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First time I saw Tim Burton talk, how can he direct at all?

posted 9 years ago by flambard
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In the interview segments, he said:

"Uhh yeah you know it's like but more of you know like that and you kinda want to you know more of a like that, but you know it's it's it's just"

Wait what? Nothing of that made sense. Those are not sentances. Those convey no message. I don't mind "stoner language", but you HAVE to include some nouns and verbs that are related to what you're talking about. You can't just paste a string of "you know" and expect anyone to get that. I wanted to scream at him. WTF?

So I thought, OK, I guess he's gone senile or something. But then, in that video fragments of them, costume lady, and Nic Cage doing their thing... It's exactly like that!

He said "Yeah you know" million times and not much else. Also laughed.

I love some of his movies, and I don't intent to insult here, I just don't understand how can he direct a movie like that?

"Hey could you maybe uhhh like you know, well, right, yeah?"

WHAT.

(The costume lady seemed to be the most adequate of the whole bunch BTW, and she actually knew something about superman).

[–] Hopstimop 9 years ago

Thought the same

[–] marcelo_zee 9 years ago

Just because he's like that in casual conversations, or just tests, dosen't mean he's actually like that directing. You can't really judge him that much, i just feel like he's just, well, awkward and dosen't feel well on his own skin, like, i dunno, the theme of most of his movies tbh. But i dunno, it's your opinion and all, nothing i say can be changed.

[–] mongoose_mania 9 years ago

There's actually a great featurette on the "Ed Wood" DVD that shows Burton at work and he's actually very articulate. He knows what he wants and actually communicates it to the actors pretty clearly. I guess that's just him in work-mode though.

[–] flambard 9 years ago

I'll check it out, love behind the scenes stuff.

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[–] masterofallgoons 9 years ago

He can be tough to get used to in an interview. He typically doesn't say much of anything, and doesn't delve into his answers very deeply. I think he is very guarded about stuff and that's sort of his way of deflecting. He clearly still didn't want to give too many details about things with this movie even with how much distance there was from it at this point.

But I would echo what somebody else said above, watch the Ed Wood featurette that shows him actually directing. It proves what people who have worked with him said in that it shows, in even just in a few glimpses, how detail oriented and particular a director he is. He was micro managing down to tiny makeup and performance details, and it was pretty cool to watch.

[–] racy1285 9 years ago

Is this the first time you guys have actually seen a director?

Film directors are weird. Try listening to old interviews of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, or Stanley Kubrick some time. They are oddballs most of the time. In fact i think Tim Burton is actually pretty normal compared to the directors Ive seen. Woody Allen would be the weirdest and the most disgusting among film directors.

[–] Wuchakk 8 years ago

Is this the first time you guys have actually seen a director?

Film directors are weird. Try listening to old interviews of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, or Stanley Kubrick some time. They are oddballs most of the time.

Francis Ford Coppola too, as the documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A filmmaker's Apocalypse" testifies.

My 150 (or so) favorite movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070122364/

[–] ant-man 9 years ago

He looked and sounded to me EXACTLY like an opium/opioid addict. :(

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[–] ant-man 8 years ago

I been around them many times; they are very animateted, deliriously overconfident, & utterly convinced that they (all of them over 40+) are really the ones who know that is hip & cool...for example: giant spiders

[–] daughterofolaf 8 years ago

It's amazing but I actually work with a woman who is like this. She can barely string one f v c k ing sentence together in casual conversations or during low-key meetings. It's beyond annoying and frustrating to listen to. And she does similar things to what Burton does--sentence fragments and miscellaneous words (her favorite thing to say is "right?" and she literally says that about every third word, no joke, like some sort of psychological or nervous disorder) but no actual sentences or statements. But when she has to present something to the higher ups or executives, she is totally professional and on it. It's like she is two different people. Maybe that's the case with him.

"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?"

[–] danmankp37 8 years ago

Thee are math geniuses out there that can't phrase a sentence to save their life..