Frankenstein by Tim Burton

Harry 2022-03-26 09:01:06

It can be regarded as Tim Burton's tribute to "Frankenstein". The protagonist is replaced by a child, Frankenstein has become a dog, and the ending is happy and warm.
This cartoon, like Bolton's "Zombie Bride", is still a black and white film, and it is still an ugly animated image. However, once the plot unfolds, it is suddenly realized that the ugliness is actually ingenious, designed to carry a child's peculiar imagination. We adults sometimes wonder: why among so many dolls, some children only love the clown doll? Why are the characters in some children's paintings so ugly and exaggerated?
I always remember a comic strip in my elementary school - "72 Tenants", which was the comic strip that bothered me the most, because I couldn't find a better person in the whole book. Later, looking back on the past, I finally realized that the book was actually the most valuable one in all the comic strip collections in my childhood. It was the masterpiece of cartoonist Ding Cong, but at that time I didn't know how to appreciate cartoons at all.
Zhang Ailing once said to Hu Lancheng, "Some people see how good they are, but they won't get in. Some people are like silk dipped in rouge, and they immediately seep into a mess." There are also acquired factors. In fact, whether or not one can become the latter type of person is irrelevant to some people, but crucial to others. It has nothing to do with survival, nor even happiness, but, in the boundless wilderness of time, being able to meet and feel, in a dull and boring life, is always a gratifying comfort, right?

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Frankenweenie quotes

  • Mr. Frankenstein: Victor, what have you done?

    Victor Frankenstien: You said yourself, if you could bring back Sparky, you would!

    Mr. Frankenstein: Yes, but that was different because we couldn't! It's easy to promise the impossible.

  • Edgar 'E' Gore: I know.

    Victor Frankenstien: What?

    Edgar 'E' Gore: [pointedly] I know.

    Victor Frankenstien: Know what?

    Edgar 'E' Gore: [pointedly] You know...

    Victor Frankenstien: No.

    Edgar 'E' Gore: I think I know what you know I know.

    Victor Frankenstien: Look, I don't know what you think I know. But I don't know it.