Vincent is a great homage to the man who narrates it and from a stylistic standpoint, it shows us that Tim Burton already had a clearly defined vision of what he wanted his work to be, specifically in regards to tone, atmosphere and overall visual design. The animation is fabulous, especially for the time and for what I’m sure was a scant budget and limited resources despite being made while Burton was employed by Disney. The whole thing is narrated by the real Vincent Price, who delivers his words in the form of a poem written by Burton. His mind runs wild and the short film gives us a lot of great vivid visions of Vincent doing heinous acts to those he cares about. He obsesses over trying to be like Vincent Price to his mother’s dismay. The story is about a seven year-old boy named Vincent Malloy. Vincent is just a hair under six minutes but it is simple, sweet and effective. They would work together again in one of Burton’s most iconic films, Edward Scissorhands. This short film is also significant in that it opened the door for Burton to work with his childhood idol, Vincent Price. This is a stop motion animated short but the techniques Burton employed here would go on to serve him well in The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride. I never got to see this as a kid but I eventually saw it in the ’90s when a friend showed it to me.īurton had some other shorts he did before this and he also worked in animation at Disney but this was the creation that got his career moving forward at a pretty rapid speed, as he got to make the original Frankenweenie short just after this.
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This demonstration of the continuity of Burton’s imagination underscores that, as both his biggest fans and biggest critics insist, he’s always lived in a world of his own - probably since Vincent Malloy’s age, when teachers and other authority figures might have described him in exactly the same way.Ĥ,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & More Vincent also drops hints of other things to come in the Burtoniverse: Nightmare Before Christmas fans, for instance, should keep their eyes open for not one but two early appearances of that picture’s bony central player Jack Skellington. In that film, the relationship between semi-retired horror actor Bela Lugosi and the admiring schlock auteur Wood parallels, in a way, that of the more enduringly successful Price and the much more competent Burton. The appreciative actor called the short “the most gratifying thing that ever happened,” and the director would go on to cast him in Edward Scissorhands eight years later. Price died in 1993, the year before the release of Ed Wood, Burton’s dramatized life of Edward D. Vincent Malloy, pale of complexion and untamed of hair, surely resembles Burton’s childhood self, and in more aspects than appearance: the filmmaker grants the character his own idolatry not just of Price but of Edgar Allan Poe, and it’s into their macabre masterworks that his daydreaming sends him - just as they presumably sent the seven-year-old Burton.īurton and Price’s collaboration on Vincent marked the beginning of a friendship that lasted the rest of Price’s life. But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.” Those words of narration - as if you couldn’t tell after the first one spoken - come in the voice of Price himself.
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice. The short’s title refers not to Vincent Price himself, but to its seven-year-old protagonist, Vincent Malloy: “He’s always polite and does what he’s told. Burton’s filmmaking craft and his admiration for the midcentury horror-film icon intersected early in his career, when he made the six-minute animated film Vincent for Disney in 1982, three years before his feature debut Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. That goes for “greatest” in the sense of both the fervency of the fan’s enthusiasm for all things Price, and for the fan’s accomplishments in his own right. If you put together a list of the world’s greatest Vincent Price fans, you’d have to rank Tim Burton at the top.
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