Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

The bad news first: this a not Tim Burton at its best. The fact that Sweeney Todd is a musical and the rigid codes that this format usually presents have limited a bit of his creativity and, sometimes, they don't let the movie flow the way it could/should. The good news: Sweeney Todd still has loads of things that make it a must-see. A visual gothic orgy in the way it presents London during the 19th century, its twisted humour, Johnny Depp still as good as ever and, most of all, watching an almost colourless screen being invaded by blood and suddenly becoming covered in red.

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Poetry # 2

BRIE BOY
by Tim Burton



Brie Boy had a dream he had only had twice,
that his full, round head was only a slice.



The other children never let Brie Boy play ...
... but at least he went well with a nice Chardonnay.

Must-have objects for a survival kit #3

The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, by Tim Burton


Being the brain behind masterpiece movies like Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks! or Batman Returns, we all know by now that Tim Burton is a genius. This is a book first published in 1997, consisting of poems and drawings that tell us the stories of tragic characters like Stick Boy, Staring Girl, The Boy with Nails in His Eyes, The Pin Cushion Queen, Brie Boy, Oyster Boy or The Girl Who Turned Into a Bed. Pretty much all of his trademarks are here: a sympathy for misunderstood outsiders, sophistication and childness, some black humor and an innocence mixed with the macabre. Enough reasons to make this a mandatory book that remind us why we like his work so much.