The characteristics of Gothic fairy tale film

Combining with the fine works of Tim Burton to analyze the characteristics of the Gothic fairy tale.


The characteristics of sense of vision and hearing: the expression forms mainly focused on the black and somber tone of the screen, the exaggerated characters and magical scenes. The music style always is more bizarre and eerie. The vision, hearing and music combine together to form the strong special style of characteristics. These has reflected in many movies of Tim Burton, such as the "Corpse Bride", "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Sweeney Todd", all these movies took the dark screen style as the basic tone of the movie and the dark and sunless scenes throughout the whole movies under the weird background music to form a unique sense of Gothic.





The characteristics of drama: in the movie, a majority of the stories are the fairy tale theme of fantasy and adventure tours that they always happened in the castles, underground, and other dark, hidden and gloomy places. Set the bizarre plot of the background, based on the weird and different characters personality to consist the structure of the movies, as well as the satire on the complex reality life through the fairy tales which lost the innocence. At the same time, the designing of the character images is one of the major features of the movies. Under the character images who with the demonize appearance there always have a soft and kind heart, or the characters who looks kind will always do some thing be vicious, but the heroes of the movies must be kind hearted, the ending always give people with profound inspiration and form the effect of irony. In the movie of "Sweeney Todd", the distinctive Gothic opera add more color to the movie, it is the dark tone that instantaneously created the delicate dramatic tension which made the movie no longer rigidly in the Gothic style and also contained a dark and merry temperament.