The Construction And Gradual Departure Of "Bortonian"--the Aesthetic Study Of Tim Burton's Film

At the end of 2016,the release of an American film called Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children took the Hollywood's wizard director-Tim Burton back to the eyes of the world.As one of the Hollywood's most unique film directors,Tim Burton in his film style shows the power of a special magic that produces from contradictions.Regardless of gothic luxuriant or cold,or a pure and romantic fairy tale,Tim Burton's flamboyant dark and exquisite pure imprint deeply in the heart of his fans.This power not only cultivates an enduring brand appeal to audience but also attracts the academia to make an uninterrupted research on his movies and himself.Between his mind and personality with the morphology and beauty of his works,how to present the tension and charm of contradiction? This power may come from the identification of the self,more likely to come from the subversion of the self.From Pee-wee's Big Adventure(1984)to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(2016),Tim Burton endows his works with an aesthetic expression that has great tension during 31 years of his creating career.It makes the “Burton made”develop an iconic brand effect,better the box-office record and constantly attract the people who pursue rebellion and personality.In terms of the film market,it is essentially a commercial appeal;in terms of art,it represents a kind of aesthetic individuality and stylization.From the perspective of director research and aesthetics theories,we put forward “Burton Type” as Tim Burton's filmmaking style based on the idea of “Burtonesque”,and analyze its construction and development in the movies.Furthermore,we discuss two concepts which are “Anti-Gothic” and“Non-fairy-tale” within this framework.Finally,under the logical relations of“content and form”,we finish building the aesthetic form of “Burton Type”.Firstly,in the introduction,we systematically categorize Tim Burton's films and the global researches on his films.By doing this,on the one hand,we can crisply describe what theological background the analogy research in this article is based on;on the other hand,we can point out that the research on Tim Burton's films which is guided by gothic and fairy-tale is scientific and meticulous.In terms of art psychology,the first chapter concludes that two personality traits shown in Tim Burton's creation origins from his growing environment.As the principal parts that are opposed to gothic in the aesthetic relationship,these two traits are the main reason why Burton's film creation has been influenced by the gothic culture and are also representing his aesthetic capability of comprehending the gothic.Then in the second section,we compare with the traditional gothic films and analyze the development of his unique artistic expression from the two characteristics in terms of three audio-visual aspects.Furthermore,his "Anti-Gothic" aesthetic practice undergoes a process of indulging personalities into artistic creation.The second chapter,from the perspective of narrative,describes the comparative study on story text and fairy tale literature.It points out that his unique personal style is mainly reflected in the inheritance of the fairy tale from the standpoint of theme and in the subversion of the fairy tale from the angle of narrative.From this,the aesthetic practice of "Non-Fairy-tale" in his image is applied back to his personalized reconstruction through adapted creation.With the characteristics of image defined before integrated under the aesthetic framework of“content and form”,we indicates that “Burton Type”,as an aesthetic form,is a summary of Tim Burton film style.It is affected by the gothic culture in terms of art performance and by the fairy tale literature in terms of narrative.It influences Burton's aesthetic cognition through the combination of these two characteristics and develops a unique form of art and even spirit from the prospect of image creation.At the end of this article,this unique and rebel characteristic essentially plays a main role.It invites us to make a further the consideration for the future.In recent years,several Burton's films show a tendency of deviation from his previous style.