@deanduncan63Saw #Frankenweenie. Design and narrative equally well-crafted, which isn’t always true w’ this filmmaker. Awesome execution, actually…
… Loved the very well-distributed, monster-multiplying climax, balanced by that sweetly understated coda. Very well made, very well done.
#Frankenweenie’s V. Price-lookin’, M. Landau soundin’ science teacher sure steps outside commercial film’s usual bland decorum …
… to fling a hilariously heavy-handed reproof at the American Tea Party! Fighting obvious with obvious, maybe.
#Frankenweenie. Like Selick/Burton, ’93, updates that old Grover/Cookie Monster/Oscar campaign. Monsters abound, & don’t be afraid!
#Frankenweenie also continues Burton’s career-long campaign to mainstream the misfit. Very decently done, too. He’s come a long way …
… since the very similar, very promising, really problematical Edward Scissorhands, which unfairly caricatured the squares …
… melodramatically pathologized opposition or antagonism, the better to blithely & smugly kill it off.
#Frankenweenie. Media can lead youngsters to premature sophistication, presumably so they can buy sooner, buy more, buy endlessly …
… Sex is often the vehicle, & consequence, & whirlwind of that effort. But here’s another early sophistication …
… usually assigned to adult discourse, that may actually be appropriate & even really healthful. Shouldn’t they start to think …
… about death and decline? A made-for-children horror film may not be as unseemly as we might have thought.