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SFX: 0:00- 0:08 “Ball and Socket Lounge Music #1 - Combo Version” - Bonejangles and his bone boys. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.

ANNCR: There’s always a time in our lives in which the darker side looks more appealing to our eyes. The death, rattling skeletons, pumpkin-headed phantoms, cemeteries, ghosts, creepy figures. That romantic scenarios are pretty much related with one director nowadays: Tim Burton. However, despite the original thought that could came to our mind thinking about the approach in which this topics are usually dealt, Mr. Burton has managed to keep away the fear for the unknown and turn it into a fun experience.

As many fans of the director know, Mr. Burton shows a noisy, colorful world where you can have fun even when if you’re dead. This shows that the darker side of the life is not always what it is expected to be, and the idea can be easily applied to the way we judge people at first side.

SFX: Tim Burton on “Behind the scenes: Tim Burton at MoMA” (2:35 -2:43) :“The word "normal" always scared me because that indicated something that was quite subersibely terrifying in some way. “

ANNCR: It’s generally well known that the director clearly highlights due to the characteristics of his characters but, if we look beyond the ghoulish looks of Edward Scissorhands or the Corpse Bride we will always end up facing a common feature: fragility and incomprehensibility. The figure of an outsider. Someone who wants to be part of something, belong somewhere, but for any reason she or he can’t. And that’s surely a feeling we can all understand because, at some point of our lives, we have felt the same way.

And this anxiety is clearly represented in “Edward Scissorhands”, broadcasted in 1990. A movie in which Edward, the main character, has scissors instead of hands, due to an unfinished creation. A boy who longs for acceptance in an hostile world that surrounds him.

SFX: Denise Di Novi “Edward Scissorhands - Hollywood Backstories” (2:01-2:12) : The character is an outsider and is very different, and feels very different from everyone else. But you’re yearns to be understood. And I thin that’s the beauty of Edward Scissorhands.

ANNCR: Edwards Scissorhands was the most personal film to date for director Tim Burton,a former Disney Animator who based the character on his own teenage impulses. As he has said: It’s based on the feeling of wanting to touch, in wanting to communicate but not being ably to. This feeling of outsider started at a young age when the director was both festinated and repelled by the cookie-cutter world of suburbia that surrounded him. The wideness of going to a friend’s house and it’s the same house as yours, of the “normality” that surrounded him.

Due to this, he founded a way to express himself: though drawing. However, the style wasn’t the beautiful and “normal” style that it’s generally accepted, but none of that mattered. Drawing was just a weeping to express the inner Tim, who didn’t find his place.

In spite of all the criticism Mr. Burton has suffered, the director has managed to create a place in the world for his imagination and sensibility, and many people has recognize him as a genius. Without going further, his right hand and great friend Johnny Depp stated that Burton is an artist, a genius, an eccentric, a crazy friend, brilliant, brave, insanely funny, loyal, nonconformist and sincere. And maybe, it’s true. As the actor of Burton’s most relatable character, Edward Scissorhands, has always defended, There’s none so misfit, adapt so well. In his own way.

SFX: 2:05 - 2:14 “Ball and Socket Lounge Music #1 - Combo Version” - Bonejangles and his bone boys. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.