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Katurian: What happens from here on in?

Tupolski: We get word back about the mute girl… we put this hood over your head, we take you to the room next door, we shoot you through the head.

(Pause.)

Is that right? No. We take you to the room next door, then we put the hood on you, then we shoot you through the head. If we put the hood on you before we take you to the room next door, y'know, you might bump into something, hurt yourself.

Katurian: Why the room next door? Why not here?

Tupolski: The room next door, it’s easier to mop up.

Katurian: (Pause)

Do you do it out of the blue, like, just out of the blue, or do you give me a minute to say a prayer or something?

Tupolski: Well, first I sing a song about a little pony and then Ariel takes out his hedgehog. Y'know, his execution hedgehog? And when the hedgehog’s out, well, you’ve got either thirteen or twenty-seven seconds left, depending on the size of the hedgehog.

(Pause.)

If I’m gonna do it out of the blue, I’m not gonna tell you I’m gonna do it out of the blue, Am I?! Jesus! For a supposed genius writer-stroke-psycho-killer, you’re a bit fucking thick!

(Pause.)

Also Tupolski: I wrote a story once, y’know. It sort of summed up my world view, in some ways. Well, no, it didn’t really sum up my world view. I think the world’s a pile of shit. That isn’t really a world view, is it? Or is it? Hmmm…

Tupolski, yet again: you don’t know if she was alive or if she was dead. Um, Ariel? On your way to your friend the commandant could you call the search team, get them to hurry it up a bit, just in case it’s a live little mute girl we’re getting them to dig up? Thanks, babe.

supple-MENTAL am I right-

so i drew more of this business

“All along Wirt was subconsciously fighting the will to survive.  because… confronting your problems in life, for him, was more frightening than death.”

Burton producing the movie does not mean he directed it. He protected it from Disney’s interference and let the crew handle the movie as they wanted. And, yes, he originally created the characters & world - but that doesn’t mean the movie is his. In fact, the original Poem doesn’t even have Sally and Oogie Boogie. The character development + story is much more fleshed out in the film in comparison - and that’s not because of Burton. It’s because of Caroline Thompson, Danny Elfman, and Henry Selick.

“But he was busy working on his Batman film at the time!” Yes. Exactly. He entrusted Henry Selick and the rest of the crew to make Nightmare. So we should properly thank THEM, instead of making excuses for Tim. People will bend over backwards trying to find any reason to credit Burton, instead of appreciating what Henry Selick has done.

And this has been the problem for YEARS – it may not be Tim Burton’s entire fault he got credited for The Nightmare Before Christmas as much as he did. Disney was the one who put his name in the title, purely for marketing reasons with his big name(last-minute as well, mind you). The huge misconception that he directed the movie was created by countless people falsely crediting Tim over the years.

Now the time has come with Henry’s recent release of Wendell & Wild, where the public is now realizing his hard work with Coraline, Nightmare, James & the Giant Peach, etc…..and people are still insisting on crediting Burton somewhere. Like they have been for nearly 30 years.