—— I read "Zombie Bride"
a few days ago and saw a sentence, but I can't remember the original text. On this criterion, there are very few successful directors in the Hollywood circle, and Tim Burton must be one of them.
Tim Burton's style can be summed up in two words: Gothic.
"Gothic" is a relatively abstract term, not a real description. Compared with the figurative and representative styles of other directors, the word Gothic is more emotional. In other words, it is indeed a style, but it is not an inferior commodity that can be imitated at will by picking out one or two similar plots and designing three or four fixed characters. It's more like a perfect craftsmanship that has been carved and pondered many times - it's just there for you to enjoy, but you can't start to simply copy it from one side.
"Headless Valley", "Edward Scissorhands", "Sweeney Todd", "Alice in Wonderland" these famous masterpieces of Tim Burton have always been the capital of Burton's brain-dead fans - even if only Just look at a set of shots and you'll immediately be able to tell it's an Uncle Tim movie. Maximizing the use of plastic resources to restore the Gothic in the heart is the most effective way for Tim Burton to maintain his style: strange and twisted character makeup, slightly sad storyline, dark mechanical scene decoration... Things are fused and processed, and a Bolton-style production is freshly baked.
I've been thinking about the difference between animation and film -- when a producer gets a script, or a writer writes a story, which way would they want to make it? Is it an animation or a movie?
In my opinion, animation and film are two ways of expressing a story with their own advantages and disadvantages. The former emphasizes exaggeration and unrestrainedness; the latter emphasizes the audience's sense of substitution and authenticity. It’s like making a live-action version of “Robot Story”, and the exaggerated and childlike flavor of animation will be gone; making “The Fantasy Drifting of Young Pi” into an animation, let alone whether the fake puppets can support such a huge size. The proposition, the most intuitive, the realistic visual impact of only real shooting has also disappeared.
In this case, why "Zombie Bride" was made into an animation is worth a good taste.
Introduction: The connection between animation and the audience is more like signing a non-word contract: if it is animation, exaggerated deformation of character modeling and unrestrained plot can be allowed - at the same time, this is also the biggest source of pleasure for animation. . Thanks to this, "Zombie Bride" can be said to give full play to both.
The character modeling of "Zombie Bride" is very exaggerated. There are several main characters in it. The audience only needs to look at their appearance to distinguish the good from the bad. This simplifies the plot and character description to a certain extent, making it active into the most intuitive screen image. For example, the parents of married men and women: the eggplant-like exaggerated and prominent chin alludes to the snobbery of the daughter’s mother; the round and stout body shows the father’s sophistication and greed at a glance; and the male parent, no matter from which angle is viewed, it is Two poor and timid upstarts. And the three men, the woman and the zombie bride are also the kind of looks that are eager to see, and there is no need to judge whether they are good or bad. The villain who appeared in the latter part of the film is even more evil, with a disgusting look on his face.
The storyline of "Zombie Bride" is essentially a love story about fulfilling others: a kind bride is deceived and killed to become a half-human, half-ghost zombie bride. However, he is tempted by the male protagonist who already has a fiancée, and hopes that he can abandon his mortal identity and spend the rest of his life together. But at the end of the film, I understand that "barely not happy", so I sincerely wish that the zombie bride will complete the young couple who are still in the world, and she will disappear into a butterfly...
The story is actually very simple and easy to understand, there is no Timpo Dayton has always been obscure and twisted in the plot. However, the reason why the audience watched it with relish is to a large extent, it was attracted by its elaborately designed gorgeous pictures: the underground world that was supposed to be gloomy and terrifying turned out to be full of joy, singing and dancing, all lively. But this, coupled with the Bolton Gothic style, is naturally worth seeing.
There are also a lot of musical elements in the film. These seasonings should not appear in the serious and cold gothic film, but they are of great significance in "Zombie Bride" and burst out with new narrative effects. A lyrical piano performance, accompanied by eccentric action design, reveals the inner voice of the zombie bride, subtly compresses the plot, and makes the rhythm of the story more lively and relaxed.
Zombie Bride is not the most successful of Tim Burton's films, but it is certainly one of the most Burtonian films. The simple and clear storyline, paired with the characterful style setting, rubs off the spark of talent that only Bolton can create, and once again, makes Bolton's die-hard fans scream. In this respect alone, Burton's work is successful; and as an animated film, it also cleverly uses the advantages of almost animation compared to live films, and achieves a standard of Gothic animation. Immediate success is another success.
So, in my opinion, animation is the easiest way to release style.
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