With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice now in theaters, let's revisit one of director Tim Burton's best movies, which turns 30 this week.
The Ghost with the Most is back — and so is his creator, his handler, his bedfellow in crooked imagination, Tim Burton . Topping the box office for a third consecutive weekend, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has quickly become the director’s biggest hit in nearly 15 years. Whether it also qualifies as a return to form for Hollywood’s most gothically inclined fabulist is another matter.
Recommended Videos As if to mirror the means of his subject, Burton worked in a slightly more stripped-down, guerilla style, with fewer elaborate sets and special effects . Ed Wood was made for a fraction of the cost of his previous film, the budget-busting Batman Returns — a trade-off for creative control, including the privilege to shoot the movie entirely in black-and-white.
On the matter of authorship, the movie belongs plenty to its screenwriters, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, then both angling to escape the Woodian indignity of a career exclusively spent writing kiddie crap like Problem Child. It worked: After Ed Wood, the two became go-to guys for so-called “anti-biopics,” giving dramatic shape to the life stories of Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Margaret Keane, and Rudy Ray Moore.
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