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The Fairy Tale Style Construction Of Tim Burton's Film

Posted on:2021-05-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y FanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330611489091Subject:Drama
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Tim burton is known as the "genius director".His films are strange and bizarre,fulling of fairy tales,gothic,exaggeration,imagination and fantasy.This unique art feature even derives a unique adjectives” Burtonesque”.Tim burton is a striking "author director." As well as blending into its own unique style,the business model of Hollywood movies is well balanced,getting a double affirmation of art and business value.In Tim burton's movies,the " fairy tale" occupies an important place as the one of the main elements of his unique style.Fairy tales as a classic theme,use bold imagination and fantastic illusion to construct the magic kingdom,mapping the reality,with a unique way of learning about the world,to build a plot ups and downs of the story.This form has been widely used by Tim burton in his work,with the director's praise and yearning for innocence,beauty,justice and courage.This idea,style,and style is one of the important symbols that distinguishes bolton from other Hollywood directors.This article takes "Fairy Tales" and Propp's "Story Morphology" as the main theoretical basis,combined with relevant film and television theory and fairy tale theory,to systematically explain Tim Bolton's films from the perspective of structuralist narratology and cultural research The narrative structure presents a fairy tale style model,and he thinks that the narrative structure setting of his works conforms to the 31 functional categories of fairy tale characters proposed by Prop.From a linguistic point of view,he used metaphors and contrasts to make the film show a strong fairy-tale color,successfully blending metaphors into the connection between the outside of the film-the internally formed relationship and the objective existence-psychological and emotional connections.The narrative perspective and narrative logic also present a distinctive fairy tale style.Bolton is good at using the contrast of light and shadow black and white,and using shadow to create a mysterious atmosphere."Gothic fairy tale" is one of Bolton's film aesthetics,and this religious aesthetic runs through every corner of his film.Therefore,his aesthetic style is always full of treacherous beauty andtenderness,which seems to be opposite and perfectly integrated.Based on "The Three Motives of Children's Literature" as the main theoretical basis,we analyze the common theme expressions among the specific works: freedom and resistance,caring for lonely people,courageous justice,affection.His movie has such a strong fairy tale style,and is still loved by adult audiences.It is because he integrates the elements of adult society into his works,expresses the emotional appeal of adults,and is full of philosophical thinking about life and death.This kind of movie work with strong fairy tale style is not only a fascinating stroke in the history of world film,but also worthy of reference from the perspective of narratology,aesthetic style,motif,fairy tale adult expressions for domestic film creators.This paper will be further to analyze the theoretical and realistic interpretation of the system in the case of a master film mastert and will play a positive role in the future of studying of Tim burton and the analysis of his work.
Keywords/Search Tags:structuralism narratology, character feature, modality, film style, fairy tales for adults, motif
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