A girl with many eyes. Why would someone choose to write about
a phenomenon so strange? It was mentioned that she had a mouth as well, and she
was indeed pretty. She enjoyed everything any socially normal girl would, but
what does she and her many eyes represent? Having multiple eyes gives you
multiple perspectives: sort of like security cameras. When many perspectives
come together, you get one big view. Tim Burton was seen as strange, yet fascinating
child. Maybe he was viewed as if he himself had multiple eyes, but it didn’t
stop him from enjoying the normal pleasures in life.
A little girl may seem week, but maybe all of her
perspectives made her stronger. Maybe all of her views of the world allowed her
to be more open minded and accepting. I believe that Tim Burton has a very open
mind. His art for Disney, as seen in Nightmare
Before Christmas and Frankenweenie,
was very different from the beautiful princesses and their handsome princes. He
selected very different movies to work on; PeeWee’s
Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman were all very different, but Tim
Burton managed to make them all his own through his unique perspective and
style.
In the illustration the girl appears to be very strange
compared to the boy observing her. He wears a dark striped shirt and has dark
hair, but the girl who is the one who appears to physically be the strangest
and the most different wears a pink frilly dress with cute pink shoes to go
along with her blonde hair and green skin. I know we were told to not read too
deep into the story but maybe their appearance was done very on purpose? We would see the a boy in all dark colors
with multiple eyes as very strange, and we would probably immediately relate
him to Tim Burton’s alienation as a child. Maybe Tim Burton tried to avert our
attention from making such an assumption.
Well I don’t know if I have made any sense with this, but
this my blog for the week. Did anyone else think these stories were kind of
depressing?
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