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Burton Frankenweenie
Burton – Frankenweenie
Burton Frankenweenie
Burton – Frankenweenie is a short film made in 1984 and is directed by the ever-famous Tim Burton. It is a direct parody of the 1931 Frankenstein and I am glad to report that there is a re-make being made at the moment which should be released in November 2011 and guess who will be going to see it!
Me!
The film which was co-written by Leonard Ripps (who was also involved in Me and The Boys) is taken from Mary Shelley’s story of Frankenstein. Personally I think that this is a much better version of it. I love what Burton has done to this movie.
The movie’s main characters are Victor and Sparky. Victor likes to make movies of his dog, but one day the dog get run over by a car. Victor has been learning about the effect of electricity on muscles at school and builds an incredible machine to bring his dog back to life.
The neighbors don’t like the new Sparky (he is a bit different!) and Sparky runs away. Later in the movie he becomes the hero…
And then he falls in love with a beautiful poodle. How romantic.
I think Burton – Frankenweenie is incredible, but Disney didn’t hold the same opinion and actually fired Tim Burton for wasting the companies money making a film that they thought was too scary for kids!
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Shane Acker – 9
Shane Acker – 9
Shane Acker 9 Poster
Shane Acker and the boys have produced a really fantastic film called “9” . The movie you see below, also called “9” is a shorter version of it, which actually came out first.
Tim Burton has always been known for producing incredibly different looking movies and this is no exception. Although it is a computer graphics movie it has a really “hauntingly beautiful” feel to it and is actually a stop motion movie.
The screen play was written in part by some of the team that wrote “Corpse Bride” also directed by Tim Burton and will go down as one of the classic animation movies of recent. The film has incredible imagination and you cannot help but fall in love with the characters and at the end there is a really nice little twist to make you happy again.
So what is Shane Acker’s “9” all about then?
Well in a few sentences here I go…
The world is threatened by machines (sound familiar?). The machines, which were actually built in order to help the world recover from a previous war, have gone on the rampage and started a rebellion. Their goal is to wipe out humanity. So the scientists that produced the machines come up with the “rag doll” also known as “stitch punks” to help with the problem.
9 takes place in a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened by machines. The machines, built by a scientist to help the world recover from a previous war, rebelled and began to manufacture an army to wipe out humanity. So the same scientist creates a group of sapient rag dolls. These rag dolls, or “stitch punks” as Shane Acker calls them, live a post-apocalyptic existence and one day they find 9, one of their own.
It is reported that Christopher Plummer will play the part of “1” and will be the leader while Elijah Wood will be “9”. “9” is a good character who is always willing to help and serve others and willing to risk his own life in order to do so.
Other characters to be in the film are John C. Reilly as “5” and will play the part of a mechanic while Jennifer Connelly will be “7” and she is a rebel, loner, warrior and of course beautiful!
Crispin Glover will be the visionary of the team and will be “6” and Martin Landau will be “2” as an old inventor and “8” will be a huge bodyguard played by Fred Tatasciore.
While the plot of this film is nothing new – machines taking over the world and a single savior coming to rescue and save it, the style in which it has been made is new. This really is a wonderful and incredible piece of work by Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Shane Acker.
