The so-called "I'm Feeling Lucky" should completely close the webpage, but when I saw the name Tim Burton, I decided to read it through. It is said that this is Burton's pioneering work.
People don’t seem to be sensitive enough to the name Burton, but he should have heard of several of his movies, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks. People play the earth, I admit that this is more vulgar, but it is indeed very famous), this year's new film is Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd). As a director, it is impossible to have a consistent style, and it is inevitable to be vulgar, but the story of returning to the basics often happens not only in movies, but also in their directors. I saw the shadow of Edward Scissorhands in Sweeney Todd. The Vincent I found today made me understand that the character setting of Corpse Bride actually happened 23 years ago.
Back to Vincent. A few key words: Rhapsody, Gothic, Edgar Allen Poe, precociousness, loneliness, diaphragm, experimentation, private, symbolic. Children’s animated short films were filled with these keywords, which reminded me of the Chinese citrus in Obsession. In short, Dischny decided to ban "Vincent" permanently. For the children, Vincent seemed too dangerous, too. Precocious. I think when the young Burton made this short film, he didn’t plan to be able to broadcast it successfully. I don’t know how "Vincent" was circulated in that era, but such an experimental film will always be immortalized on the Internet. . After reading it the first time, I only know that it was produced by Jim Burton and Rick Heinrishs. The date is unknown. Not to mention the early 1980s. Even today, "Vincent" should still be regarded as a forbidden area for children's animation. The production of "Vincent" can be regarded as a non-profit personal behavior, not to cater to gluttony, but a lonely maverick, which is why I added "experiment" and "private" to the keywords.
Gothic and symbolism. The dead tree and the black cat at the beginning of the short story have clearly pointed out their Gothic style. Looking at other elements in the film, they are mostly in line with the Gothic style, sisters, bats, spiders, wax figures, zombies, Alan Poe, buried wife, claustrophobia, portraits of the dead...Even for the most dull audience , These symbols rich in symbolic meaning are enough to explain everything. Of course, if you see the painting style of the short film, even these symbols are superfluous.
Rhapsody. The film does not have a trace of extravagance, and focuses on describing the inner world of a seven-year-old boy named Vincent. Vincent is educated, considerate, quiet, and precocious. When the other seven-year-old boys were still reading "Go Jane Go", Vincent was already reading Allen Poe. He is full of many weird fantasies. He hopes to throw his aunt into the wax museum where he melts the wax to enrich himself, hoping to create a zombie, at least a zombie dog. He fantasized about burying his beautiful wife alive, and even dug his wife's tomb to confirm that his wife was dead, bearing the mental pressure of every murderer described by Allen Poe.
When he was enjoying the satisfaction brought by the claustrophobic ancient capital, his mother suddenly broke into the door and said to him: "If you want to you can go outside and play. It's sunny outside and a beautiful day." This sentence can be said It is a trampling on the dignity of the claustrophobic, and it is also the eternal separation between the boy and the adult world. Because of the existence of this separation, Vincent has to live in his ghostly fantasy. The mother also symbolizes reality. When Vincent excavated his wife's "grave" in the flower garden, his mother punished him to lock him in the room. When he was in the tower of doom and prepared to sleep alone, his mother said in addition to the two sentences above, and at the back, his mother added more: "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead. These games that you play are all in your head. You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy. You're not tormented, you're just a young boy. You're seven years old, and you're my son, I want you to get outside and have some real fun." The arrogance of adults makes it impossible for them to see a corner of the heart of a child.
Vincent's mother doesn't seem to be too bad among adults. At least she knows that Vincent has the games he plays in his head. Although her attitude is domineering, she is aware of the existence of the games. The adults in the short story, Vincent's aunt and mother, are all cut off from the neck, leaving the whole body of the boy and the adult below the head. This seems to be a formal manifestation of the separation and conflict. .
The mother is the representative of the power of reality. The boy's poor fantasy can only survive in the cracks of reality. When Vincent is immersed in the fantasy, he will be roughly interrupted by his mother. This time, after his mother bluntly said something and then left angrily, Vincent could finally mutter Allen Poe's verses, quietly "dead", and the illusion finally got "eternal" liberation.
In the short film, only the narration tells the story. I like the voice and intonation of the narration. I even like to accompany him and recite the sentence aloud.
Obviously, the young Burton is familiar with Allen Poe and must have seen the House of Wax in 1953.
Well, Vincent's look is very similar to Edward, even his neurotic expression is the same.
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stop here, below, is the narration Vincent Malloy is seven years old,
He's always polite and does what he's told.
For a boy his age he's considerate and nice,
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.
He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cat,
Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats.
There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented,
And wander dark hallways alone and tormented.
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him,
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum.
He likes to experiment on his dog Abacrombie,
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie.
So he and his horrible zombie dog,
Could go searching for victims in the London fog.
His thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime,
He likes to paint and read to pass the time.
While other kids read books like Go Jane Go,
Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe.
One night while reading a gruesome tale,
He read a passage that made him turn pale.
Such horrible news he could not survive,
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive.
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead,
Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed.
His mother sent Vincent off to his room,
He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom.
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life,
Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife.
While alone and insane, encased in his tomb,
Vincent's mother suddenly burst into the room.
"If you want to you can go outside and play.
It's sunny outside and a beautiful day."
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak,
The years of isolation had made him quite weak.
So he took out some paper, and scrawled with a pen,
"I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again."
His mother said, "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead.
These games that you play are all in your head.
You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy.
You're not tormented, you're just a young boy."
"You're seven years old, and you're my son,
I want you to get outside and have some real fun ."
Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall,
While Vincent backed slowly against the wall.
The room started to sway, to shiver and creak.
His horrid insanity had reached its peak.
He saw Abacrombie his zombie slave,
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave.
She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands.
While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands.
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams,
Swept his mad laugh to terrified screams.
To escape the madness, he reached for the door,
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor.
His voice was soft and very slow,
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe,
"And my soul from out that shadow floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted--Nevermore!"
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