Tim Burton: The Interpreter Of Auteur System And Genre Movie

There is such a director who causes absolutely argumentative discussion both for his work and he himself: either extremely favored or completely ignored. This is "wizard director"-- Tim Burton, so called by Hollywood. His work is always filled with thick Gothic elements. So whenever this genre of movie is mentioned, the chief representative people can think of is Bolton.Although the Gothic style is commonly seen in Tim Burton's movies, but we can not simply classify his work as a "genre movie", on the other hand the title of "auteur system" seems too straight and narrow for Bolton ,since he has always been a maverick. Not only because his films are expressed and involved in various forms such as, feature films, animations, biographies, music videos and so on; neither because his films are added with rich elements of emotion like family love, friendship and romance based on the Gothic theme; neither because the variety of his film style is the mixture of fantasy, horror, thriller, weird, romantic elements, etc.; perhaps also not because his bold attempt and innovation in technology conventions such as stop-motion animation, three-dimensional films, special effects, etc. All the above mentioned, if list one by one, perhaps merely remains at the superficial of the films. But add them together, it would become the unique image style and image thought of Bolton himself and allows people who are familiar with his films, immediately perceive that it belongs to Tim Burton type. It can be said that both the"genre movie"style and"auteur system"spirit coexists in his films which makes his internal image has the following two trends: "auteur system"is genre-oriented and"genre movie" is author–oriented. Therefore its director-- Tim Burton, becomes an interpreter of auteur system and genre movie.Loneliness is expressed with warmth, wisdom with grotesque and life with death, there can always be multiple levels of understanding towards the same film. The question of life and soul can always be triggered outside the screen while watching the screen narrative mechanism and the image style. Tim Burton's movie is just like the peculiar image world he creates can allow the viewers entering into his fantasy space-- a spiritual castle he weaved by temporarily escaping from the reality. Each one of us is able to seek the answer concerning life and soul in this castle. With children's unusual but wonderful thinking to depict the colorful world; also with the grotesque image style to present terror and death, he endows a particular spiritual and aesthetic sense to the tragedy both comforting the soul as well as revealing the loneliness.This paper intends to explore the beauty and love presented in Burton films through the following means: Bolton's representative works; the features of "auteur system" and "genre movie" respectively; the introduction of cultural background; the illustration of audio-visual style and the interpretation of spiritual significance; as well as the director's individual private world such as his growth, his life experiences, and so forth. In this study, the author boldly suggested the unique personal insights, furthermore extracted and demonstrated the views of genre-oriented auteur system, author-oriented genre movie through the film art theory and the connotation of Bolton's films by means of taking the screen image as a starting point and taking the genre characteristics as the vein and aiming the objective of cognitive psychology. Tim Burton movies intrinsic meaning can be summed as: respect for life and reverence for death. To this end, the author will sort out and research in the following areas:(1) Specifically analyze and interpret Tim Burton's creation style through his representative films (2) Explore the nature of "genre-oriented auteur system" of Tim Burtons films from artistic point of view; (3) Explore the style of "author-oriented genre movie" of Tim Burtons films from artistic point of view.The purpose of studying Tim Burton movies and proposing innovative research topics is to express my love for Burton's films as well as my admiration for the director through this paper. Most of the reports of this wizard director came from the marketing business of the box office and personal archives. As for the study of his films are relatively scattered, mainly concentrated on the characteristics of personal style in the normal image, rather than systematically analyze the cultural impact, the visual language and the personal perception of the director would like to reflect through the lens . Therefore, the author is strongly motivated to take this study opportunity to let more people understand and enjoy Tim Burton's film works."Genre movie" emphasizes on commercialization, whereas "auteur system" focuses on artistic. It is indeed not easy to integrate the both in a director of unique personal characteristics; it is even more challenging to propose and reasonably demonstrate the topic of"genre-oriented auteur system" and "author-oriented genre movie". But Tim Burton's devotion to his film and persistence to his style affected all those who enjoyed his movies. There is only one Tim Burton in Hollywood's who dares to challenge the difficulty by combining academic and artistic together to stand distinguished from among the profound academic theory and complicated movie database. At this point, the author, I have the strongest desire to present an outstanding figure in my mind-- Tim Burton through my paper.