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Burton Family losses-2000-2003 Although Tim Burton was never very close to his parents, their deaths affected him deeply. His father, Bill, died in October 2000 and then his mother, Jean, in 2002. In 2003, Burton released ‘Big Fish’, a story about a son trying to get to know his dying father. With Burton’s father having recently past away, this was, yet another, very personal film for Burton. Burton said “I wasn’t close to my father” showing more and more of himself in the son character in ‘Big Fish’, William Bloom. Burton received the script for ‘Big Fish’ shortly after his father’s death. He said after receiving the script that his father’s death “was very difficult for [him] to discuss” and when the script came along dealing with the same problems, Burton said “it was an amazing catharsis to do this film.”

Although Burton had not had a very close relationship to his father, this movie was great help to him to look back and to look forward as his long-term partner, Helena Bonham Carter, gave birth to their son, Billy Ray Burton, just three months before the release. This movie was a way for Burton to put “an image to the incommunicable” about his losses in the past years