Is this not the most amazing thing you've ever seen in your life?!

I feel the same way. This film is a piece of true art, Tim Burton is a mastermind. Vincent Malloy is one of my favorite characters of all time.

I actually memorized the whole poem. I needed to prepare a speech for an audition (my audition's tommorow, wish me good luck! Haha!) so I immediately thought of good 'ol Vincent. :)

I'll recite it jus' for extra practice and because I'm pretty bored. (I'm also trying to put off cleaning my room! Shhh! Hahaha! ^_^)

Vincent Malloy is seven years old
He's always polite and does what he's told
For a boy his age he's considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price
He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cats
Though he's rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he's(d?) invented
And wander dark hallways, alone, and tormented
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum (LOVE how Price says that!)
He likes to experiment on his dog, Abercrombie
In hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Can go searching for victems in the London Fog
Not all his thoughts, though, are of goulish prime
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time
While other kids read books like, "Go, Jane, Go"
Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe
One night while reading a grusome tale
He read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
His beautiful wife had been burried alive
He dug up her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware her grave was his mother's flowerbed
His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
Alone and insane, incased in his tomb
His mother burst, suddenly, into the room
She said, "If you want you can go out and play
It's sunny outside, a beautiful day!"
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak
The years of icolation had made him weak
So he took out some paper and sprawled with a pen,
"I am posessed by this house and can never leave it again!"
His mother said, "You are not posessed and you are not almost dead
These games that you play are all in your head
You are not Vincent Price you are Vincent Malloy
You are not insane or tormented you are just a young boy
You are seven years old, and you are my son
Now I want you to go outside and have some real fun!"
Her anger, now spent, she walked out through the hall
While Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to sway, to quiver, to creak
His horrid insanity had reached it's peak
Every horror in his life and had crept through his dreams
Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams
To end all the madness he reached for the door
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted the raven from Edgar Allen Poe,
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted, nevermore."

Sorry about that, haha! Oh yes, and please excuse any spelling errors, slight mixed up words, and lack of punctuation! :)

Vincent rules! i got 'the nightmare before christmas' on DVD for christmas and discovered the extra features 'frankenweenie' had me in fits and freaked my dad out hehe i love tim burton movies!

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Every time that I watch this film, I almost start crying. I don't know why, maybe because it is so good.

"Where's my shoe?" The Royal Tenanbaums

I loved this short as well. I especially dug the funky old school stop-motion animation.

"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"