Hello, my name's Justin the Clueh. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about Tim Burton,

every teenager's favorite director. We talked about this last week. He's probably the first

director who I knew. Because his style is so

evident and in your face, and it's weird. That's right. Very distinctive. I mean, I remember when

Joel Schumacher directed Batman forever, that was probably the first clear indication to me as a small

child of the fact that a director was somebody who

exists and has some influence over the material.

You weren't like, I love this campy, multi-collar Batman more than I like that dark, gritty

expressionist one.

Oh, I liked all Batman's when I was a kid.

Yeah, it didn't matter what it was.

And, yeah, Tim Burton, probably the first

director that I would have identified as my favorite director. I mean, a murderer's row of

movies early on, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Cisorhands. Ed Wood.

Edward, I probably got to later. And was your love of Ed Wood and Bella Legosi, did that come out of the Tim Burton, Edwood?

Or was that found earlier than that?

That was found earlier.

Oh, okay. I didn't see the, the Edward movie until later. So going back, what was the first Tim Burton movie you saw? Batman, right? Probably Batman, yes. And then Batman Returns, which was one of those movies that was the first movie to really scare me.

So obviously Tim Burton has very deep... Batman Returns, which was one of those movies that was the first movie to really scare me.

So obviously, Tim Burton has very deep roots in me, and he's still a director who has some of those early movies that I really, really like. For me, Tim Burton, my life was dominated by a

film he didn't direct, Nightmare Before Christmas, which I saw in theaters, and I remember so vividly terrifying me, I had to keep my ears covered the entire time and my eyes on the ground. And like most things that scarce kids, you become obsessed with it as you're, you know, you grow older. And it's something that I revisited over and over again. And it's so Tim Burton-y that, like most people assumed, because his name is above the title, that he directed it, and he didn't.

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