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Three days ago I had a revelation, and it made me change my entire google project. I was so inspired by a peer's paper on fairy tales that I just couldn't find any reason not to change my topic. I have always loved movies, all kinds of movies. I love certain sets of actors and directors, like the Judd Apatow; superbad cast set, but my all time favorite group of people in the film industry is Tim Burton; Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Danny Elfman. I started rolling around a lot of ideas and sort of doodled my way into, what I think, is going to be an awesome project that will be a lot of fun. I want to create a blog, that will eventually be Tim Burton's life story, and all the people connected to him. The problem I ran into here was, how do you explain a man like Tim Burton? I could repeat verbatim his autobiography, he knows himself best right? Wrong. I wanted to think like him, anything about him has to be like him. Who REALLY knows Tim Burton best? His characters, of course. His intimate relationship that he built with each and every single one of his characters is a little chunk of who he is, his childhood Edward Scissorhands, his pre-teens; Vincent so on and so forth. So the idea is that I will use artwork (his own) to provide visual aid to the reader of the characters speaking. Each blog will have a piece of artwork a little narrative spoken from the perspective of the character, about Tim, and have a video clip either with Tim interacting with the character or just the character in action. By the end of the blog the reader will have read through the entire world of Tim from the people who understand him best. The text I will be using as his concrete life story, the control, will be "Burton on Burton," an autobiography written many years ago. I'm going to have to be a little bit more creative and use more resources to piece together his life post autobiography, and to work with those characters. I will explore his relationships with actor Johnny Depp, actress Helena Bonham Carter and composer Danny Elfman. I'm very excited to begin work. :)

"I have never seen someone so obviously out of place fit right in. His way." -Johnny Depp