The Analysis of Tim Burton's film (1)

Tim Burton is a director and producer of the fairy tale movies. From the moment he appeared in the sight of all, he was loved by fans like the black humor and marked with the styles like solitary, bold, and dark and so on. Two dozen of his movies are mainly took the fairy tale materials, but he presented the fairy tales in ways of dark abnormally. His movies highlight not just the simple fairy tales but the irony of reality beyond the fairy tales field by means of Gothic style. The distinct contrast of beauty and fear formed the great art tension which is not only on visual but also on psychological.


It was because of the expression form of Tim Burton, which is inconsistent with the mainstream movie, so there has much incomprehension about him. Many people think that the existing of fairy tales is to meet people's aspiration of the beautiful life, to provide the children a good guide for the future life. The Gothic fairy tale is precisely the opposite, however, it takes the most "pure" things in the world to reflect the most "ugly" things, and set the hell of the background in the "Corpse Bride" to irony the beauty in world, this inevitably opposed by the people who hold the mainstream thinking concept. But what they did not aware is that the greater visual tension and dramatic tension present by this exaggerated contrast maybe could reached what the mainstream fairy tales can not reach.