Vincent (1982) on Netflix
Vincent Malloy, a polite 7-year-old, dreams of being like the actor he idolizes. He acts out macabre daydreams at home and experiments on his dog Abercrombie, to his mother's annoyance.
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Plot summary
The film is a stop-motion short in stark black and white, and its story is told in rhyming verse. Vincent Malloy is a polite 7-year-old with one ambition: to become like the actor he worships. He loses himself in macabre daydreams drawn from that actor's movies and from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and his reading carries him away from the world around him, so that he sees himself as a tortured artist and a mad scientist. At home he performs strange experiments on his dog Abercrombie, hoping to turn the animal into a ravenous zombie dog. His mother has little patience for the boy's imagined world.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vincent (1982)
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- An early form of Jack Skellington, later the star of The Nightmare Before Christmas, can be seen twice in Vincent, once in front of the embodiment of his deceased wife, years before Nightmare went into production.
- Vincent Price, a lifelong idol of Tim Burton, narrated the film, and the friendship begun on it led Price to appear in Burton's Edward Scissorhands.
- The Beetlejuice animated cartoon character Prince Vince, which premiered seven years later, was named after Vincent Malloy and bears a strong resemblance to him in both appearance and mannerisms.
- Disney's head of creative development Tom Wilhite gave Tim Burton $60,000 in 1982 to adapt a poem Burton had written, titled Vincent; Burton had first planned the poem as a children's short story book.
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