Corpse Bride (2005)

A true author: Tim Burton

October 6, 2007 at 5:14 pm (Uncategorized)

      Timothy William Burton, best known as Tim Burton, is recognized for being one of the most important directors in the film industry, but is that the only thing that Tim does? of course not. Tim has performed in different areas, such as, writing, acting and producing and he has been successful in all of them, proving the quality of his work and his native talent. His life was influenced by many important people from whom Tim learned what he needed in order to become the true star he is nowadays.

He was born in Burbank, California on August 25, 1958 being the older brother. Since his childhood he has admired actors as Vincent Price and writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Goreyand; but he has also been motivated by science-fiction and horror movies which influenced him to choose his future career as a director. After this, he won a scholarship at the Institute of arts in California, founded by Walt Disney, in order to study animation. Although he felt happy for three years studying what he loved, when he started his first works, like “the Fox and the Hound”, he felt disappointed because he wasn’t allowed to do the drawings he wanted. Nevertheless, everything changed when Walt Disney gave him the opportunity to do his first short called “Vincent”, in which he used the stop-motion animation and his great imagination creating a new style in animation movies by developing popular, terrifying, and defenseless characters that didn’t feel part of the society in which they lived. These characters were represented with black colors that tended also to be gothic, fantastic and unreal being this the type of type of characters that are commonly presented in most of his movies.

As the short was a great success, it opened the doors for him in the film industry. His real famous career as a director started at the age of 26 when he began directing movies such as “Nightmare before Christmas” (first movie stop-motion animated movie), “Sweeney Todd “, the memorable “Edward Scissorhands” and “Corpse Bride”, the last two received a nomination for the Academy Awards. Tim Burton is considered an author such as the Cahiers du Cinéma said, because his works are unique. Burton’s work reflects his own thoughts, feelings, and personality with a particular style shown by the types of characters that are commonly repeated in his movies, which are his signature in each of his works. Another reason to consider him a true author  and one of the best directors of all times, is that he contributed to the film industry with his several cinematographic works and techniques that have enriched animated films and elevated them to a pure and unique work of art. * Check out Tim

Burton’s amazing filmography here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/

Sources used: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton                     

http://www.terra.es/cine/biofilmografia/articulo.cfm?ID=3415 (concept of author)                       

                      http://timburtonstown.bsospirit.com/