Wow, I guess I missed the boat on this due to being born in the 80s, but I sure have spent many years loving what I now recognize as Tim Burton blatantly ripping this stuff off. 😅
Oh, there's definitely some influence on Tim Burton, for sure, but I feel like he's doing something different - there's so much of his Disney training in what he does - but it's definitely part of that '80s Goth stew
There's something about all that skittering and fluttering that's properly nightmarish. That and their extraordinary ability to avoid story, which makes all the more dream-like. I don't know how they do it. Gilgamesh was part of the line up I saw at the Garden Cinema and I spent the whole time trying to impose a story on it: *that* must be Enkidu, and *that* must be the temple prostitute and *this bit* must be Gilgamesh going down into the underworld, but the film resisting all attempts.
Wow, I guess I missed the boat on this due to being born in the 80s, but I sure have spent many years loving what I now recognize as Tim Burton blatantly ripping this stuff off. 😅
Oh, there's definitely some influence on Tim Burton, for sure, but I feel like he's doing something different - there's so much of his Disney training in what he does - but it's definitely part of that '80s Goth stew
Urrrrrrggggh, I remember staying up too late as a kid and watching Gilgamesh on channel 4.
Properly fucking upsetting - like a fever dream, but real.
There's something about all that skittering and fluttering that's properly nightmarish. That and their extraordinary ability to avoid story, which makes all the more dream-like. I don't know how they do it. Gilgamesh was part of the line up I saw at the Garden Cinema and I spent the whole time trying to impose a story on it: *that* must be Enkidu, and *that* must be the temple prostitute and *this bit* must be Gilgamesh going down into the underworld, but the film resisting all attempts.
YESSSS - so I heard “Gilgamesh” and assumed I was going to see a cool animation about a guy wrestling a beastman and going on adventures.
Instead I got a squeaky homunculus in a weird feud with a nightmare bird.
Horrible