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Burtonism 

Differences and similarities when speaking of Burtonism

The director I’m writing about is well known for his outside of the box approach to all of his movies. It’s always the same actors crew, but the movies are complete different one from another. One thing can be said that it’s sure – he’s one of a kind. Yes, It’s Tim Burton. Brilliant for his fans, who can’t wait for his next boxoffices  major project. One thing is sure, there’s going to be Johnny Depp involved. A lot of humor, sarcasm, stupidity and art. Weird, awesome, astonishing, crap – all these words suits his artistic approach at the same time. That’s what he’s famous for, and, to be more precise, for being himself all the way from Disney studio drawing Vincent to the glory of Dark Shadows. Burton is all that, and even a bit more.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Scene: Icabod Crane (Johnny Depp) arrives in the city of Sleepy Hollow, sended from New York as a special investigator, who has to solve the case of beheaded citizens of Sleepy Hollow. He, Icabod, enters the Van Tassel’s home, where his appointment is, and start to look for the old Van Tassel. All he found is Van Tassels doughter, who is dancing in circle with a bond on her faice. She, named Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), stops utterly in front of Icabod, thinking that he’s somebody local, he kiss him on the lips, then, while removing the bond from hey eyes, she scarely finds out that this is someone that she does not know. Not at all. Somebody from the men crowd comes to defend her, ready to beat down Icabod, but by the time he’s threatening the young man,  Baltus come through everyone to say hello to the newest guest of the house. He literally save his life by being silly and saluting unmannerly guest. The guest, however, turns out to be an extraordinary one, with all his weird instruments, that nobody have ever seen before, makes great deal of impression all around. He’s there to ask questions. He’s there to solve the mystery of disappearing heads of bodies. He’s looking for connection and tries to figure out what kind of man the possible killer is, when some of the men steps up and saying “He’s not a man. He headless  dark horserider, who cuts head and then disappears almost without leaving any trace of murder or something like that, well, except for a beheaded body.”

Corpse Bride (2005)

Scene: Rehearsing the future wedding. Victor (voice by Johny Depp) is rehearsing with his future bride Victoria (Emily Watson), but he’s constantly making same mistakes with the speech all over again, loosing the ring under the gown of his future mother-in-law. He even can’t keep the fire of his candle for enough time to procede the ceremony.  Scared by Victoria’s family, guilty for being good-for-nothing, Victor decides to go in to the wood in order to relax and to clear his mind. He feels caged down. It’s not that he don’t likes Victoria, on the contrary, he likes her even too much. But, obviously, he can’t manage to remember his speech. In a very late hour, deep night’s surrounding the trees, he’s repeating his vow. Over and over again. While he’s playing with the ring, which he’s supposed to give to Victoria, as she’s his future wife, he puts it on a branch. Unfortunately the branch turns out to be the Corps Brides hand. By doing this, telling his vow to the Corpse Bride, he accidentally wakes her up. According to old jewish tradition, the lads must be buried with the clothes they die in, from there comes the idea to the Corpse Bride. As she has been awaken, she rise in her wedding dress and scares the hell out of Victor, as he’s trying to take his ring back. 

Unsuccessfully. Now the bride wants Victor and he must marry her, because of the vow he said to her. He tries to escape and to go back to the village, but the things are only getting worse, because the town man-newspaper sees him with the Corpse Bride (voice by Helena Bonham Carter) and in no time the whole world knows that Victor  is cheating on Victoria.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

The most fascinating scene in this film is when Willie Wonka (Johnny Depp again) introduce his chocolate factory to the group – majority of it are children, of course. They go into it through big door, which, according to Willie, is keeping all the great chocolate inside. They all are looking towards the chocolate as it’s something unbelievable. Indeed it is. So many chocolate everywhere. They are even crossing a bridge, underneath of which runs the chocolate river. The end of the river is by the chocolate fountain, which makes the bubbles in the chocolate. All the kids are overexcited about tha fact, that there’s chocolate in all the things around them. Even in the grass. Then Willie Wonka says “Try not to loose anything, especially your heads”. It’s creepy. All of the folks are enjoying their chocolate adventure, especially one very fat kid, that contrast to the rest of the kids. On the contrary, there’s one other kid, very well-mannered and modest, who simply don’t taste the chocolate. He’s more like experiencing all of it with his eyes by his own way.