by Rafer Guzman.
?Frankenweenie,? Tim Burtons new stop-motion animated feature for Walt Disney Pictures which comes out Friday, opens with a young boy, Victor, watching a homemade movie. The star happens to be his dog, Sparky, who rescues miniature townsfolk from a Godzilla-like monster, a foreshadowing of things to come.
Victor, a lonely kid with an attic full of film equipment and a wild imagination, may seem like an obvious stand-in for Burton. That turns out to be only half-right. When it comes to monster movies and horror flicks ? the stuff that a young Burton grew up on ? the director?s strongest empathies actually lie with the monsters.
?The monster for me was the most emotional character. It?s that feeling that kids have, that you?re different and you?re misunderstood and misperceived by society,? says Burton, speaking by phone from a Disneyland hotel last weekend. ?It puts an image to the feelings that you have. And the movies were the safest way to explore those feelings.?
Burton?s identification issues may explain why the 54-year-old director has been able to translate his strange visions and grisly sense of humor into unlikely crowd-pleasers and family-friendly blockbusters over a three-decade career.
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