Issues of realism in film with regard to Tim Burton, explain?!


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Issues of realism in film with regard to Tim Burton, explain?

Doing essay on this topic and would like some advice if possible.


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Tim Burton's films all deal with realism in an altered form. To explain this I will give a few examples. Tim Burton stated in a interview on Reelz TV's 'The Directors' series that he never felt as if he fit into the world. This experience in his life shaped the man who became the director. In 'Edward Scissorhands', Edward is different than the other people in the world because of his birth defect. Burton created a world where he was accepted and discovered love. Burton also examines this theme in his "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The main character searches for a place to belong and be loved.

In "Big Fish", he compares the reality of what is to what one believes it to be. He follows the life of a man from his youth to adulthood. It tells of these great adventures that the man's son thought to be nothing more than the lies and stories of his father. When nearing the end of his father's life, the son wants to know the truth. He tries to make his father confess that the stories were fiction. He is desperate to make his father see the truth of reality. It is not until his father passes that he understands that the big tales were part of his father's reality.

I think that Burton examines the difference in reality and the perception of reality in all of his films. In the late 1800's, authors wrote of space travel which was fiction based and now that fiction is our reality.


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