Kim tells it as a memory in the very beginning.. A memory that takes place in the 1980/90's..
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I don't think that there is any definite time period. Even though the fashion and the Tom Jones songs does evoke the 1960s.
shareWell people still listen to 60's music even today so it still doesn't suggest a time period.
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I don't think that there is any definite time period
The mishmash of decades in this movie is interesting. It feels like the mid to late 70's to me but he mentions cd players for one thing. Are the cars from the 70's? Kind of a beautiful amalgamation.
shareThough the movie/Burton certainly goes for a 1960s and 1970s vibe, there's obviously things seen and referenced that came a decade/s later. And with the movie's fantasy elements and all, it's likely no particular place in time was meant to be given. It could very well be set in the 80s or early 90s, but of course the town and world in this just happens to be a unique and rather wondrous place... in other words, Burton's world.
shareIt's not set in "our" universe. It's set in it's own universe separate from us. So their time periods are irrelevant to ours.
shareTim Burton seems to like having his films set in a generic time period that is a mishmash of different decades. His version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a very good example where it appears to be set either in the 1950s or in the 2000s.
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