Vincent (1982)

Director:

Tim Burton

Writer:

Tim Burton (written by)

Release Date:

1 October 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Animation | Family | Fantasy

Plot:

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother. |

Plot Keywords:

Converted To 3 Dimensional | 3 Dimensional | Raven Poem | Boy | Gothic

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Vincent Price

...

Narrator (voice)

Runtime:

6 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Spain:13 | USA:G | UK:U

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

The Dog's Frankenstein Monster-like make-up seen later in Frankenweenie (1984).

Quotes:

Narrator: Vincent Malloy is seven years old, / He's always polite and does what he's told. / For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, / But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. / He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cat, / Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight - The Road to Gotham City (2005) (V)

Amazing Greys

Thank heavens for Tim Burton. He knows how to make movies. Many people do. But how many do it by having an original notion, a specific, genuinely original tone and then project that into the machinery we have to make movies. Someone like him needs to fight at every step, something that someone like Spielberg just flows with.

So he needs to be supported, rather like Woody Allen, no matter what.

But sometimes he will surprise. For me, those surprises come in small bits, usually parts of movies.

This little thing is so perfectly conceived though. Other than "PeeWee," and "Corpse" this is the only project where the scope of the thing is larger than the timespan.

Plus it has a simple self-referential caste: Vincent the boy who wishes to be Vincent Price, in a story narrated by Vincent himself. A movie about a life about movies, A movie by Burton about the young Burton. An antiSeuss, using the Seuss cadence.

Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.