A little boy uses lightning from the sky to shock the dead dog's body to bring it back to life. The reborn puppy terrified the neighbors of the boy's house, who regarded the dog as a monster... One-
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The film 's characters are well set and well shot, fully reflecting the director's personal taste and standards. Moreover, black and white also looks very emotional.
——"Variety"
Bolton's best movie in recent years, although it is somewhat familiar, it still makes you feel energy and enthusiasm. This is a living animation.
——Complete movie The
imagination good, but the way of expression is too cumbersome.
-- "The Hollywood Reporter" behind the
scenes production
Tim Burton's unfulfilled wish
"Frankenstein" This animation is Burton's second 3D film at Disney, the previous one was "Alice in Wonderland". Frankenstein is a remake of Burton's live-action short film of the same name. In discussions of a planned remake, the film was described by Burton as a "black-and-white stop-motion animation". The project was approved early on. In 2005, Josien McGibbon wrote the first draft of the script for the film, which was later carefully polished by Burton and John August. It has always been Bolton's wish to put "Frankenstein" on the screen in a stop-motion animation, because in his eyes, if the story of "Frankenstein" is made into a live-action feature film, it will appear somewhat exaggerate. He said: "For me, the animation of Frankenstein has always been a big deal. I think stop-motion animation and black and white are the best way to express this subject. The characters, animals and monsters in the story can all be Properly presented. If it was a live-action film, it would be overkill. It's an old subject, an old story, but when I'm working on that again, it's something new and special."
No matter in terms of story theme, character setting or movie style, Frankenstein is a typical Burton movie, with Burton-style characters, Burton-style plots and Burton-style style. Regarding the film, Burton said: "There are characters in this film that I have shown many times. Sometimes, facing my characters, I will be overwhelmed, so I will learn from my life. , borrowed characters from my previous works. When creating this film, I thought back to my classmates, those strange teachers and neighbors at home and so on. Moreover, in order to find what the film wants to show The kind of horror movie features, I dug out a lot of Universal horror movies I watched when I was a child, hoping to find inspiration from them, such as "Frankenstein's House", "Dracula's House" and so on. The movie gave me a lot of cues. I love horror movies like this and the goth, dark and comedy mashup. The 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 are many more family and warm contents. These are my favorite materials. "
Stop-motion animation reappears in the film
industry In recent years, stop-motion animation works have appeared almost "explosive" in the film industry, starting from Armand's "Super Invincible Gate Dog", which can be counted in the film industry in the past two years. His stop-motion animation works include "Mary and Max", "Ghost Mom", "Fantastic Daddy Fox", "Psychic Boy Norman" and so on. Moreover, this is not the first time that Burton has made stop-motion animation. The Zombie Bride in 2005 is a stop-motion animation.
For Frankenstein, which began filming in London in 2010, the crew built a huge workshop for the film, in which they created a family loft, a cemetery and the interior of a high school campus. After arranging work items and assigning people, the entire studio was divided into 30 separate areas, where the plot and shots of the film were shot in blocks. The protagonist of the film -- the puppy Spark's doll is made quite "gigantic" -- and compared to the size of the character doll in the film, Spark's size is terrifying. When making the characters, Bolton used the same method as he did on Zombie Bride, first making the skeleton out of stainless steel, then making the body out of silicone, and finally covering it with fabric and hair. After the still picture taken is imported into the computer, it is 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.
Art director Rick Heinrichs, who has worked with Burton for many years, participated in the whole process of designing the scene, making the dolls and post-production. He said: "Many scenes in this film, such as the town, the street, It's an extremely complex scene. We have to show realism and also show a Burton-like darkness in the film, which is very complicated. In making the doll, we not only magnified the puppy spark Except for the proportions of the characters, everything else is made strictly according to the proportions of the characters. The design of this town is inspired by the place where Bolton grew up, which is a common town in the postwar Southwest America to be exact. Some The design of surreal installations and objects comes from Edward Scissorhands.”
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