So this is probably where Burtons big Eyes inspiration came from. Sometimes it feels like the main character (Amy Adams) is speaking for him, when she talks about inspiration or why she does things.
This is a really interesting movie. It's not perfect, but it's worth watching.
The way to describe my fillings is OWFULL! Taking a mediocre artist and making her paintings, the middle part of an abduction story is somewhat OK with me_ but the work of director as well as scriptwriters is as down the road as it could be.
Tim Burton is a masterful artist, and a great eye behind the camera. But he's not one of those directors that wrote most of their films.
Whatever the facts of the story, 'Big Eyes' is, until the tedious last act courtroom drama, a very engaging depiction of, well, typical 1960's white middleclass domestic abuse.A woman who's not a bad painter technically, conspires (involuntarily) with her rebound husband to promote her paintings of (presumably emotionally abused) children as HIS work.
'Big Eyes' is a lightweight biopic about a divorced single mother called Margaret Ulbrich, who dreams of supporting herself as an artist while she paints kitschy portraits of street children with sad, over-sized eyes. After meeting and marrying a glib hustler, she permits her new husband to claim authorship of her work when he sells a couple of the paintings.
Apparently, abuse extends itself into the art world as depicted in this 2014 film.On the rebound, Amy Adams quickly marries supposed artist Christoph Waltz and by a quirk of fate, her drawings depicting big eyes become famous.
It is an interesting story, with a striking visual style and good characters.
An uncertain mixture of drama and comedy (such as the scene where Christoph Waltz interrogates himself in the witness box like Everett Sloane in 'The Lady from Shanghai').The resemblance of 'Big Eyes' to the Tony Hancock vehicle 'The Rebel' seems to have been noticed by even fewer people than that of 'Basic Instinct' to 'Play Misty to Me' (with Danny Huston performing a function similar to George Sanders in the earlier film).
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