Tim Burton loves ’70s music
My enjoyment of the music might come from the fact Burton and I are about the same age. In talking about the music of early ’70s — when the film is set — Burton points out about what an interesting time it was musically and how he became a fan.
“I must have been quite ill that year because I just remember that music on the AM radio. Being sick and having a fever and hearing all of that kind of music on the AM radio over and over again,” Burton says.
It was a time when radio stations would play the mind-blowing work of Alice Cooper and the pop tunes of The Carpenters.
“It felt strange at the time and still feels strange. The quality of music went from cheesy pop to hard core stuff. I remember Alice Cooper being a strong influence on me at the time. And he still looks the same which is very scary,” Burton says.
Burton got to thank Cooper as the rockstar makes an appearance in the movie.
Responses to "Tim Burton loves ’70s music"
I’m not a big Tim Burton fan, but now that you mention the music I think I’ll go and see the movie. I love 70s music too.
The movie in general was much better than I’d expected (even if it wasn’t the movie, as a hard-core D.S.’s geek, I’d wished they’d made). The train ride at the beginning w/ Nights in White Satin was chilling and melancholy (i.e. perfect for the scene) and matched the mood of the original opening well.–and Cooper’s appearance worked pretty darn well (a step above the sitcom device of having a pop star be the special guest). [still wished they'd made an actual horror/suspense movie out of it..., but it was still worth the ticket].[---also (I did say 'geek'), the bit where she plays with her name at the beginning was a great homage to Dracula/vampire movies where multiple stock characters (lucy-mina/ harker-seward) are folded into one another.]