Instead of being a down-and-out farmer, Knoll (played by Griffin Dunne) is a fading star of the New York art scene. The farmer’s cheating wife, however, loathes it to the pit of her marrow and when she tries to get rid of it, things take a violent turn.īurton gives the story a decidedly Reagan-era twist. People come for miles to gawk at it, strangely captivated by its uncanny charm. with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you.” This thing, however, has a peculiar charisma. It is described as “one of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma. In Bradbury’s story, a failing farmer buys a jar with a curious thing floating in it. On the heels of his feature debut Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Tim Burton adapted Ray Bradbury’s “The Jar” (1944) for an episode of the ‘80s reboot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. How do you follow up on making a children’s movie classic? If you’re Tim Burton, you spin a tale of sex, murder and conceptual art.
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