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Monstermaster13's response: Tim Burton article

Hello here, it is me monstermaster13 here. This time I am not doing a list or salute but rather a response to an article I read. The article in question is tittled 10 Examples Of Tim Burton Hating Fat People on the site Film School Rejects. The person who wrote this seems to think that Tim Burton hates overweight people, and as such made this statement: "Tim Burton is not a fan of the horizontally-challenged. That's the conclusion I reached from watching Frankenweenie, an otherwise very pleasant return to form for for the director. What isn't so pleasant is how every paunchy character — the mayor, the gym coach, and the chubby kid whose name doesn't matter — is cackled at by Burton and turned into a visual punch-line. Burton portrays these characters in a way that seems antithetical to how most people perceive him and his films… with a casual dash of mean-spiritedness. The one constant in Burton's films, aside from Johnny Depp obviously, is that he's alwa...