The imagination of has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits 91裸聊视频 all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters 91裸聊视频渞eally disturbed me.91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淚t wasn91裸聊视频檛 an intellectual thought 91裸聊视频 it was just an internal, visceral feeling,91裸聊视频 Burton told reporters during a preview of 91裸聊视频淭he World of Tim Burton91裸聊视频 exhibition at London91裸聊视频檚 Design Museum. 91裸聊视频淚 looked at those things and I thought, 91裸聊视频楽ome of these are pretty good.91裸聊视频 91裸聊视频 (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside.91裸聊视频
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because 91裸聊视频渙nce you can do it, people will do it.91裸聊视频 But he scoffed when asked if he91裸聊视频檇 use the technology in this work.
91裸聊视频淭o take over the world?91裸聊视频 he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
91裸聊视频淚 wasn91裸聊视频檛, early on, a very verbal person,91裸聊视频 Burton said. 91裸聊视频淒rawing was a way of expressing myself.91裸聊视频
Decades later, after films including 91裸聊视频淓dward Scissorhands,91裸聊视频 91裸聊视频淏atman,91裸聊视频 91裸聊视频淭he Nightmare Before Christmas91裸聊视频 and 91裸聊视频淏eetlejuice,91裸聊视频 his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton91裸聊视频檚 personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition91裸聊视频檚 final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in the British capital, where Burton has lived for a quarter century.
The show includes early drawings and oddities, including a competition-winning 91裸聊视频渃rush litter91裸聊视频 sign a teenage Burton designed for Burbank garbage trucks. There91裸聊视频檚 also a recreation of Burton91裸聊视频檚 studio, down to the trays of paints and 91裸聊视频淐urse of Frankenstein91裸聊视频 mug full of pencils.
Alongside hundreds of drawings, there are props, puppets, set designs and iconic costumes, including Johnny Depp91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频淓dward Scissorhands91裸聊视频 talons and the black latex Catwoman costume worn by Michelle Pfeiffer in 91裸聊视频淏atman Returns.91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淲e had very generous access to Tim91裸聊视频檚 archive in London, stuffed full of thousands of drawings, storyboards from stop-motion films, sketches, character notes, poems,91裸聊视频 said exhibition curator Maria McLintock. 91裸聊视频淎nd how to synthesize such a wide ranging and meandering career within one exhibition was a fun challenge 91裸聊视频 but definitely a challenge.91裸聊视频
Seeing it has not been a wholly fun experience for Burton, who said he91裸聊视频檚 unable to look too closely at the items on display.
91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 like seeing your dirty laundry put on the walls,91裸聊视频 he said. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 quite amazing. It91裸聊视频檚 a bit overwhelming.91裸聊视频
Burton, whose long-awaited horror-comedy sequel opened at the Venice Film Festival in August, is currently filming the second series of Netflix91裸聊视频 Addams Family-themed series 91裸聊视频淲ednesday.91裸聊视频
These days he is a major Hollywood director whose American gothic style has spawned an adjective 91裸聊视频 91裸聊视频淏urtoneqsue.91裸聊视频 But he still feels like an outsider.
91裸聊视频淥nce you feel that way, it never leaves you,91裸聊视频 he said.
91裸聊视频淓ach film I did was a struggle,91裸聊视频 he added, noting that early films like 91裸聊视频淧ee-wee91裸聊视频檚 Big Adventure91裸聊视频 from 1985 and 91裸聊视频淏eetlejuice91裸聊视频 in 1988 received some negative reviews. 91裸聊视频淚t seems like it was a pleasant, fine, easy journey, but each one leaves its emotional scars.91裸聊视频
McLintock said Burton 91裸聊视频渋s a deeply emotional filmmaker.91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淚 think that91裸聊视频檚 what drew me to his films as a child,91裸聊视频 she said. 91裸聊视频淗e really celebrates the misunderstood outcast, the benevolent monster. So it91裸聊视频檚 been quite a weird but fun experience spending so much time in his brain and his creative process.
91裸聊视频淗is films are often called dark,91裸聊视频 she added. 91裸聊视频淚 don91裸聊视频檛 agree with that. And if they are dark, there91裸聊视频檚 a very much a kind of hope in the darkness. You always want to hang out in the darkness in his films.91裸聊视频