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Case No. 094 Tim Burton Fetish Fantasy Theory

Tim Burton Fetish Fantasy Theory

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Tim Burton Fetish Fantasy Theory

Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate the spookiest day of the year than by dragging Mr. Halloween himself through the mud? For decades Tim Burton has been weaving a secret pattern into his films. He casts his real-life partners, Helena Bonham Carter, Lisa Marie, Eva Green and Monica Bellucci, as women who throw themselves at his leading man, usually his on-screen avatar Johnny Depp, only to be ignored, rejected and banished. Mrs. Lovett, the Corpse Bride, the Red Queen, Delores the soul-sucker: the pattern is too strong to be coincidence. And then there's Ed Wood, a movie about a director who hides his own sexual secret inside his films. Sound like anyone? Grab your popcorn as we prove Tim Burton has been acting out an elaborate cuckold fantasy on the big screen.

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