Take a look at his filmography over the past 10 to 15 years and this proves to be true.
It has become risk-averse and driven by bean-counter-like algorithms rather than creativity.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceuncages Burton from this suffocating system.
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It frees him to play in a madcap world in which he created and knows better than anyone else.
Hilariously, when she breaks the news of Charles death to Lydia, she says he left her.
Ryders Lydia remains sensitive and melancholic as before.
Keatons Betelgeuse hasnt changed a bit from the first film, though.
However, it doesnt have to be.
WhenBeetlejuicewas released in 1988, no one had ever seen a film quite like it.
ForBeetlejuice Beetlejuice, it would be impossible to capture this sandworm-in-a-bottle effect all over again.
If it ventured too far off, it would become unrecognizable to the people who loved the original.
And if it was a reboot… Well, everyone only needs to seethe reception toward 2024sThe Crow.
Burton has been open about the fact that this latest entry wont simply lead to a third movie.
