In fact, the bride is not a zombie, a zombie is a walking corpse that can live on the ground, but the bride is not, she just dies and lives in another world underground, maybe, we can call her an underground ghost, but "Zombie Bride" "The title of the film seems to have been agreed upon, which may be misleading. In the eyes of Tim Burton, the world may be black except for fairy tales. His two sides always appear alternately in his works, and sometimes these two sides are merged together. In fact, the two new works this year are There are so obvious two styles, "Charlie's Chocolate Factory" is more fairy-tale style, and "Zombie Bride" is darker. If you take a look at the previous works, you will find that they all oscillate between two styles. "Big Fish" and "Edward Scissorhands" seem to be closer to the former, while "Sleepy Hollow" and "Batman" are more approximately the latter. Even the protagonist in the biopic "Ed. Wood" seems to be more like a child living in a fairy tale fantasy, a grown-up adult.
Maybe it's because the works are always filled with fairy tales, and children's playfulness is unavoidable in dark-style works. Fans are also divided into two groups, one is the hardcore fanatical followers, and the other is He dismissed his films as simple fabrications. Tim Burton is not a master of movies, he is just a unique geek who creates his own weird and lonely world. Those who like it come in, and those who hate it can leave. Watching his works does not require rational thinking, rationality. Too much will only make you feel that the film is naive and boring, because the film has a perceptual experience, there are not many things, just a little bit, but if you have a heart, it is enough to let your heart and the film go on the road together.
"Zombie Bride" is an animation work with a very strong Gothic style. In fact, Tim Burton also made animation when he entered the film industry, and worked in the Disney studio, and later left the animation industry to become independent. Directed the film. Although he has always had a relationship with animation, before "Zombie Bride", he only had one animated film "St. Nightmare", and he was not the director of the film, but just acted as a producer, but his kind of dark The gothic style has indeed infiltrated The Nightmare Before Christmas. It should be said that "Zombie Bride" is a purely Bolton-style animated film, a dream come true from his initial childlike innocence, a fusion of dark Gothic and childlike feelings.
Depp's version of Victor is a pale young man full of decadent artistic temperament. As the son of a nouveau riche, he was ordered by his parents to marry Victoria, a lady from a poor aristocratic family. . In fact, the skeleton bride in the film is not scary, and even the skeleton souls in the entire underworld are full of humor and humanity, although they are not humans but ghosts. This is a Tim Burton-style funny. His dark style is not an adult horror effect, but a child-style reverse perspective. The human world is a vulgar and uninteresting cold world. The underworld that should have been spooky is full of warmth. This is Tim Burton's quirk, and it's also his perspective.
The story is too simple, and many people don't like it. They even hope to find a bit of blood and horror in the film like "The Headless Horseman", but they didn't expect it to be just a crazy comedy under a dark shell. In the world, reunited with relatives, only children can ignore the skin and see the truth. After all, the wicked get retribution, and the lonely good people also get love. The ending is almost perfect. The film is a fairy tale that is not too dark. Tim Burton vented his childhood emotions under the shell of a simple story, but he couldn't do whatever he wanted. Like Victor, he was also conditioned.
The darkness of the film is not in the gloomy tone of the whole story, but in loneliness, and the light is dim when the heart is cold. There are lonely hearts in the film, Victor is lonely, Victoria is lonely, Skull Bride is also lonely, and the heart of director Tim Burton is also lonely. Lonely people are not shameful, they are kind and helpless, they are looking for a way to say goodbye to loneliness, but they are sad that they are powerless to control their own destiny. "Zombie Bride" seems to be a continuation of Bolton's short film "Vincent" when he debuted, a brand-like complex that constantly evokes his autism. There are so many lonely wanderers in this world, like me like you, what we breathe in the cold world is the breath of loneliness, timid, melancholy, as wandering as Victor, eager to meet the same kind, Tim. Bolton is like an outlier in this group. He speaks his heart out loud, reshapes the world with his imagination, and makes every lonely person find his heart in every image story, so we still fall in love with this one. Lonely spokesperson.
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