Country: USA
Year: 1984
Duration: 30'
Victor's beloved dog, Sparky, is killed in an accident. The boy buries the dog, but believes he may have a chance to bring the dog back to life when his weird science teacher shows him how you can make a frog's leg jump using electricity. Victor decides to do his teacher one better and patches the dog back together shooting it full of electricity in an attic laboratory jerryrigged with makeshift electrical equipment...
"I had just seen Frankenstein again and started thinking for some reason about a dog I had when I was young. I started thinking just how incredible the whole idea of Frankenstein really is, of bringing something dead back to life. But all the versions so far have just dealt with the horrible aspects of the idea. At some point, the idea of my dog and Frankenstein just connected and we started developing it. We did Frankenweenie as if the original story had never existed. I don't think this is a dark or macabre story, and we didn't try to make the dog something horrible. We tried to make the film as straightforward as possible, and I think it takes on a whole new light." (Tim Burton)
Biography
film director
Tim Burton
Tim Burton was born in Burbank, California, in 1959. After studying at the Californian Institute of the Arts he began work at the Walt Disney Studios where he also made his first two films, the model animation film Vincent and the featurette Frankenweenie. He made his first full-length feature film, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, in 1985. "Newsweek" praised Burton as "the first genuine talent since the rise of movie brat Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola and Scorsese".
FILMOGRAFIA
Vincent (cm, animazione, 1982), Frankenweenie (1984), Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (Edward mani di forbice) (1990).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Tim Burton.
Screenplay: Lenny Rips, da un'idea di Tim Burton.
Cast: Shelley Duvall, Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern, Paul Bartel, Joseph Maher.
Director of Production: Julie Hickson.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Walt Disney Studios, 500 So. Buena Vista Street, Burbank California, tel. 8185605944, fax 8188487059.
Screenplay: Lenny Rips, da un'idea di Tim Burton.
Cast: Shelley Duvall, Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern, Paul Bartel, Joseph Maher.
Director of Production: Julie Hickson.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Walt Disney Studios, 500 So. Buena Vista Street, Burbank California, tel. 8185605944, fax 8188487059.