Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
THE TIM BURTONIZATION OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND
An essay on Alice in Wonderland Novel by Lewis Caroll Film adaptation by Tim Burton
In 1962, film critic Andrew Sarris points out a repeating movement of ideas and images throughout a filmmaker’s body of work. This later on becomes the basis of Auteur theory which describes the authorship of the filmmaker who despite is working within the bounds of a studio system is able to imprint his/her ideologies and personal style into his/her films. According to Sarris, to be an auteur the filmmaker must be able to master three criteria: technique, style, and world view. American filmmaker Tim Burton is one who definitely satisfies all three conditions. With his highly stylized films, including Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990) which is arguably his most remembered film, The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd …show more content…
This disrupts her sleep and makes her wake in the middle of the night. The same dream haunts her over and over again up until adolescence. A troubled childhood is also indicative of Burton’s style. In Batman, an adaptation of the comic book and one of his first box-office successes, the outcast is the Caped Crusader himself. Witnessing his parents’ murder scars Bruce Wayne’s childhood. He then detaches himself from the world to retreat to a dark gothic place. He ensures that this injustice is never to happen again by being a vigilante hero. However troubled, offbeat, and almost freak-like, Burton stresses that the outcast is the hero: Alice slays the Jabberwocky to end the Red Queen’s cruel rule; Edward kills Jim who brutally attacked him and Kim; and in Frankenweenie (1984), Burton’s second short film, Sparky the Frankenstein dog saves Victor, his owner, from a burning windmill. It is also
An essay on Alice in Wonderland Novel by Lewis Caroll Film adaptation by Tim Burton
In 1962, film critic Andrew Sarris points out a repeating movement of ideas and images throughout a filmmaker’s body of work. This later on becomes the basis of Auteur theory which describes the authorship of the filmmaker who despite is working within the bounds of a studio system is able to imprint his/her ideologies and personal style into his/her films. According to Sarris, to be an auteur the filmmaker must be able to master three criteria: technique, style, and world view. American filmmaker Tim Burton is one who definitely satisfies all three conditions. With his highly stylized films, including Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990) which is arguably his most remembered film, The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd …show more content…
This disrupts her sleep and makes her wake in the middle of the night. The same dream haunts her over and over again up until adolescence. A troubled childhood is also indicative of Burton’s style. In Batman, an adaptation of the comic book and one of his first box-office successes, the outcast is the Caped Crusader himself. Witnessing his parents’ murder scars Bruce Wayne’s childhood. He then detaches himself from the world to retreat to a dark gothic place. He ensures that this injustice is never to happen again by being a vigilante hero. However troubled, offbeat, and almost freak-like, Burton stresses that the outcast is the hero: Alice slays the Jabberwocky to end the Red Queen’s cruel rule; Edward kills Jim who brutally attacked him and Kim; and in Frankenweenie (1984), Burton’s second short film, Sparky the Frankenstein dog saves Victor, his owner, from a burning windmill. It is also