Any director who averages a studio feature every other year for three decades will have a stinker or two on his resume.Īnd yet somehow Burton's stock feels low enough to make the spooky, visually ingenious, oft-incoherent-but-in-a-dreamlike-way Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children feel like a win just because it isn't dreadful. Or even an Alice in Wonderland, so long as he keeps balancing mega-grossing mediocrities like that with heartfelt stuff like Frankenweenie, his delightful stop-motion ode to his dog. When did our expectations for Tim Burton movies sink so precipitously? We ought to be able to forgive the guy who made Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow a Planet of the Apes now and then. Fans will never know what was going on in the photos that inspired the book, but with a little imagination, it's not too much of a stretch to believe they were all taken at a very special orphanage in Wales.Dame Judi Dench as the mysterious mentor Miss Avocet in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. There's no real Home for Peculiar Children like in Miss Peregrine, but its strange residents were definitely influenced by actual mysterious children of the past. Each photo is an unsettling little mystery - and I like them that way." "Because the photos are anonymous, long divorced from whatever context might have explained them, I don’t know what’s up with them any more than my readers do," Riggs wrote in The Huffington Post in 2011. As far as where the photos came from originally, or what their reason is for existing, those questions remain unanswered. Others feature crystal balls, mysterious shadow figures, and a boy's face superimposed on a dog's body. One photo shows a clown face painted on the back of someone's shaved head the crease of their neck functioning like a mouth (sound familiar?). Around four dozen vintages photos show up in the book, worked into the story, and they certainly are strange. ![]() ![]() The author has an interest in weird and mysterious pictures from yesteryear, and after first planning to put them together in a picture book, he eventually settled on weaving a narrative around them - the story that became Miss Peregrine's. The inspiration for the book came from Riggs' collection of vintage photographs. Obviously, there aren't really people like this in the world, so there's no real home for them, but the idea for the story still came from the real world. One child has an extra mouth on the back of her head that she uses to eat another can control bees while another has pyrokinetic abilities. But this is no ordinary orphanage, it houses "peculiars" - children who possess supernatural abilities. The book tells the story of a Welsh orphanage run by, you guessed it, Miss Peregrine. ![]() Instead it comes from a book of the same name by author Ransom Riggs. Unlike a number of works by Burton, the film is not based on his own original idea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has the fantastical look that Burton fans crave, but where did the movie come from? Is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children based on a real place? The eccentric director known for his dark and beautiful filmmaking technique has helmed classics like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands and created The Nightmare Before Christmas, and now he has a new movie coming out that's his most "Tim Burtonesque" in years. Many Hollywood directors can claim they have a unique style, but few can claim a style quite as unique as Tim Burton.
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