The Analysis of Tim Burton's film (2)

The Gothic movies are mainly about the strange and mysterious adventure stories happen in dark and secluded places (such as the deserted castle). However, the fairy tales are mainly faced to the children, they are always the fiction works with a strong fantasy color and shape the character images through rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbol tools to reflect the life, and the stories plot often be strange, intricate and fascinating. The Gothic fairy tale is a combination that it doesn't take the traditional subject of warm and nice, but a non-mainstream expression form. The appearance of Gothic fairy tale has brought the modern mainstream fairy tale another new narrative way which turns into the fairy tale didn't suitable for children. Moreover, the tension of the movie allows it form the effect of "1+1≥2" which is the original single element can’t reach by the collision of the two distinct aspect in drama and vision. It not only provide a new expression mode for the contemporary bizarre movies, but also offer the right understand way on the Gothic fairy tale movies to the audience. Most subjects of this style movie are focused on the human nature which is the satire for the dark side in society. They take the nice thing brought by the "ugly thing" to satirize the things looks beauty, together with the tension created by the contrast to sublimate the theme of movie and the deeper ideological connotation was reflected. This make the audience understand the meaning of beauty and ugliness from another perspective that not just from the visual point, but also from the heart to realize the truth, kind and beauty. In this way, the Gothic fairy tale gives a profounder psychological feeling which is the most significance of art tension in Gothic fairy tale.

The movie style of Tim Burton has very obvious features which is different with the aesthetics movie that it does not explore ideas by profound imagery, but in the form and content to rendering the audience on their ideology. The Gothic fairy tale is not the light-hearted fairy tale for children, but the instructive movies full of irony on real world which touch the people's heart, this black humor often appear in Tim Burton's movies.





His first movie of "Vincent" was treated as the prohibitive movie for children by Disney Executive and blocked at the moment it appeared, and it was this movie that has laid out his later movie style of fantastic fairy tale. There also have some bright tone in his movies, such as the "Big Fish", "The Chocolate Factory" and so on, but he continue merged with the fantasy and adventure plot into Gothic movies, and we can find this art tension generally exist in Tim Burton's movies. The development of Gothic fairy tales is rapidly growing and more and more audience turn to love the black humor. And from the movies of Tim Burton in recent years, the movie tone presents the clear and canty trend gradually, but still invariable thing is the human nature subjects, such as the "Alice in Wonderland", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Big Fish". We look forward that the art tension of Gothic fairy tale with the Tim Burton's characteristics will last long expressed in his future works, and perhaps his movie is about to become the mainstream.