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Tim Burton movies

Chris: Why do we keep being drawn to the films of Timothy Burton?

Dan: I can speak personally, having grown up as someone who considered himself something of a social outcast in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Chris: Yeah, you weirdo.

Dan: Exactly. I was called weirdo, gothic…

Chris: That’s because you’re a gothic weirdo.

Dan: Yeah. Weirdo gothic freak, all that sort of thing.

Chris: Parents can be so cruel.

But the films of Tim Burton kind of spoke to me and people like me. They felt like, these are for us. Though I confess that I kind of grew out of it. And he.

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