"Big Eyes" (2014) Directed by Tim Burton

“I think that what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn’t like it” — Andy Warhol

Based on the incredible true story of 1950’s/1960’s painter Margaret Keane and written for the screen by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, all the regular elements of a Tim Burton creation are present: A number of superb central performances especially from Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, Danny Elfman’s bubbly and retro musical score, Colleen Atwood’s pin point attention to detail with her period costume designs and a story that with a little added Tim Burton twist becomes ever more bizarre.

In the realm of truth being stranger than fiction “Margaret Keane” (Amy Adams) bucks the conventional trend of the conservative 1950’s and runs away from her inattentive husband, taking her young daughter Jane to the hip and modern city of San Francisco. An accomplished portrait painter of young children and especially her young daughter, her distinctive style of painting them with larger than normal eyes goes largely unnoticed until she meets fellow painter “Walter Keane” (Christoph Waltz) who aside from being an amateur painter and real estate agent is a quick witted cad, bounder type, the teller of tall tales and archetypal salesman. Seduced by early success, a loose agreement is reached whereby the outgoing Walter promotes and sells the various child portraits as his own with the slightly neurotic and nervous of the outside art world Margaret taking a silent but heavily productive back seat as she is completely overwhelmed and consumed by the passion and verve of her now new husband, Walter.

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The above opening paragraph is taken from my original spoiler free review of "Big Eyes" penned and published over a decade ago, transferred to my Medium blog site and which can now be read in full and for free via my original career opus blog article on the first 18 films in the cinematic career of Tim Burton below:

https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/the-magic-of-tim-burton-680403373369

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