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We all agreed coming out of the screening for Tim Burton’s new movie, Big Eyes, which follows the story of the husband and wife team named “Keane” and their epic art fraud.
You may know the paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, those children with big, big, big eyes? Well, it’s one of those stories that you can understand how it happened, but when it was time to face the reality of hiding the truth, everything went sideways.
In the movie, you’re transported into the period piece where a wife is making an escape from her husband with their daughter, in a time where single mothers and divorcees carry an invisible scarlet letter. Trying to settle into her new life in San Francisco, Margaret (played by Amy Adams) a timid artist, is swept off her feet by Walter (played by Christoph Waltz), another artist who is very outgoing and skilled at selling, himself to Margaret and to anyone who walks by his art stand. Walter becomes the husband that Margaret wanted, worldly, creative, loving, a good provider for her and her daughter.
“Big Eyes” Opens in Theaters, Christmas, December 25th 2014
Walter sets out to sell his fresco paintings from the time he lived in Paris and takes along some of Margaret’s waif paintings as well and sets up in a bar where he finds success in his salesmanship skills, but only for Margaret’s paintings. It’s then that he convinces her that he is better dealing with the public and she, well, she’s better off staying home, in a small room, smelling paint fumes, and painting more of her paintings that she signs “Keane,” leaving the window open for Walter to start taking credit for these paintings as they begin to sell.
The story is gritty and real, you feel Margaret’s passion for her work and willingness to go along, until it tears at her inner soul, where she feels guilty about deceiving her daughter.
Amy Adams is brilliant in this movie, the writers did a great job in protecting the real Margaret Keane and her story, which took a year of courting her to get her to say yes, and well, it’s so fantastic of a story, that you have to see it.
Although it was the most fantastical art fraud in history, and Walter, well, you can’t hate him because he really had passion as well, he loved art, he just wasn’t an artist. He could sell Margaret’s waifs to anyone, he strategized, marketed, schemed and propelled the success of these paintings that “art critics” found lacking into a worldwide phenomenon.
We all were mesmerized by the storytelling, love the acting and most of all, our team, men and women, both agreed this is a must see movie! It’s already received three Golden Globe nominations, we can’t wait to see what happens during award season.
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More about Big Eyes
From the whimsical mind of director Tim Burton, BIG EYES tells the outrageous true story of one of the most epic art frauds in history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, painter Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) had reached success beyond belief, revolutionizing the commercialization of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. The bizarre and shocking truth would eventually be discovered though: Walter’s works were actually not created by him at all, but by his wife Margaret (Amy Adams). The Keanes, it seemed, had been living a colossal lie that had fooled the entire world. A tale too incredible to be fiction, BIG EYES centers on Margaret’s awakening as an artist, the phenomenal success of her paintings, and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, who was catapulted to international fame while taking credit for her work.
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- Directed by: Tim Burton
- Written by: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
- Produced by: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Lynette Howell, Tim Burton
- Cast: Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp
Images courtesy The Weinstein Company
