El baúl de Tim Burton

Ficha técnica

ombre original: Vincent

Año: 1982

Duración: 6 minutos

Estudio: Walt Disney Productions

Productor: Rick Heinrichs

Director: Tim Burton

Guión: Tim Burton

Fotografia (blanco y negro): Victor Abdalov

Música: Ken Hilton

Dirección de producción: Tim Burton

Dirección técnica de animación: Stephen Chiodo

Esculturas y diseños adicionales: Rick Heinrichs

¡Enlázanos!

Reparto (voz)

Vincent Price (Narrador)

Sinopsis

Vincent es un niño tranquilo, obediente y tiene una imaginación desbordante. Su sueño es ser como su admirado Vincent Price.

Comentario

Vincent se basa en un poema escrito por Burton al estilo de los cuentos del Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch stole Christmas, entre otros), en una época en la que lo que más desaba Burton era largarse de la Disney puesto que no le dejaban desarrollar sus ideas.

Burton se juntó con el animador Rick Heinrichs, el animador de muñecos Steven Chiodo y el cámara Victor Abdalov y durante dos meses dieron forma a la poesía. El corto refleja algunos puntos que se tratarán posteriormente en el cine de Tim Burton, como los experimentos con perros o animales (lo veremos en Frankenweenie y Mars Attacks!), la idea del personaje solo e incomprendido (presente en casi todas sus peliculas, y que aqui es claramente el propio Burton) y la estética general, que recuerda a más de un elemento de películas posteriores, especialmente Bitelchus y Pesadilla Antes de Navidad.

El mismo Vincent Price accedió a recitar la poesía para el corto, lo que generó una amistad entre él y Burton que se matrializaría en una colaboración para Eduardo Manostijeras y un documental inacabado de Burton llamado Conversations with Vincent. Price falleció en 1993.

Vincent se proyectó durante dos semanas en un cine de Los Angeles con la película Tex y ganó varios premios (ver sección Biografía). El proyecto acabó en los archivos de la Disney, que no sabian qué hacer con él, puesto que un corto de 6 minutos en blanco y negro no tenía más mercado que el formado por los festivales de animación. Posteriormente se recuperó para proyectarlo con Pesadilla Antes de Navidad e incluirlo en el DVD de esta pelicula.

Transcripción

A continuación tienes el poema original del corto Vincent, escrito por Tim Burton:

Vincent Malloy is seven years old,
He's always polite and does what he's told.

For a boy his age he's considerate and nice,
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.

He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cat,
Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats.

There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented,
And wander dark hallways alone and tormented.

Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him,
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum.

He likes to experiment on his dog Abacrombie,
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie.

So he and his horrible zombie dog,
Could go searching for victims in the London fog.

His thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime,
He likes to paint and read to pass the time.

While other kids read books like Go Jane Go,
Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe.

One night while reading a gruesome tale,
He read a passage that made him turn pale.

Such horrible news he could not survive,
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive.

He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead,
Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed.

His mother sent Vincent off to his room,
He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom.

Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life,
Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife.

While alone and insane, encased in his tomb,
Vincent's mother suddenly burst into the room.

"If you want to you can go outside and play.
It's sunny outside and a beautiful day."

Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak,
The years of isolation had made him quite weak.

So he took out some paper, and scrawled with a pen,
"I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again."

His mother said, "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead.
These games that you play are all in your head.

You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy.
You're not tormented, you're just a young boy."

"You're seven years old, and you're my son,
I want you to get outside and have some real fun."

Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall,
While Vincent backed slowly against the wall.

The room started to sway, to shiver and creak.
His horrid insanity had reached its peak.

He saw Abacrombie his zombie slave,
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave.

She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands.
While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands.

Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams,
Swept his mad laugh to terrified screams.
To escape the madness, he reached for the door,

So he and his horrible zombie dog,
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor.

His voice was soft and very slow,
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe,

"And my soul from out that shadow floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted--Nevermore!"

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