Tim Burton
Timothy " Tim " William Burton ( born August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California) is an American writer, producer and film director.
Life
Tim Burton showed talent for drawing as a child. His first film, The Iceland of Doctor Agor, he turned in 1971 at the age of 13 years. With a grant from the Disney studios, he spent three years studying cartoon art at the California Institute of the Arts. He got a job at Disney, after working as an illustrator of intermediate phases in the published 1978 fantasy animated film The Lord of the Rings. He worked on the animated movies Fox and the Hound and Taran and the Magic Cauldron and turned as a writer and director in Disney contract in 1982 with the first successful and award-winning short film Vincent.
His first feature film was 1985, the film Pee- Wee's crazy adventures. With the film Beetlejuice he succeeded in 1988, the breakthrough. Since then, he is one of the successful directors and producers in Hollywood.
In 1985 he met the film composer Danny Elfman know. Their first film together was Pee- Wee's crazy adventures. From acquaintance to a still ongoing friendship developed. Elfman had also been playing all the other films Burton, with the exception of Ed Wood and the previously composed into a Broadway musical Sweeney Todd, as a composer.
Even as an author Burton came into existence, so in some of his early works, or on the internet where it offers Stainboy as a continuation (see link on the fan page ). The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy is a book of stories, poems and drawings about characters beyond the norm.
At the International Film Festival of Venice was honored Tim Burton in 2007 for his life's work with the Golden Lion, which he, of Johnny Depp, star of his films Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd Alice was presented with in Wonderland and Dark Shadows.
The MoMA in New York dedicated to him 2009/2010 a major exhibition, which was exhibited in Melbourne in 2010 and was seen from November 2010 to April 2011 in Toronto. End of January 2010 it was announced that Burton will head the jury of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Burton was there in 1997, a member of the jury.
Private life
From 1989 to 1991 Burton was married to the German artist Lena Gieseke. In the 90s he led a relationship with actress Lisa Marie Smith, who he described as his muse, and participated in most of his films of the period. When he at the filming of Planet of the Apes ( 2001) directed, he met British actress Helena Bonham Carter, with whom he has become romantically involved and has two children together. Johnny Depp, a longtime friend of Tim Burton, is the godfather of the children.
Reflections on his work
Tim Burton's trademark is usually " weird" but multilayered films with partly comic or morbid to the bizarre accents, actions and actors. The motifs and figures are either taken from the comic book world (see the Batman films ) or located in the horror genre. Burton liked citing elements of the Gothic and underground scene, where he has specialized mainly on horror comedies. In addition, it is noticeable that he used elements like the films from the period of German Expressionism ( "Max Shreck " as the villain in Batman Returns ). Burton's more recent works play with surreal subjects (Big Fish) and always convince with detail- stage designs, whether it be the creepy playful characters and scenarios of its puppet animation films, or the elaborate buildings and costumes of Batman films. In addition, he dared to place with Ed Wood, a black and white film in theaters.
Vincent Price in a supporting role (one of the last performances of the actor in Edward Scissorhands ) and the role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (played by Martin Landau ) were, as he said in an interview, " a tribute to the films and cast that it already enthusiastic in his childhood. "
Burton's films fascinate either through gloomy scenarios (Batman ), droll sense of humor ( Mars Attacks ) or shrill, garish elements ( for example, the kitschy buildings of suburbia in Edward Scissorhands or almost everything in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ). In Burton's film scores falls to pronounced weakness for songs of 1960er/1970er - for example, Tom Jones, he can sing in several films in the background and who also played a supporting role in Mars Attacks.
The newer projects Burtons go again childlike fascination and imagination assets from: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is based on a classic children's book by Roald Dahl, while Corpse Bride - Corpse Bride ( Oscar nomination 2006), as previously Nightmare Before Christmas, a stop-motion - puppet animation film.
2007 Burton filmed the Broadway musical Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This film was in 2008 with the Golden Globe for Best Movie ( Comedy or Musical) and on 24 February 2008 with the Oscar in the category " Best Art Direction".
2008/2009 Burton filmed the children's classic Alice in Wonderland in 3D. For the title role, he won the little-known Australian Mia Wasikowska, while Johnny Depp slipped into the role of the Mad Hatter. Theatrical release was on March 4, 2010. Came the end of December 2009, produced by Burton animated movie # 9, which is about nine small figures in a bleak future, as Blu -ray and DVD on the market.
End of 2009, Burton published the book The Art of Tim Burton, with over 1,000 illustrations own.
His film Dark Shadows was released in theaters on May 10, 2012. In the second half of the year also appeared to be even Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ( Burton as producer) and Frankenweenie. Other projects such as Monsterapocalypse are in the planning phase.
Style
Recurring motifs
Main cast
Tim Burton sets for his films regularly the same actors, where Johnny Depp was considered with eight collaborations most often.
Burton also worked together in all his films, with the exception of Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd with composer Danny Elfman.
Filmography
As a director
As a producer
As Writer
As an actor