19 December 2014
Newsdesk
Tim Burton’s new film got “the blood flowing.”
The director’s latest offering is Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. The production was on a much smaller scale to a lot of his recent offerings such as Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows. But for the 56-year-old, he relished the opportunity, despite the hurdles it brought with it.
“Honestly, it was a real pressure. It gets the blood flowing – trying to make Vancouver look like San Francisco and asking, ‘How much is this cup costing' Can we do this' Can we afford that'’” he told Indiewire.com. “You get in there and I was lucky with everybody, both the crew and cast, because they enjoyed it. You've probably visited these big sets. It just looks like a wax museum. Are people moving' Is something happening here' So to get that energy back was something very special. And it will help me even when I do a studio movie, just to keep that spirit in line and maintain that.”
Tim is known for his dark, somewhat gothic approach to horror and fantasy films such as Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland. The latter was a completely different experience to the one he had while making Big Eyes, as a lot of the set was never there, and he’s not sure he would want to revisit that way of filmmaking again.
“No one had ever made a movie like that, nor will anyone make a movie like that again. Because it wasn't motion capture, it was a combination of anything. There was never anything ever, because she was a different size all the time and the Queen's head was big or Johnny [Depp]'s eyes were big and I'm not a big fan of motion capture so I wanted some things to just be pure animation,” he continued.
“And we were designing as we went along. Honestly, since it was all done like puzzle pieces, I didn't even see the movie until it was done. And Danny [Elfman] is scoring to, like, "What is happening'" It was the most backwards, disturbing process I've ever been through.”
