did not wish to show “Vincent”.
My personal opinion about “Vincent (1982)” is that it’s highly engaging as you are never quite sure of what is happening as it’s influenced by the creepy, freaky and brilliant mind of Tim Burton. At parts of it I felt sad towards the main character Vincent Malloy as you could feel his frustration. There is a definite twisted style to the story which kept my attention. The narration helped me set the scene for what may be ahead even though I was never quite sure what to think, as the story developed so did my mind with all the possibilities of what could happen next. Throughout the majority of the animation you had creepy music playing such as the sound of church organs and the clap of thunder. All of this created an atmosphere which made me intrigued to watch it again and again.
Reviews by other people including critics often have similar views about “Vincent (1982)”. They all point in the direction that Tim Burton is a genius and imaginative with his individual style for creepy and surreal things.
“TIM BURTON IS A Genius!"Vincent" was one of Tim's first films. Actually, first ideas. He has a very interesting imagination when it comes to this film.”
(IMBD)
This is a very spooky stop motion short that makes you think a great deal.
(IMBD)
This video is really creepy, but it's that’s kind of creepy that makes you want towatch again and again!
(YouTube User)
The key things that appear in many of the reviews are that it’s creepy, admirable, a masterpiece, pure genius, amazing, imaginative, dark, and twisted. It’s been described to leave people speechless and be people’s favorites.
Considering this was Tim Burtons first real animation he has done a great job incorporating all that is needed to make it a hit. Even though it did not get shown because it was unsuitable, even today people still admire the masterpiece that is “Vincent (1982)”. Vincent Price is a big role model to Tim Burton and he has done a great respect to Vincent by producing this and achieved the honor of working with him as well. His choice in animation techniques was probably best suited as he could show to an extent the idea he had in mind.
Overall “Vincent (1982)”is a well made animation by a well respected mastermind Tim Burton.