And finally, Up Yours for taking away, yet again, the chance for us to see one of our own, a Jewish Protagonist promised in the novel, on screen. Up Yours for making the only POC character in the entire film the bad guy. So Up Yours for your white-bread characters and white-bread movies. So you can’t claim this was an omission when you and your team took the time to re-write even his nickname to make it not Jewish. but when the show is just ultimately Tim Burton trying to keep his career and his white goth aesthetic alive and using a property with characters. Yet in the movie, you changed that into a Polish nickname. See, in the book, Grandfather Abe often calls Jake “Yakov,” the Jewish form of Jacob. And don’t you DARE claim that it was an unintentional omission, because you proved that it wasn’t. I dont know whether to say speedpaint XD but it is a procedural drawing. As much of a fan i am of the first two tim burton batman movies i had never drawn or painted any character from those movies, so figured this was overdue. You wiped away the characters’ identities. Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007) The Character: When Burton adapted the 1979 musical depicting the English barber turned serial killer Sweeney Todd, he placed. Yet in your film, the word “Jew” was spoken exactly zero times. Did he go to the children’s home because he was a peculiar or because of the dangerous peculiarity of being a Jew in Europe in WWII? A huge part of the book is questioning whether Grandfather’s “monsters” were supernatural monsters, or the real monsters of Nazis hunting Jews, the Monsters that murdered his entire family. It’s a story about Jews and the monsters who chase us. Burton, the protagonist in MSHfPC is #Jewish. I even rushed to finish reading it before the Mongolia release. Tim Burtons characters are known to portray a dark, creepy vibe, and their unpredictable nature. And we see the Burtonesque in every facet of his films: writing, lighting, music, characters and of course, production design. I just went with a friend to see Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and we’d been excited for weeks (it only just came out in Mongolia). By Chris Heckmann on AugT im Burton is a filmmaker with a style so unique that we’ve come to regard his works and those who replicate them as Burtonesque.
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