Vincent (film)
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| Directed by | Tim Burton |
| Produced by | Rick Heinrichs |
| Written by | Tim Burton |
| Narrated by | Vincent Price |
| Music by | Ken Hilton |
| Cinematography | Victor Abdalov |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Home Video |
| Release date(s) |  1984 1994 (Laserdisc) 2000 (DVD) |
| Running time | 5 minutes 52 seconds |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs. At approximately six minutes in length, there is currently no individual release of the film. It can be found on the Special Edition DVD of The Nightmare Before Christmas as a bonus feature.
The film was narrated by Vincent Price, a life-long idol and inspiration for Burton. From this relationship, Price would go on to appear in Burton's Edward Scissorhands. Vincent Price later said that the film was "the most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality - better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard."[1]
A live version by Benjamin Lemaire was rumoured to be in the making for 2006, although there was no further word of it.[citation needed]
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[edit] Plot
Vincent is the story of a young boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price. He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring very much certain parts of Poe's The Raven. The film ends with Vincent being tortured by the goings-on of his make-believe world, quoting The Raven as he falls to the floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.
[edit] Release and reception
As an unconventional short, Walt Disney Pictures was unsure of what to do with the film. It was shown at the Ottawa Film Festival in 1984, where it received the Audience Award.[2] It was released in the UK in 1984, but was largely unseen until it was included in the 1994 Laserdisc release of The Nightmare Before Christmas. (It is also available on the Special Edition DVD of Nightmare.)
With the re-release of the 3-D Nightmare Before Christmas, Vincent will have a theatrical screening before the film starting October 2007.
[edit] Trivia
- At 4:45 in the movie, if you look in the upper left corner you can see an early form of Jack from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack also appeared in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the stop-motion animation film James and the Giant Peach. The first two cameos were years before production of The Nightmare Before Christmas, though Burton had toyed with the original story idea while still an animator at Disney.[3]
- Vincent Price, the actor who Vincent Malloy wants to be, is also the narrator of the story.
[edit] References
- ^ Frierson, Michael. Vincent — A Matter of Pastiche. Animation World Magazine (Issue 1.9). Retrieved on January 22, 2007.
- ^ Vincent at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Thompson, Frank (2002). Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision. Disney Editions. ISBN 0786853786.
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Director: The Island of Doctor Agor • Stalk of the Celery • Vincent • Frankenweenie • Pee-wee's Big Adventure • Beetlejuice • Batman • Edward Scissorhands • Batman Returns • Ed Wood • Mars Attacks! • Sleepy Hollow • Planet of the Apes • Big Fish • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • Corpse Bride • Sweeney Todd
Producer: The Nightmare Before Christmas • James and the Giant Peach • Batman Forever • 9
