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		<title>Tout savoir sur l&#8217;actualité de Dark Shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Je Suis Sur Le Fil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dark Shadows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alors que Barnabas Collins sévit, pour notre plus grand plaisir, dans les salles obscures depuis mercredi dernier, il est temps de faire un récapitulatif des diverses interviews et des vidéos making-of diffusées pendant la promotion de Dark Shadows.
Rappel : si vous n&#8217;avez pas encore vu le film, courrez-y et surtout, ne regardez pas les vidéos qui [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alors que Barnabas Collins sévit, pour notre plus grand plaisir, dans les salles obscures depuis mercredi dernier, il est temps de faire un récapitulatif des diverses interviews et des vidéos making-of diffusées pendant la promotion de <strong>Dark Shadows</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Rappel</strong> : si vous n&#8217;avez pas encore vu le film, courrez-y et surtout, ne regardez pas les vidéos qui suivent pour ne pas vous gâcher le plaisir de la surprise !<span id="more-6217"></span></p>
<ul>
<li>Interviews :</li>
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<ul>
<li>Making-of et featurettes :</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Avant-premières officielles :</li>
</ul>
<div>La 1ère avant-première officielle de <strong>Dark Shadows</strong> s&#8217;est déroulée le 7 mai à Los Angeles en présence de toute l&#8217;équipe du film excepté Helena Bonham Carter retenue à Londres. La projection du film a été suivi par une soirée de gala pendant laquelle Alice Cooper a fait un mini-concert avec la présence exceptionnelle de Johnny Depp et Steven Tyler (le leader du groupe Aerosmith) sur scène :</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3podk7x4f1r5vp4eo1_500/" rel="attachment wp-att-6234" title="tumblr_m3podk7x4F1r5vp4eo1_500"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6234" title="tumblr_m3podk7x4F1r5vp4eo1_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3podk7x4F1r5vp4eo1_500-480x422.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="380" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3pcupfptb1rrkkrko1_500/" rel="attachment wp-att-6235" title="tumblr_m3pcupfPTB1rrkkrko1_500"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6235" title="tumblr_m3pcupfPTB1rrkkrko1_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3pcupfPTB1rrkkrko1_500-480x336.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="302" /></a></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3pa54x2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500/" rel="attachment wp-att-6237" title="tumblr_m3pa54X2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6237" title="tumblr_m3pa54X2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3pa54X2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500-480x318.png" alt="" width="432" height="286" /></a></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3oqs80dod1r1y6zho1_400/" rel="attachment wp-att-6236" title="tumblr_m3oqs80Dod1r1y6zho1_400"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6236" title="tumblr_m3oqs80Dod1r1y6zho1_400" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3oqs80Dod1r1y6zho1_400-319x480.jpg" alt="" width="319" height="480" /></a></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3qecrko1m1r3revyo4_500/" rel="attachment wp-att-6232" title="tumblr_m3qecrkO1M1r3revyo4_500"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6232" title="tumblr_m3qecrkO1M1r3revyo4_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3qecrkO1M1r3revyo4_500-350x480.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="480" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3q83ycaoz1qbpg5zo1_500/" rel="attachment wp-att-6233" title="tumblr_m3q83yCAoZ1qbpg5zo1_500"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6233" title="tumblr_m3q83yCAoZ1qbpg5zo1_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3q83yCAoZ1qbpg5zo1_500-480x270.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="243" /></a></p>
<p>La deuxième avant-première s&#8217;est déroulée le 9 mai à Londres avec cette fois-ci Helena Bonham Carter :</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3rw69xbra1qd6m22o3_1280/" rel="attachment wp-att-6240" title="tumblr_m3rw69XBRa1qd6m22o3_1280"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6240" title="tumblr_m3rw69XBRa1qd6m22o3_1280" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3rw69XBRa1qd6m22o3_1280-480x335.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="302" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3rv3s4vvw1r7w4a8o1_500/" rel="attachment wp-att-6241" title="tumblr_m3rv3s4VvW1r7w4a8o1_500"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6241" title="tumblr_m3rv3s4VvW1r7w4a8o1_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3rv3s4VvW1r7w4a8o1_500-480x306.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="275" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/tumblr_m3pa54x2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-6242" title="tumblr_m3pa54X2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-6242" title="tumblr_m3pa54X2tf1rqda9no1_r1_500" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tumblr_m3pa54X2tf1rqda9no1_r1_5001-480x318.png" alt="" width="432" height="286" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Enfin la dernière avant-première s&#8217;est déroulée le 12 mai au Japon avec la présence de Tim Burton et Johnny Depp uniquement :</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/05/tout-savoir-sur-dark-shadows/e74ef3d2aa43/" rel="attachment wp-att-6244" title="e74ef3d2aa43"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6244" title="e74ef3d2aa43" src="http://www.tim-burton.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/e74ef3d2aa43-360x480.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="480" /></a></p>
<p><em>Merci à toto9529 pour les liens.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://forums.tim-burton.net/topic/3751">Retrouvez toutes les photos des avant-premières sur le forum</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em></em><a href="http://forums.tim-burton.net/forum/43">Venez discuter du film sur notre forum</a></p>
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		<title>Dark Shadows : interviews d&#8217;Helena Bonham Carter et de Colleen Atwood</title>
		<link>http://www.tim-burton.net/2012/01/dark-shadows-interviews-dhelena-bonham-carter-et-de-colleen-atwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Falang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cinéma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaborateurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Shadows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helena Bonham Carter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;actrice et la costumière se sont, l&#8217;une et l&#8217;autre, exprimées récemment sur le film. Leurs interviews n&#8217;apprennent rien de particulièrement nouveau, mais elles précisent tout de même certains points. Ces derniers ne sont en outre pas trop &#8220;spoilerisants&#8221;, mais ils peuvent donner des pistes sur ce que le film montrera, ou pas, donc vous êtes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>L&#8217;actrice et la costumière se sont, l&#8217;une et l&#8217;autre, exprimées récemment sur le film. Leurs interviews n&#8217;apprennent rien de particulièrement nouveau, mais elles précisent tout de même certains points. Ces derniers ne sont en outre pas trop &#8220;spoilerisants&#8221;, mais ils peuvent donner des pistes sur ce que le film montrera, ou pas, donc vous êtes prévenus.</p>
<p>Helena évoque évidemment son personnage, dont elle a du mal encore à se détacher, une psychiatre alcoolique cachant un secret. Elle ajoute que, ceci dit, tous les personnages du film possèdent des secrets plus ou moins lourds à porter. Selon elle, le film sera, qui plus est, difficile à vendre et à catégoriser : un mélange de soap opera, mais conçu de manière subtile, une histoire de fantôme doublée d&#8217;une triste histoire de vampires, le tout étant aussi très drôle&#8230; Pince-sans-rire, elle rappelle que son réalisateur de mari courait après l&#8217;école voir la série originale à la télévision, mais que, selon elle, ladite série était <em>&#8220;vraiment mauvaise, un soap opera hilarant de médiocrité, et parce que c&#8217;était si mauvais, il</em> [Tim Burton] <em>a ressenti le besoin d&#8217;en faire un film à gros budget&#8230;&#8221;</em> De ce point de vue, on n&#8217;est pas éloigné d&#8217;un esprit à la <em>Mars Attacks !</em></p>
<p>Colleen Atwood, costumière attitrée des films de Burton, évoque, quant à elle, les costumes, bien entendu, et notamment le challenge représenté par le personnage de Johnny Depp : un vampire de la catégorie de ceux qui ne sortent habituellement pas au grand jour, mais qui, pour les besoins du film, se doit de mettre le nez dehors au soleil de midi. Il fallait donc adapter la garde-robe pour que ce photosensible protège efficacement son épiderme, via différents chapeaux par ex. Elle parle également des lunettes de soleil aperçues sur les <a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/2011/09/dark-shadows-premieres-images-de-tournage-devoilees/" target="_blank">1ères photos</a> qui avaient filtrées sur le net, lunettes qui étaient des copies d&#8217;une paire centenaire. Elle se dit très satisfaite du résultat final et de l&#8217;ensemble du costume. Enfin, elle salue Johnny Depp, semble-t-il toujours très à l&#8217;aise dans des costumes divers et variés.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/12/01/helena-bonham-carter-dark-shadows/" target="_blank">Interview d&#8217;Helena Bonham Carter sur le MTV movies blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogofdarkshadows.com/2011/12/27/with-dark-shadows-costume-designer-colleen-atwood/" target="_blank">Interview de Colleen Atwood sur le Blog of Dark Shadows</a> (site de fans)</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://forums.tim-burton.net/topic/3648/page/3">En discuter sur le forum</a></p>
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		<title>Tim Burton Interviewé Par The Wrap</title>
		<link>http://www.tim-burton.net/2009/09/tim-burton-interviewe-par-the-wrap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laston</dc:creator>
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The Wrap vient de réaliser une interview de Tim Burton dans laquelle le réalisateur s&#8217;exprime sur Alice In Wonderland, Frankenweenie et 9. Pas mal d&#8217;infos intéressantes à récolter, notamment concernant la vision artistique particulière que le réalisateur porte sur ses films. Trailers, univers &#8220;sombres&#8221; à la mode à Hollywood sont ainsi évoqués&#8230; Une interview intéressante [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.thewrap.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Wrap</em></a> vient de réaliser une interview de Tim Burton dans laquelle le réalisateur s&#8217;exprime sur <strong><em>Alice In Wonderland</em></strong>, <strong><em>Frankenweenie</em></strong> et <strong><em>9</em></strong>. Pas mal d&#8217;infos intéressantes à récolter, notamment concernant la vision artistique particulière que le réalisateur porte sur ses films. Trailers, univers &#8220;sombres&#8221; à la mode à Hollywood sont ainsi évoqués&#8230; Une interview intéressante car elle sort des stéréotypes de la promotion de films et révèle certains aspects de la pensée de Tim Burton:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thewrap.com/article/tim-burton-grilled_5117" target="_blank">Tim Burton Grilled on &#8216;Alice,&#8217; &#8217;9&#8242;</a></p>
<h3>Liens</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/films/alice-in-wonderland" target="_blank">Dossier <em>Alice In Wonderland</em></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tim-burton.net/films/frankenweenie-2011" target="_blank">Dossier <em>Frankenweenie (2011)</em></a></li>
<li><a href="http://forums.tim-burton.net/forum.php?id=34" target="_blank">Forum <em>Alice In Wonderland</em> et <em>Frankenweenie</em></a></li>
</ul>
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		<title>Entretien vidéo avec Johnny Depp et Tim Burton (sous titres FR)</title>
		<link>http://www.tim-burton.net/2008/02/entretien-video-avec-johnny-depp-et-tim-burton-sous-titres-fr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Depp et Tim Burton, Duo mythique.
Rencontre de 7 minutes (par Fluctuat.net) à l&#8217;occasion de la sortie du film Sweeney Todd
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Johnny Depp et Tim Burton, Duo mythique.<br />
Rencontre de 7 minutes (par Fluctuat.net) à l&#8217;occasion de la sortie du film Sweeney Todd</p>
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		<title>Moviefone Unscripted Interview (EN) &#8211; Johnny Depp + Tim Burton</title>
		<link>http://www.tim-burton.net/2007/12/moviefone-unscripted-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Tim Burton sur Mars Attacks!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercredi 22 janvier 97. La nuit tombe sur Hollywood déjà gris sous l&#8217;orage. Le mythique Château-Marmont, tel le chateau du comte Dracula, surplombe toujours Sunset Boulevard. La pluie gouttant sur ses angles rappelle, au choix, l&#8217;antre de la famille Addams ou celle d&#8217;Edward aux mains d&#8217;argent. On comprend pourquoi Tim Burton et sa compagne et [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mercredi 22 janvier 97. La nuit tombe sur Hollywood déjà gris sous l&#8217;orage. Le mythique Château-Marmont, tel le chateau du comte Dracula, surplombe toujours Sunset Boulevard. La pluie gouttant sur ses angles rappelle, au choix, l&#8217;antre de la famille Addams ou celle d&#8217;Edward aux mains d&#8217;argent. On comprend pourquoi Tim Burton et sa compagne et belle Martienne Lisa Marie y ont élu domicile. Nous débarquons avec quelques accessoires de <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span> &#8220;volés&#8221; dans l&#8217;après-midi à la Warner. Pendant le déchargement, Rosanna Arquette déboule avec son énorme 4&#215;4 et manque de nous écrabouiller sans même s&#8217;en apercevoir. Dans la cuisine, Lisa Marie se laisse maquiller, coiffer, pomponner pendant deux heures par ceux qui l&#8217;ont déjà transformée en Martienne pour <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span> Tim débarque enfin, avec leur chihuahua du Japon (lui aussi star dans le film). Les blagues fusent sur le quadrupède miniature arpentant hystériquement mais prudemment chaque recoin et chaque occupant de la pièce. Un martien est suspendu au plafond, et la chaine HiFi, seule rescapée du chambardement, crache les remix métalliques de Björk sous les spots éblouissants, rouges, verts et blancs de Stéphane Sednaoui. Tim et Lisa s&#8217;assoient silencieusement devant une télé eteinte. Ils se sussurent des mots doux et se lancent des clins d&#8217;oeil. La veille, Tim nous avait parlé de son dernier film, né d&#8217;une série de cartes à collectionner des années 60, l&#8217;occasion pour lui de conjuguer son talent de dessinateur (il a débuté chez Disney) avec sa sympathie pour &#8220;le plus mauvais réalisateur du monde&#8221; et héros de son film précédent: Ed Wood.</p>
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<p><strong>Première/<span class="filmtitle"> Mars Attacks!</span> est-il vraiment une parodie ?<br />
Tim Burton /</strong> Il y a des éléments. C&#8217;est un patchwork d&#8217;idées. J&#8217;ai essayé de casser les clichés du genre.<em>(Il rit.)</em> J&#8217;ai grandi en regardant ce genre de films. Vous prévoyez le moment où les personnages sont prêts à débiter leurs tirades téléphonées. Vous reconnaissez les personnages types, comme le gars qui comprend tout, tout de suite. Le son, aussi, est important. Dans tous ces films de science-fiction, il y avait toujours ces sons idiots de rayons laser&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Ce n&#8217;était pas dur de vendre aux studios un film qui se moque de leur fond de commerce ?</strong><br />
Là, c&#8217;était facile parce que tous les acteurs avaient accepté le projet pour cette raison. A Hollywood, il y a tellement d&#8217;argent en jeu maintenant qu&#8217;on peut plus tuer les stars! Mais même les acteurs en ont marre!</p>
<p><strong>Vous pensez avoir fait un film à la Ed Wood ?</strong><br />
J&#8217;avoue que je me suis laissé hanter par son esprit. Il était si enthousiaste. Et puis, ce genre de films a crée l&#8217;imagerie qui, quelles que soient les évolutions technologiques, restera l&#8217;essence même des films comme <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span> Ces images sont peut-être même plus fortes aujourd&#8217;hui qu&#8217;à l&#8217;époque. La technologie n&#8217;y change rien. Moi, je reste influencé et inspiré par des films comme <span class="filmtitle">L&#8217;invasion vient de Mars</span>(Tobe Hooper, 85) qui dénotait un grand sens du design.</p>
<p><strong>Vous vous considérez comme un outsider ?</strong><br />
Tout le monde, non ? C&#8217;est un sentiment assez commun. Une fois que ça vous tombe dessus, je ne crois pas que vous puissiez en sortir. Vrai ou pas, ça vous colle à la peau. Mais je ne tiens pas trop à m&#8217;analyser, sinon je deviendrais fou. Dans tout mes films, on retrouve ce thème de la perception de ce qui est &#8220;différent&#8221;. J&#8217;essaie toujours de ne pas juger, je trouve ça dangereux, mais j&#8217;ai toujours une opinion.</p>
<p><strong> Pourquoi sabotez-vous toujours au générique le logo du studio ?</strong><br />
C&#8217;est juste pour les taquiner. Mais c&#8217;est gentil. C&#8217;est ma revanche. Ils me cherchent, ils me trouvent. Même s&#8217;ils sont plutôt bons avec moi. Evidemment, ça les fait un peut tiquer, mais ils sont tolérants. Je trouve ça assez sain.</p>
<p><strong>Vos images sont extrêmement riches en détails&#8230;</strong><br />
C&#8217;est ce que j&#8217;adore dans la réalisation et ce qui me motive. Il y a une espèce de procédure standard à Hollywood qui consiste à immédiatement tout étaler à l&#8217;écran. Ca m&#8217;ennuie. J&#8217;aime cacher, que tout ne soit pas compris instantanément, qu&#8217;il reste plusieurs éléments à découvrir dans un plan. C&#8217;est ce qui donne au film un caractère mystérieux. C&#8217;est ça qui lui confère sa texture, sa beauté. Même si tout le monde ne voit pas tout, il suffit que le spectateur sente cette &#8220;texture&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Que voulait dire Ed Wood quand il déclarait: &#8220;film-making is not about the tiny details. It&#8217;s about the big picture&#8221; (&#8220;un film ne se préoccupe pas des détails. C&#8217;est un tout&#8221;) ?</strong><br />
C&#8217;est un délire complet! Le producteur lui demande des comptes et il esquive par une réponse bidon. C&#8217;est comme les studios avec les réalisteurs. Quand vous vous lancez dans la réalisation, vous commencer à délirer, à créer votre propre monde totalement imaginaire. Ca arrive à tous, et à moi le premier. Vous vous immergez dans votre propre illusion, vous loupez tout ce qui se passe à l&#8217;extérieur. Je l&#8217;ai vécu. Et au moment où quelqu&#8217;un vient vous poser des questions, instinctivement, vous répondez n&#8217;importe quoi pour avoir la paix.</p>
<p><strong>Ca vous arrive souvent ?</strong><br />
Oui. Naturellement, il m&#8217;est déjà difficile de garder les pieds sur terre. Alors, quand je réalise un film&#8230;L&#8217;irréel prend le pas sur le réel. Vous avez un tel pouvoir que vous êtes rapidement victime de la folie des grandeurs!</p>
<p><strong>Spécialement sur des productions à 400 millions de francs comme <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span></strong><br />
Oui et non. Sur une aussi grosse production, tant de trucs peuvent mal tourner que vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre d&#8217;être totalement fou et égocentrique. Quoique&#8230;j&#8217;en connais certains. Pour moi, c&#8217;est plutôt un garde-fou. <em>(Il s&#8217;excite en rigolant) </em>Dans<span class="filmtitle"> Ed Wood</span>, la scène avec la pieuvre, je dis: &#8220;Ok, action!&#8221; et l&#8217;acteur répond; &#8220;<em>Fuck you</em>! Viens-y toi, dans la mare!&#8221; Bon, ok, ça peut m&#8217;arriver&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Vous donnez beaucoup d&#8217;indications aux acteurs ?</strong><br />
On touche là au rôle décisif du casting. Quand j&#8217;ai demandé à Martin Landau de jouer dans <span class="filmtitle">Ed Wood</span>, je savais qu&#8217;il comprendrait vite; il a vécu le type de carrière de Bela Lugosi, avec des hauts et des bas. Je me renseigne personnellement sur le passé des acteurs avant de les choisir. Mais je préfère, quand je peux, rester flou dans mes conversations avec eux. Avec Johnny Depp, sur<span class="filmtitle"> Edward aux mains d&#8217;argent</span>, nous parlions de chiens! Certains acteurs vous disent: &#8220;Ok, je le joue comme Gary Cooper.&#8221; Mais moi, je ne veux pas de références. <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span>, par exemple, s&#8217;appuie entièrement sur une ribambelle de films bizarres de SF, mais je n&#8217;ai jamais suggéré à personne de jouer comme dans <span class="filmtitle">La Planète interdite</span>! J&#8217;essaie d&#8217;utiliser des références plus abstraites. Je détesterais qu&#8217;on trouve un emprunt dans un de mes films.</p>
<p><strong> <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span> a été un bide aux Etats-Unis&#8230;<em>(36 M$ en fin de carrière)</em>. Ca vous pose un problème ?</strong><br />
Je ne sais jamais pourquoi mes films marchent ou pas. Si je le savais, je serais l&#8217;homme le plus riche du monde. J&#8217;ai choisi le cinéma parce qu&#8217;il offre différents niveaux de compréhension au spectateur. Ce qui me contrarierait, ce serait que personne ne comprenne plus rien à ce que je montre. Mais que certains comprennent aux prix de l&#8217;incompréhension des autres ne me dérange pas. Jusqu&#8217;à présent, j&#8217;ai eut la chance d&#8217;avoir pour moi assez de personnes de la première catégorie&#8230;</p>
<p><strong> Le triomphe d&#8217;<span class="filmtitle">Independance Day</span> a-t-il eu une influence sur votre film ?</strong><br />
Sûrement sur le public. Certainement pas sur moi ni sur ma réalisation. En fait, je n&#8217;ai pas été le voir. Je ne vais jamais au cinéma pendant que je tourne. Quand je travaille sur un film, je ne veux être influencé par absolument rien, que ça ait à voir ou pas avec mon film.</p>
<p><strong>D&#8217;où vient cette &#8220;humeur&#8221; qu&#8217;on retrouve dans vos films ?</strong><br />
De mon enfance, je crois. J&#8217;ai grandi dans une banlieue américaine (<em>Burbank</em>) qui est plus grise que ce qu&#8217;on en présente? Je suis de la génération des années 50, de la famille et de l&#8217;ère nucléaire: tout le monde doit être heureux et avoir 2,5 enfants&#8230; Tout était censé aller pour le mieux mais ce n&#8217;était pas la réalité. C&#8217;est pourquoi j&#8217;aime autant montrer que les choses ne sont pas ce qu&#8217;elles semblent être. Notre cité a tendance à catégoriser. Or, on n&#8217;a pas une force sans sa contre-force. Dans <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span>, les martiens étaient la force qui mettaient en évidence cette tendance à la catégorisation. En ce sens, la guerre du Golfe était typique: elle avait son hymne, son propre code visuel, son logo, son propre titre! Les choses ne sont pas si lisses. Dans mon film, tous ceux qui meurent sont ceux qui pensent avoir tout compris sur les Martiens. Et ceux qui ne dressent pas de profils types des Martiens s&#8217;en sortent.</p>
<p><strong> Vous vous considérez comme un intellectuel ?</strong><br />
Je suis un gosse de la télé. Mes références philosophiques sont plutôt (<em> il rit) </em>les <span class="filmtitle">Beverly Hillbillies</span>. C&#8217;est malheureux&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Que pensez-vous de la découverte d&#8217;une vie possible sur Mars ?</strong><br />
Les gens qui sont choqués par l&#8217;existence d&#8217;une vie sur une autre planète me fascinent. Comme ces types qui construisent leur maison à Malibu et s&#8217;effarent que l&#8217;océan ait pu l&#8217;emporter. Les gens ont vraiment des vues étroites. Ca m&#8217;étonne toujours quand tout le monde s&#8221;excite autant sur les phénomènes de l&#8217;univers parce que, bien evidemment, ça existe!</p>
<p><strong>Vous avez vu des choses ?</strong><br />
Bien sûr. J&#8217;ai vu des trucs que je ne peux pas expliquer. A moins qu&#8217;un type ait réussi à balancer une assiette en carton 100 mètres plus haut que tout le monde!</p>
<p><strong>Dans une Amérique de plus en plus &#8220;correcte&#8221;, on sent que vous êtes, vous, à deux doigts de déraper&#8230;</strong><br />
J&#8217;ai de plus en plus de difficulté à définir ce qui est &#8220;politiquement correct&#8221; aujourd&#8217;hui. On n&#8217;arrête pas de hurler sur ce qui est &#8220;incorrect&#8221; et, en même temps, regardez comment on vous présente les infos! Pour moi, c&#8217;est ce qu&#8217;il y a de plus dingue. On s&#8217;insurge contre la violence dans les films et, après, on vous présente la guerre comme une minisérie, comme une charmante petite chose. Pour moi, <span class="filmtitle">Mars Attacks!</span> est certes une fiction, mais, au bout du compte, il est assez bizarrement réaliste dans notre monde complètement cinglé.</p>
<p><span class="filmtitle"><strong>Mars Attacks!</strong></span><strong> est bourré de vert et de rouge, les couleurs de Noël&#8230; Noël est très présent dans vos films&#8230;</strong><br />
Noël est un moment heureux mais c&#8217;est aussi le moment où les gens se suicident le plus! En Amérique, les gens associent &#8220;conte de fées&#8221; à &#8220;l&#8217;histoire joyeuse pour enfants&#8221;. En réalité, ces contes sont les histoires les plus sinistres que vous puissiez entendre. Ils se rapprochent davantage du film d&#8217;horreur. C&#8217;est pour ça que j&#8217;essaie toujours de montrer que les apparences sont trompeuses. Batman, le Pingouin&#8230;, ils ont tous cette double personnalité. Noël, c&#8217;est la lumière et c&#8217;est aussi l&#8217;obscurité, je dois avouer qu&#8217;à chaque fois qu&#8217;on m&#8217;a foutu sur les genoux du Père Noël quand j&#8217;étais gamin, j&#8217;étais terrifié! D&#8217;abord, c&#8217;est qui ce type, avec son gros nez rouge et son truc blanc ?</p>
<p><strong>Une question stupide&#8230;</strong><br />
Ok! Réponse stupide&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Pensez-vous que Bill Clinton soit un extraterrestre ?</strong><br />
Ce n&#8217;est pas du tout une question stupide. Ce n&#8217;est peut-être pas un alien, mais plutôt un robot&#8230;En fait, je dirais que c&#8217;est un androïde d&#8217;une autre planète.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey folks, Harry here&#8230;. With NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS getting the 3D treatment this weekend &#8211; Disney set me up to interview Tim Burton&#8230; someone that I&#8217;ve wanted to talk to for a very very long time. Burton is just someone that loves many of the same classic old films and quirks of the past that many folks like me share. We float all over the place here, but specifically &#8211; we&#8217;re having the most fun talking about 3D, Vincent Price, Hammer Films, Johnny Eck, etc&#8230; Enjoy this interview, I know I did&#8230;</p>
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TB: Hi, this is Tim Burton calling for Harry.</p>
<p>HK: Hey! This is Harry Knowles.</p>
<p>TB: Hey. Sorry I&#8217;m a little late. I know you gotta run&#8230; go, too. Sorry I&#8217;m calling you a little late.</p>
<p>HK: No problem. My screening wound up getting pushed back.</p>
<p>TB: Oh, okay. Good, good, good.</p>
<p>HK: I&#8217;m on a series of push-backs today.</p>
<p>TB: I know the feeling.</p>
<p>HK: How&#8217;re things going on SWEENEY TODD?</p>
<p>TB: Oh, it&#8217;s just early days, you know. It&#8217;s interesting. I&#8217;ve never done something like this before, so the casting process is quite different and interesting. I&#8217;m right in the middle of that. I&#8217;m excited because it&#8217;s something new for me, so&#8230; just a whole new process.</p>
<p>HK: What do you mean by it being so different for you?</p>
<p>TB: Well, just doing a musical kind of thing. I mean, I&#8217;ve done&#8230; with the animated things, there&#8217;s music and stuff, but this is a different process. I don&#8217;t know. You just look for different things. It&#8217;s just slightly different than what I&#8217;m used to.</p>
<p>HK: This has been one that has been floating around with you&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: I&#8217;ve always loved it &#8217;cause it&#8217;s&#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I remember when I first saw it on stage it was this sort of Grand Guignol kind of horror movie musical. I always loved it for that.</p>
<p>HK: Are there going to be stylistic similarities to the way you handled that sort of Grand Guignol sort of stuff in SLEEPY HOLLOW?</p>
<p>TB: Well, you know&#8230; yeah, I do love those kinds of movies and things, so yeah&#8230; there&#8217;s certainly probably a bit of that in there. Just those old expressionist movies and old horror movies, but that juxtaposed against the music, which is so beautiful and strong. I don&#8217;t know&#8230; it&#8217;s just an interesting combination to me.</p>
<p>HK: I can&#8217;t wait to see it.</p>
<p>TB: Me, too! (laughs)</p>
<p>HK: I just can&#8217;t wait to see how Johnny (Depp) handles that character.</p>
<p>TB: That&#8217;s what&#8217;s great about him. He&#8217;s just so game, he&#8217;s so into trying different things, too. So, that&#8217;s going to be exciting.</p>
<p>HK: So, what do you think about this 3-D process that&#8217;s being adapted to NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS?</p>
<p>TB: Well, I love it. To be honest&#8230; I&#8217;ve always been very protective, especially of that movie. Because it&#8217;s stop-motion and it&#8217;s dimensional&#8230; The fact is, if you were on the set&#8230; it&#8217;s like, 3-D, you know? Because you&#8217;re on the set with the puppets and the characters. 3-D actually fits right into it. When I first started seeing some tests, it kind of reminded me of the little Viewmasters&#8230; you know the little 3-D Viewmasters?</p>
<p>HK: Yep.</p>
<p>TB: It just seemed to accentuate and help it, in a way. You can almost feel the puppets, you feel the texture of it more. I think it just almost gives more of a mood of it, in a certain way. So, I&#8217;m really excited about it.</p>
<p>HK: I remember back when Disney was originally promoting NIGHTMARE they actually had that 3-D Lenticular poster&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Yeah!</p>
<p>HK: Which kind of promised a 3-D film.</p>
<p>TB: I know! I know!</p>
<p>HK: It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Finally! Here it is!&#8221;</p>
<p>TB: Exactly and it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve watched a 3-D movie without getting a headache, too, so that&#8217;s good. The technology has gotten better. Obviously, it wasn&#8217;t shot with 3-D in mind, but it works quite well. Again, I think it&#8217;s because of the stop-motion process and the fact that it&#8217;s kind of half-way there, in a certain way.</p>
<p>HK: I know that Lucas is planning on using the same process on STAR WARS and Cameron&#8217;s going to do it on TITANIC and I think Peter Jackson&#8217;s going to try it on LORD OF THE RINGS and stuff&#8230; How do you feel about the concept that perhaps some of your past films can be turned into 3-D. I mean, is this exciting or&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: I don&#8217;t know&#8230; With 3-D technology&#8230; some things it&#8217;s good for, some things&#8230; There&#8217;s always a danger&#8230; is it going to be the way every movie is going to be made from now on? Possibly&#8230; But I&#8217;m sure we thought that back when they were doing HOUSE OF WAX and that kind of ran its course. It&#8217;s hard to (see) if things are sometimes a gimmick or if it&#8217;s something that helps the medium or helps a specific project. I mean, some projects seem more 3-D than others. Or is it going to be the complete wave of the future? It&#8217;s sort of hard to predict that. Will people expect to see every movie in 3-D or not? It&#8217;s hard to know.</p>
<p>The technology is good. Like I said, no longer do you have to worry about looking like a complete idiot or getting a headache sitting in the theater. It&#8217;s pretty easy to deal with now. It&#8217;s genuinely interesting and I think for this one specifically it seemed to fit with the medium.</p>
<p>HK: I have to say&#8230; when Disney announced they were going to do this new &#8220;Miracle of 3-D&#8221; to NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, I was sort of, like, ecstatic because there&#8217;s something so cool about that film being the first film of many that are wanting to do the process, you know?</p>
<p>TB: It&#8217;s great, too, &#8217;cause, Harry&#8230; what&#8217;s really amazing is it actually just accentuates the stop-motion more. You know what I mean? I don&#8217;t know, you just feel the texture of the puppets more, you kind of get the spacial difference you felt when you were on the set doing it. It just feels very special for me and I&#8217;m really happy that it&#8217;s that one, too.</p>
<p>HK: So, with a movie like&#8230; I know you&#8217;re producing Shane Acker&#8217;s 9. Is 3-D something y&#8217;all are thinking of for that?</p>
<p>TB: That seems like a pretty good candidate for it, to be honest. We&#8217;ve had discussions about that. That one really, in my mind, lends itself to the possibility of that.</p>
<p>HK: How&#8217;s that comin&#8217; along?</p>
<p>TB: You know, it&#8217;s going to be a long process. It&#8217;s going to be interesting. It&#8217;s a different type of animated film, which is great. It&#8217;s not the usual talking animals kind of thing. I think it&#8217;s exciting to be involved with something that&#8217;s dealing with a different type of animation and in a different kind of movie.</p>
<p>HK: His short was just brilliant.</p>
<p>TB: Yeah, I know. I was amazed that he sort of single-handedly pulled that off. It&#8217;s going to be interesting. It&#8217;s nice to see, again, animation branching out into different kinds of stories and not just kids stuff.</p>
<p>HK: Would you, if NIGHTMARE&#8217;s successful in 3-D, would you look to convince Warners to do the same to CORPSE BRIDE?</p>
<p>TB: Um&#8230; I think&#8230; Again, there&#8217;s something about the stop-motion medium. Those lend themselves to this process and, again, I think because of the fact&#8230; I mean, it allows the puppet-maker&#8217;s work, the artist&#8217;s work, the set-builder&#8217;s work to really kind of come through in a way that is like the reality of it when you&#8217;re making it. It&#8217;s not so much the feel like a gimmick as it helps to accentuate the artistry that was sort of put into it by all the artists.</p>
<p>HK: One of the things that I think is interesting about bringing 3-D to a film that was composed for 2-D is&#8230; that sort of taking of 3-D the way Hitchcock wanted to use 3-D in DIAL M FOR MURDER&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Yeah, it&#8217;s not everything in your face kind of thing, that&#8217;s what I liked about NIGHTMARE. You do have things come forward&#8230; there are a couple moments when Jack gets close, when he&#8217;s singing SANDY CLAWS, and it kind of has a real good 3-D effect, but it&#8217;s not the kind of thing that&#8217;s completely in your face. You&#8217;re not just going, &#8220;Wow! The technology!&#8221; You&#8217;re still kinda just looking at the story. You almost kind of forget about it in a certain way, which, to me, in this case, is good.</p>
<p>HK: How satisfying is it to see NIGHTMARE just continue to grow each year, the way you&#8217;d imagine Rankin &amp; Bass had to feel about the RUDOLPH story&#8230;.</p>
<p>TB: That&#8217;s&#8230; I mean, Harry, for me&#8230; the whole genesis of NIGHTMARE was because I was in love with Rankin &amp; Bass, watched it every year. And THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS every year. It was a ritual that I really, really loved. If it affects anybody that way, then I&#8217;m extremely happy because that&#8217;s where its heart came from, those kinds of things. It&#8217;s also amazing to me, too&#8230; Going back to when NIGHTMARE first came out. I&#8217;ve never heard of this in the history of any movie. They didn&#8217;t even want to put out a trailer for the movie. I was, like, &#8220;Wait a minute! Even the worst movies have a trailer!&#8221; You know? (laughs)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like, to see it go from that to where it is now is kind of amazing.</p>
<p>HK: For a while there&#8230; It came out and did well for its budget, but I think it underperformed to some people&#8217;s expectations and then the Japanese toy market, in a weird way, kept the thing going&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: I know, I know. It really is strange because Disney&#8217;s always, obviously, been known for their toy-making abilities, but they couldn&#8217;t crack this one. It really was the Japanese that completely kind of shamed everybody into, &#8220;Yes! You see? You can make a toy of a character with no eye-balls! You can make appealing and great toys!&#8221; It kind of goaded them into reassessing it and kind of re-looking at it, in a way.</p>
<p>HK: Do you have a favorite of the NIGHMARE toys that have been release?</p>
<p>TB: Well, they just keep kind of coming out. I don&#8217;t know who buys them or anything&#8230; (laughs) I was impressed completely by the Japanese in that way because they really, really&#8230; I mean, you can almost animate some of them, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>HK: I have a large selection of the big-sized toys. If you had a way of locking their legs down&#8230; that&#8217;s the big difference.</p>
<p>TB: Exactly! We tried different things around the house just see if we could do it, but no&#8230; You could use little screws there, but then you got little holes in your floor all over the place! That one they haven&#8217;t quite cracked yet. But, beyond that, in terms of the look and texture and the movement of them, they&#8217;re beautiful.</p>
<p>HK: Here&#8217;s a question I&#8217;ve always wanted to ask you&#8230; We ever going to see a GEEK LOVE movie out of you?</p>
<p>TB: (laughs) I was really interested in that. I think it always just felt a bit daunting. It&#8217;s like&#8230; You probably heard this and you know this, but you get quite daunted&#8230; If there&#8217;s a book that you really love, there&#8217;s something quite daunting about doing it justice in a certain way. I&#8217;ve sort of played around with it, but you get sidetracked and stuff. It is something that I do love. I do love the book. I just sort of (need to) get rid of that fear factor of destroying a great book. (laughs)</p>
<p>HK: (laughs) It&#8217;s a perfect marriage of material!</p>
<p>TB: I know, I know, I know. I certainly respect it and love it. That would certainly go into it.</p>
<p>HK: I know you get a certain amount of the GEEK LOVE vibe out of being able to do something like RIPLEY&#8217;S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, if it ever happens&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Exactly. I met some people&#8230; I met this one guy who was really amazing. He was like Johnny Eck, you know? It was fantastic. I was very disappointed, pretty devastated by that one, yeah.</p>
<p>HK: Leonardo DiCaprio was developing a Johnny Eck script for a while, that I read&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Oh, really?</p>
<p>HK: Yeah, it was actually really kind of fascinating. It had him, as the half-man, swimming against Johnny Weissmuller&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Yeah! He lived amazingly. He&#8217;s such a&#8230; He moved kind of like Fred Astaire or something. He was really incredible.</p>
<p>HK: Yeah. Just the idea that he was playing something like a trombone&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: This guy who came in who had the same kind of thing as Johnny Eck, he had this dance troupe&#8230; The way he moved&#8230; it was one of the most beautiful things I&#8217;ve ever seen because nobody else could do that, you know? You couldn&#8217;t simulate that. No special effects or anything. I was quite excited about him.</p>
<p>HK: Will we ever see you use some of the footage you shot for those interviews with Vincent Price?</p>
<p>TB: Yeah, you know what? I&#8217;m going to revisit that. The weirdest thing happened with that. Back at the time, we had trouble getting the rights to clips and that kind of thing and I kind of just left it alone. I was there interviewing him&#8230; I hated&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how to say this. I can&#8217;t sort of stand hearing my own voice, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>HK: I tooooootally understand what you&#8217;re saying! (laughs)</p>
<p>TB: As much as I loved him and wanted to do it&#8230; I just thought, &#8220;Aw, shit!&#8221; That kind of stopped it for me for a while, but now I think enough time has gone by and it is some of the last stuff of him, so I can get me out of it in a certain way and kind of let him&#8230; &#8216;Cause he&#8217;s so great.</p>
<p>HK: It&#8217;s weird because I&#8217;ve never seen just a great piece on Vincent Price.</p>
<p>TB: You see the Biography Channel, that kind of stuff&#8230;</p>
<p>HK: Yeah, that kind of stuff, but that doesn&#8217;t really&#8230; I mean, Vincent did a play in Wichita Falls, TX, back in the &#8217;80s and spent an hour and a half on the phone with me one night on Halloween.</p>
<p>TB: Wow! He&#8217;s that kind of guy!</p>
<p>HK: Exactly! He&#8217;s that sort of guy. And I&#8217;ve never seen anyone capture that, you know?</p>
<p>TB: That&#8217;s the thing about him. I mean, when I first sent him VINCENT&#8230; you know, the idea for a short film, he was just so supportive! His involvement basically got the movie made, you know what I mean? In East LA he had this art school&#8230; you know, the poor kids in East LA have this amazing art collection due to him. He was just really generous with all that kind of stuff. He was quite amazing that way.</p>
<p>HK: The thing that struck me&#8230; I mean, I was just some kid. It wasn&#8217;t like I had done the site and&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: That&#8217;s the thing! That&#8217;s how I felt. He understood. He understood that the reason he was who he was was because of people like us and he was really cool about all that. I don&#8217;t know. I was really grateful that that was the first kind of Hollywood experience I had and it was so positive. You know, it didn&#8217;t start out on a jaded foot. It was like, &#8220;Wow! This is really amazing.&#8221; This is somebody who you grew up watching and he turns out to be a great person.</p>
<p>HK: I can&#8217;t imagine what it would be like to have actually met Lugosi on his heroine side, you know?</p>
<p>TB: Exactly.</p>
<p>HK: With someone like Vincent, you never had that. You always had a man of class and style&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Yes.</p>
<p>HK: And to meet a hero&#8230; that&#8217;s the thing that&#8217;s so wonderful about what you did with the character of Lugosi in ED WOOD.</p>
<p>TB: I think that probably had more to do with Vincent in a certain way than it did with Lugosi, you know what I mean? In terms of that kind of relationship. It was so strong to me. My career in terms of realizing that not everybody&#8217;s an asshole here! That there are some really artistic, great people and they have a real positive vibe about them. So, when times go dark, I always remember that in a certain way.</p>
<p>HK: That&#8217;s one of the things that I&#8217;ve always loved about what you do. You resuscitate some of those Hammer film stars and get someone like Christopher Lee involved&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Oh, yeah&#8230; He&#8217;s amazing! (laughs) In SLEEPY HOLLOW I was like, &#8220;What about Christopher Lee?&#8221; and they all kept saying, &#8220;He&#8217;s dead.&#8221; People kept trying to convince me that he was dead. And then, oh! Okay, he&#8217;s not dead and, by the way, after (SLEEPY HOLLOW) he goes and does STAR WARS and LORD OF THE RINGS and he&#8217;s recording heavy metal bands in Italy and doing Operas in Germany. That just begins to show you the sort of Hollywood mentality.</p>
<p>HK: Peter Jackson set me up for the worst joke of all time&#8230; I was talking to him about Christopher Lee once and he went into this whole thing about how Christopher Lee actually met Adolf Hitler and he fabricated this entire story for me, knowing I was going to meet him. I have this footage of me asking (Lee) about meeting Hitler and Christopher Lee going (in Christopher Lee voice), &#8220;No-no-no-no-no-no! I have never met Adolf Hitler!&#8221;</p>
<p>TB: (laughs) Well, the fact is, he pretty much met everybody else. That&#8217;s the great thing about Christopher. You kind of believe it&#8217;s a possibility! (laughs)</p>
<p>HK: I was at a press junket with him in France and there was a reporter from the Czech Republic there and the next thing I know, he just starts flurrying into that bombastic voice of his in some obscure dialect that I don&#8217;t know!</p>
<p>TB: He speaks, like, 5, 6, 7, 8 languages&#8230; I don&#8217;t know. I remember the first time I met him in in the Dorchester&#8230; he walked in and everybody just turned. I sat down with him and talked for 2 hours and it seemed like 10 minutes. It was like you were hypnotized by Dracula, you know? It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Oh, my God!&#8221; He&#8217;s got such an amazing presence. Still! He&#8217;s still all over the place. He&#8217;s like (in Christopher Lee voice), &#8220;I&#8217;m off to record a heavy metal album with a band in Italy!&#8221; Or, &#8220;I&#8217;m reading THE LORD OF THE RINGS in Swahili!&#8221; He&#8217;s always amazing. That&#8217;s an inspiration to see someone like that keep going strong.</p>
<p>HK: Are you going to be able to squeeze him into SWEENEY somewhere?</p>
<p>TB: Yeah, I&#8217;d love to. I love him. I really think he&#8217;s amazing. Just that voice, you know? I haven&#8217;t had the nerve yet to ask him to do my answering machine&#8230; (laughs) I don&#8217;t like getting calls, so I think it&#8217;ll really be helpful for people to not leave messages. It&#8217;d be great.</p>
<p>HK: (laughs) What&#8217;s Michael Gough like to work with?</p>
<p>TB: Oh, he&#8217;s fantastic, too. I love him. Again, he&#8217;s just this sweet&#8230; He&#8217;s a great artist. He&#8217;s just a great, great guy. That&#8217;s the amazing thing. A lot of these guys who you grow up (watching)&#8230; A lot of times I&#8217;d be sitting there, talking to him and just go, &#8220;Man, I&#8217;m sitting here talking to the guy who was in KONGA!&#8221; You know? Or HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM. It&#8217;s just great. He&#8217;s just an amazingly down to earth, great guy.</p>
<p>Again, I&#8217;m so lucky to meet these people who I kind of idolized growing up and they&#8217;re all of them great!</p>
<p>HK: Earlier this year I brought in Ray Harryhausen to host a screening of the 1933 KING KONG&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: He&#8217;s great, too! He&#8217;s a great guy!</p>
<p>HK: Yeah! I just sat down with him and he was actually at the World Premiere of KONG in &#8217;33 in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>TB: (Orgasmic/awed gasp)</p>
<p>HK: And I had him just describe the opening pre-show that Sid Grauman did&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Wow!</p>
<p>HK: It&#8217;s like&#8230; literally! Who else could you ask? Who else is alive who was there? And for, like, an audience of 200 people, he just time-tripped back as a little boy and told the story of what the pre-show was. You&#8217;re just like&#8230; &#8220;Wow!&#8221; Yet he was so appreciative that I knew to ask the question.</p>
<p>TB: See, that&#8217;s great. I just met him recently for the first time. Johnny and I went to his house in London, here, and he&#8217;s just so open and warm. He&#8217;s such an open, enthusiastic&#8230; It&#8217;s like what you would hope in your life, that you would never lose your enthusiasm and interest in things and joy about things and curiosity about things. It&#8217;s a real inspiration, those people.</p>
<p>HK: For me, when I watch him move it&#8217;s like watching an old Mighty Joe Young, you know?</p>
<p>TB: (laughs)</p>
<p>HK: You can actually see his movements, you know?</p>
<p>TB: Exactly! You watch his hands, too, and it&#8217;s like you see some of the movement that some of his characters (made). It&#8217;s incredible.</p>
<p>HK: That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s just really amazing about stop-motion. A lot of times, you really do see the movements of the animators. But then you can say the same thing about the 2-D animators&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Of course, of course.</p>
<p>HK: Because if you see Ollie Johnston, you see him in his characters.</p>
<p>TB: Absolutely. Definitely. Definitely. All those guys, Frank Thomas&#8230; That&#8217;s the great thing, that&#8217;s the excitement about animation&#8230; It&#8217;s something inanimate coming to life and all of that&#8230; there&#8217;s a real energy to it.</p>
<p>HK: Would you ever do a 2-D feature?</p>
<p>TB: Ummm&#8230; If it&#8217;s the right kind of thing&#8230; especially now that they&#8217;ve proclaimed it a dead medium, then you always get interested in it, you know? (laughs) I don&#8217;t know. You always try, I think, with animation, you try to treat the project with the medium, in a certain way, so I think with the right kind of story and the right kind of thing&#8230; it&#8217;s still a beautiful artform.</p>
<p>HK: Any plans to do further things with STAINBOY or OYSTER BOY?</p>
<p>TB: I don&#8217;t know. I do love stop-motion. There are things kind of bubbling around, but nothing really specific.</p>
<p>HK: What&#8217;s happening on RIPLEY&#8217;S BELIEVE IT OR NOT?</p>
<p>TB: I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I was just so devastated by it that I just had to take a step away for a second. It&#8217;s something I like and that&#8217;s why I wanted to do it. I like Jim (Carrey) very much, I think he&#8217;s really talented and stuff&#8230; I just&#8230; You know, when you work something for almost a year and that happens, it gets&#8230; it&#8217;s pretty devastating. So, I&#8217;m taking a step back from it for a minute.</p>
<p>HK: While waiting on the call today, I just got the soundtrack for SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO in and finally found a full hour length one. To me, there&#8217;s a lot of that film&#8217;s spirit in a lot of the work you&#8217;ve done.</p>
<p>TB: It&#8217;s interesting. I remember seeing that movie. It&#8217;s a really odd movie in a way. It sort of defies categorization in a certain kind of way.</p>
<p>HK: To sort of revisit NIGHTMARE a little, did you ever want to show the little boy who gets the shrunken head cry when Santa Claus takes his shrunken head away? (giggles)</p>
<p>TB: (laughs)</p>
<p>HK: Because that was me, right? I always opened every Christmas present hoping for a shrunken head!</p>
<p>TB: I know, I know. Well, that&#8217;s a limited audience of you and I and a few other people&#8230; (laughs)</p>
<p>HK: I know you wanted the shrunken head.</p>
<p>TB: Of course! No, of course!</p>
<p>HK: On SWEENEY TODD, is Danny (Elfman) going to be doing some re-orchestration for you on that?</p>
<p>TB: I&#8217;ve talked to him, but I just don&#8217;t&#8230; My relationship with Danny now&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ask him to do that just because it wouldn&#8217;t be using him to what his great talents are. He&#8217;s busy at the moment, so I think&#8230; I mean, he&#8217;s very supportive of me and that&#8217;s great, but it wouldn&#8217;t utilize his talents very well.</p>
<p>HK: It was just one of the things I was wondering because I couldn&#8217;t really imagine him musically fitting in with that, you know?</p>
<p>TB: I know he&#8217;s done things, like when did the PSYCHO (remake)&#8230; when he was involved with that thing, but you know&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t ask him to do something like this because it wouldn&#8217;t really use his talents the way they should be presented.</p>
<p>HK: You were developing for a really long time MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Oh!</p>
<p>HK: Is that something that&#8217;s been abandoned?</p>
<p>TB: There are always those that kind of float around a little bit. You get side-tracked with things, but it&#8217;s kind of like seasonal&#8230; Sometimes I revisit it because it&#8217;s something that still interests me.</p>
<p>HK: You hear about people in Disney that have been wanting to do something more with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, but at the same time, as a fan of it I just can&#8217;t imagine any sort of sequel&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: I completely resist it because I feel like&#8230; It would just undermine what makes it special to me&#8230; you know, visiting Thanksgiving World or, you know&#8230; whatever&#8230; Doesn&#8217;t seem right.</p>
<p>HK: How do you feel about them using the NIGHTMARE characters on something like The Haunted Mansion. Does that feel good to you or is it sort of like messing with something precious to you in a different form?</p>
<p>TB: At one level, I feel quite honored by it, but there&#8217;s one level where it kind of pissed me off because they never&#8230; Because, you know, you feel like it&#8217;s your creation and it&#8217;s something that they&#8230; I mean, they were excited enough to let the movie be made, but that was about it, and then it becomes something else. I have mixed feelings about it, but basically I think it&#8217;s fine. Where I would draw the line would be doing spin-off movies or something like that. That I don&#8217;t feel is right.</p>
<p>But that I felt was kind of cool. I love The Haunted Mansion. I felt more bad for The Haunted Mansion in a certain way because that&#8217;s like toying with a classic!</p>
<p>HK: That&#8217;s sort of what I was thinking of. I know you growing up in Burbank&#8230; going to The Haunted Mansion had to be&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Yeah, that was a big deal. I remember when it first opened up. It was a big deal. It was a great ride. I feel more sorry for that.</p>
<p>HK: Well, awesome. Thanks so much for taking the time&#8230;</p>
<p>TB: Sure, Harry. Nice to talk to you. What are you seeing tonight? What is your screening?</p>
<p>HK: I&#8217;m seeing Tom Tykwer&#8217;s PERFUME.</p>
<p>TB: Oh!</p>
<p>HK: I hear it&#8217;s really, really great. A film that you&#8217;ve got to do whatever you can to get a look-see at is PAN&#8217;S LABYRINTH by Guillermo Del Toro.</p>
<p>TB: Yeah, yeah. That was at Cannes, I think, this year.</p>
<p>HK: It&#8217;s incredible. For who people like you and me are&#8230; it&#8217;s such a great film. You&#8217;d love it.</p>
<p>TB: Well, he&#8217;s great. I&#8217;ll have to look for that. Thank you. I&#8217;ve been looking for something to go see. (laughs).</p>
<p>HK: It&#8217;s not out until late December and I imagine you&#8217;ll be in full-swing on SWEENEY.</p>
<p>TB: I&#8217;ll have time to check it out. Thanks for the recommend. Again, Harry, it was great to talk to you and&#8230; yeah. I&#8217;ll probably talk to you again sometime.</p>
<p>HK: I&#8217;ll talk to ya&#8217; later!</p>
<p>TB: Talk to you later. Bye!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is one of the most celebrated directors of his generation. Tim Burton is the man behind &#8220;Batman,&#8221; &#8220;Beetle Juice,&#8221; &#8220;Sleepy Hollow,&#8221; &#8220;Edward Scissorhands&#8221; and &#8220;Ed Wood.&#8221; This year, the 47-year-old director added two more soon-to-be classics to his resume: &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8221; and &#8220;Corpse Bride.&#8221; With &#8220;Batman&#8221; and its sequel &#8220;Batman Returns&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>He is one of the most celebrated directors of his generation. Tim Burton is the man behind &#8220;Batman,&#8221; &#8220;Beetle Juice,&#8221; &#8220;Sleepy Hollow,&#8221; &#8220;Edward Scissorhands&#8221; and &#8220;Ed Wood.&#8221; This year, the 47-year-old director added two more soon-to-be classics to his resume: &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8221; and &#8220;Corpse Bride.&#8221; With &#8220;Batman&#8221; and its sequel &#8220;Batman Returns&#8221; released on DVD this week, he spoke to Newsweek&#8217;s Ramin Setoodeh.</em></p>
<p><strong>NEWSWEEK: Hi. You&#8217;re in London now. What&#8217;s the weather like?</strong><br />
<strong>Tim Burton:</strong> It&#8217;s raining.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s raining here in New York, too. It looks like the set of one of your movies—it&#8217;s so dark outside.</strong><br />
Well, I like it. I&#8217;ve been here for several years. I&#8217;ve done like three or four movies here. The weather and the environment suits me.</p>
<p><strong>Are you working on anything now?</strong><br />
After finishing &#8220;Charlie&#8221; and &#8220;Corpse Bride,&#8221; two at once—you need to . . .</p>
<p><strong>Take a break?</strong><br />
I&#8217;m not doing anything right now.</p>
<p><strong>I read somewhere that Johnny Depp says there might be a sequel to &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?&#8221;<br />
</strong>I don&#8217;t think so. For him as an actor, with him doing &#8220;Pirates,&#8221; he likes revisiting characters sometimes. For me, doing sequels is not a good idea. I don&#8217;t really see it.</p>
<p><strong>But you did a sequel to &#8220;Batman.&#8221;</strong><br />
I got some flack on that one. That&#8217;s what made me feel like I shouldn&#8217;t do sequels. A lot of people got on my case on that.</p>
<p><strong>Right, and I don&#8217;t understand why, because I think it&#8217;s the best &#8220;Batman&#8221; film.<br />
</strong>It was a weird phenomenon. I remember going through a lot of press stuff—and half the people would go: &#8220;This is much lighter than the first movie.&#8221; And it was split down the middle: &#8220;This is so much darker than the first.&#8221; How could a movie be lighter and darker? It just didn&#8217;t make any sense to me. It was a confusing experience.</p>
<p><strong>Well, do you think it was lighter or darker?<br />
</strong>I didn&#8217;t think much about it, really. It&#8217;s more of a label that&#8217;s put upon you. I don&#8217;t consider myself a dark person. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to make a lighter movie or a darker movie. You let the material be what it is.</p>
<p><strong>The reason I like &#8220;Batman Returns&#8221; so much is the richness of the villains.<br />
</strong>That&#8217;s why I think &#8220;Batman&#8221; is my favorite comic. I love the Joker and Catwoman and the Penguin. I love giving them a back story. It&#8217;s easier with the Joker. But with Catwoman and the Penguin, I think that&#8217;s what spurred me out. Where it got a lot of flack was I spent too much time on those characters and people kept thinking Batman was a secondary character. I was just trying to respect who I thought that character was. He was a guy who likes to remain as hidden as possible. He&#8217;s not trying to be as flamboyant as the villains and do James Bond one-liners. That&#8217;s why I never gave him a Robin character. He wants to be alone, you know.</p>
<p><strong>But I thought originally Robin was supposed to be part of &#8220;Batman Returns.&#8221;</strong><br />
There was always talk about it. But for me, at the end of the day, I felt like I couldn&#8217;t go there. It just didn&#8217;t feel right with who the character was. The whole point of him is that he&#8217;s repressed and he has a lot of issues and he&#8217;s hiding in a cave. If you bring somebody else to live with you in a cave it turns in more into—I don&#8217;t know—a caveman movie.</p>
<p><strong>Did you know you wanted Michael Keaton right away after &#8220;Beetle Juice?&#8221;</strong><br />
No. We were looking at a lot of traditional, superhero types—square jawed, chiseled actors. Then it dawned us that Batman is a guy who isn&#8217;t that. He&#8217;s trying to create a persona. He&#8217;s trying to become something that he&#8217;s not. After working on Michael with &#8220;Beetle Juice,&#8221; he had a wildness in his eyes, a pent up energy. He just really felt right.</p>
<p><strong>But later in the series, we get George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale. They&#8217;re all chiseled.</strong><br />
But we were in new territory at the time. At the time it felt right to me, from a psychological point of view. I kept thinking if the guy was such a strong looking, tough looking guy, why would he make this bat suit? Why doesn&#8217;t he just put on a mask and go kick the shit out of people? That, for me, fed into the effect of somebody trying to create this weird persona of something that they&#8217;re not.</p>
<p><strong>What about Catwoman. Did you know you wanted Michelle Pfeiffer?<br />
</strong>Actually, we had cast Annette Bening. And she got pregnant. She would&#8217;ve been great—but Michelle was just fantastic. She did things that amazed me. I really admire her. First of all as an actress. But then doing things like skipping around with a whip on sloped wet roofs on three-inch Manolo Blahniks is harder than it looks.</p>
<p><strong>Is there another comic book adaptation that you would die to do?</strong><br />
Well, now I feel like every version is a dark comic book. I don&#8217;t know. I think you almost want to switch and see some guy in yellow tights with purple underwear who&#8217;s not so tormented.</p>
<p><strong>Have you seen the new Batman movie?</strong><br />
No. Which I&#8217;m kind of glad about.</p>
<p><strong>Because you&#8217;re afraid if you didn&#8217;t like it . . .<br />
</strong>No. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m afraid that I won&#8217;t like it. I just think it&#8217;s unfair. The media likes to pit people against other people. The people out there can decide for themselves which movies they like and which movies they don&#8217;t like and that&#8217;s the point really.</p>
<p><strong>What about the Joel Schumacher versions?</strong><br />
I have trouble watching my own movies. We&#8217;ll start there. I didn&#8217;t watch those, because it was material I felt close to. It felt weird to me. It was too close at the time for me to watch them.</p>
<p><strong>So you&#8217;ve never seen them?</strong><br />
No. I mean, I&#8217;ve seen parts on cable. But I haven&#8217;t.</p>
<p><strong>Do you find criticism that &#8220;Batman&#8221; was too scary unfair? After all, you&#8217;re not making these movies for kids.</strong><br />
I grew up watching movies where peoples arms got torn off. They&#8217;d run their bloody stumps down the steps. A monster would bite and tear off a piece of flesh from a doctor&#8217;s neck. You&#8217;d watch this on TV. They&#8217;re like dark fairy tales. I always feel like in that myth, fable world, kids can take more than adults think.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8221; was for kids. And you still got stung—with people comparing Depp&#8217;s performance to Michael Jackson.</strong><br />
Yeah. We were quite saddened because we were basing it on LaToya Jackson. (Pause.) It&#8217;s something we never talked about. It&#8217;s one of those things so obviously in the culture at the moment, it&#8217;s easy to see what people are thinking. It&#8217;s certainly not something that he and I ever talked about.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s your favorite movie that you&#8217;ve done?</strong><br />
I don&#8217;t really know. It&#8217;s hard for me to choose, really. As time goes along, your perspective changes really. The further away you get, the more you like them. It&#8217;s kind of organic that way. I feel there are films that I feel closer to. I guess &#8220;Scissorhands&#8221; or &#8220;Ed Wood&#8221; or the stop-motion movies because of the artistry involved in them.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A l&#8217;heure du tout-numérique, l&#8217;un privilégie le dessin, l&#8217;autre la marionnette, le troisième la pâte à modeler&#8230; Maîtres de l&#8217;animation à l&#8217;ancienne, Michel Ocelot, Tim Burton et Nick Park s&#8217;interrogent sur les mutations actuelles du genre. Et s&#8217;en inquiètent.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A l&#8217;heure du tout-numérique, l&#8217;un privilégie le dessin, l&#8217;autre la marionnette, le troisième la pâte à modeler&#8230; Maîtres de l&#8217;animation à l&#8217;ancienne, Michel Ocelot, Tim Burton et Nick Park s&#8217;interrogent sur les mutations actuelles du genre. Et s&#8217;en inquiètent.</p>
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C&#8217;est l&#8217;automne magique du cinéma d&#8217;animation. Sur les écrans, la déferlante : cette semaine, le premier long métrage &#8211; savoureux et inventif &#8211; mettant en scène nos héros british préférés, créés par Nick Park et les magiciens du studio Aardman, Wallace et Gromit, Le mystère du lapin-garou. Puis, douze ans après <em>L&#8217;Etrange Noël de monsieur Jack </em>, le retour du petit théâtre macabre de Tim Burton, via des <em>Noces funèbres </em> (sortie le 19 octobre) grotesques à souhait. Enfin, <em>Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages </em>, de Michel Ocelot (coréalisé avec Bénédicte Galup, en salles le 7 décembre), suite des aventures du vaillant petit guerrier de la brousse.</p>
<p>Derrière ces trois films, trois créateurs venant d&#8217;horizons divers, aux prises avec un mode d&#8217;expression que les progrès techniques &#8211; et notamment l&#8217;image de synthèse &#8211; ont révolutionné. Aucun d&#8217;entre eux ne croit au tout-numérique. Sans rejeter l&#8217;ordinateur, utilisé à des fins très précises, chacun perpétue des techniques plus traditionnelles : le dessin animé pour le Français Michel Ocelot et l&#8217;animation image par image de marionnettes, pour l&#8217;Américain Tim Burton, ou de personnages en pâte à modeler, pour l&#8217;Anglais Nick Park.</p>
<p>Ces trois-là privilégient une forme d&#8217;artisanat ludique. A-t-il encore cours, alors que le cinéma d&#8217;animation est devenu un enjeu économique majeur ? Comment empêcher que la série l&#8217;emporte désormais sur le prototype, alors que les deux <em>Shrek </em> ont rapporté dans le monde, rien qu&#8217;en recettes salles, plus de 1 milliard de dollars ? Comment survivre au triomphe de l&#8217;animation en 3D ? Réponses à trois voix, va-et-vient triangulaire entre mini-odyssées personnelles et lois du marché.</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Y a-t-il un film qui vous a fait découvrir l&#8217;animation et qui vous a donné envie d&#8217;en faire ?<br />
Nick Park : </strong> J&#8217;ai vu <em>Blanche-Neige </em> quand j&#8217;étais enfant, et je me souviens encore du plaisir d&#8217;être effrayé. Mais si j&#8217;ai commencé, à l&#8217;adolescence, à bricoler de petits films image par image, grâce à une caméra que m&#8217;avait offerte mon père, c&#8217;est sous l&#8217;influence de <em>King Kong </em> et de ses créatures animées par Willis O&#8217;Brien. Je regardais aussi l&#8217;animation à la BBC : les films pour la jeunesse, dans les années 70, témoignaient d&#8217;une audace et d&#8217;une inventivité qu&#8217;on ne trouve plus aujourd&#8217;hui.<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> Ce n&#8217;est pas un film d&#8217;animation qui a déclenché ma vocation, mais <em>Jason et les Argonautes </em>, avec ses effets spéciaux animés image par image par Ray Harryhausen. J&#8217;aimais évidemment les films de Disney ou les cartoons de la Warner, mais j&#8217;ai toujours apprécié les films composites, qui mélangent prises de vues réelles et animation, comme ceux du Tchèque Karel Zeman. Il y a dans l&#8217;image par image un côté artisanal qui vous fait ressentir très fort la présence de l&#8217;artiste animant sa création.<br />
<strong>Michel Ocelot : </strong> Un film fondateur ? J&#8217;avais été fasciné par <em>La Révolte des joujoux </em>, de la Tchèque Hermína Tyrlova, tourné juste après la guerre : le vrai <em>Toy Story </em>, en quelque sorte ! Et puis aussi par les trouvailles de Disney dans <em>Pinocchio </em> : Gemini Criquet se couche dans une boîte d&#8217;allumettes, et tire le couvercle comme si c&#8217;était une couverture. Ça m&#8217;enchante encore ! Mais je dirais que mon métier vient directement de mes jeux d&#8217;enfant. Ce que je fais aujourd&#8217;hui, je le faisais quand j&#8217;avais 10 ans : je dessine, j&#8217;invente, je m&#8217;amuse, je bricole, je m&#8217;intéresse à tout, et je fais jouer les autres&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Avant de rencontrer le succès, avez-vous connu des moments de doute, voire de complet découragement ?<br />
Nick Park : </strong> J&#8217;ai eu de la chance. J&#8217;ai commencé mon premier <em>Wallace et Gromit </em> [ <em>Une grande excursion </em>, achevé en 1991, NDLR] alors que j&#8217;étais encore à l&#8217;école de cinéma, et les choses se sont enchaînées avec bonheur. Je n&#8217;ose imaginer la réaction des gens si j&#8217;avais proposé aujourd&#8217;hui ex nihilo un long métrage mettant en scène un Anglais célibataire et vieux jeu avec son chien ! Le doute surgit plutôt pendant le travail créatif : imaginez que, dans le meilleur des cas, il se passe quatre ans entre le moment où vous inventez un gag et celui où vous pouvez enfin le visualiser dans le film terminé&#8230; Vous avez tout le temps de ne plus le trouver très drôle&#8230;<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> Je suis entré chez Disney comme animateur au début des années 80&#8230; et je n&#8217;étais vraiment pas fait pour ça ! Je ne savais pas dessiner à la manière de Disney, surtout à une période où le studio était en plein doute, produisait des films médiocres comme <em>Rox et Rouky </em> ou <em>Taram et le chaudron magique </em>. J&#8217;étais si mauvais qu&#8217;ils m&#8217;ont laissé faire mes dessins dans mon coin, et même mon premier court métrage, <em>Vincent </em>. Quitter Disney ne m&#8217;a finalement pas si mal réussi.<br />
<strong>Michel Ocelot : </strong> J&#8217;ai eu une vie un peu pathétique d&#8217;artiste qui n&#8217;arrive pas à trouver du travail et à vivre de son art. Au fond de ma cour, j&#8217;étais connu parce que mes courts métrages recevaient des prix dans les festivals. J&#8217;avais envie de me tuer au travail, mais je n&#8217;avais ni argent, ni matériel. Je me suis souvent posé la question : puisque personne ne veut de moi, dois-je continuer ? Mais je n&#8217;ai toujours fait que ce que je voulais. J&#8217;ai refusé d&#8217;animer la série <em><em>Pif le chien </em></em>, en me disant : je ne suis pas sur terre pour faire <em><em>Pif le chien </em></em>. Voilà : j&#8217;ai une vie d&#8217;artiste obstiné, qui n&#8217;est pas tombé sur des mécènes.</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Avez-vous le sentiment de vivre en ce moment un âge d&#8217;or de l&#8217;animation ?<br />
Nick Park : </strong> Sans doute, et notamment pour ce qui concerne l&#8217;animation de long métrage. Il n&#8217;y a jamais eu autant de films, surtout grâce aux progrès de l&#8217;animation par ordinateur. Le souci, c&#8217;est de maintenir la diversité des genres et des techniques&#8230; Tim Burton a pu réaliser <em>Les Noces funèbres </em> comme il l&#8217;entendait, mais s&#8217;il ne s&#8217;était pas appelé Tim Burton, cela aurait-il été possible ?<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> Est-ce qu&#8217;on peut parler d&#8217;âge d&#8217;or, au moment où Disney ferme son département d&#8217;animation 2D ? Tout un pan de la création est laissé aujourd&#8217;hui à l&#8217;abandon. Il y a une renaissance quantitative, mais avec une méfiance à l&#8217;égard de certaines techniques plus traditionnelles.<br />
<strong>Michel Ocelot : </strong> Je crois qu&#8217;on vit un âge d&#8217;or en termes de public. Il faut remercier l&#8217;animation japonaise, et notamment les séries type <em>Goldorak </em>. Les enfants qui les regardaient ont bien sûr grandi, et forment un public de jeunes adultes intéressés par l&#8217;animation. Les Japonais &#8211; Miyazaki et Takahata en tête &#8211; ont été les premiers à concevoir des films pour tous les âges. Côté français, le premier <em>Kirikou </em> a prouvé qu&#8217;un dessin animé francophone pouvait s&#8217;exporter dans le monde entier.</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Les enjeux économiques liés aujourd&#8217;hui aux films d&#8217;animation n&#8217;engendrent-ils pas un risque d&#8217;uniformisation des contenus ? Hollywood semble appliquer sans cesse les mêmes recettes&#8230;<br />
Nick Park : </strong> Oui, je redoute un peu le triomphe d&#8217;un seul type d&#8217;humour, le pastiche et le second degré. En voyant certains films, j&#8217;ai l&#8217;impression d&#8217;entendre hors champ les suggestions des producteurs ou même des comités de lecture des majors&#8230; Trop d&#8217;histoires, trop de situations sont des copier-coller d&#8217;autres films. On remarque a contrario quand un film porte la marque de son auteur : j&#8217;ai aimé <em>Les Indestructibles </em>, parce que j&#8217;y reconnaissais le goût du réalisateur, Brad Bird.<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> Il y a deux problèmes, chez les majors hollywoodiennes. D&#8217;abord une telle âpreté au gain qu&#8217;elles attendent toujours plus, au risque de faire passer pour des échecs des films qui, pourtant, sont extrêmement rentables. Ensuite, cette obsession d&#8217;user une formule jusqu&#8217;à la corde : depuis <em>Toy Story </em> et <em>Shrek </em>, l&#8217;animation en 3D marche, alors on épuise le filon, et tous les films finissent par se ressembler. J&#8217;ai eu l&#8217;occasion de travailler en animation 2D traditionnelle, d&#8217;abord en supervisant la série tirée de <em>Beetlejuice </em>, puis en signant des courts métrages pour un site Internet. J&#8217;en ai conclu à la nécessité de trouver à chaque fois la technique convenant le mieux au projet et à sa diffusion. On ne peut pas faire tous les films en « stop motion » [image par image, NDLR] ou en 3D numérique.</p>
<p><strong>Michel Ocelot : </strong> Quand Pixar [la société qui a produit <em>Toy Story </em>, <em>Monstres &amp; Cie </em>, <em>Le Monde de Nemo </em>] se met à singer Pixar, ça devient dangereux. Elle risque de perdre ce qui a fait son succès initial : son côté outsider. John Lasseter et son équipe étaient des gens qui aimaient simplement leur boulot, le cinéma, les enfants. Je ne suis pas loin de penser que le court métrage est le format le mieux adapté à l&#8217;animation. Avec ses objectifs de rentabilité, le long métrage vous met un boulet au pied. Si on est musclé, il ne se voit pas. J&#8217;ai bon espoir, néanmoins, qu&#8217;en France, où l&#8217;on a assez mauvais caractère, on continue à faire des films différents.</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Avez-vous profité d&#8217;innovations techniques pour mener à bien votre dernier projet ?<br />
Nick Park : </strong> La principale innovation, dans la méthode de travail, c&#8217;est l&#8217;échelle. J&#8217;ai commencé le premier <em>Wallace et Gromit </em> tout seul ; le long métrage a parfois mobilisé deux cent cinquante personnes, actionnant simultanément trente caméras sur trente plateaux miniatures ! Mais 99 % restent de l&#8217;image par image classique. Le côté manuel est indispensable à ce genre de projets.<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> Dans <em>Les Noces funèbres </em>, j&#8217;ai eu recours à des marionnettes très sophistiquées. Sur <em>L&#8217;Etrange Noël de monsieur Jack </em>, on utilisait énormément de têtes et de membres de rechange ; à présent, chaque marionnette contient un mécanisme complexe, comme une montre suisse, qui permet de lui donner des expressions plus fines. Mais l&#8217;animation image par image, elle, n&#8217;a pas changé depuis les origines du cinéma.<br />
<strong>Michel Ocelot : </strong><em>Kirikou </em> reste de l&#8217;animation traditionnelle, dessinée au crayon sur du papier, mais après, tout le reste est numérique. J&#8217;ai beaucoup utilisé le logiciel Photoshop : je m&#8217;en suis servi pour créer une véritable bibliothèque de plantes, qui m&#8217;ont servi, en les multipliant et en changeant les couleurs, à créer une infinité de décors. J&#8217;y ai pris un grand plaisir de peintre. Pour moi, le dessin reste une nécessité. Il provoque une réaction chimique dans le cerveau, que la 3D ne provoque pas. La 3D, c&#8217;est une image pour les chiens : il n&#8217;y a pas besoin de la traduire, elle est là. Alors que le dessin est un trait noir qui n&#8217;existe pas dans la nature. Il faut la cervelle d&#8217;un humain pour saisir que ce zigzag-là est une jolie fille.</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Les films d&#8217;animation ont de plus en plus recours à des acteurs célèbres pour donner voix aux personnages. Qu&#8217;en pensez-vous ?<br />
Nick Park : </strong> Je n&#8217;aime pas les voix modernes, choisies uniquement parce qu&#8217;elles sont connues. La voix de Wallace est essentielle pour mon travail : elle est constitutive de la façon dont je vais animer le personnage. Elle appartient à Peter Sallis, un acteur anglais qui n&#8217;est pas une star. Notre coproducteur, Dreamworks, n&#8217;aurait rien eu contre quelqu&#8217;un d&#8217;un peu plus connu ; il s&#8217;est contenté des noms de Ralph Fiennes et Helena Bonham Carter, qui ont prêté leur voix à deux autres personnages.<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> Pour <em>Les Noces funèbres </em>, j&#8217;ai été gâté : c&#8217;est probablement la meilleure distribution que j&#8217;ai eu à diriger ! J&#8217;ai privilégié la qualité sur la notoriété. Une bonne voix ne sauve pas un film : souvenez-vous que la voix de Brad Pitt n&#8217;a pas empêché le flop de <em>Sinbad </em>.<br />
<strong>Michel Ocelot : </strong> Les voix connues, je trouve cela pathétique. Ce sont les commerçants qui imposent cette hybridation. Pour <em>Kirikou </em>, j&#8217;ai obtenu gain de cause : je voulais des voix africaines francophones, que je suis allé enregistrer à Dakar. Mais si dans un de mes films il y avait un personnage de vedette, je n&#8217;aurais rien contre le fait de prendre une star&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Télérama : Considérez-vous au fond que l&#8217;animation est aussi riche que le cinéma traditionnel ?<br />
Nick Park : </strong> Je vais répondre du point de vue de ma stricte expérience personnelle. L&#8217;animation est le genre idéal pour moi, c&#8217;est le meilleur véhicule pour mes idées. Le « stop motion » ressemble à la prise de vues réelles en miniature, la taille et la technique ne m&#8217;intimident pas&#8230;<br />
<strong>Tim Burton : </strong> J&#8217;aime l&#8217;immédiateté du cinéma classique. Mais, sur un bon film d&#8217;animation, vous sentez que chacun a travaillé comme un artiste. Dans certains passages des <em>Noces funèbres </em>, j&#8217;ai le sentiment qu&#8217;on est parvenu à une précision dans l&#8217;expression des personnages qui n&#8217;a rien à envier à la prise de vues réelles.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Helena Bonham Carter on Her Initial Involvement in “Corpse Bride:”</strong> “Well, first of all he gave it to me to read, I think just because I&#8217;m a friend obviously. I made a child with him – so he just wanted me to read it anyway, you know, just to see what I thought. And I did think it was a beautiful script and really moving. Actually, a brilliant script. And that&#8217;s the thing with animated films – I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses. But, so he gave me that and then he wanted me to play Victoria, actually. He let it slip that, &#8216;You know, would you be interested in playing…?&#8217; ‘Of course, you know I&#8217;d love to.&#8217;<br />
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He wanted me to play Victoria and I was kind of like, ‘Hmm,&#8217; because it was sort of… Victoria was sort of [the] drama ingénue [and I] kind of did that, you know – to death.<br />
I felt like I was going to be type cast as a puppet as well. He said, ‘Well who do you want to play?&#8217; I said, ‘Well, Corpse Bride.&#8217; So then he went away and thought about it and then he came back and he said, ‘You know what? I&#8217;ve been thinking about it and, yeah, yeah, I could… But, you know, in animation we kind of need to, I mean would you ever think of any…&#8217; He did all these abandoned sentences [and] went on and on and on. And finally I said, ‘You want me to audition, don&#8217;t you?&#8217; And he said, ‘Yeah.&#8217;</p>
<p>So I went off and did my little audition and, luckily, two weeks later… Because nothing was said between us for weeks, I thought, ‘Is he going to mention it?&#8217; And then finally he came up to me very solemnly into my house. We have the same house, it&#8217;s just a weird house with my bed and then his bed. And he came in – it was kind of like a sweet marriage proposal, you know? ‘We would like be very honored if you would consider playing the role of Corpse Bride.&#8217;”</p>
<p><strong>Helena Bonham Carter Explains Her Approach to Playing Corpse Bride: </strong> “I think it&#8217;s just the same with any part. You try and find the human aspect in it. But it&#8217;s just a part of you.</p>
<p>&#8230;What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. But you still have to make it real and human.”</p>
<p><strong>On Providing Feedback Before the Start of Production: </strong> “He would talk about it. I would say pretty much when we sort of first got together he started talking about this story that had been percolating around – and he&#8217;d actually designed. There was a real Corpse Bride, which we still have, which is the original one. But that must be about 10 or 11 years old now. She&#8217;s in really bad shape actually. …She&#8217;s on his desk. And then all his designs and things, and he was slowly drawing all the characters. I remember when he literally drew skeletons. You know, the skeleton band and so we&#8217;d just talk about it. But, you know, I don&#8217;t think I put anything particularly into it, and I certainly don&#8217;t assume that I&#8217;m going to be part of something until he asks me.”</p>
<p><strong>The Nitty Gritty of Recording Her Voice for “Corpse Bride:” </strong> “I think just because of scheduling it&#8217;s quite hard to get anyone in the same room at the same time. We were all on our own, like in little booths, and they bring in an actor. But it wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be the actor that you&#8217;re [working with]. You know, I didn&#8217;t do one-liners opposite Johnny [Depp]. I just did it opposite a young man called Victor. A small 6-inch man called Victor. So you always have somebody to act opposite. You have to have something to react to. First off, they animate to you. You&#8217;re kind of providing the score, I think, to which they&#8217;re choreographing everything.”</p>
<p><strong>On Working With Danny Elfman on the “Tears to Shed” Song: </strong> “I loved it because I&#8217;ve always wanted to be in a musical and no one would let me up till now. And so I had these two verses and I&#8217;ve always been an admirer of Danny and his music. I just think he has genius but he&#8217;s such a nice [guy]. He&#8217;s a real modest man and also he&#8217;s a great teacher. <em>And </em> he&#8217;s a singer. I mean, I think he&#8217;s not given enough credit. His number ‘Bonejangles&#8217; in this thing – he&#8217;s got such a terrific voice and you forget he was in Oingo Boingo. But he&#8217;s such a great singer himself so we just went and did a couple of sessions in the recording thing. He taught some really good things like, ‘Stop thinking about the notes.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re being too reverential about the notes. Just act it, think it.&#8217;</p>
<p>We tried all different ways. He swears he didn&#8217;t have to twiddle too many knobs for me. He didn&#8217;t have to do the… Because you can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch. He also said I had exactly the same range as Marlene Dietrich. But then having said that maybe I don&#8217;t have the legs to play her. (Laughing) But he said, ‘You&#8217;d make a great Marlene if anyone…&#8217; You know, vocally &#8211; maybe in stop-motion.”</p>
<p><strong>On Frequently Collaborating with Partner Tim Burton: </strong> Bonham&#8217;s sense of humor and quick wit was apparent throughout the press conference, no more so than when Carter spoke about getting cast in Burton&#8217;s films. “I hope I don&#8217;t just [get cast] because I sleep with a guy he gives me a part. But you know what? Actually it&#8217;s quite the opposite. Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? So it obviously doesn&#8217;t work for me.”</p>
<p><strong>Helena Bonham Carter on Working with the Same Director Multiple Times: </strong> “I definitely like working with the same person twice – and three times and four times – particularly if they&#8217;re Tim, because he&#8217;s pretty good. And also, like on a film it takes a few months, or a couple of months or even weeks. So by the end of the &#8211; and it goes with not only the director but everybody involved &#8211; it takes such a long time just to get to know somebody and trust someone and work out how they communicate and what they want and dah, dah, dah, and feel safe with them. It&#8217;s you have to start right back at the beginning with a new job, you know what I mean? Why does Johnny [Depp] and Tim work and Danny [Elfman] and the whole lot of us seem to be just a bit too bordering the incestuous. It&#8217;s like, ‘oh, god, it&#8217;s the same shebang again.&#8217; But for all of them it feels like you&#8217;re never going to be able to repeat yourself because everybody wants something different. You all grow together and evolve together and they all feel safe together. Plus it&#8217;s fun. You get to see each other.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad I was in ‘Charlie&#8217; and in ‘Corpse Bride&#8217; – apart from personal reasons – the parts themselves. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever do anything, and Tim would never ask me to do anything – he&#8217;d never ask me if it was inappropriate.”</p>
<p><strong>Helena Bonham Carter Doesn&#8217;t Think Tim Burton&#8217;s Stories are Dark: </strong> “You know I argue that, and may be that I&#8217;ve lived with him too long, but I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s that dark, you know? I mean, it&#8217;s about death but actually it&#8217;s an immensely hopeful outlook. Because all the people in the land of the dead have a great [time]. They&#8217;re colorful; they&#8217;re having fun. And the end is very poetic and hopeful and beautiful. He&#8217;s got a black sense of humor and an un-politically correct sense of humor.</p>
<p>Put it this way – I&#8217;m just so glad he gets it out of his system. Sometimes I look at his little notepad and he just jots around and sketches incessantly. And then sometimes I go like, ‘Oooh, a bit dark…&#8217; You&#8217;re right, he has a bit of a dark thing going on but it&#8217;s always funny.”</p>
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