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He remains without question one of the __greatest______ original film _____directors____ working in _____Hollywood_______ today.
Indeed, his talent and originality have kept him at the ______top__ of the profession where he occupies a very special place, somewhere ____in_______ the mainstream and the avant-garde, in that region of cinema occupied by artists ___where___ worldview is ____an___ unconventional that it attains popular appeal.
In 1989, Tim Burton directed the hugely _acclaimed_________ Batman which, although his _first______ personal film, was one of the most __seen__________ movies of all time and gave him unprecedented _______fame____ in Hollywood, considering the originality and adventurousness of his ____next______ films (for _____example____ Beetlejuice in 1988).
Edward Scissorhands (1990), another hit, saw him at the peak of his _directoral__and artistic_____ powers and established a fruitful working _period___________ with ____actor_______ Johnny Depp who played in his 2005 film _____Charlie and the Chocolate factory________of Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and who became one of his most esteemed ___partner______since their first film together.
In 1992, Batman Returns was a much_______ darker film than the original, a reflection of how much ___________ freedom Tim Burton had won (____as___ Warner Bros were reputedly unhappy with the final result).
And even _for________ Ed Wood (1994), his loving _____film______ to the life and work of the legendary ‘Worst Director of All Time’ Edward D. Wood, Jr., was a box-office disaster, it got some of the best ________reviews____ of Burton’s career.
In fact, Tim Burton is ____known____ both for his dark, quirky-themed _movies__________like Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, or Dark Shadows (2012) and for __Blockbusters__________ such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (2010), one of his most _____renowned___ films, which became the fifth highest-grossing film of all _time_____.
Burton has ____created_______ 18 feature films as of 2014, and has _produced________ 12 as of 2012 (among which the very nice __stop____-motion______ tale called The Nightmare Before _Christmas______________ in 1993).
All in all, Tim Burton’s films consistently challenge the spectator’s ___expectations________, push forward the ____world________ of filmmaking and bring to life previously unthinkable _characters___________ (like Edward Scissorhands).
Taken as a whole, his work __is____based______ on the confrontation _____between_______ the fantastic and the _____realistique_______, and the consequences of these two worlds intermingling.
Big Fish, Burton’s 2003 effort, is no different. And _even though_____, somehow, it is not really the ______best___.
On the surface, it would appear to have all the __attributs_________ of a classic Burton film: a magic screenplay, fairy-tale characters, flights of imagination, forces of nature ( _as____ well ___as____ the supernatural), far-fetched situations and vastly imaginative visual style and imagery. The movie is, in fact, ____is____ packed with fanciful episodes that it begins to feel ____as_______ a loose adaptation of The Odyssey, told from the mouth of an aging character named Ed Bloom, a story-___writer_______ and dreamer who sees the world with beautiful eyes.
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