Like most millennials living in Web 2.0 I usually find the recent news in Twitter moments on my iPhone. A moment that made me second guess myself was the recent outcry of Tim Burton lack of diversity in his films. If anybody who knows me knows that Tim Burton is life. His films are so beautifully done (in my opinion). Whenever 13 Nights of Halloween schedule comes up on Freeform (previous ABC Family) I’m so excited to watch every Tim Burton film. (Hell I even did my last project in Film Studies about Tim Burton). So this controversy seriously made me rethink about my love for Tim Burton. Does this make me white washed into viewing his films or am I viewing content from a white washed person?
Here are some characteristics of some of the things he portrays in his films
- The Pudsley Weasel
- Flashback
- Same Use of Actors
- The Monster
- The Kind Parent Figure
- The Witch
- The Nightmare Face
- The Rebellious Teen
- The Blonde
Here are some images that explain the characteristics
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So I’ll point out some of the major characteristics: Same Use of Actors, The Rebellious Teen, & the Blonde.
Same Use of Actor: His frequent use of collaborators are Johnny Depp, Helen Bohnman Carter , and Christopher Lee. Clearly they are all white, Johnny Depp is half white because of half Cherokee Indian (possibility). But still all white actors.
The Rebellious teen- Prominent rebellious teen involved in his films Beetle Juice, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (preteens but you get the point). All involving white teens.
But I do have to somehow defend his style that he portrays into his films. Probably one the best known Gothic artist in the world.
Gothic Style in his majority of his films. Gothic Art originated with architecture during the late medieval times in Europe and was ridiculed during the Renaissance period as an offensive style. Effects of shadows, long drawn elements, harsh contrasts, and black and white used a lot in his films is an example of Gothic Art .
He also has over saturated the colors in his films. and undersaturated color, often in order to use the color of the scene. To create a dream like appearance.
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So to portray this style is all black and white. Within the Renaissance period where was there was no diversity of color in people but in art.
But I do understand where the frustration is coming from #OscarSoWhite. It shouldn’t matter that a white person has to play that part. Tim Burton seems like a person who is set in their ways and doesn’t want to change the way he sees his vision. I don’t think he is opposed to it at all. But he doesn’t envision his works in that way.
The way he explained it to the Bustle was not the greatest way to cover it up. But Tim Burton is known as a quirky, bizarre character.
Even Samuel L. Jackson defended him.
Just hopefully Tim Burton will be more aware of who he chooses for his roles in upcoming movies.
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