An exploration into Tim Burton's recurring use of alienated, outcast characters, and how it applies to Auteur theory.
auteur theory quote from book (item 7):
" Sarris isolates three areas of competence – technique, personal style and inner meaning – and links these to directors as technician, stylist and auteur. " /
-doesn't conform to the 'normal' lifestyle
-live far away from everyone (isolated)
-skittish (like a dog)
-slowly learns to love, but even then his deformity made him different to everyone else
-wears makeup to fit in
-doesn't like human contact
-animalistic - dog [item 4] /
"A wild-haired eccentric arrives in town and demonstrates an extraordinary creativity – now where did movie wunderkind Tim Burton (wild-haired, deeply eccentric) get the idea for Edward Scissorhands?" [Item 12] /
"No one in Hollywood personifies his own movies as Tim Burton does." [Item 11] /
"He has produced a body of work that focuses on the outcasts of society" [Item 13] /
"There is an old saying that don’t judge a book by its cover and Edward’s story is the perfect example of that." (Item 16) /
"There is an old saying that don’t judge a book by its cover and Edward’s story is the perfect example of that." (Item 16) /
we also see this in....
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
-Willy Wonka is a lonely man
-skittish
-doesn't like human contact
-lives far away from everyone
-doesn't have relationships with anyone
-seen as a 'weirdo'
-learns to love
-animalistic - monkey
[Item 15] /"the factory itself, is like Wonka's brain; complicated, strange, fun, disturbing..." [Item 6] /
" Q: Like many of your films, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its main character has father issues.
BURTON: Yeah, I've got some problems. (He laughs) You might have seen me enough to realize that by now. " - IGN Interview [Item 5]
[item 14] /Sweeney Todd?
-lost his family
-outcast
-he's weird in a different way: "Sweeney's basically been dead since his life was taken away from all those years before..." - Johnny Depp - Item 9
-sly
-seen as a weirdo
-lonely man
-animalistic - fox
this may be because... Tim Burton was very alienated himself, autobiographical with his characters:
"Burton's characters are often outsiders, misunderstood and misperceived, misfits encumbered by some degree of duality, operating on the fringes of their own particular society, tolerated and pretty much left to their own devices. And in many ways, he embodies the contradiction himself. [...] He may use Hollywood's money [to make his films]... but still makes them his way" Item 8 /
No comments:
Post a Comment