I have decided that what I am going to be investigating for
my small scale project is what Tim Burton can bring to Disney through
researching his early career with Disney and how it’s changed since whether
this is through his contributes to new films or if this is from people’s
opinions on the movies from reviews or why they use his unique style of work
and how this contributes to the “magic” of Disney films.
The films which I shall be focusing on for this project is that
I am going to focus on The Nightmare
Before Christmas, Alice In Wonderland
, Frankenweenie and to research the
upcoming new releases of Tim Burton and Disney collaborations such as Alice In Wonderland Through The Looking
Glass, Dumbo and Beauty And The Beast, the main aim about this project is
to find out why Disney finally decided to use Tim’s particular style when
during the beginning they were unsure about his method of work as it didn’t fit
the Disney expectations.
I’ve always been fascinated
by Tim Burton’s films such as Edwards
Sissorhands, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber Of Fleet
Street and Beetlejuice as these
films opened the horizons of the possibilities within films as Burtons trait
has very similar qualities such as using the same actor’s such as Johnny Depp
and Helena Bonham Carter or the choice of colours and the representation of
main character’s with dark large sunken eyes, as other’s have never used this
style of work as Burton’s style is one of a kind, however I was always excited
when Disney and Tim Burton produced films together as in my opinion I felt that
Burton would always bring a new addition to the Disney movies and make them more
engaging as they didn’t stand up to the conditions of Disney.
So far during my research I have discovered a majority of
resources about Tim Burton and Disney at an early stage in Tim’s career, when
reading chapters within ‘Burton On Burton’ in the chapter Disney and Vincent it
explains how at the beginning Disney and Tim were a bad mix because of Burton’s
rare style and how it could contribute to Disney’s films, even though when working
on a project with Disney his sketches for
The Fox And The Hound would end up looking like “road kill”. I have also
researched into Alice In Wonderland
through watching trailers, interviews, finding reviews in sight and sound
magazines as well as Empire magazine to read the reviews given to the films to
see people’s opinions on Burton take on these classic Disney films.
After researching into some of my focus films I started to
explore new release for Tim Burton’s collaborations with Disney such as Alice In Wonderland Through The Looking Glass which is supposed to be
released on the 26th of May 2016 where as the acclaimed Dumbo is still to have a release date
even though fans have already started to imagine the possibilities of what
Burton can bring to the beloved Disney classic.
Furthermore during my research I have focused on what Tim
Burton’s childhood was like and how this could contribute to his imaginative mind
and the aspects he bring to Disney, as in ‘Burton On Burton’ – Childhood In
Burbanks-Cals Ants Tim explains about when he was a child and how he always felt
“alienated” as he would enjoy watching horror movies (as he always loved
monsters and monster movies), scaring the neighbours next door and ripping the
head off of his toy soldiers which could suggest how he could put this into his
idea’s when making sketches for a film.
By the end of this project I am hoping to achieve finding
out how Disney and Burton work together to produce films and whether they will
always work together to enhance Disney films as since Burton’s collaborations
with Disney so far has been admired by many audiences, but I am hoping that by
the end of this project I would have answered my question on what can Tim
Burton bring to Disney and also to prove to people how the collaboration of
Burton and Disney work marvellous together.
During my research so far the secondary research which I
have used for my project is that I have read chapters from ‘Burton On Burton’
which include his childhood, Disney and Vincent, Hansel and Gretel, Frankenweenie
and Aladdin’s Lamp and The Nightmare Before Christmas to extend my information
further to have more reliable sources which can contribute to his early life,
career and his style of work, I have also read articles from The Sight and
Sound magazine from April 10th 2010 volume 20 issue 4 pages 32-34 on
Alice In wonderland to gain
resourceful opinions on the take on the classic and how he uses common themes
within films, finally I have research on the Empire magazine and other online
newspaper reviews on his films to get a mixture of opinions from different
companies to see whether they support these films more or less than the other
magazines.
