, the character setting of the film is excellent and the shooting is excellent, which fully reflects the director's personal taste and standard. Moreover, black and white looks very sensational.
—— "Variety"
Bolton's most outstanding movie in recent years, although a little familiar, but it still makes you feel energy and enthusiasm. This is a living animation.
——Full movie
imagination is good, but the way of expression is too cumbersome. ——The behind-the-scenes production of
"The Hollywood Reporter"Tim Bolton's unfinished wish "Frankenstein Dog" This animation is Bolton's second 3D movie shot at Disney. The previous one was "Alice in Wonderland." "Frankenstein" is a remake of the movie, whose original is Bolton's live-action short film of the same name. In the discussion of the planned remake, the film was designated by Bolton as a "black and white stop motion animation." The project was established a long time ago. In 2005, Josiah McGibbon wrote the first draft script for the film. Later, the script was carefully polished by Burton and John August. It has always been Bolton’s wish to put "Frankenstein" on the screen as a stop-motion animation, because in his eyes, if the story of "Frankenstein" was made into a live-action feature film, it would look a little bit exaggerate. He said: "For me, shooting the animation of "Frankenstein" has always been a big event. I think stop motion animation and black and white are the best ways to express this subject. The characters, animals and monsters in the story can all be Appropriately represented. If it is a live-action movie, it will look a bit too much. Although this is an old theme and an old story, when I work on these content again, I will still have a new and special feeling."
No matter in terms of story theme, character setting or movie style, "Frankenstein" is a typical Bolton movie, with Bolton-like characters, Bolton-like plot and Bolton-like style. Regarding the film, Bolton said: "There are characters in this film that I have shown many times. Sometimes, facing my own characters, I will be at a loss, so I will learn from life. , I borrowed characters from my previous works. When creating this movie, I remembered my classmates, those strange teachers, neighbors at home, and so on. Moreover, in order to find the film to show The characteristics of the kind of horror film, I have also found out many horror films of the Universal Company that I watched when I was a child, hoping to find inspiration from them, such as "Frankenstein's House" and "Dracula's House". The film gave me a lot of hints. I like this kind of horror film, and I also like the mix of Gothic, dark and comedy. This story is actually from Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" novel It evolved. I arranged it on a child and told it in the context of a family. In addition to the horror, there were more family and warm content. These are my favorite materials. "
Stop-motion animation reappears in the film world. In the
past few years, stop-motion animation works have appeared almost "explosively" in the film world. Starting from the "Super Invincible Head Dog" of Armand, it has been counted in the film industry in the past two years. His stop-motion animation works include "Mary and Marx", "Ghost Mother", "The Great Fox Daddy", "Psychic Boy Norman" and so on. Moreover, this is not the first time Bolton has produced a stop motion animation. In 2005, the Zombie Bride was a stop motion animation.
"Frankenstein" started filming in London in 2010. The crew built a huge workshop for this film. In this workshop, they created a family loft, a cemetery and an interior view of a high school campus. After arranging the work items and assigning personnel, the entire studio was divided into 30 independent areas to shoot the plot and shots of the film. The protagonist of the film—the puppy of Sparkle’s doll is made to be quite "huge"—compared to the size of the character doll in the film, the size of the sparkle is very shocking. When making the characters, Bolton used the same method as in the filming of "Zombie Bride", first using stainless steel as the skeleton, then using silica gel outside the skeleton to make the body, and finally covering it with cloth and hair. After the captured still pictures are imported into the computer, they are processed by CG to get a frame of image. Because the joints of many characters are very small, there are no ready-made bolts and nuts to buy on the market. The crew specially invited a Swiss watchmaker to make bolts and nuts by hand with his own tools and techniques.
Rick Heinrichs, the art director who has worked with Bolton for many years, participated in the entire process of designing the scene, making dolls and post-production. He said: “Many scenes in this film, such as small towns and streets, They are extremely complex scenes. We have to show a sense of reality and a Bolton-like sense of darkness in the film. This is very complicated. In the production of dolls, we not only amplify the sparks of the puppy Except for the proportions of, everything else is made strictly in accordance with the proportions of the characters. The design inspiration for this town comes from the place where Bolton grew up. To be precise, this is a common town in the Southwestern United States after the war. Some The design of the surreal facilities and objects comes from "Edward Scissorhands"."
Highlights
·This is the first time Tim Burton has remade his own work. The original work of the film is the 1984 short film "Frankenstein Dog".
·This is Bolton's first film without Johnny Depp since "Big Fish"; it is the first film without Helena Bonham Carter since "Dale of the Dead".
·This is Winona Reid’s third collaboration with Tim Bolton. Their last collaboration was "Edward Scissorhands" 21 years ago.
The film brought Bolton, Winona Reid, and Catherine O'Hara together again. The last time these three collaborated was in the 1988 "Beatles Juice".
John August rewritten part of the script for the film critic in 2006, but he did not sign with the crew until January 2009.
In this film, the famous actor Christopher Lee played a role called Dracula. This is the first time he has played Dracula on the screen in 36 years. The most recent time before this, Christopher Lee played Dracula in the 1976 French film "Dracula and Son". Before "Dracula and Son", Christopher Lee was almost the only candidate to play Dracula in that era.
· During the filming process, a total of more than 200 dolls were produced, each of which has roughly 40-45 joints. The whole body of the puppy spark is roughly composed of 300 parts.
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