Saturday, 31 December 2022

4 MOVIES DIRECTED BY TIM BURTON

 


 

Hi, everyone! Have you seen the new Netflix TV series directed by Tim Burton? “Wednesday” is trending on Netflix and everywhere online ! If you like his new TV series inspired to the Addams family, you will enjoy his movies too. I’d like  to suggest you a few and I hope that you will love them as much as I do.

 

CORPSE BRIDE (2005)

 


It is an animated film directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. In an unnamed Victorian Era town, Victor, a young boy son of fish merchant, is preparing himself to have an arranged marriage with Victoria, the daughter of impoverished aristocrats. Victoria and Victor fall in love immediately. Victor is stressed about the marriage, so he doesn’t succeed in saying his vows. Victor goes to the wood near the town to calm himself. Thus he starts a beautiful, odd journey from the afterlife world to return to the reality helped by Emily, his corpse bride. It is a very good movie, packed with action, music and love. Obviously, it is gothic, which it the signature in Tim Burton’s movies, and we find the main features in his drawings, such as big eyes and pale skin. The movie conveys a beautiful message: to let go of the person we love if we are not part in their happiness.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005)

 


Have you ever seen it? It is his best known movie. It is a cult movie beyond time, which has been part of many’s childhood. It is a screen adaptation of the children’s novel by British author Roald Dahl dating back to 1964. The most beautiful things in the movie are  the dreamy, magic atmosphere and the gradual discovery of Willy Wonka’s  character, who tries to forget his past, to control his negative thoughts and to forgive his father for going against his dreams.

SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999)

 


It is a horror movie which is  based on Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”  (1820). In 1799 Ichabod Crane, a policeman,  is sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow, committed by a mysterious Headless Horseman. The English humour decreases the tension of the movie, which is something Tim Burton uses in many of his movies, especially if the actor starring as the protagonist is Johnny Deep (it happens if “Dark Shadows”, too). If you like engaging stories, gothic atmospheres, English humour and murder stories, this film is for you.

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)

 


It is a fantasy movie, in which the main character is performed by Johnny Deep . Winona Ryder, who you’ve probably seen as Joyce in the Netflix TV series “Stranger Things”, also stars in it. Tim Burton not only directed the movie, but also wrote the story with Caroline Thompson.

One evening,  a woman tells her granddaughter of a young man named  Edward, who has scissors as his hands. Many years before, an inventor made a humanoid, which was called Edward. The inventor educated him at home but died of a heart attack leaving him unfinished without his hands. Peg Boggs, a door-to-door saleswoman, found Edward alone and offered to take him to her home.

The genesis of Edward Scissorhands came from a drawing by then-teenage Tim Burton, which reflected his feelings of isolation and being unable to communicate to people around him in suburban Burbank. The drawing figured a young man with sharp blades for fingers.

There are other beautiful movies directed by Tim Burton, among which I suggest   “The Nightmare before Christmas”, “Batman”, “Alice in the Wonderland”.   All Tim Burton’s movies have an important impact on the audience;  they are complicated, atypical, personal and strange in a positive way. He is a genius and he is the symbol of isolated and unusual people’s revenge. He became one of the most popular directors of the 20th century thanks to his genius, his vision of the world and of human beings.  

 

WHO IS TIM BURTON?

 


Tim Burton, Timothy Walter Burton, besides being the renowned American director so many admire, is also a screenwriter, illustrator and producer. He was born in Burbank, California. He spent most of his childhood isolated and for this reason he started drawing cartoons and watching old movies. His artistic talent was recognized by a company, when he won a prize for a poster he designed. After high school, he attended the California Institute of the Arts. Burton's first job was as an animator for Disney. Three years later, he started to direct and write his movies, debuting with Beetlejuice. His ex-partner, Helena Bonham Carter, inadvertently diagnosed him with Asperger's syndrome. While researching for a role about autism, she found several typical traits in him.  Although he had no official diagnosis, he believes that he falls under the autism spectrum. In the majority of his movies we find  actors Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Deep and the atmosphere is always dark.

 

GIORGIA M., 4sc

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