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Chosen Director : Tim Burton
Tim Burton well known auteur director known for many movies including the iconic movie Beetlejuice (1988) where he was presented the script for the movie and took the role as director as it was filled with many quirky and artistic opportunities. Beetlejuice was also the first film in which actor Michael Keaton appeared under the director of Burton, Keaton then went on to star in Batman (1989) which was also directed by Burton which sooner became his biggest box-office hit and still remains. It is evident that almost all of Tim Burton's films are dark and eccentric, although during his early years he tried experimenting with a different style of directing he quickly went back to his old techniques.
As an auteur director Burton chooses to work with many of the same actors over again for their films including Michael Keaton as mentioned previously, Paul Reubens, Lisa Marie and Christopher Lee. Two actors in particular that he is still working with today is actor Johnny Deep and Helena Bonham-Carter, the trio have worked on numerous films together including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street, The Corps bride, Dark Shadows and more recently the Alice in Wonderland movie series. A signature in Burton films is that "fathers" are often portrayed in a negative light this is evident in movies such as: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street, Sleepy Hollow, Dark Shadows & Charlie and the Chocolate factory. The antagonist in his films are cold, superior and brutal they often can be seen avoiding other characters in the movie. The heroes however, are cowards, bizarre and intelligent ( ex.Johnny Depps characters). Furthermore most of Burton's characters are often seen as friendly and optimistic despite the circumstances of the scene scenario. Music is a big aspect of Burton's style the effective use of musical interludes and it comes to no surprise that Burton films include a Gothic atmosphere and set design to re-enforce his visual idea and vision for his film, the use of gothic castles, churches or older creepy buildings are a way to trace the film to Tim Burton. Relating to setting: set at a non-specific location but, incorporates elements of England and America.
Tim Burton as an Auteur director: https://pennyrowe.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/auteur-director-tim-burton/
- Collab with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
- Uses Danny Elfman as his musician and composer for the soundtrack to his movies
- Dark movies with a little humour and quirkiness
- Includes Women's choir in his movie soundtracks
- Themes: mysteriousness, eeriness
- Uses scientific techniques and police equipment : finger printing and autopsies
- Majority of Burton films use flashbacks that affected the character in the past
- Never address the time or place in the films
- Characters are colourful and dramatic: eccentric, weird
- Nightmare before Christmas: odd shape portion to the body ( Mad Hatter, Tweedle Dum/ Tweedle Dee
- Oddly high or low pitch voice
Fantastical Imaginings of Tim Burton - https://www.acmi.net.au/media/428206/edkit-burton-fantastical.pdf
- Vyvyan Stranieri ( Education Programmer, Australian Centre of Moving Images) describes Burton as " a master auteur"
- Burton constantly paints, photograph, drawing exploring different characters exploring content
- Challenges Hollywood to further develop his own voice and his own vision for the film
- As an auteur Burton collaborates with everyone in the team : costume makers, set designers hair and makeup assistants etc.
- "German Expressionism- was an artistic movement ( encompassing: film, theatre, painting etc.) that sought to give shape to psychological states though highly stylised visual features.
- Burton early works Vincent used German Expressionism it was identified through cinema styles as well as art
- Expressionist film makers and auteurs like Burton use set designs that are non realistic, geometrically obscure shapes ( Trees in Chocolate factory, over grown mushrooms in Alice)
- Burton uses Mise- en -scene to insert mood and deeper meaning into the film
- Burton characters and narrative style mostly represented the main character as an 'outsider' that is often misunderstood
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