A media hw based on Tim Burton

1. Tim Burton
By Uma Caruana-Klasson

2. Tim Burton Films I Have
Watched
• Alice In Wonderland,
• Corpse Bride
• And in class Dark
Shadows.

4. Corpse Bride & Dark
Shadows Review
I watched both, Corpse Bride and Dark Shadows, Tim Burton
films. Corpse Bride was about an arranged marriage, however the
man in the relationship accidentally marries a corpse. I enjoyed this
film as it had many soft horror conventions and was animated.
Through out the whole film I did not feel distracted and was
interested at all moments.
I also watched Dark Shadows in my media class. It was about a
vampire returning from being trapped for hundreds of years to help
his family and to find his younger sweet heart. This film fell under the
Comedy Horror hybrid genre, as it had many horror conventions, but
comedy conventions were also found. I extremely enjoyed this film as
you did not expect any of the things that happened to happen. I was
interested in the whole period of time I was watching it.

5. Similarities Between Films
• Both films went against their typical conventions. In this case horror.
During corpse bride all of the monster characters were the nicer people
compared to the humans, and became the heroes. The same with Dark
shadows, the main character, who was a vampire, ended up to be the hero
of the story.
• In both films, the human, main character finished the film as being in love
with a monster. Dark shadows, a vampire and a corpse for corpse bride.
• Not only in the two films I have watched, Tim Burton has used “Gothicism”
in all of his movies. This is shown by all of the gothic:
architecture, illustrations and story lines.
• In most of Tim Burtons films, including the two I watched, there is one out
cast character that does not fit in with the rest of the individuals. In dark
shadows it was the young boy called David Collins who is not believed
about being able to see his dead mother. In corpse bride the main
character is the out cast as he does not fit in with his family, or most of the
people around him, because of his cumbersome personality.